Biofourmis is a rapidly growing, global digital health company filled with committed, passionate professionals who care about augmenting personalized care and empowering people with complex chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives. We are pioneering an entirely new category of medicine by developing clinically validated, software-based therapeutics to provide improved outcomes for patients, smarter engagement & tracking tools for clinicians, and cost-effective solutions for payers. We are collectively devoted to a single-minded idea: powering personally predictive care.
Our dynamic growth has been marked by doubled headcount in the last 12 months via both expansion & acquisition, yielding a global footprint with offices in Boston, Singapore, Bangalore, and Zurich. We are backed by prominent international venture capital investment & have cultivated relationships with worldwide healthcare stakeholders over the last 5 years. Our talented team features numerous PhD’s in Data Science and Biostatistics, over 80 patents, prolific scientific publications, world-class systems, developers & engineers, and leaders in the clinical operations space.
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Database Administrator (DBA) who will be responsible for the deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting of various databases, including Postgres, TSDB, MongoDB, Redis, and DynmoDB. The candidate must have a proficient level understanding of these databases, with experience in AWS services like EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc., in a highly available and scalable production environment.
The DBA will be responsible for monitoring, backups, troubleshooting, security, user maintenance, reporting, migrations, upgrades, data extraction and sync, disaster recovery, and database restoration, among other tasks. They will also work with application teams on database design and database issues and architect database solutions to optimally meet business needs.
Responsibilities:
- Deploy, configure and troubleshoot various databases including Postgres, TSDB, MongoDB, Redis, and DynmoDB
- Work with AWS services like EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc., in a highly available and scalable production environment
- Monitor, backup, troubleshoot, secure, maintain users, and report on databases
- Collaborate with application teams on database design and database issues
- Architect database solutions that optimally meet business needs
- Implement schema changes at the direction of AppDev
- Disaster recovery and database restoration
- Restore/Recovery operations from backups
- Automate routine tasks
- Execute company initiatives in the database space
- Expertise with observability tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
Qualifications:
- Proficient level understanding of various databases like Postgres, TSDB, MongoDB, Redis, and DynmoDB
- Experience with AWS services like EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc.
- Experience in monitoring, backups, troubleshooting, security, user maintenance, reporting, migrations, upgrades, data extraction and sync, disaster recovery, and database restoration
- Experience in architecting database solutions that optimally meet business needs
- Experience with Shell scripting, stored procedures, SQL, query tuning, etc
- Strong understanding of database system concepts like ACID properties, normal forms, backup and recovery mechanisms, DDL vs DML, transaction logging, log shipping, etc
- Ability to work with application teams on database design and database issues
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with automation of routine tasks
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator (DBA)
- Experience with observability tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
Working Conditions:
The DBA will work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with various application teams, stakeholders, and management. They will work both independently and in teams, and they may need to work extended hours or be on call to handle database emergencies.
About Biofourmis
Biofourmis is a rapidly growing digital therapeutics company that is the leader in Personalized Predictive Care. Our disruptive innovations use advanced clinical-grade wearable sensors to continuously monitor bio vitals and process them using our patented and FDA-approved AI/ML algorithms to predict changes in physiology that are co-related to medical and disease events in the cardiac, oncology, respiratory, and other therapeutic areas.
We are pioneering an entirely new category of the healthcare system, by developing clinically validated software-based therapeutics to provide better outcomes for patients, smarter engagement and tracking tools for clinicians, and cost-effective solutions for payers.
We are a dynamic high-growth company, having quadrupled in size in the last 12 months. We are a Global organization with offices in Boston, Singapore, and Bangalore. We are backed by some of the premier venture capitalists in the world and enjoy the confidence of customers who are leaders in the healthcare and life sciences industry.
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Hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications
Excellent knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, integrity and SQL
Familiarity with database design, documentation and coding
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Manage and ensure all serverless deployments are working. You must keep an eye on / delegate team members to keep an eye on key metrics that can avoid major production system failures.
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