Database Administrator
Toronto, Ontario • Direct Hire • July 23, 2026 • 89289
Base Salary Range: $85000 - $105000
Job Title: Database Administrator
Job ID: 89289
Location: Toronto, Canada - Hybrid
Overview:
Our client provides specialist financial services to investment funds, investors, multinationals and private clients worldwide. With over 10,000 employees in 45 countries they innovative solutions to meet clients’ evolving needs and deliver exceptional service. Continuous investment in learning means you will work with people who are among the best in the industry. This is an opportunity to excel in an environment that genuinely supports your personal and professional development. Our client seeks a Database Administrator within the Database Team. The successful candidate will work with a team of database engineers and is primarily tasked with supporting the entire database footprint both on-prem and in the cloud. The position is responsible for ensuring the team operates effectively and efficiently, is properly motivated and ensures customer expectations are managed. This role interacts with most functions across the organization. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building large, scalable infrastructure, and is a creative thinker, problem solver, teacher and learner. This is a hands-on technical role with experience of Oracle databases essential, with additional knowledge of SQL Server or PostgreSQL being a plus. The focus of this role is to ensure optimal database performance, security, and reliability across our organization.
What you will be doing:
Database Architecture & Design
- You will design and implement database architectures
- Establish database standards and best practices
- Ensure database security, performance, and reliability
- Lead and mentor junior database administrations
- Coordinate with other IT teams and stakeholders
- Participate in major incidents and their resolution
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
- Oversee database maintenance, backup, and recovery procedures
- Optimize database performance and troubleshoot complex issues
- Implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions
- Plan database capacity and scalability requirements
- Evaluate and recommend new database technologies
- Develop long-term database strategies aligned with business goals
What you must have:
- You must have 5-8 years of database administration experience
- Extensive experience with major database platforms (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Proficiency in: Oracle Exadata Database Appliance, Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (OEM)
- Installation, upgrade, monitoring, and support of Oracle Databases 19c and newer versions
- Knowledge of Oracle GoldenGate implementation and maintenance
- Linux/UNIX scripting proficiency
- Autosys, Stonebranch or other workload scheduling tool expertise required
- Working knowledge of modern automation tools (Ansible, Rundeck)
- Strong knowledge of database security and compliance
- Experience with data modelling and database design
- Problem-solving and analytical abilities
- Performance tuning and optimization expertise
- Excellent knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL programming.
- Experience with database backup and recovery strategies, including disaster recovery planning.
- Strong understanding of database security best practices and compliance requirements.
- Bachelor's degree or technical qualification prevalent to the position
- Certifications such as Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, or PostgreSQL Certified Associate.
- AWS Cloud Practitioner or Associate Level certification [or ability to obtain within 6 months] with proficiency in: RDS databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, Aurora), CloudWatch monitoring, CloudFormation, Lambda functions, AWS DMS and DirectConnect, Python, JSON, YAML programming experience, Oracle Cloud Services expertise, and experience with multi-cloud environments
Salary/Rate Range: CAD $85,000 to CAD $105,000
Other Information:
- Permanent position
- Hybrid 3 days/week onsite downtown Toronto (close to Union Station)
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.
For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com