Philips | Hiring | Sr. DevOps Database Administrator | BigDataKB.com | 2022-09-09

Job Title

Sr. DevOps Database Administrator

Job Description

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better
Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

Your Responsibilities as a Software DevOps Engineer are to maintain the operations of our externally facing critical 24×7 “Software as a Service” systems. Specific responsibilities include:

• Support of the Product Delivery process, including production releases of critical externally facing products as well as staging and preparing testing and quality assurance environments. Ensure all operations meet current HIPAA, ASIP and other relevant regulatory guidelines. Work directly with the PMO to ensure all project release schedules are met.
• Maintaining appropriate and required compliance and regulatory requirements, involving key process controls and documentation.
• Providing Tier 2 and Tier 3 Operational support of critical 24×7 externally facing medical device software products. Meet or exceed all operational KPI’s and SLA’s.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a highly diverse and fast paced team. Identify, cultivate and manage the necessary external relationships with third party providers such as data center hosts, hardware/software vendors and consulting firms.
• Provide architectural and process guidance to both members of this team as well as the product engineering team in order to insure security, performance and availability of all supported products.
• Some On-call, overnight and weekend work may be required to support off hour releases and production operations. In conjunction with the North America team we look to create a follow the sun support model in an attempt to eliminate overnight on-call rotations

Profile:

The ideal candidates will possess elements of the following technical disciplines:

• Experience in a regulated healthcare setting or other highly regulated industry.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technology field. Masters a plus.

• Minimum of 6-9 years’ experience supporting external customer facing products including a thorough understanding of hardware, storage, and networking in a cloud based SaaS models.

• Ability to effectively support and manage both Linux and Windows operating systems.

• Strong knowledge in supportingadministrating Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB and/or Amazon Relational Database Services

• Working knowledge in additional areas such as Redis, Neo4J or streaming processes such as Kafka Event Stream are a plus

• Experience in automation tooling via scripting is highly regarded for role.

• Demonstrated ability to work with rapidly changing development priorities while insuring performance and availability of production systems.

• Strong systems analysis, performance tuning, and troubleshooting skills.

• Support all Database Administration needs, including but not limited to: backups, restores, snapshots, replication, patching, DB deployments, and schema version change scripting within maintenance jobs and schedules.

• Effectively research, develop, test and implement new Database Tuning and Maintenance procedures

• Implement and Maintain all Database Security policies, procedure and regulations

• Serve as DBA for operational responsibilities, strategic planning and projects.

• Long term thinking and planning coupled with tactical execution and prioritization skills.

• Coordinate production releases and changes including technical and scheduling conflict reviews.

How we work at Philips
Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.
Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:
We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There’s a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips?
Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

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