Senior Database Engineer

Manulife is seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Engineer to define architecture standards and design automate and operate enterprise-scale database platforms supporting critical applications across Enterprise Technology Services (ETS). The role focuses on reliability performance resiliency security and operational excellence across cloud and hybrid environments.

Distinct from traditional Database Administration and Data Engineering this role develops and evolves database platform capabilities standards automation and engineering practices.

Partnering with application cloud infrastructure platform engineering and security teams you will deliver scalable secure highly available observable and cost-efficient database services. This is an opportunity to shape enterprise database strategy advance modernization and deliver engineering-led solutions for business-critical platforms at scale.

Position Responsibilities

• Database Platform Engineering: Design build and maintain enterprise database platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.

• Define and implement database standards architecture patterns and engineering best practices.

• Lead database technology evaluations and recommend platform solutions aligned with business requirements.

• Develop and maintain database roadmaps supporting modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.

• Support relational and NoSQL database technologies including PostgreSQL SQL Server MySQL Oracle MongoDB Cosmos DB and Redis.

• Reliability Availability and Resilience: Design and implement high availability disaster recovery backup and failover solutions.

• Establish Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for critical database systems.

• Perform disaster recovery testing and resilience assessments.

• Drive service reliability improvements through automation and operational excellence initiatives.

• Performance Engineering: Identify performance bottlenecks and implement tuning recommendations.

• Analyze workload patterns query performance storage utilization memory consumption and database resource contention.

• Conduct capacity planning and growth forecasting.

• Develop proactive performance engineering frameworks to predict and prevent service degradation.

• Operational Excellence: Participate in incident response root cause analysis and problem management activities.

• Lead major incident investigations involving database platforms.

• Develop runbooks operational procedures and knowledge base documentation.

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across database engineering initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in Database Engineering Database Administration Platform Engineering or related technical roles.

• Strong expertise in one or more enterprise database technologies including PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server Oracle MySQL MongoDB or Cosmos DB.

• Experience designing and implementing high-availability and disaster recovery architectures.

• Advanced SQL and database performance tuning expertise.

• Experience operating and managing databases within Azure and/or AWS cloud environments.

• Experience supporting containerized platforms including Kubernetes.

• Experience developing automation solutions using Python PowerShell Bash or similar scripting languages.

• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent technologies.

• Strong troubleshooting analytical and root cause analysis skills.

• Experience working within enterprise-scale production environments supporting mission-critical applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure and/or AWS cloud certifications.

• Database certifications such as PostgreSQL Oracle SQL Server or MongoDB.

• Experience driving FinOps initiatives and database cost optimization strategies.

• Experience with predictive analytics machine learning or capacity management solutions.

• Experience supporting large-scale financial services insurance or regulated environments.

• Experience with database observability monitoring and performance management platforms.

• Experience supporting cloud-native database services and modern data platform architectures.

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and operational excellence practices.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and business partners.

When You Join Our Team

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment retention advancement and compensation and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race ancestry place of origin colour ethnic origin citizenship religion or religious beliefs creed sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions) sexual orientation genetic characteristics veteran status gender identity gender expression age marital status family status disability or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process contact .

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Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge skills qualifications experience and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits including health dental mental health vision short- and long-term disability life and AD&D insurance coverage adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays vacation personal and sick days and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S. please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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