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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Brampton, ON

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer with database expertise to join our talented Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. This role will play a pivotal function in managing, optimizing, and securing our database systems while also contributing to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices from a database perspective.

The ideal candidate will have an advanced skill set in one or more RDBMS technologies, demonstrate expertise in database performance tuning, troubleshooting, and setting up best practices for database operations. This role reports to the Director, Site Reliability Engineering and will work closely with various engineering teams influencing development of reliable products, standardization of reusable solutions, and adoption of resiliency and reliability principles.
 

What You'll Do:

  • Design, implement, and manage high-performance, highly available database systems across on-premise and multi-cloud environments (GCP/OCI/Azure).

  • Lead database migration initiatives to multi-cloud PaaS/IaaS stacks, ensuring data integrity, minimal downtime, and optimal performance.

  • Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning while troubleshooting complex database issues to ensure system reliability.

  • Automate routine database tasks (backups, replication, monitoring) and collaborate with SRE teams to implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting.

  • Implement stringent security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

  • Participate in on-call rotations, diagnose, mitigate, fix / escalate incidents as needed.

What You Bring:

  • Advanced expertise in at least two RDBMS (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2).

  • Experience working with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) is a bonus.

  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and/or Ansible.

  • Familiarity with SRE principles, including reliability, observability, and incident management.

  • Experience with GCP/OCI/Azure database services (e.g., Cloud SQL, BigQuery, or Firestore) and/or hybrid cloud database setups.

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.  
 
Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.