Database Administrator

Why Technitask

Technitask is a Canadian company and a trusted provider of IT management, systems integration, software delivery, and consulting services. Our expert team of SAP functional consultants, developers, project managers, data engineers, and security analysts create value for customers in the utilities, telecommunications, and public services sectors. We work with our clients to discover and define business problems, then collaborate with them to implement people, process, and technology solutions to realize benefits across the business.

• We bring SAP technical expertise across technical PMO, architecture, integration, data & reporting, security, custom development, system build & administration, and testing.

• We’ve worked with some of the biggest enterprises in utilities and the public sector such as Hydro One, Liberty Utilities, the Government of Canada, and the Province of Ontario.

• We’re a team of 50+ staff and a network of 200+ alumni with 17+ years of experience delivering SAP solutions.

What you’ll do

• The Database Administrator will provide support in database capacity planning, installation, configuration, design, migration, performance monitoring, security, and troubleshooting, as well as backup and data recovery.

• Monitors, troubleshoots and optimizes database performance

• Identifies and manages database bottlenecks

• Create, maintain and run scripts based on requirements

• Respond to incidents and problems

• Administers patches according to Vulnerability Management Standards

• Perform database backups and recovery

• Performs database capacity planning

• Tests and analyzes database performance

• Creates database installations on servers

• Oversees database operations

• Designs and implements database software, maintenance and support requirements

• Designs and develops interoperability testing of many component products

• Creates and maintains solution documentation

• Ensures consistent use of integration of application middleware components and database architecture

What you'll need

Mandatory Education

• Post secondary certificate, diploma or degree in computer science or related field

Experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience creating and administrating complex databases in an enterprise environment

• Significant work experience in the technology field as a Database Administrator

• Strong technical proficiency, troubleshooting skills, and operational knowledge of hosting technology in a corporate data center environment

• Extensive experience and operational knowledge of hosting technology in a corporate data centre environment

• Experience with RDBMS performance monitoring and tuning: closely monitoring performance; identifying problems and implementing solutions; while ensuring the database is running at optimum speed and efficiency

• Experience applying tools, techniques, and processes related to change management, configuration management, capacity management, and availability management

• Experience working with Windows and/or Linux operating systems

• Experience working with the following RDBMS': Microsoft MS SQL Server and Sybase ASE

• Ability to provide data migration support and data migration effort for complex multi-location sites

• Experience with T-SQL and MS RDBMS with experience in DB Triggers, Views, and Stored Procedure Programming and database optimization

• Experience with MS SQL server and SAP Sybase ASE

Who you are

• Problem solver: You quickly formulate approaches from problem statements and target outcomes, undertake research using creative strategies, solve complex problems independently, and quickly learn and adapt to new situations.

• Highly organized: You think in systems and process, create structure in ambiguity, and relentlessly prioritize to pursue what drives the business forward.

• Team player: You effectively partner with others to get things done.

• Clear communicator: You are an excellent writer (memos, slides) and excel at distilling complex information into simple messaging.

• Outcomes driven: You collaborate with your clients, partners, and stakeholders to deeply understand their needs and ruthlessly prioritize to meet those needs.

Additional information

• Contract role

• Duration: 24 months

• Hours: 7.25 hours/day

• Remote

• Background check required

Our belief is that diversity & inclusion enables us to build solutions that work. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and / or people with intersectional identities.

We also believe that unique experiences may not always fall along the beaten track. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team, so if your experience and skills can help us solve our customers’ problems, please consider applying.