Senior Database Administrator — Remote in Alberta

Randstad Canada

Edmonton

Remote

CAD 87,000 - 109,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Randstad Canada is seeking a Database Administrator for a 3-month contract to provide senior-level administration and operational support for enterprise database and backup/recovery platforms. The role focuses on maintaining availability, performance, security, and integrity of database environments, including monitoring, patching, upgrades, capacity planning and incident response.

Responsibilities include administering backup and recovery services, ensuring successful backups and reliable

Qualifications

Experience in highly regulated environments (e.g., financial services, pension administration).
Experience producing backup verification, restore-testing and recovery evidence for audit/compliance.
Experience supporting databases, data protection modernization, disaster recovery exercises.
Experience applying scripting, automation and standardized tooling to reduce recurring operational effort.
Certifications in database, backup and recovery, cloud or ITSM.

Responsibilities

Provide senior-level administration and operational support for enterprise database and backup/recovery platforms.
Maintain availability, performance, security and integrity of database environments; monitor, patch, upgrade and tune.
Administer backup/recovery services; ensure backups, retention and reliable recovery with evidence for audits.
Collaborate with application/infrastructure teams and vendors to resolve issues; support DR activities.
Document procedures; implement standards, automation and tooling to reduce risk and effort.