Intermediate Analyst – Database Administrator

This position requires in-person collaboration up to five days a week. This arrangement is subject to change based on business requirements.
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Overview of role:

West Jet is seeking an Intermediate Analyst – Database Administrator reporting into our Database Services team. This individual will demonstrate a high standard of excellence, enjoys challenges, and is results driven. The incumbent must be highly motivated and enjoy self-learning.

The Intermediate Analyst – Database Administrator (DBA) works with a team comprised of Database Engineers (Senior Database Administrators) and MSP DBA resources. The DBA is responsible for administering, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise database platforms across Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM Db2, and Azure SQL Database. This role supports day-to-day operations, ensures database availability and performance, and contributes to ongoing modernization and cloud migration initiatives.

The DBA has solid hands-on experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and a commitment to operational excellence.

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This role participates in an On-Call rotation.

Key deliverables & responsibilities include:

• Provide Database Administration and Operational Support to enterprise databases including monitoring, routine maintenance, high availability and disaster recovery configuration and testing, and performance troubleshooting, ensuring the health and availability of databases that support various business needs, minimizing downtime, preventing data loss, and maintaining performance and responsiveness
• Administer database user accounts, roles, and permissions following principals of least privilege
• Deploy security patches to protect sensitive data, reduce the risk of unauthorized access and protect against vulnerabilities and emerging threats
• Monitor and optimize database solutions using monitoring tools to track performance, capacity, and system health to enable proactive issue detection and capacity planning along with recommending and implementing improvements to database configuration, indexing strategies, and resource utilization to ensure systems run efficiently and can scale with business growth
• Collaborate with application teams to implement efficient database structures, stored procedures, and queries, supporting release deployments, schema changes, and data migrations to ensure new features and applications are built on scalable, high performing data foundations and new functionality is delivered smoothly with reduced deployment risks
• In the event there is an incident involving database performance, availability or data integrity, assist with root cause analysis to prevent recurring issues and improve system reliability
• Support hybrid and cloud-based database workloads, including, but not limited to, Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance to help West Jet leverage cloud scalability, cost optimization, and modern data capabilities.
• Participate in database modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, automation, and infrastructure as code practices to reduce manual effort, increase consistency, and align with long term technology strategies

Experience & qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or technical diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Database Administration or related field and 3-5 years of experience is preferred, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft SQL Server and / or Oracle Databases is required
• Experience administering IBM Db2, Azure SQL Database, or Azure SQL Managed Instance is preferred
• Experience administering other database systems is nice to have
• Proven experience with daily database operations including backup, restore, patching, monitoring database health and uptime as well as routine database…