Sr Data Platform Engineer
Top focus
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do.
Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary: CVS Pharmacy, Inc., a CVS Health company, is hiring for the following role in Woonsocket, RI: Sr Data Platform Engineer to be responsible for administering, testing, and implementing databases and applying knowledge of database management systems.
Identify, investigate, and resolve database performance issues, database capacity, and database scalability. Apply intricate knowledge of database internals with responsibility for database configuration, tuning, maintenance, patching, and problem diagnosis and resolution.
Responsible for all aspects of the physical database including schemas, DDL, users, and security in development, UAT and production environments. Identify and resolve problems occurring in all database environments including performance related issues (e.g., database and SQL tuning).
Modify existing databases and database management systems by writing and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system, or direct others in coding descriptions. Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure by routinely testing programs or databases, correcting errors, and making necessary modifications.
Support database administration utilities, reorganizations, and index builds. Contribute to performance and Disaster Recovery testing. Provide proactive support for production and non-production databases, ensuring full compliance of the Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Conduct full monitoring of all production databases ensuring that there are no outages for any application, including validation that all performance support jobs and backup jobs have run to good completion, at the appointed time, and the databases are available 24x7.
Responsible for creating all application database objects, creation and scheduling of all needed database administration batch jobs, monitoring, backup and production readiness. Responsible for creation and documentation of new environments, standards, and procedures.
Telecommuting available. Multiple positions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Engineering, Data Science, Engineering
- a related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Requires four (4) years of experience in each of the following:
- Installing and configuring Oracle database and infrastructure as per user requirement;
- Upgrading Oracle database to higher versions of Oracle database;
- Install/maintain Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) or Oracle database using Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and SCAN listener;
- Oracle ASM management, adding dropping ASM disk, manage space utilization on ASM level;
- Migrate Oracle database from default file system to ASM or various Unix operating system such as IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris, and Red Hat Linux;
- Collaborating with peers/teams for potential roadblocks/showstoppers to the current critical Oracle build projects in meetings;
- Troubleshooting and remediating Oracle database-related issues like undo space, tablespace, archive destination, locking, or blocking;
- Collaborating with customers for Business Critical and Oracle database crisis calls, impact and workarounds, and long-term fix for each issue; and
- Installing and configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) on Oracle database hosts to monitor critical events and set up alerts. Pay Range: $179296.00/year to $185400.00/year. This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental
- vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan
- an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees
- short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount
- discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. Great benefits for great people We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families. This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional
- financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental
- vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs
- other resources, based on eligibility. Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments . This job does not have an application deadline, as CVS Health accepts applications on an ongoing basis. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.