Role: AZURE SQL Database Admin
Type: Full-Time Permanent (Grade 7)
Location: Scarborough, ON
Hybrid: 2 days onsite/week (Wednesday anchor day + 1 flexible day)
Urgency: High Priority - target hire required before October 31st.
Top 3 Hiring Priorities
1. Azure Cloud Database Expertise
- Azure SQL Dataase
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Cloud database administration
- Azure migration experience
- Cloud platform modernization
Azure is the primary cloud focus for this hiring initiative.
2. Strong SQL Server DBA Background
- On-premises SQL Server administration
- Databse performance tuning
- Backup and recovery
- High availability
- Migration planning and execution
- hands-on coding/scripting experience
Hiring managers are specifically looking for candidates who understand the source environment and can successfully migrate workloads to the target cloud environment.
3. Automation / Infrastructure as Code
Strong emphasis was placed on modern engineering practices, including:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Configuration as Code (CaC)
- Scripting and automation
- Automated cloud provisioning
- CDK or similar technologies
- Code-driven infrastructure management
The team is moving away from manual administration through cloud portals and requires candidates who can provision and manage environments through code.
