Sr. Data Platform Administrator (Cloud Admin) to administer, monitor, and maintain the organization’s data platform and its underlying cloud infrastructure

Our valued client is looking for a Sr. Data Platform Administrator (Cloud Admin) to administer, monitor, and maintain the organization’s data platform and its underlying cloud infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

Annual Salary approximately from $94,580.00 - $111,320.00 per year

This is a hybrid position (2 days/week on site) in Ottawa

Tasks include:

• Manage Microsoft Fabric tenant settings, capacities, and workspace configurations while enforcing governance policies and security controls.
• Administer Power BI at the tenant level, including workspace governance, gateway management, capacity monitoring, row-level and object-level security, content sharing policies, and usage analytics reporting
• Perform database administration tasks including backup/restore operations, index maintenance, query performance tuning, RBAC permissions management, health monitoring, and high availability/disaster recovery procedures
• Administer Azure data platform resources including Azure VMs with SQL Server, Azure SQL Managed Instances, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, and Azure Integration Services components (Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid)
• Configure and manage Microsoft Purview accounts, data governance policies, classification rules, sensitivity labels, data scanning processes, and data catalog features across the organization’s data estate
• Maintain comprehensive documentation including runbooks, standard operating procedures, and architecture diagrams, manage platform-related work items and CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and collaborate with the analytics team, integration developers, and stakeholders to ensure platform reliability and alignment with organizational governance standards.

Must have:

• Éligible for a reliability clearance
• College diploma or certificate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field AND several years of experience in Cloud systems design, implementation, management and support
• Experience:
• Cloud data platform administration and governance
• Business intelligence platform administration and reporting
• Database administration (installation, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning, high availability)
• Data governance, classification, and compliance frameworks
• Cloud infrastructure management and cost optimization
• Integration services and data pipeline administration
• Identity and access management, security best practices
• Infrastructure as code and automated provisioning
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Technical documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures
• Technical Skills:
• MS Fabric/Power BI (tenant administration, workspace management, data pipelines, Lakehouses, governance, gateway administration, capacity monitoring, RLS/OLS, DAX for troubleshooting)
• Microsoft Purview (data governance, classification, scanning, catalog, lineage)
• SQL Server (advanced SQL, T-SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning, backup/restore, RBAC)
• SSIS, SSRS, SSMS Azure SQL (Managed Instances, Azure SQL Database)
• Azure Data Resources
• Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid/Hubs)
• PowerShell scripting for automation and administration
• Version control (Git) and Azure DevOps CI/CD
• Monitoring and alerting (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)

Nice to have:

• Bilingualism (English/French)
• Infrastructure as code (ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform)