Sr. SQL Database Administrator

Company Overview

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don't just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference - driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed.

Position Description

We are looking for a talented and experienced Sr. SQL Database Administrator (DBA) to join our team. In this role, you will be expected to work autonomously and contribute to several high impact projects including architecting and building the database infrastructure to support our customer’s data needs.

You will be part of a team which will have on-call duties and would need to respond to high priority incident pager.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Creating and managing Azure SQL and PostgreSQL instances via Terraform and Azure Portal
• Enhance and optimize existing databases for peak performance
• Develop and debug stored procedures, views, etc.
• Expertise with analyzing long running queries (SQL and NoSQL) and make recommendations on rewriting queries, indexes, statistics and infrastructure
• Monitor and analyze database performance and ensure effective and efficient utilization of database systems/processes
• Be a force-multiplier on the velocity and quality of your team
• Continuously improve how we design, build, and ship software as a highly functional team

Workplace: Remote based in Canada or US with ability to travel to Atlanta, GA for meetings/workshops once per quarter.

Must Have Skills:

• Be a subject matter expert on performance tuning for SQL and NoSQL queries
• Proven track record of collaborating with dev teams to build reporting/data aggregating systems
• 7+ years of practical experience building and supporting Postgres and Azure SQL databases and exposure to NoSQL databases
• Good exposure to Azure cloud services
• Advanced knowledge in database administration, including experience with a variety of database, cloud applications, and distributed processing technologies

Preferred Skills:

• Previous Database Migration and SSIS/ADF exposure a plus
• Terraform knowledge preferred
• Experience with Kafka or similar distributed stream processing systems beneficial

Professional Skills:

• Adaptable to change and able to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong sense of responsibility with a bias towards action
• Comfortable self-directing and prioritizing your own work
• Solid written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Maintains composure during all types of situations and is collaborative by nature
• High standards of professionalism, consistently producing high quality results
• Demonstrate flexibility and openness to bring creative solutions to address issues

Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Canadian citizens and those authorized to work in Canada are encouraged to apply.

Applicants for employment in Canada must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship now or in the future by the employer for a visa to be able to meet the travel requirements for this position.