Database Infrastructure Consultant, Senior

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Are you a database professional who thrives in complex, multi-platform enterprise environments? Do you enjoy solving challenging database performance, availability, and recovery issues while delivering an outstanding client experience? 

We are looking for a adaptable and engaging Database Infrastructure Consultant for our Calgary branch! In this role, you will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. You will help ensure the availability, performance, security, and recoverability of critical database systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional service and support.

Working across a diverse technology stack that includes SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, cloud-native database services, and more, you'll tackle complex technical challenges and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Through your expertise, proactive approach, and commitment to best practices, you'll play a key role in helping clients maximize the value, reliability, and scalability of their database environments.

\nA Day in the Life:

• Provision, administer, monitor, and optimize enterprise database platforms across client environments

• Provide operational support for database infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability

• Lead and support the onboarding of new clients, including database architecture review, configuration, and implementation

• Perform health checks, best-practice assessments, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis of database issues

• Proactively identify opportunities for service improvement and provide recommendations to clients and stakeholders

• Act as a trusted technical resource for database monitoring, maintenance, incident resolution, and ongoing support

• Manage and prioritize team ticket queues, ensuring SLA compliance, quality updates, and timely resolution

• Collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and clients to troubleshoot complex issues and implement effective solutions

• Create and maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and infrastructure records

• Support database lifecycle activities, including capacity planning, installations, patching, upgrades, migrations, and configuration management across physical, virtual, IaaS, and PaaS environments

• Contribute to security, change management, and operational best practices to protect and enhance client environments

• Participate in client meetings, team initiatives, and an on-call rotation while providing support for broader infrastructure projects as required.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years’ experience managing Database infrastructure in an enterprise environment

• Intermediate understanding of Database technologies with a willingness to grow and learn:

  • Microsoft SQL

  • SQL Clustering (AAG)

  • SQL services (SSAS,SSRS)

  • Oracle

  • Oracle RAC

  • Oracle Dataguard

  • SQL PaaS

• PostgreSQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB, MySQL

• Experience working with the following cloud and server platforms:

  • Azure GCP and AWS

  • Windows, Linux & Unix

  • Backup & Recovery technologies: Veeam, Cohesity

• Intermediate working knowledge of Database best practices, tuning, standards, recovery

• Passion for creating and delivering an exceptional client experience

What Makes You Extra Awesome:

• ITIL Foundations Certification

• Experience with one or more of the following:

  • Goldengate

  • HANA

  • PostgreSQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, CosmoDB, MySQL

Why Work at Long View:

• Great people and culture 

• Flexible Work Environment

• Interesting work – Be part of exciting projects while accessing all the latest technologies

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$80,455 - $105,598 a year

Expected Base Salary Range. Plus additional variable incentives.

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Long View’s mission of building the best and most sustainable team-driven organization requires dedicated and ambitious people. Through employee resource groups, impactful and effective conversations, townhalls and various company-wide training, including how to reduce unconscious bias, we are fostering an inclusive environment. We are committed to taking consistent, positive and lifelong action to be a diverse and equitable workplace because we know that the most effective companies are made up of people with varied identities, experiences and backgrounds.

Long View is an equal opportunity employer. If you have any accommodation requests for your interview or the role, please let your friendly Recruiter know