Database Administrator

OMERS • Toronto, ON

1d • CA$72,000 - CA$108,000 • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to join our Database Administration team. In this role, you will be the primary steward of our Pension Administration databases — ensuring their reliability, performance, and security. You will support batch job execution, system integrations, report generation, database tuning, monitoring, and the automation of manual database activities. This is a hands-on technical role with significant impact. You'll work closely with product and business teams to keep mission-critical pension systems running smoothly — including participation in after-hours releases and incident response.

Requirements

• University degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline
• Strong understanding of database management systems and related technologies
• Experience with Oracle database administration (installation, configuration, backup/recovery, patching)
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix environments
• Knowledge of database security and access control best practices
• Familiarity with IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) or similar job scheduling tools
• Availability to support critical production issues outside regular business hours may be required.
• Experience with maintaining databases on cloud platforms (GCP and Azure preferred)
• Scripting experience (Shell, SQL, PL/SQL)

Nice To Haves

• Experience in financial services, pensions, or regulated industries
• Experience with database performance tuning and monitoring

Responsibilities

• Develop and test shell and SQL scripts to automate database operations and reduce manual effort
• Create, install, configure, backup, recover, upgrade, migrate, and patch Oracle and PostgreSQL databases
• Upgrade and maintain IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) environments
• Provide ad-hoc support to business teams for script execution, IWS job management, and other database activities
• This role requires participation in scheduled after-hours and weekend activities, including production releases, system upgrades, and patching.
• Respond to alerts and actively participate in incident resolution
• Share knowledge and support team members in adopting new technologies
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver effective, sustainable database solutions

Benefits

• annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan
• Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable)
• group benefits
• retirement plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree