Senior Database Administrator II
AbbottAbout the role
JOB DESCRIPTION:
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Working at Abbott
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. You’ll also have access to:
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. 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
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