Senior Database Administrator II

5 days ago

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Abbott Laboratories company Full time
About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines.

Our Mission

We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.

What We Offer
  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
  • Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
  • An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
  • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's degree
  • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
  • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists
The Opportunity

This position works out of our location in Maple Grove, MN in Abbott's Medical Device Division supporting R&D IT. As the Senior Database Engineer II, you'll have the chance to create technical/functional specifications, support new and existing applications and processes to enable development teams to release medical device software and systems more rapidly.

Responsibilities
  • Creating and managing the ODB environments that serve production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production needs
  • Installing and maintaining the administrative and monitoring tools necessary for high-level availability and performance of EMR system
  • Understanding performance metrics, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues
  • Managing the logins for different types of access, including login behavior and working environment configuration
  • Applying upgrades and updates to production and non-production environments
  • Configuring and maintaining environment copies according to the environment strategy
  • Responding to emergency and after-hours issues
  • Engaging in capacity planning exercises to ensure adequate system resources
  • Collaborating with technical teams and EMR Vendor to ensure proactive support
  • Writing and maintaining scripts to improve system management tasks
  • Participating in change control process for all planned application and technical activities
  • Maintaining and testing processes related to business continuity
  • Follow vendor best practices for hardware and software configuration
  • Collaborate with partner IT staff to improve processes and infrastructure setup. Identify manual processes within the organization and automate them
  • Contribute to end-user training as needed and be comfortable providing day-to-day support
  • Communicate trends and new developments in technology to advise on current state best practices for implementing solutions
  • Communicates effectively with management to enhance their understanding of the opportunities and limitations of information systems
  • Conform to and enforce planned work priority in the face of continued interruptions
  • Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, company policies, adheres to operating procedures, processes, and completes task assignments within the assigned sprint
  • Develop necessary documentation, testing and change control procedures to satisfy internal product validation and update yearly for audit compliance
  • Maintain accurate current state application architecture diagrams, documentation, and other data sources in a consistent and replicable manner
  • Develops detailed implementation, test and roll-back procedures for planned changes and follows code promotion model utilizing change request approvals
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
  • Strong Unix skills using the command line prompt, including navigating directory structures and file manipulation
  • Understanding of operating system concepts such as user and group ownership and file permissions, file system/volume group configuration, etc.
  • Knowledge of a command shell (Korn, POSIX, Bourne, or C), plus languages and utilities such as awk, sed, and Perl
  • Ability to create, understand, and follow processes to ensure successful execution of critical maintenance procedures
  • Must be familiar with Agile software development methodologies and how DevOps practices are incorporated to improve delivery speed. Knowledge of JIRA sprints is helpful
  • Familiar with containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and its integration functions with Azure
  • Experience with Repository management and version control (GIT)
  • Experience with Deploying applications and infrastructure to Azure cloud environments
  • Familiar with automated testing and test-driven development practices
  • Excellent communication and customer service skills. Able to bridge communication between technical areas and business areas for a full and complete understanding of expectations
  • Must be a self-starter and possess good analytical skills
  • Comfortable partnering with engineers to understand and solve problems that will enable you to deliver reliable software faster
  • Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment
  • Ability to travel approximately 3%
Preferred Qualifications
  • EMR based application and (or) EMR based database administration certification
  • 5+ years of technical system administration experience
  • 5+ years of experience translating business requirements into technical designs
  • At least 3 years' experience working in regulated environments

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