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Position: Database Administrator
Location: Ontario

About Compugen
Compugen is one of Canada's largest privately-owned Information Technology (IT) Solution Providers. We help customers design, acquire, integrate, and operate technology. Our mission is to help organizations realize new possibilities. Every day, our dedicated staff across North America focuses on providing extraordinary customer service and support experiences to private and public sector organizations. We combine a breadth of skills, depth of expertise, and commitment to operational excellence at scale to deliver exceptional, customer-focused experiences.

If you are driven to make a difference, relentlessly curious, and collaborative at the core, we’d love to talk to you. Join us and help us make a difference.

The Database Administrator is responsible for day-to-day database administration, production system support, and database-related requests, in a Microsoft SQL Server environment. This includes installation and upgrading SQL Server software as well as monitoring, tuning, and reporting on the SQL Server environment. The Database Administrator participates in projects and information architecture development. The Database administrator may also install and perform limited administration of packages that interact with SQL Server databases.

Install, tune, maintain, and upgrade SQL Server installations. This includes clustered environments.
Monitor the health of the SQL Server environment. Includes disk space management, memory optimization, indexing, security, and backups.
Provide documentation on the SQL Server environment.
Emergency support in the event of server crashes, deadlocks, and process blocking. Database recovery.
Provide user support with query tuning and optimization.
Support installation/upgrades of software packages that work with SQL Server databases (e.g. Marketing software) and provide administrative support for these packages as required.
Support systems development and system architecture development/design by acting as subject matter expert in databases and servers.
Perform ad hoc code development, maintenance, and testing as required


Minimum 5 years experience designing, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting SQL Server database environments.
Familiar with TSQL and SSIS.
Good interpersonal skills
Good problem-solving skills
Post-secondary degree/diploma required, preferably in Information Technology
SQL Server certification as an asset


Consistent with our commitments to equity and diversity, we actively recruit women, visible minorities, aboriginal people, and persons with disabilities. We also provide employment accommodation upon request to current employees and to applicants during the recruitment process. We comply with human rights codes in all jurisdictions where we operate and aim to provide a work environment where excellence is allowed to flourish and diversity is prized. Compugen is committed to providing accommodation throughout the interview and employment process. If you require accommodation, the hiring manager and the human resources contact will work with you to meet your needs.