Database Administrator (DBA)
Symbiotic Digital•London, ON
•Onsite
About The Position
The Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for providing operational support, administration, maintenance, monitoring, and optimization of database environments supporting critical enterprise applications and services. The role ensures the availability, integrity, security, recoverability, and performance of databases across multiple technology platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, and Oracle environments. This position works closely with application support teams, infrastructure teams, developers, vendors, and project stakeholders to support both legacy and modernized enterprise systems in highly available and mission-critical environments.
Requirements
- Experience administering enterprise database environments including SQL Server, Oracle, and/or DB2.
- Strong knowledge of database backup/recovery, performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Knowledge of Windows Server, Linux (RHEL), and/or Mainframe environments.
- Experience with database security, access controls, and operational best practices.
- Familiarity with ITIL processes, incident management, change management, and release management.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting large-scale government or enterprise applications.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies and hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Experience with automation and scripting for database administration tasks.
- Relevant certifications in Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, or related technologies.
- Experience with monitoring and enterprise management tools.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day operational support for enterprise applications and associated database environments.
- Monitor database health, availability, performance, storage utilization, and system reliability.
- Perform proactive troubleshooting and resolution of database-related incidents and service requests.
- Support production, test, development, disaster recovery, and high-availability environments.
- Participate in on-call support, after-hours maintenance, and emergency incident resolution as required.
- Administer, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain database platforms including: Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 (z/OS and Windows/Linux), and Oracle Database environments.
- Perform database installations, migrations, refreshes, cloning, and environment setup activities.
- Maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures to ensure business continuity.
- Manage database security, user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and compliance requirements.
- Conduct database capacity planning and storage management activities.
- Analyze and tune database performance, queries, indexes, execution plans, and system resources.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks affecting application performance and stability.
- Implement monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively manage system health.
- Support high-availability technologies including clustering, failover, and replication solutions.
- Support change management, deployment, and release activities following ITIL practices.
- Coordinate database changes with infrastructure, application, and vendor teams.
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, procedures, runbooks, and support knowledge articles.
- Participate in technical reviews, root cause analysis, and post-incident activities.
- Provide technical expertise for application modernization, migration, and infrastructure upgrade initiatives.
- Support cloud, virtualization, and hybrid infrastructure initiatives where applicable.
- Collaborate with development and architecture teams on database design and implementation strategies.
- Assist with technology lifecycle management and platform upgrade planning.
- Ensure stable, secure, and reliable database operations for all supported applications.
- Maintain database availability and performance in accordance with operational service levels.
- Deliver timely resolution of incidents, problems, and operational requests.
- Support ongoing modernization and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Maintain accurate operational documentation and technical procedures.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
