Senior Database Administrator II

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.

What You’ll Work On

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 of 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

Required Qualifications

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