DTS-030– Database Administrator - #441224

Job Title: 29954 -RFR-DTS-030– Database Administrator

Office Location: Onsite & Remote

#Business Days: Up to 24 Month

Duration: The duration of the engagement may be for up to a 24-month term. Due to the nature of projects, there may be exceptional circumstances where the total term may be extended beyond 24 months. The 24-month term is anticipated to start with a 6-month initial term followed by up to 18-month renewal(s).

Description

SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES

All Services will be performed on-site with primary location at 215 Garry Street, Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba, regardless of the location of residence of the Proponent’s resource. The service location of the resource may change as a part of STATEMENT OF WORK between Proponent and Manitoba. Manitoba at its sole discretion may provide an option to work remotely. The remote working rate is the rate at which the proponent’s resource will work primarily remotely and called onsite if needed at Manitoba’s sole discretion. The onsite rate is the rate at which proponent’s resource will work primarily onsite as per the location defined in STATEMENT OF WORK and may work remotely if needed with prior written permission from Manitoba at its sole discretion.

Standard working hours for the resource will be in accordance with Manitoba usual working hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm CST (7.25 hours per day), Monday to Friday. Manitoba offices are closed on all Manitoba statutory holidays, and these days will be unpaid. Manitoba at its sole discretion may decide that at certain times extended working hours are needed to meet project deadlines. But extended working hours are to cover exceptional circumstances and may not be available during the entire duration of the engagement with the proponent’s resource. Overtime work cannot be used and billed unless approved by Manitoba with an advanced written approval.

Role Description

• The Database Administrator will provide support in database capacity planning, installation, configuration, design, migration, performance monitoring, security, and troubleshooting, as well as backup and data recovery.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Monitors, troubleshoots and optimizes database performance
• Identifies and manages database bottlenecks
• Create, maintain and run scripts based on requirements
• Respond to incidents and problems
• Administers patches according to Vulnerability Management Standards
• Perform database backups and recovery
• Performs database capacity planning
• Tests and analyzes database performance
• Creates database installations on servers
• Oversees database operations
• Designs and implements database software, maintenance and support requirements
• Designs and develops interoperability testing of many component products
• Creates and maintains solution documentation
• Ensures consistent use of integration of application middleware components and database architecture
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Skill Requirements/Qualifications

A clean criminal record check status will be required at the proponent’s expense prior to the successful Service Provider Resource(s) arriving onsite or working remotely. Maintaining a clean status is required throughout the Proponents contract. An enhanced background check, completed by Manitoba may be required on certain projects due to the confidentiality of the materials shared to the Proponent. If the proponent fails, they must rectify on their own cost and time.

The following are minimum qualifications and/or experience for the delivery of the Services.

The Resource must have the following minimum qualifications or experience:

• Post-secondary certificate, diploma or degree in computer science or related field. A suitable combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience creating and administrating complex databases in an enterprise environment.
• Significant work experience in the technology field as a Database Administrator.
• Strong technical proficiency, troubleshooting skills and operational knowledge of hosting technology in a corporate data center environment
• Extensive experience and operational knowledge of hosting technology in a corporate data centre environment.
• Experience with RDBMS performance monitoring and tuning: closely monitoring performance; identifying problems and implementing solutions; while ensuring the database is running at optimum speed and efficiency.
• Experience applying tools, techniques and processes related to change management, configuration management, capacity management and availability management.
• Experience working with Windows and/or Linux operating systems.
• Strong verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly present complex issues to internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical or problem solving skills.
• Experience working with the following RDBMS': Microsoft MS SQL Server and Sybase ASE
• Ability to provide data migration support and data migration effort for complex multilocation sites
• Ability to adapt to change in dynamically evolving situations
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Excellent customer service skills
• Experience with T-SQL and MS RDBMS with experience in DB Triggers, Views and Stored Procedure Programming and database optimization
• Excellent communication, collaboration, organizational and problem solving skills
• Experience with MS SQL server and SAP Sybase ASE
  
  

Eligibility and Application Steps

If you are enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity, we kindly request you to provide the following documents: [email protected]

Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.

• Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
• Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
• Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
• Visa Status (Mandatory)
• LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)
  
  

Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above. Feel free to share with your network or tag someone who fits for this role!