Lead Database Administrator – Multi-DB, HA & Automation

LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario); Toronto; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental Benefits

Employee & Family Assistance Program

Defined Benefit Pension

Discounts on products and services via

Workperks

Job summary

LCBO is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join a collaborative team responsible for enterprise database platforms across Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2, and more. You will ensure security, performance, and high availability across production and non-production environments.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Infrastructure, you will implement patches, tune queries, manage backups, and contribute to modernization and cloud initiatives while supporting 24x7 on-call

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years in a DBA/DBE role.
• Hands-on with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2.
• Experience across Linux/UNIX/Windows.
• Strong backup, recovery, high availability knowledge.
• Security, access management, encryption, auditing.
• Incident, change, problem, and release management experience.
• Willingness to participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support production and non-production database environments across multiple technologies.
• Perform routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle activities.
• Monitor availability, capacity, performance, and health; identify risks.
• Tune performance, indexing, storage, and configuration improvements.
• Manage backup, restore, replication, recovery, and high-availability processes.
• Support incident, problem, change, and release management per LCBO standards.
• Collaborate with teams to provide reliable database support for critical systems.
• Provide input for new database implementations and cloud services.
• Maintain standards, runbooks, and diagrams; ensure security compliance.
• Participate in on-call rotation for production incidents.

Skills

Database administration

Monitoring

Security

Incident management

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Db2

Job description

LCBO is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join a collaborative team responsible for enterprise database platforms across Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2, and more. You will ensure security, performance, and high availability across production and non-production environments.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Infrastructure, you will implement patches, tune queries, manage backups, and contribute to modernization and cloud initiatives while supporting 24x7 on-call