Sr Oracle DBA/Lead

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

For you, it's all about the people. As a Oracle DBA/Lead , your impact on patient care is always top of mind. Your desire for challenging, mission-driven work and eagerness to meet unforeseen challenges head-on provide robust opportunities to grow your career as a business-focused IT partner. Baxter trusts and appreciates your curious and collaborative problem-solving nature. You enjoy taking ownership of processes that enable the business to work and serve our customers more efficiently.

A global transformation is happening across our IT function—one where we are intentionally and thoughtfully reimagining how we partner with the business. Your expertise is a welcome addition and will be crucial in developing fresh solutions to optimize our technology for all of Baxter. You enjoy seeing the connection between the future and today as we look to simplify our technology landscape. Your past experiences and enthusiasm for innovation will help us streamline systems and initiatives, break down IT silos and work in an agile, hyper-collaborative model. To drive transformation, we will work smarter, not harder—which means you will be able to focus on value-driven outcomes while gaining regular exposure to the business as you grow your career with Baxter.

We create value for Baxter by optimizing technology. It's why we are shifting our approach to a capabilities-first mindset. A leaner technology blueprint will help us drive speed, simplicity, and collaboration. Embracing new technologies and methodologies helps us to keep up with a constantly evolving market—which means we can continue to save and sustain lives across the globe.

We build relationships with one another to get the work done—winning, failing and learning together. We're an ambitious community of experts who are driven to improve our skills and deepen our knowledge. Our teams embrace workplace flexibility, combining the best of both on-site and remote work environments. Monthly check-ins replace annual performance reviews and offer a more personalized approach to your career development. Leadership encourages you to invest in yourself through a variety of learning opportunities. We move quickly, giving you the chance to grow and diversify your portfolio during times of change.

As a Oracle DBA/Lead , you will have the opportunity to lead by example, and enjoy mentoring and learning from others. Here, you are trusted to manage your own time and are given opportunities to grow your career as you wish.

As Baxter transforms our IT organization into an innovative and strategic partner to the business, a key initiative is to invest in our IT talent in order to develop new skills and stronger business acumen. You are encouraged to take thoughtful action in developing your career and are given a myriad of resources to make that a reality. Think training, conferences, certifications, and support for advanced degrees. We live and breathe technology, but we also recognize space outside of work is needed. Take paid time off when you need to and come back refreshed so we can continue to save and sustain lives

• Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of databases that support Production/QA/Test/Development
• Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.
• Responsible for problem escalation to platform vendor and/or product support team and third parties as appropriate.
• Responsible for co-ordination of Infrastructure issues with Infrastructure team.
• Responsible for setups of new databases on Linux and cloud database platform.
• Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades.
• Responsible for implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the application development team.
• Responsible for performing refreshes of data from production databases into test and development databases
• Proven Oracle Database Administration experience on releases 11g, 12c, 19c
• Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service.
• Practical experience in performance tuning of databases as well as specific SQL statements
• Practical experience in analyzing infrastructure bottlenecks and infrastructure sizing.
• Knowledge of Oracle Golden gate or other real time data streaming product or tools
• Experience in Oracle RAC.

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in Computer Science or a related field with years' experience
• AWS RDS/EC2 database provisioning and support
• Enterprise Manager Grid control setting up alerts, thresholds and monitoring.
• RMAN backups and recocery
• Oracle Goldengate configuration and support
• AWS DMS configuration and support
• Oracle Datapump, Active Dataguard, ASM
• Experience with MS-SQL or Postgres, RDS databases.
• Python,terraform, jenkins scripting to automate database build/monitoring/support activities.
• Proven Oracle Database Administration experience on releases 11g, 12c, 19c
• Additional skills required.
• Able to follow-through on tasks and projects
• Advanced problem-solving skills
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Ability to work with internal or external auditors.
• Ability to write scripts to automate repetitive tasks and procedures.
• AWS or Azure cloud certifications related to Cloud Architecture or Database domain will be highly recommended.
• The position also requires weekend/off hour oncall support on a rotation basis and for any DB patching/P1 issues

Reasonable Accommodations

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