Postgres DBA (Contract Position)
Number of Positions: 1 Filled: 0 Duration: 12 months
Location: Mississauga, ON, CA
Must be eligible to work in Canada
5yrs continued Canadian residency is required for backcheck
Looking for a Database Administrator or Database Reliability Engineer, with mandatory PostgreSQL knowledge and highly preferable DB2 knowledge
Must have skills/experience/qualifications:
- Completion of a post-secondary college diploma or university degree in a related discipline or a combination of education, training and experience deemed to be equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or Database Reliability Engineer, or a similar role with a strong focus on automation and DevOps principles
Skills:
- Deep expertise in at least one, and preferably multiple, database systems:
- Relational: PostgreSQL (must have), IBM DB2 (highly preferred), SQL Server (highly preferred), cockroachDB(nice to have)
- Proven experience with CI/CD tools and integrating database changes into automated pipelines.
- Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, PowerShell, Bash.
- Advanced Cloud Infrastructure automation and management, preferably using Ansible, Helm charts, Operators and Kubernetes
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and deploying databases in containerized environments.
- Experience implementing, managing, and supporting cloud (Azure) and hybrid database platforms
- Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database concepts
