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About Cetaris

Cetaris builds leading-edge Enterprise Asset Management software to help some of the world’s largest organizations to manage millions of fleet and fixed assets in over fifty countries. We enable customers to mine mission-critical data to optimize the maintenance of their assets. In 2020, Cetaris won Best Tech Work Culture at the Timmy Awards. Learn more about us at cetaris.com/company/careers/!

Cetaris’ Product Development and Deployment teams are friendly, collaborative, and passionate about exceeding our customers’ expectations, and continually modernizing and automating our techstack, tools, and processes!

About the role

We invite you to join Cetaris immediately as a DBA, helping us deploy our Enterprise Asset Management software to customers across North America.

You will manage and maintain customer and internal databases for our core products, ensuring adequate backup and resources, and maintaining database upgrades. Your daily work will include upgrades and roll outs to customers, as well as internal support to Software Development and SQA, including their build process. You will also assist our team with automating our DBA processes, including the evolution of associated tools.

Career path: DBA opportunities include schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, hardware design, database and hardware optimization, and responsibility for continual process improvement.

Hours and location

Our team continues to work 100% remotely with occasional in person meet-ups in the Greater Toronto Area. Future plans around location are still open. Our primary goal is to keep our team and their families safe and well.

Flexible hours with core business hours. Occasional nights and weekends required to support customer upgrades.

Compensation

This is a permanent full-time position (40 hours/week), with an annual salary (based on experience) plus bonus. Shared medical, dental, wellness, and insurance benefits.

What you will do

  • Manage and maintain internal database servers, including resource monitoring, backups, index maintenance, patching and optimizing database resources.
  • Oversee product development databases, including building upgrade packages, maintaining database change log repositories, and preparing deployment packages for on-prem and hosted customers.
  • Manage multiple SQL Server instances using AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AOAG) and implement processes to test Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios.
  • Implement the security policy and protection of customer data through encryption technologies such as SQL TDE, Always Encrypted, BitLocker, SSL/TLS and Azure Key Vault.
  • Collaborate with the Development and Platform Engineering teams to support the transition from traditional relational databases to multi-tenant cloud data services.
  • Work with multiple internal and external customers to ensure timely and high-quality deliverables for Fortune 10 as well as SME clients.
  • Prepare, test, and troubleshoot database upgrade packages for customer and internal deployments, including customized or product-specific settings.
  • Set up new product databases to onboard new customers in collaboration with Implementation and Deployment teams.
  • Accurately documenting DBA procedures and checklist in a knowledge base.

Requirements and skills

  • Ideally you have 2-3 years’ DBA experience in a Software Development environment.
  • Familiarity with traditional relational database system, especially SQL Server.
  • Interest or experience in cloud database technologies such as Azure SQL, Azure Redis, Postgres, Azure Fabric, and Cosmos DB.
  • Proficiency in tools like SSDT, SSMS, SQL Profiler, Azure Data Studio, PowerShell scripts, and Grafana.
  • A proactive and collaborative approach with the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on securing and protecting customer data.
  • Experience working in Agile environments.

Personal attributes

  • You like to be in a super-collaborative
  • You are meticulous, risk-aware, and have a great eye for detail in your daily work.
  • You are persistent by nature, and focused on achieving your project team’s outcomes.
  • You are strong at prioritizing tasks and meeting
  • You enjoy interacting with customers to help them meet their deadlines

Bonus points

  • Experience with well-implemented Agile, team decision making, and able to contribute ideas to help evolve our process.
  • Familiar with asset management or equipment maintenance industries and the curiosity to learn!

Why you want to be at Cetaris

  • When we work from home – virtual team events including cooking classes, online games, costume contests, and other on-camera fun.
  • When we’re together - picnics, skiing, bowling, ziplining, boat rides, foosball, and conferences with our user community.
  • Flexible work hours and occasional in-person teamwork at co-working spaces.
  • Sit/stand workstations and other ergonomic supports.
  • Customized learning support.
  • Bonuses.
  • Your birthday off!
  • Benefits include dental, vision care, paramedicals, insurances, EFAP, telemedicine, and more.
  • Team fundraising for Daily Bread Food Bank, Red Cross relief efforts.
  • Employee resource groups that support our team culture, DEI, and health and safety, ensuring every team member feels they belong and has a voice. 

Our core values

  • Respect the Individual
  • Work with Integrity
  • Encourage Innovation
  • Strive for Excellence
  • Persevere – Never Give Up
  • Always Learn & Share
  • Have Fun – Enjoy the Journey

How to contact us

If our Senior Database Administrator role sounds like a good fit for you, please send us your letter of introduction, a link to your portfolio if you have one, and resume to talent@cetaris.com. We thank you for your interest, and will contact you if you are selected for an interview.

Accessibility and inclusion at Cetaris

At Cetaris, we believe in providing a safe, equitable, and accessible space for all. If you are an applicant with a disability, we ask you to reach out to discuss your accessibility needs at any phase in the application process. Email us at talent@cetaris.com to begin the conversation.