Sr. Database Administrator

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

COMPANY: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

LOCATION: 168 Third Ave, Waltham, MA 02451

TITLE: Sr. Database Administrator

HOURS: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

DUTIES:

• Work with developers and domain experts to establish a technical vision and evaluate trade-offs between usability and performance.
• Utilize advanced troubleshooting techniques to deliver unique and tailored solutions to meet our customers' specific needs.

• Act as a key point of contact between the business functions and IT.
• Work with users across all organizational levels to analyze and convert business requirements into database specifications.
• Critically assess information from various sources, resolve conflicts, and differentiate between user requests and actual needs.
• Translate high-level information into detailed requirements and summarize detailed information effectively.
• Communicate and collaborate with users to analyze their information needs and functional requirements.
• Act as a liaison between business, technology, and support teams to ensure clear and efficient communication.
• Participate in the Service Desk function to address and resolve user-related support calls.
• Develop and implement test plans, and provide communication and training to end users for new functionalities.
• Create new reports and dashboards to capture metrics for operational and business users.
• Work directly with Amazon Web Services architects to replicate and resolve customer issues.

TRAVEL: Reports to company headquarters in Waltham, MA. Can work remotely or telecommute.

REQUIREMENTS: MINIMUM Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field of study.

MINIMUM Experience Requirement: 6 years of experience as a Database Administrator, Technical Analyst or a related occupation.

Required knowledge or experience with:

• Project management;
• Agile Methodology;

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• AlwaysOn, Windows Clustering, RAC, DG, and database clusters;
• Managing various DBMS technologies such as; Golden Gate, DataGuard, Operational support for databases using Unix, Linux Solaris and HPUX, Windows, Veritas Clusters, RAC, and databases version 8i, 9i, 10g, 12c, 19c;
• SQL Server, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Oracle, MySQL, Redshift DynamoDB, Postgres, Hadoop, Java, SQL, Python, Unix, Linux, and Hana;
• Cloud Applications such as; Jenkins, Ansible, Cloud Formation, DataDog, RDS Databases, Aurora, DBaaS, and SaaS; and
• Database security.

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