Location: Toronto, ON Job Title: Database Engineer
Job Overview:
The successful applicant will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy in a fast paced and highly challenging environment. As a result a high degree of flexibility around working hours will be necessary (between 10 AM and 7 PM). Experience of high transaction environments is a must, as well as a good understanding of the difficulties involved in working in a highly distributed environment.
Responsibilities/Duties:
● Supporting the company’s internal database infrastructures and providing the day-to-day administration needed for production systems.
● Diagnosing and resolving any technical issues with systems or servers as and when failures occur.
● Provide a point of reference for methods to resolve issues. Utilise a knowledge of problem resolution and SQL Server knowledge to provide support to the team when troubleshooting live issues.
● Providing pro-active management of systems to prevent unnecessary system downtime and to ensure data driven applications are performing and operating with the latest available data.
● Becoming involved with new product development at the requirements stage and maintaining visibility of project decisions during the development lifecycle.
● Reviewing and maintaining production systems to ensure they meet the demands of the business in terms of capacity and reliability.
● Ensuring housekeeping and data backup procedures remain suitable for the needs of the applications and data requirements of clients.
● Continually developing and utilising knowledge of technologies and skills relevant to the Department. As well as in database related subjects this may also include infrastructure, server hardware, networking and application software.
● Providing the Business with a point of contact for data matters and database support as part of an on-call rota.
● Identifying performance improvements to database procedures and data structures and working with Development teams to deliver code changes.
Required Skills/Experience:
Essential
● Highly experienced in the use of Microsoft SQL Server administration.
● Experienced in the use of transactional and snapshot replication within Microsoft SQL Server.
● Experienced in the use of Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL.
● Experience of Microsoft operating systems, server hardware and networking.
● Experience of supporting developers and technical end users.
● Experience of supporting web and commercial database applications.
● An attention to detail, consistency and accuracy.
● An ability to communicate with all employees within the Business and to consistently present a professional appearance.
● Experience of working in security aware environments.
● A flexible attitude to working hours (typically between 10 AM and 7 PM).
Desirable
● Educated to a degree or equivalent standard.
● Knowledge of sales management and call logging systems.
● Experience of packages such as Siebel, Axapta ERP and Cognos reporting systems.
● Experience of enterprise web portal systems
All applicants must email resumes in MS WORD format
to career@innovoice.ca. Please mention the job title on the subject
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