Cloud DBA

6 month contract - onsite downtown Calgary

This role represents the evolution of a traditional Database Administrator into a cloud-focused data and analytics specialist. The emphasis shifts from database maintenance, backups, patching, and infrastructure administration toward data analysis, query performance optimization, cloud database configuration, observability, troubleshooting, and platform enablement.

• Strong SQL and data analysis capabilities across relational database platforms.
• Experience optimizing queries, indexes, and workloads for cloud-hosted databases.
• Knowledge of Azure SQL, Azure PostgreSQL, Oracle, or similar managed database services.
• Experience with database monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and operational triage.
• Ability to analyze application data usage patterns and recommend improvements for scalability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and cloud-native operational practices.
• Experience supporting application modernization and cloud migration initiatives.
• Knowledge of analytics, reporting, visualization, or data science techniques is considered an asset.

• Query optimization and performance analysis.
• Cloud database configuration and operational support.
• Application workload assessment and remediation.
• Data quality, reporting, and analytics enablement.
• Monitoring, observability, and incident triage.
• Automation and operational efficiency improvements.