Locations
Regina, Saskatchewan
Various FCC offices may be considered

Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY):

03/12/2026

Worker Type:

Permanent

Language(s) Required:

English

Salary Range (plus eligible to receive a performance based incentive, applicable to position) :

$105,145 - $142,255

Why FCC?

At FCC, we’re proud to be 100% invested in Canadian agriculture and food. As a federal Crown corporation, we provide financing, knowledge resources and business management software to over 103,000 customers nationwide.

Here’s what you can expect when you join our team:

• Competitive total rewards packages: market-aligned and performance-based salary and incentive programs, flexible and comprehensive group benefit and savings plans, and well-being support through benefits and wellness programs
• Purpose-driven work: We build strong relationships, share knowledge and support the people who feed the world
• Growth: Learning and development opportunities to help you thrive
• Hybrid work options

How you’ll make an impact

As a Database Administrator (DBA), you’ll support, maintain and modernize our enterprise database environment – ensuring the performance, availability, security and reliability of critical database systems while working closely with application teams, architects and operations. As a senior member of the team, you’ll bring deep expertise in Oracle database administration and contribute to our AWS cloud journey, supporting Oracle workloads in cloud environments. You’ll act as a technical leader, helping guide best practices, influence technical decisions, and mentor team members while remaining hands-on with complex technical challenges. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior DBA who enjoys hands-on technical work, problem-solving and contributing to modernization initiatives in a collaborative, Agile environment. If you have a passion for keeping mission-critical platforms available, performant and recoverable, this could be the role for you.

What you’ll do

• Manage work queue and daily work distribution within the DBA team 
• Provide coaching and mentoring to junior colleagues
• Partner with architects on key initiatives to modernize and maintain database performance 
• Perform diagnostics, testing and troubleshooting of database and operating system issues to ensure stable and reliable database services 
• Monitor database environments, act on system alerts and respond to performance, availability and stability issues in a timely manner 
• Execute database migrations, patching, upgrades, backups and recovery, reorganizations, and data movement activities  
• Manage and resolve business-as-usual service requests, incidents and operational tickets through established ITIL processes 
• Identify, analyze and remediate database performance and availability issues 
• Support database-related deployment and change activities, ensuring controlled, reliable releases into production environments 
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide support outside of regular working hours when DBA expertise is required 

What you’ll bring to the team

Required qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or information technology
• Minimum eight years of experience in database administration (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Minimum eight years of Oracle Database Support & Postgres Administration experience 
• Minimum eight years of AWS RDS experience (including Aurora, option groups and parameter groups) 
• Experience with ITIL processes – incident, change and service request management procedures 
• Knowledge of AWS for databases and networking
• Knowledge of performance monitoring, disaster recovery, failover, high availability, archive/transaction log management, AWS DMS, auditing, and backup solutions
• Ability to configure SSL encryption, AWS IAM authentication and cost optimization
• Experience with Redshift and Oracle Enterprise 
• Experience leading or mentoring team members, supporting effective work prioritization, sharing knowledge and collaborating within and across teams

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced SQL knowledge is an asset, but this role is focused on administration 
• SQL Server experience

Not sure you meet every requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway.

You belong here  
At FCC, we’re committed to creating an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace – one that reflects the communities where we live, work and play. Our team is made stronger through diversity, and we’re dedicated to building a workforce that brings together a range of backgrounds, abilities and perspectives.  
   
We encourage qualified applicants to apply, including members of these four employment equity groups:  
• Indigenous Peoples  
• Members of visible minority groups  
• Persons with disabilities  
• Women