Cloud Data Analyst/ DBA

HRB; Calgary; On-site; CAD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

HRB is seeking a Cloud DBA for a 6 month onsite contract in downtown Calgary. The role focuses on moving from traditional DBA tasks to cloud-focused data and analytics, including configuration, optimization, observability, and platform enablement.

Responsibilities center on performance tuning, workload assessment, data quality, and automation to improve efficiency. The ideal candidate will bring SQL expertise and experience with cloud-hosted databases and reporting capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and data analysis across relational databases.
• Experience optimizing queries, indexes, and workloads in cloud databases.
• Knowledge of Azure SQL, Azure PostgreSQL, Oracle, or similar managed services.
• Experience with database monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and triage.
• Ability to analyze application data usage patterns for scalability and cost optimization.
• Familiarity with IaC, automation, and cloud-native operational practices.
• Experience supporting application modernization and cloud migration initiatives.
• Knowledge of analytics, reporting, visualization, or data science is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Query optimization and performance analysis for cloud databases.
• Cloud database configuration and operational support.
• Application workload assessment and remediation.
• Data quality, reporting, and analytics enablement.
• Monitoring, observability, and incident triage.
• Automation and operational efficiency improvements.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Query optimization

Azure managed DBs

Performance tuning

Data analysis patterns

IaC / automation

Cloud migration

Analytics basics

Job description

Cloud DBA
6 month contract - onsite downtown Calgary

This role represents the evolution of a traditional Database Administrator into a cloud-focused data and analytics specialist. The emphasis shifts from database maintenance, backups, patching, and infrastructure administration toward data analysis, query performance optimization, cloud database configuration, observability, troubleshooting, and platform enablement.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong SQL and data analysis capabilities across relational database platforms.
• Experience optimizing queries, indexes, and workloads for cloud-hosted databases.
• Knowledge of Azure SQL, Azure PostgreSQL, Oracle, or similar managed database services.
• Experience with database monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and operational triage.
• Ability to analyze application data usage patterns and recommend improvements for scalability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and cloud-native operational practices.
• Experience supporting application modernization and cloud migration initiatives.
• Knowledge of analytics, reporting, visualization, or data science techniques is considered an asset.

Primary Focus Areas

• Query optimization and performance analysis.
• Cloud database configuration and operational support.
• Application workload assessment and remediation.
• Data quality, reporting, and analytics enablement.
• Monitoring, observability, and incident triage.
• Automation and operational efficiency improvements.