Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid (3 days on-site per week)
Language: English – written and spoken required
Duration: Permanent
Background Check Requirement: Eligible to work in Canada and able to complete corporate security clearance as required

About the Opportunity

Kickstart your career in database administration with a team that’s shaping Canada’s digital economy. In this role, you’ll gain hands-on experience managing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise database platforms while contributing to high-availability, secure, and scalable systems.

You’ll work closely with senior DBAs and infrastructure engineers, learning through mentorship, collaboration, and exposure to both on-premises and cloud-based database environments.

As part of a public-sector-adjacent organization delivering real-time payments, open banking solutions, and innovative commerce technologies, you’ll play a key role in supporting the database systems that keep Canadians’ financial transactions secure and reliable. This position offers a strong growth path toward a Senior DBA or Database Engineering Lead role.

What’s in it for You

You’ll join a culture that values learning, collaboration, and innovation. With hands-on mentorship and opportunities to work across multiple database technologies, you’ll grow your expertise while contributing to meaningful, high-impact projects.

Enjoy a workplace that:

• Invests in professional development

• Encourages curiosity and continuous learning

• Supports career progression

• Rewards initiative and problem-solving

Your Responsibilities

• Support and administrator of enterprise database environments

• Assist with database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and migrations.

• Monitor database performance, availability, and security, identifying and resolving issues proactively.

• Participate in backup, recovery, disaster recovery testing, and high-availability configuration.

• Develop automation scripts to streamline database provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering, Operations, Platform, Security, and Product teams to support application deployments and performance tuning.

• Participate in troubleshooting database-related incidents and escalate issues appropriately.

• Maintain and update documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on reliability, scalability, and automation.

Skills and Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Strong interest in database administration, data platforms, and systems engineering.

• Foundational knowledge of relational databases (e.g., SQL concepts, indexing, performance tuning).

• Understanding of backup and recovery principles.

• Exposure to database platforms including Cockroach, PostgreSQL and Oracle.

• Familiarity with cloud database services (Azure, AWS, or GCP) is an asset.

• Basic scripting knowledge (PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar).

• Analytical thinking with a focus on secure, scalable, and reliable database systems.

• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced, collaborative technical environment.

• Experience working in agile, DevOps, or engineering squads is an asset.

Note from the Hiring Manager

"We’re looking for someone who is curious, proactive, and eager to learn. If you enjoy solving technical challenges, working with data platforms, and growing your expertise in database administration, this is the perfect place to build your DBA career."

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