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Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Job in Toronto, Ontario, M5A, Canada
Listing for: Tangerine
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-18
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Database Administrator, Data Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Is this role right for you?

In this role, you will:

• Assess and develop long-term strategic goals for databases in conjunction with data owners and department managers

• Work with application development staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures

• Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets

• Configure and design database architecture to scale and adapt to changing Operational and platform technologies (e.g. automation, diverse platform, cloud, etc.)

• Ensure that existing and planned implementations are consistent and compliant with applicable security and regulatory policies and directives.

• Conduct research and make recommendations on database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts

• Create models for new database development and/or changes to existing ones

• Respond to and resolve database access and performance issues

• Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements

• Monitor, optimize and allocate physical data storage for database systems

• Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems

• Establish appropriate end-user database access control levels

• Implement corporate policy and audits; develop, publish, enforce and maintain standards and procedures

• Manage development, test and production environments; perform administrative functions; maintain documentation

• Design, create and maintain database structures; review application design and SQL code

• Design, test and implement backup/recovery strategies and contingency plans

• Monitor, analyze and report on availability, performance and resource consumption

• Assess capacity and make recommendations on disk and server sizing based on projected growth

• Plan, test and implement software upgrades; monitor alerts; administer licenses; interface with vendors

• Remain current with industry and product direction; evaluate new technologies and product features; make recommendations as to how Tangerine can benefit

• Troubleshoot problems; provide database problem resolution assistance to IT staff

• Provide day-to-day consultancy and support to IT staff; act as backup for other Database Systems staff

• Monitor daily operations; log issues and ensure resolution

• Other duties as assigned

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• University or College Degree or equivalent experience

• 8+ years of experience as a DBA

• 5+ years experience administering Oracle databases

• 3+ years of SQL coding experience

• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Experience on Redis Enterprise will be an added advantage

• Experience on Qlik Replicate (Attunity) will be an added advantage

• Exposure to GCP database services such as AlloyDB or Cloud SQL is an added advantage

• Superior working knowledge of Oracle database products and the SQL language

• Proven experience designing, deploying, and administering highly available and resilient database systems including hands-on experience with Dataguard and Disaster Recovery administration.

• Experience on database duplication and standby database with RMAN

• Experience on migrating to multi-tenant architecture (CDB/PDB)

• Strong working knowledge of Oracle wallet, SSL and TLS connections

• Working knowledge on data encryption (i.e. TDE)

• Knowledge on NO-SQL database and in-memory data store

• Knowledge on different Redis deployment methods

• Strong understanding of Redis clusters, cluster setup and operations

• Working experience on Redis upgrade and certificate operations

• GCP, AlloyDB, Terraform Experience

• Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles and practices

• Expert technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring and supporting database servers

• Familiarity with client/server, operating system, storage and networking fundamentals

• Experience working in Unix or Linux…

Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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