Job Title: Oracle DBA
Location: Toronto Hybrid
Job Type: Full-Time Permanent
Role and Responsibilities
- Collaborate with application development teams on data modeling, schema design, and deployment of complex PL/SQL packages, procedures, triggers, and views.
- Analyze execution plans, perform SQL query tuning, and optimize index structures to eliminate bottlenecks in high-throughput transactional environments.
- Lead database release automation, code reviews, and schema migrations across development, staging, and production environments.
- Monitor database application health, identify lock contention, resolve deadlocks, and troubleshoot latency issues.
- Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to design, test, and execute on-premises to AWS cloud database migrations.
- Participate in database capacity planning, failover drills, and disaster recovery design.
- Support production deployment and other maintenance activities over weekend and “after office” hours on weekdays as needed.
“Mandatory” Skills:
- 8-10 years of experience in Oracle Database Administration
- Oracle Application DBA Expertise: 8+ years specializing in Oracle Database (12c/19c+) application support, advanced PL/SQL programming, execution plan analysis, and performance diagnostics (AWR, ASH, ADDM).
- AWS & Cloud Databases: Practical experience administering managed database services including Amazon RDS (Oracle/PostgreSQL) and Amazon Aurora.
- PostgreSQL: Hands-on working knowledge of PostgreSQL architecture, schema design, and performance optimization.
- Cloud Migration Experience: Strong, proven track record of migrating on-premises databases to AWS environments (using tools such as AWS DMS, SCT, or native utilities).
- Collaboration & Release Management: Solid background in CI/CD integration for database deployments and working alongside Agile engineering teams.
- Ability to work with offshore teams for maintenance and production support activities
“NICE TO HAVE” skills
- Experience with Oracle Exadata administration and performance tuning features (Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression).
- Proficiency in shell scripting (Bash) and automation using Python.
- Relevant AWS (e.g., AWS Certified Database – Specialty) or Oracle certifications
Additional Comments:
Candidate needs to work from Client office – minimum 3 days per week.
