Database Engineer

TMX Group • Toronto, ON

1d • CA$110,000 - CA$120,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Venture outside the ordinary - TMX Careers The TMX group of companies includes leading global exchanges such as the Toronto Stock Exchange, Montreal Exchange, and numerous innovative organizations enhancing capital markets. United as a global team, we’re connecting cross-functionally, traversing industries and geographies, moving opportunity into action, advancing global economic growth, and propelling progress. Through a rich exchange of ideas, meaningful collaboration, and a nimble operating model, we're powering some of the nation's most critical systems, fueling capital formation and innovation, bringing increased opportunity to business visionaries, product ingenuity to consumers, and career exploration to our team. Ready to be part of the action? We are seeking a Database Engineer to manage, support, and modernize our server-computing database infrastructure. In this role, you will champion a "Database as Code" philosophy, leveraging automation and programmatic systems management to ensure software currency, seamless patching, and optimal upgrades across our relational database management systems. As a key technical resource, you will combine deep technical expertise with strong analytical problem-solving skills to support our mission-critical, high-volume database environments.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on database management and administration experience.
• Deep technical expertise in SQL Server, with additional working knowledge of Oracle and Postgres.
• Proven experience supporting real-time applications and large-scale, multi-terabyte (TB) databases.
• Strong hands-on experience with database data protection, Disaster Recovery design, high-availability setups, and Oracle RAC administration.
• Strong programmatic mindset with excellent scripting skills (e.g., Powershell, Python, Perl) to automate deployments and support a "DB as Code" infrastructure model.
• Practical knowledge of Windows, Linux, Virtualization, and Cloud technologies.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a collaborative team spirit and a "big-picture" delivery mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in the Financial Capital Markets industry.
• Experience executing complex data migrations between differing platforms or dissimilar environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the SQL Server Subject Matter Expert (SME) to resolve complex database issues.
• Lead short- and long-term root cause analysis, collaborate across engineering teams, and coordinate with external vendors during critical system events.
• Identify, install, and configure database software and hardware requirements to build highly stable, modern, and high-performing database systems.
• Lead efforts to design and improve automated monitoring for database health and availability.
• Analyze performance metrics to recommend and execute tuning strategies across database configurations, storage, and application SQL queries.
• Oversee routine backup audits, conduct regular test restores to validate data integrity, and actively participate in scheduled Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Enforce database engineering standards and partner with Development Squads and software vendors to design, review, and deploy database schema changes.
• Deliver Level 2 escalation support for day-to-day operations and project execution, participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support our continuous operations.

Benefits

• Wellness - From empathetic leadership to a culture of flexibility and balance, we believe wellness at work creates the maximum yield and a stronger “we”. Plus, with a cloud-first and hybrid workstyle, as well as generous time-off and leaves, we support a life well lived!
• Growth - From a growth mindset in our work, to expansion in our business, TMX is home to action-takers energized by the achievement of ambitious growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed