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About the role

  • Platform database administrator supporting Guidewire’s cloud insurance platform across AWS production environments. Managing Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server reliability, performance, security, and incident response.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for database-related incidents and service requests
  • Research, respond to, and resolve database incidents while meeting service-level and customer satisfaction targets
  • Provide operational support and lifecycle management for Oracle RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server in AWS multi-AZ environments across EC2 and RDS/Aurora platforms
  • Perform performance tuning, root-cause troubleshooting, and production support for mission-critical databases
  • Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to reduce high-impact incident resolution times
  • Assist with database setup, configuration, security hardening, monitoring, and backup/restore processes
  • Own Salesforce ticket queues for schema and security changes, script execution, and non-production refreshes
  • Coordinate change control using Jira for safe, auditable deployments
  • Create and maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and troubleshooting guides
  • Partner with development and support teams to identify database bottlenecks and implement tuning or design recommendations
  • Shadow senior team members and review existing runbooks during onboarding
  • Take ownership of production and non-production environments
  • Lead incident investigations, reduce recurring issues through automation or design improvements, and improve database performance, availability, and time-to-resolution
  • Help shape database operations best practices and leverage AI and data in operations

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to the current role and use data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement
  • Hands-on experience administering and supporting large-scale relational databases, including at least two of Oracle, Aurora PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server, in production environments
  • Strong knowledge of AWS database services including RDS, Aurora, and EC2-hosted databases, with backup and recovery strategies, monitoring, and security best practices in multi-AZ deployments
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex SQL and database issues including locks, deadlocks, slow queries, memory and I/O contention, and perform effective performance tuning
  • Experience with Salesforce and Jira for ticketing and change management
  • Disciplined approach to documentation and approvals
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to act as a trusted technical advisor to internal teams and customers when needed
  • Collaborative, customer-centric mindset with experience contributing to knowledge sharing, cross-training, and team-based problem solving
  • Comfort working in a hybrid, distributed environment and coordinating across time zones
  • Preferred: Experience supporting databases in SaaS, cloud platform, or high-availability production environments, ideally enterprise software or FinTech/InsurTech
  • Preferred: Familiarity with Python, Shell, PowerShell, or similar automation and scripting
  • Preferred: Exposure to security and compliance practices including encryption, access controls, and audit logging, aligned with frameworks such as NIST CSF
  • Preferred: Understanding of CI/CD practices and database integration into release pipelines
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Health and Wellness benefits
  • Paid time off programs including volunteer time off
  • Market-competitive pay and incentive programs
  • Continual development and internal career growth opportunities
  • In-person orientation process
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Company sponsored retirement plan
  • Some roles may be eligible for annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$99,000 - CA$124,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudEC2MS SQL ServerOraclePostgresPythonSQL

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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