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Database Administrator

VARITE INC

 

Toronto, ON, Canada

Posted On: Just posted
Experience: 7+ years
Availability: Onsite
Openings: 1
Category: Database Administrator
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

Manage and maintain core database infrastructure across Oracle and AWS environments, ensuring high availability and performance.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

  • Provision and manage RDS instances and clusters, configuring instance classes, autoscaling, Multi-AZ, and parameter groups.
  • Govern the database lifecycle, including automated backups, snapshots, KMS encryption, patching, and version upgrades.
  • Design and operate Redshift clusters, managing Workload Management (WLM), concurrency scaling, and queue management.
  • Implement monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch and Performance Insights to tune connections and queries.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline or GitHub Actions to deploy CDK applications across environments.

Required Skills

  • 4–7+ years as an Oracle DBA, with 3+ years specifically on AWS data services.
  • Expertise in Oracle 19c, RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, and OEM.
  • Hands-on administration of Amazon RDS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MSSQL) and Amazon Redshift.
  • Proficiency with AWS CDK (TypeScript or Python), CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Expert-level performance tuning of SQL and Oracle instances, including AWR/ASH analysis and wait event diagnosis.
  • Experience optimizing database schema (distribution/sort keys, VACUUM/ANALYZE) and ensuring workload isolation.
  • Experience with monitoring tools like CloudWatch and Performance Insights, and cost management practices.
  • Possession of at least one Oracle (OCP) and one AWS certification.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with GitHub for version control and collaboration.
  • Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL and MSSQL administration within AWS.

Education

Any Gradute

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