About KEV:
KEV Group is an enterprise SaaS company that provides an all-in-one activity fund management solution for K-12 schools. By seamlessly integrating and automating all fee management processes, our SchoolCash platform provides real-time visibility and control over how districts and schools create, collect, manage, track, and reconcile these funds. Parents benefit from an easy-to-use solution that offers convenience and supports all payment types. More than 26,000 schools across North America rely on our solutions to manage over $4 billion in activity funds annually. The company is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Cambridge, ON and across the U.S.
Why Join KEV?
- Work in an industry that benefits children, parents and schools
- Do meaningful and purpose-driven work, and make a real impact
- Join a quickly growing organization with real opportunity for learning and growth
- Passionate and accessible leadership team that cares about people, personally and professionally
- Hybrid work environment (3 days a week in our North York office)
Job Description:
As a senior database administrator and SQL Server expert, you’ll be responsible for the database tier of our application and ensuring our customers experience great performance and availability. The role has three high-level components: operations (over 2,000 databases across multiple servers and Azure regions), development (optimizations and reviews), and supporting analytics (building extracts and ETLS). The operations component of the role involves the management of 1,000+ databases across multiple servers and multiple environments. You’ll lead day-to-day database operations (for example, standard maintenance jobs and monitoring), transformative projects (for example, migrating and modernizing databases onto Azure), as well as performance monitoring and tuning. The development component of the role involves at times optimizing stored procedures and other times working with developers to optimize various database-related code. You’ll act as a code reviewer for database-related code changes, and in conjunction with developers and/or performance engineers you’ll ensure these changes are safe, deployable, and performant.
To succeed in this role you’ll need to be very strong with SQL Server, including different compatibility levels and Azure deployments. You also need to be a team player as we are a small team that works very closely together. Lastly, you should be driven to improve systems and solve problems – we move fast.
Responsibilities:
- Managing and enhancing database maintenance jobs and monitoring systems
- Performance monitoring and tuning using various tools and custom scripts
- Investigating issues in production and fixing root causes as and when needed
- Manage database version and compatibility level upgrades
- Re-writing SQL code to improve the performance of the application
- Reviewing database-related code changes
- Performing ad hoc data pulls for analysis
- Creating and automating standard analytics datasets via ETLs to be utilized by PowerBI
- Assisting other teams when required
Skills and Experience:
- 7+ years of experience working with different versions of Microsoft SQL Server, including the various versions available in Azure.
- Experience managing a large set of databases for a SaaS application
- Expert in performance monitoring, analysis, and tuning, including rewriting complex SQL to improve customer experience
- Experience automating routine DBA tasks using scripts
- Experience with Azure DevOps & PowerShell nice to have
We Offer:
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Competitive salary
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Comprehensive health and dental benefits
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Professional development opportunities
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Continuing Education
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Great colleagues and collaboration
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required by an individual joining the KEV team in this or any other capacity.
KEV Group is pleased to accommodate individual needs in accordance with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), within our recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any time throughout the recruitment process, please speak with Human Resources or the hiring manager.
KEV Group is an equal opportunity employer who agrees not to discriminate against any employee or job applicant because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.
