Posted 4 months ago
Database Administrator/Engineer
@ hireVouch
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Database Administrator/Engineer for its client's SaaS platform in Downtown Toronto. The role keeps large-scale databases and data processes reliable, performant and secure, working with Infrastructure, Product Development and Analytics. The posting states a hybrid arrangement of 2-3 days per week in the office, a competitive base salary with variable bonus, and 25 days of annual leave.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor, optimize and resolve database reliability, performance and security issues
- Partner with Infrastructure on server and storage provisioning
- Collaborate with Product Development on SQL optimization and enhancements
- Contribute to SQL coding standards and conduct code reviews
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years as database administrator or engineer on large-scale databases
- Advanced SQL and Microsoft SQL Server experience
- Azure data services and partitioning/indexing expertise
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science or similar
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-06-26
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | IT |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science |
| Perks mentioned | Flexible hours, Retirement plan, Performance bonus, Wellness, Home office allowance |
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
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- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
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- hireVouch
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
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Our client is seeking an experienced database administrator to join the team that operates the SaaS platform.
You will be responsible for the reliability and performance of the databases and data processes that deliver service to their clients. You will deploy, monitor, optimize and troubleshoot issues with code and infrastructure related to their large-scale databases and data processes. As a member of the Platform Operations team, you will collaborate with colleagues in Infrastructure, Product Development, Analytics and other teams.
This is an active posting for an open position. Candidates must be available to work in a hybrid setting in Downtown Toronto, 2-3 days/week.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor, optimize, and resolve issues related to the reliability, performance, and security of large-scale databases and complex data processes
- Partner with Infrastructure team in monitoring, provisioning and right-sizing of servers and storage
- Collaborate with Product Development team on enhancements and resolving nonfunctional issues: provide insights from UAT and Production environments; share expertise in optimizing SQL and physical aspects of databases
- Proactively identify and advocate for improvements to technology and methods used to deploy, configure, and maintain databases and data processes
- Effectively communicate business benefits, costs, and implications of proposed
- changes to non-technical and more senior colleagues
- Contribute to SQL coding standards and conduct code reviews
- Create and maintain technical documentation
Knowledge and Skills
- Expertise in physical schema and infrastructure for databases and data processing: compute and storage for IaaS and PaaS resources in Azure; partitioning and indexing of data
- Advanced SQL coding and applied knowledge of relational database engines, including Microsoft SQL Server and Azure data services
- Experienced in database maintenance, performance monitoring, and debugging
- Apply DevOps practices to automate deployment of databases and ETL/ELT components
- Knowledge of data warehousing is desirable
- Objectively assess potential solutions by balancing business value and technical complexity
- Highly organized and able to balance parallel tasks
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues that span a broad range of roles
- Effectively communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical colleagues
Qualifications
- Proven success as database administrator/engineer for large-scale databases and complex data processes
- 5+ years of professional experience in applicable roles
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science or a similar discipline
What They Offer:
- A competitive base salary and variable annual bonus.
- A flexible hybrid working policy. Most people come into the office 2-3 days/week.
- A healthy work-life balance.
- 25 days annual leave, plus 4 wellness days and public holidays
- Comprehensive benefits program
- Generous employer RRSP contribution
- An annual personal development allowance
- An office walking distance to Union Station
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