Overview
Intermediate Database Administrator Jobs in Mississauga, Ontario at PointClickCare
Title: Intermediate Database Administrator
Company: PointClickCare
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
For more than 20 years, PointClickCare has been the backbone of senior care. We’ve amassed the richest senior care dataset making our market density untouchable and our connections to the healthcare ecosystem exponentially more powerful than those of any other platform.
With Collective Medical & Audacious Inquiry, we’ve become the most expansive, full-continuum care collaboration network, offering care teams immediate, point-of-care access to deep, real-time insights at every stage of a patient’s journey.
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Position SummaryThe Intermediate DBA plays an important role as part of a growing team that is responsible for managing, building, maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting the cloud-based database infrastructure that our mission critical SaaS application runs on.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and operate large scale production database systems across multiple Azure regions.
Provide direct operational support across all areas of the production database infrastructure including high availability, database replication, release management and disaster planning.
Install, configure, and deploy MS SQL Server using automation and infrastructure as code
Perform capacity planning, performance turning, monitoring, troubleshooting, patching and optimization of the databases.
Assist in designing Backup, Recovery and DR strategies.
Develop automation of the database processes, tasks, and procedures.
Develop and maintain documentation on systems management and operational procedures.
Follow operational policies and processes that are compliant with ITIL standards. Participate in change control procedures.
Resolve critical infrastructure incidents as part of on call rotation
Provide root cause analysis and/or proactively provide recommendations to prevent issues from surfacing
Work with Engineering teams to optimize queries
Stay up to date with the trends in the database industry. Use that knowledge to help shape our future database infrastructure.
Support code or release deployment process
Participate in on call rotation (24×7)
Mentor Junior, or new DBA team members
Required Experience/Skills
3+ Years’ Experience in a large scale, mission critical MS SQL Server environment
Experience in performance tuning and troubleshooting
Experience working with databases in the cloud (Azure preferred – specifically SQL Managed Instance and SQL Database)
Installed and configured database servers (MS SQL 2016+) using various high availability technologies such as Availability Groups and Failover Cluster Instances.
Experience working with multi-TB highly transactional databases
Develop and adhere to strong security practices with regards to Authentication, Authorization and Encryption
Takes an evidence-based approach to all troubleshooting and recommendations
Strong communication skills.
Ability to work varying hours, including evenings, weekends and holidays as required
Ability to work in a fast pace and rapidly changing environment.
Ability to multitask and work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously
Other Desirable Skills
Experience automating infrastructure deployment using tools such as Ansible or Terraform
Experience with supporting a multi-tenanted hosting infrastructure with thousands of customers
Experience in other database systems such as MySQL Postgres, and flavors of NoSQL Databases (such as Cosmo…
