Database Reliability Engineer

HCA Healthcare

Nashville, TN
2 days ago

Highlights

Senior-level DBREs provide guidance and expertise for continuous improvement, while entry-level DBREs play a key role in executing the department automation strategy. Knowledge of highly available database environments, backup and restore strategies, replication, disaster recovery planning, disaster recovery testing, and database failover capabilities.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Nashville, TN
Industry	Healthcare Services
Company Size	10,000 employees or more
Year Founded	1968
Website	http://hcahealthcare.com/

Description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Database Reliability Engineer

Job Summary and Qualifications

CLOUD DATABASE RELIABILITY ENGINEER I – POSTGRESQL

JOB SUMMARY

Cloud Database Reliability Engineers (DBRE) are critical to the Data Management Cloud Strategy. The DBRE performs data platform assessments and migrations of existing database environments.

DBRE is a hybrid role combining software engineering and database expertise. The Cloud DBRE works with database administrators, system reliability engineers, technicians, business analysts, and business owners to understand requirements and identify solutions.

The DBRE provides guidance and expertise for the continuous improvement of uninterrupted database operations. Senior-level DBREs provide guidance and expertise for continuous improvement, while entry-level DBREs play a key role in executing the department automation strategy.

The Cloud DBRE focuses primarily on developing and implementing strategies that:

Continuously identify process improvement opportunities through automation and streamlined work activities.

Eliminate manual effort by automating the build, upgrade, and patching of database infrastructure.

Proactively prevent outages by monitoring database and system parameters.

Remove variation and achieve consistency across different environments.

Cloud DBREs must demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and thrive in a team-oriented environment. Teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills are equally important as technical capability.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Migrate on-premises enterprise applications and related data to the cloud.
Research and implement cloud services that maximize value for applications.
Monitor cloud application performance for bottlenecks and resolve performance issues.
Identify and implement cost-saving strategies to reduce ongoing cloud expenses.
Automate key services and tasks across cloud systems to improve efficiency.
Develop recovery plans and execute those plans in the event of cloud downtime.
Design and deploy new applications directly in the cloud.
Build strong professional relationships to leverage the skills and expertise of others.
Present proposals and lead working sessions with peers and clients to align expectations, direction, and project timelines.

JOB SKILLS

Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to leadership, designers, support teams, and technical resources.
Team-oriented mindset with a passion for onboarding, mentoring, and teaching others.
Ability to define and gain adoption of best practice techniques.
Experience planning and completing public cloud projects.
Knowledge of Python, PowerShell, or other scripting languages used to automate processes.
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, ARM Templates, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code solutions.
Understanding of Azure data management and integration technologies, including Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Sync.
Ability to evaluate industry trends in automation technologies and define and implement automation roadmaps.
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and CI/CD practices.
Hands-on database administration experience, including on-premises to cloud database migrations.
Knowledge of highly available database environments, backup and restore strategies, replication, disaster recovery planning, disaster recovery testing, and database failover capabilities.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Reliability Engineering Tools
GitHub preferred.
Terraform preferred.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.
Programming & Languages
PowerShell.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
Databases
Cloud-based database technologies including Azure SQL, Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL, and related platforms.
Understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases.
Networking
Understanding of networking concepts related to database connectivity.
Troubleshooting database connectivity issues.
Knowledge of public cloud networking configurations.
Certifications
Public cloud certifications preferred.
Database certifications preferred.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Three or more years of related experience preferred.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree Preferred.
Technical training considered beneficial.

OTHER/SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS

Ability to learn new cloud technologies and automation tools quickly.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong teamwork, communication, and collaboration abilities.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS

Standard office environment.
Extended periods of computer use.
May participate in project activities that require collaboration across multiple teams and business units.
Applied to this position, your skills will help transform healthcare through technology and solutions that dramatically improve patient care and business operations because everything done within ITG ultimately influences patient care.

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Database Reliability Engineer opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About Company

At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.

HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.

And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.