SQL Database Engineer — ASE & Backup Reliability

Cognizant; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS) is hiring a SQL Database Engineer for Toronto, ON. You will monitor ASE databases, perform backups, handle incidents, and support change windows with rollback plans.

The role requires strong SQL and Sybase skills, experience with monitoring tools, and a proactive mindset. Visa sponsorship is not available. Salary is CAD 90,000–109,000 annually; applies until Oct 9, 2026.

Qualifications

• Requires strong SQL and Sybase database experience.
• Experience with monitoring, backups and patching ASE environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring & health checks – track server uptime, job failures, disk space, backup completion and replication status.
• Incident/ticket handling – own L1 tickets end-to-end and escalate when needed.
• Backup & recovery operations – verify backups, perform restores and validate integrity.
• Basic performance troubleshooting – identify blocking/deadlocks and long-running queries.
• User & access management – create/modify logins, roles and permissions; handle resets.

Skills

SQL

Sybase

Job description

Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS) is hiring a SQL Database Engineer for Toronto, ON. You will monitor ASE databases, perform backups, handle incidents, and support change windows with rollback plans.

The role requires strong SQL and Sybase skills, experience with monitoring tools, and a proactive mindset. Visa sponsorship is not available. Salary is CAD 90,000–109,000 annually; applies until Oct 9, 2026.