Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll collaborate with a hard-working, dedicated team committed to global innovation. With our robust R&D investment, you will have ample resources to excel and provide support to high-impact projects. You will play a vital role in crafting scalable database solutions with a strong emphasis on automation and infrastructure-as-code. You'll have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects that craft the future!
How Will You Make an Impact?
- Apply standard methodologies to database development and deployment, ensuring robust and efficient systems.
- Automate database environment provisioning and management using tools like Ansible.
- Develop new applications, APIs, and dashboards to provide support on critical metrics, using your software development expertise.
- Collaborate with AWS architects to build and implement cloud-based database solutions.
- Proactively identify and automate manual processes across existing database environments.
What Will You Do?
- Develop and maintain automated solutions for database provisioning, configuration, patching, backup, and recovery using scripting languages like Python and Java.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for database schema changes, data migrations, and application deployments, ensuring smooth and reliable delivery.
- Work seamlessly with other Database and IT professionals to craft, develop, deploy, and support key business initiatives.
- Show strength in the design, installation, and deployment of sophisticated database landscapes, focusing repeatability and consistency.
- Know the latest industry trends in database technologies, cloud platforms (especially AWS), and DevOps practices.
- Build and maintain robust security measures for corporate RDBMS systems, protecting against loss or theft.
- Actively participate in and support the continued adoption of agile project management methodology.
- Provide comprehensive support for database and data-related issues, using your strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Serve as a technical leader on development and infrastructure initiatives, bringing a software engineering perspective to database solutions, mentoring junior team members and sharing knowledge.
- Automate deployment and ongoing support of applications and database infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
Education
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Experience
- 3+ years in a sophisticated environment, focusing on database development, automation, and software engineering.
- 2+ years of proven experience in Python and/or Java development database interaction, automation, and application development.
- Proven experience with database technologies and concepts, including relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), particularly database services and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience building robust monitoring and alerting systems for database health, performance, and security, ensuring proactive identification and resolution of issues.
- Develop and implement comprehensive unit, integration, and functional tests for application quality.
- Proficiency in database languages such as T-SQL and PL/SQL.
- Ability to write and maintain comprehensive and concise operational and user documentation.
- Experience in implementing and leading database security efforts using industry standard methodologies.
- Proficient in various operating systems (Windows Server, Linux - RHEL)
- Significant experience in processing automation and orchestration technologies, especially Ansible, for database deployments, patching, and maintenance.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- We are looking for excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong interest in debugging and root cause analysis.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey technical concepts.
- Ability to work effectively in a diverse environment and independently.
- Demonstrated capacity to fix and solve sophisticated technical issues across the application and database stack.
- Ability to identify, evaluate, and integrate new data management and software development technologies.
Growth Opportunities
- We invest in our employees' growth through training, mentorship, and opportunities to work with diverse technologies.
Top Skills
What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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