Senior Database Administrator II

1 day ago

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Abbott 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.

We have a team of 114,000 colleagues serving people in more than 160 countries.

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.

You'll work collaboratively with other IT operational and software engineering teams to deploy and operate our systems/platforms and support client utilization.

You will also be responsible for automating and streamlining our operations and processes, along with building and maintaining tools for deployment, and monitoring setup for operational use.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Creating and managing the ODB environments that serve production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production needs
  2. Installing and maintaining the administrative and monitoring tools necessary for high level of availability and performance of EMR system
  3. Understanding performance metrics, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues
  4. Managing the logins for different types of access, including login behavior and working environment configuration
  5. Applying upgrades and updates to production and non-production environments
  6. Configuring and maintaining environment copies according to the environment strategy
  7. Responding to emergency and after-hours issues
  8. Engaging in capacity planning exercises to ensure adequate system resources
  9. Collaborating with technical teams and EMR Vendor to ensure proactive support
  10. Writing and maintaining scripts to improve system management tasks
  11. Participating in change control process for all planned application and technical activities
  12. Maintaining and testing processes related to business continuity
  13. Follow vendor best practices for hardware and software configuration
  14. Collaborate with partner IT staff to improve processes and infrastructure setup
  15. Contribute to end-user training as needed and be comfortable providing day-to-day support
  16. Communicate trends and new developments in technology to advise on current state best practices for implementing solutions
  17. Communicates effectively with management to enhance their understanding of the opportunities and limitations of information systems
  18. Conform to and enforce planned work priority in the face of continued interruptions
  19. 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
  20. Develop necessary documentation, testing and change control procedures to satisfy internal product validation and update yearly for audit compliance
  21. Maintain accurate current state application architecture diagrams, documentation, and other data sources in a consistent and replicable manner
  22. Develops detailed implementation, test and roll-back procedures for planned changes and follows code promotion model utilizing change request approvals
Requirements
  1. Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
  2. Strong Unix skills using the command-line prompt, including navigating directory structures and file manipulation
  3. Understanding of operating system concepts such as user and group ownership and file permissions, file system/volume group configuration, etc.
  4. Knowledge of a command shell (Korn, POSIX, Bourne, or C), plus languages and utilities such as awk, sed, and Perl
  5. Ability to create, understand, and follow processes to ensure successful execution of critical maintenance procedures
  6. Must be familiar with Agile software development methodologies and how DevOps practices are incorporated to improve delivery speed. Knowledge of JIRA sprints is helpful
  7. Familiar with containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and its integration functions with Azure
  8. Experience with Repository management and version control (GIT)
  9. Experience with Deploying applications and infrastructure to Azure cloud environments
  10. Familiar with automated testing and test-driven development practices
  11. Excellent communication and customer service skills. Able to bridge communication between technical areas and business areas for a full and complete understanding of expectations
  12. Must be a self-starter and possess good analytical skills
  13. Comfortable partnering with engineers to understand and solve problems that will enable you to deliver reliable software faster
  14. Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment
  15. Ability to travel approximately 3%
Preferred Qualifications
  1. EMR based application and (or) EMR based database administration certification
  2. 5+ years of technical system administration experience
  3. 5+ years of experience translating business requirements into technical designs
  4. At least 3 years' experience working in regulated environments

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

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