Oracle Administration

Job Description:

IT Manager – Database & Automation - (240000TC)

Description

Careers that Change Lives

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. 

As IT Manager, Database, you will be a part of our Global DBA team responsible for providing architecture and engineering leadership.  The MEIC Manager role is pivotal in establishing our Database As A Service model for cloud-based and on premise database deployments.

The MEIC based IT Manager works with a team of database architects, solution architects, engineers and business customers to bring industry best practices to database design, provisioning, automation, security, reliability and availability.  This role will work with a Global infrastructure team to engineer solutions to complex business problems while leveraging open source and traditional databases.

Your commitment to drive and managing high quality execution, operational excellence and delivering technology solutions that meet business needs and optimize customer experience will have a direct impact on the organization, and ultimately, affect the lives of millions.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

A Day in the Life

• Provide management oversight of the Database architecture team and activities at MEIC.
• Provide technical leadership and practical experience across the various on premise and cloud-based database offerings.
• Provide architecture guidance in designing Database As A Service solutions for cloud-based database offerings.
• Provide architecture guidance in designing automated provisioning solutions for on premise and cloud-based database offerings using modern automation tools.
• Partner with various IT Infrastructure teams and engage Business partners to fulfill project needs while providing exceptional customer outcomes.
• Be well-versed in database monitoring technologies for on premise and cloud-based databases including OEM, Solarwinds, Toad, RDS Console and CloudWatch.
• Be well-versed in database security products and techniques including auditing, encryption, virtual private databases, row level security, etc.
• Be well-versed in enterprise backup tools and technologies including RMAN, Netbackup, Data Domain, etc.
• Work well with IT teams and Business Partners to identify and implement opportunities to improve database performance, reliability, scalability and availability.
• Provided demonstrated ability to mentor, guide and develop database team members.
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 15+ years Oracle database experience as Database Architect, Engineer or Administrator, or advanced degree with a minimum of 7+ years relevant experience.
• Minimum of 3 years experience with open source or cloud-based databases.
• Minimum of 4 years management or technical leadership experience.

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Qualifications

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 15+ years Oracle database experience as Database Architect, Engineer or Administrator, or advanced degree with a minimum of 7+ years relevant experience.
• Minimum of 3 years experience with open source or cloud-based databases.
• Minimum of 4 years management or technical leadership experience.

• 5+years of managerial experience, which includes goal settings and performance management.
• Excellent communication skills
• Think out of the box
• Creating an inspiring and diverse team environment with an open communication culture, setting clear team goals with ownership and accountability on deliverables
• Building high performance, motivated and innovative team culture by leading with empathy.

Nice to Have

o Oracle Certification

o Recent experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Hadoop or Snowflake databases in addition to Oracle.

o Recent experience with database computing on cloud-based platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP or Oracle Cloud.

o Recent experience with IAM tools and automated security provisioning for on premise and cloud-based database technologies.

o Recent experience with automated database provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.

o Recent experience with scripting languages like Perl, PowerShell, BASH, Puppet, etc.

o Provide experience with desktop client tools including MongoDB Database Tools, PGAdmin, DBeaver, HeidiSQL, Navicat, SQL Developer, SQL Studio, Toad, etc.

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o Recent experience with modern compute and containerization platforms like Oracle ODA, VMWare, Redshift and KVM technologies.

o Recent experience with DevOps and software engineering technologies

o Recent experience with modern backup approaches for on premise and cloud-based databases.

o Significant database development or support experience with application development and implementation teams.

o Experience contributing to technical project implementations using Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid management approaches.