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OMERS · Onsite · Toronto, Ontario

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Database Administrator

We are looking for a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to join our Database Administration team. In this role, you will be the primary steward of our Pension Administration databases — ensuring their reliability, performance, and security. You will support batch job execution, system integrations, report generation, database tuning, monitoring, and the automation of manual database activities.

This is a hands-on technical role with significant impact. You'll work closely with product and business teams to keep mission-critical pension systems running smoothly — including participation in after-hours releases and incident response.

You will be responsible for:

  • Develop and test shell and SQL scripts to automate database operations and reduce manual effort

  • Create, install, configure, backup, recover, upgrade, migrate, and patch Oracle and PostgreSQL databases

  • Upgrade and maintain IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) environments

  • Provide ad-hoc support to business teams for script execution, IWS job management, and other database activities

  • This role requires participation in scheduled after-hours and weekend activities, including production releases, system upgrades, and patching.

  • Respond to alerts and actively participate in incident resolution

  • Share knowledge and support team members in adopting new technologies

  • Collaborate with product teams to deliver effective, sustainable database solutions

Required Skills & Experience

  • University degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline

  • Strong understanding of database management systems and related technologies

  • Experience with Oracle database administration (installation, configuration, backup/recovery, patching)

  • Proficiency with Linux/Unix environments

  • Knowledge of database security and access control best practices

  • Familiarity with IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) or similar job scheduling tools

  • Availability to support critical production issues outside regular business hours may be required.

  • Experience with maintaining databases on cloud platforms (GCP and Azure preferred)

  • Scripting experience (Shell, SQL, PL/SQL)

Preferred Skills & Experience

  • Experience in financial services, pensions, or regulated industries

  • Experience with database performance tuning and monitoring

  

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

 

The expected salary range for this position is $72,000.00 - $108,000.00 per year.

 

You may also be eligible to receive an annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan and our Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable), and to participate in our group benefits and retirement plans – details on these elements of compensation are included within OMERS & Oxford offer letters.

 

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

 

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.

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