SQL Database Administrator

Role: AZURE SQL Database Admin

Type: Full-Time Permanent (Grade 7)

Location: Scarborough, ON

Hybrid: 2 days onsite/week (Wednesday anchor day + 1 flexible day)

Urgency: High Priority - target hire required before October 31st.

Top 3 Hiring Priorities

1. Azure Cloud Database Expertise

• Azure SQL Dataase
• Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Cloud database administration
• Azure migration experience
• Cloud platform modernization

Azure is the primary cloud focus for this hiring initiative.

2. Strong SQL Server DBA Background

• On-premises SQL Server administration
• Databse performance tuning
• Backup and recovery
• High availability
• Migration planning and execution
• hands-on coding/scripting experience

Hiring managers are specifically looking for candidates who understand the source environment and can successfully migrate workloads to the target cloud environment.

3. Automation / Infrastructure as Code

Strong emphasis was placed on modern engineering practices, including:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Configuration as Code (CaC)
• Scripting and automation
• Automated cloud provisioning
• CDK or similar technologies
• Code-driven infrastructure management

The team is moving away from manual administration through cloud portals and requires candidates who can provision and manage environments through code.