Administrateur·rice de bases de données​/Database Administrator; Cloud

Job Description

Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM

* English version will follow*

• Cloud Watch
• Cloud Formation / Terraform
• Amazon Document DB
• Amazon MQ / SQS
• Amazon S3
• AWS Open Search
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
• Amazon Elasti Cache (Redis)
• RMAN (Recovery Manager)
• Data Guard

Location:
Montreal, Quebec (Hybrid Tech Hub)

Touch Tunes is looking for a passionate technology professional with a strong focus on AWS cloud database services and data platform engineering. In this role, you will be part of the Platform Data Engineering team and will play a key role in the design, automation, operation, and optimization of cloud‑native data services that power our large‑scale, high‑availability applications.

You will take ownership of several AWS‑hosted database platforms, ensuring security, scalability, resiliency, and cost‑effectiveness across the fleet. This includes infrastructure automation, upgrades, performance tuning, and close collaboration with development teams to ensure optimal data usage and architecture decisions. You will also help operate and modernize a set of self‑managed Oracle data platforms as we continue our cloud journey.

As part of the Platform Data Engineering team, you will contribute both to day‑to‑day operations and longer‑term data platform initiatives. You will work with talented, friendly teams to support application development by providing expertise in AWS database services, data reliability, and cloud best practices. This role is integral to the evolution of Touch Tunes’ next‑generation application and data platforms.

• Operate, maintain, and optimize AWS managed database and data services (RDS, Aurora, Document DB, Elasti Cache, and related platforms)
• Help manage, operate, and modernize self‑managed Oracle business‑critical databases, supporting their migration and integration into AWS where applicable
• Support development teams throughout the full application lifecycle, from architecture and planning to production deployment.
• Standardize and automate database provisioning, configuration, scaling, and schema changes using Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation / Terraform).
• Design and implement backup, restore, disaster recovery, and data retention strategies.
• Plan and execute database migrations and modernization initiatives, including moving workloads to AWS managed services (e.g., using AWS DMS).
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and performance of production data systems.
• Monitor, tune, and optimize databases and search platforms (queries, indexes, caching strategies, shard/replica design).
• Enforce data security and compliance best practices, including roles and permissions, encryption at rest and in transit, secrets management, and access controls.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and continuously improve reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Maintain detailed Jira tickets associated with tasks and projects.
• Ensure availability of development, staging, and production environments, and automate deployments across them.
• Act as a key escalation and support resource for production data and platform incidents.
• Research new services and data technologies and lead proof‑of‑concepts to validate improvements.
• Off‑hours on‑call rotation every 2 weeks (evenings and weekend). Rotations are compensated.

• Passion for cloud database engineering, automation, and performance across multiple AWS data services
• Experience administering Linux‑based systems
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS, including services such as:
  • Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation/Terraform
  • Amazon RDS / Aurora (MySQL, PostgreSQL (an asset))
  • Amazon Document DB
  • Amazon MQ/SQS
  • Amazon S3
  • AWS Open search
  • Knowledge of the following is an asset:
    • AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
    • Amazon Elasti Cache (Redis)
• Oracle database administration experience is a strong asset, including:
  • Oracle Upgrades & Patching:
    Upgrading databases using DBUA or manual methods.
  • RMAN (Recovery Manager):
    Expertise in complex recovery scenarios (Point‑in‑Time Recovery, TSPITR) and integration with S3 or storage‑level backups.
  • Data Guard:
    Setting up and managing Physical Standby…