Remote Cloud DBA & Analytics Specialist

Staffmax Staffing & Recruiting; Calgary; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffmax Staffing & Recruiting in Calgary seeks a Cloud DBA for a 6-month contract onsite downtown. The role evolves from traditional DBA duties toward cloud data analytics, focusing on SQL performance, cloud configuration, and platform enablement.

You will optimize queries, monitor workloads, support cloud migration, and contribute to data quality and analytics initiatives. Strong SQL, cloud DB experience, and IaC familiarity are desired.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SQL & data analysis

Query optimization

Azure SQL / Azure PostgreSQL

Oracle DB / managed services

DB monitoring & performance tuning

IaC & automation

Cloud migration support

Analytics basics

Tools

Azure

PostgreSQL

Oracle DB

Job description

Staffmax Staffing & Recruiting in Calgary seeks a Cloud DBA for a 6-month contract onsite downtown. The role evolves from traditional DBA duties toward cloud data analytics, focusing on SQL performance, cloud configuration, and platform enablement.

You will optimize queries, monitor workloads, support cloud migration, and contribute to data quality and analytics initiatives. Strong SQL, cloud DB experience, and IaC familiarity are desired.