Senior Database Architect

2 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Canon Full time

About the Role

As a Senior Engineer (Oracle DBA), you will be a pivotal member of Canon's high-performing Infrastructure Services team, responsible for developing, enhancing, managing, and maintaining customer platforms and systems. This role will focus on Database and Cloud services, covering technologies such as Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, RHEL, and Cloud database infrastructure services. Your expertise will be integral to the success of Canon's well-established and growing Cloud and Infrastructure Services practice, ensuring the delivery and maintenance of technology services to a high standard.

Main Responsibilities

  • Enhance, maintain, and manage Enterprise-level Database platforms and Cloud deployments
  • Develop, support, and enhance current deployments of Database and Cloud services
  • Follow standardised ITIL frameworks for Incident, Security, Problem, and Change Management processes
  • Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
  • Develop and maintain strong technical documentation for managed systems and services
  • Provide proactive operational support to colleagues and customers as required
  • Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) contributor for projects and initiatives across managed deployments
  • Fulfilment of BAU requests, project delivery tasks, and technology initiatives
  • Attend customer meetings and workshops, providing technical recommendations and proactive advice
  • Develop and enhance technology processes to improve efficiencies across the deployment base

About You

The position requires someone with proven technical experience managing, maintaining, enhancing, and growing Enterprise-level Database and Cloud environments, utilising best practices to ensure maximum uptime, performance, and optimisation. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Cloud and/or Database Engineer to join Canon's technical team, providing exposure to a wide range of technologies and disciplines. Key skills include:

  • At least 5+ years in managing, configuring, and maintaining Enterprise-level Database deployments (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL)
  • Extensive knowledge of Oracle Database services, tools, and products
  • Extensive experience deploying, migrating, administering, and managing Oracle Database on RHEL, ASM, and Data guard
  • Ability to perform advanced Oracle Database maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
  • Experience in Database management across Microsoft SQL and MySQL services (desirable)
  • Experience in Database management across Microsoft SQL and MySQL services
  • Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure, Data, and Application services and technologies (AWS and Azure)
  • Strong expertise in RHEL deployments, including RHEL for Oracle and various other Linux distributions
  • Knowledge of DevOps concepts, tools, and languages (CloudFormation, PowerShell, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub, Ansible, Azure ARM, etc.)
  • Experience in developing, managing, and supporting automation tools, processes, and runbooks across various technologies

Canon offers a supportive team environment where collaboration and support from leaders and peers are the norm. We invest in your development and long-term future, and we can promise a variety of challenges across the wide range of customers we support.

We believe in the power of an inclusive and diverse workforce. We trust you will bring your authentic self to work, and we will focus on making sure that together, we make a strong contribution to the broader community in which we operate. Flexible working arrangements are the norm, as we know a better work-life balance can improve your motivation, performance, and productivity.

Some Benefits

  • Free onsite parking at Canon's offices (site dependent)
  • Bonus Leave including: Birthday leave, Canon Day, an extra day of leave during the Christmas holidays, Kyosei Day, or volunteer leave to take a paid day off to do good in your community
  • Flexible working arrangements, where possible
  • Training and development opportunities to help you bring your goals to life
  • Wellbeing benefits, including everything from discounted health insurance to flu vaccines to confidential counselling
  • Performance Recognition, in the form of quarterly and annual awards programs for high-performers
  • Milestone recognition on your work anniversaries in the form of carbon credits, merchandise, or retirement fund rewards
  • Discounted Canon products offered at discounted rates
  • Education assistance to support the cost of any external training that gives you new skills for your job


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