Job Description

Welcome to Allscripts! Our Mission is to be the most trusted provider of innovative solutions that empower all stakeholders across the healthcare continuum to deliver world-class outcomes. Our Vision is a Connected Community of Health that spans continents and borders. With the largest community of clients in healthcare, Allscripts is able to deliver an integrated platform of clinical, financial, connectivity and information solutions to facilitate enhanced collaboration and exchange of critical patient information.

OVERVIEW

Allscripts is looking to expand our Database Operations team.  We are looking for a passionate Principal DBA who can bring strong expertise to help transform/support our AWS/Azure database technologies (SQL Server/PostgreSQL/Redshift/CosmosDB Iaas/PaaS).

The position requires you to be a team player for a small and focused DB Ops group that is responsible for architecting, designing, building, scaling and supporting RDBMS cloud platforms.  You will collaborate with the broader DevOps, Data Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver solutions, and drive change, in support of our mission. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Apply your depth of knowledge and experience towards enabling our business to transition to the cloud.

Bring both relational and non-relational chops to help us design, build and maintain our SaaS data stores in the cloud (AWS/Azure).

Ensure the continuous availability of our mission critical systems.

Help manage all aspects of our AWS/Azure databases, instances and storage backing our cloud platforms.

Conquer the day-to-day operational aspects of our systems:

• Performance monitoring/tuning
• HA/DR strategies
• Backup strategies
• Query tuning
• Cloud instance/storage design, provisioning and performance monitoring
• On-prem to cloud migrations

Automate routine tasks with your own scripts and open-source tools

IDEAL QUALITIES:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or other related discipline
• 7+ years of solid experience with designing, implementing, supporting and scaling SQL Server
• Experience with Postgres/CosmosDB
• Azure or AWS proficiency is all aspects of designing, sizing and implementing SQL instances, storage and RDMS
• Terraform expertise
• Scripting abilities
• Strong Linux system administration proficiency.
• Experience with large, high volume, mission critical environments SaaS environments
• Passionate about solving business data problems
• Thrives in a rapid paced environment and loves new challenges
• Incredibly detail oriented and thorough
• Experience in an Agile or Scrum Environment­

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• Very little or no travel required for this role

WORKING ARRANGEMENTS:

• Remote- standard office environment

At Allscripts, our greatest strength comes from bringing together talented people with diverse perspectives to support the technology needs of 180,000 physicians, 1,500 hospitals and 10,000 postacute organizations across the globe. Allscripts offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including holidays, vacation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life insurance and retirement savings.

Allscripts' policy is to provide equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in all of its employment practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, age, individuals with disabilities, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. Applicants for North American based positions with Allscripts must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada. Verification of employment eligibility will be required as a condition of hire.

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