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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• Interpret and develop policies and procedures for functions with low to moderate complexity within scope of responsibility.
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• 6+ years of DBA experience on SQL or NoSQL DB with performance Tuning
• 4+ years of experience in managing other databases like MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgresDB & RDS on AWS.
• Hands on experience with NoSQL/Document databases and their administration.
• Experience on automation using any programming or scripting language.
• Should have at least one RDBMS certification.
• Hands on experience with Always on and High availability DBs.
• Hands on with SQL and NoSQL Database.
• Excellent understanding of the MongoDB installation, configuration, maintenance, security and audit logging.
• Experience with performance tuning and managing 1TB of Data
• Experience in backup/recovery procedures.
• Good understanding on Access Methods, Joins, different Indexes & its usage, Index scans, interpreting EXECUTION PLANS, Table/Index Statistics, Histograms, wait events etc
• Strong on PL/SQL Programming.
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Problem-solving and good analytical skills
• Communication, teamwork and negotiation skills
• Ability to work in tight deadlines under pressure
• Flexible and adaptable to changing business/technology requirements
• A sense of ownership that drives quality in everything you do
• A forward-looking attitude that keeps you aware of the latest in database & cloud technology space.
Preferred Qualifications:
• AWS/Azure/OCI cloud Certified
• Working experience on Snowflake Cloud Datawarehouse DB
• Python Programming for Automation for building dashboards
• Basic knowledge on Tableau/PowerBI for reporting.
Education:
• Finished Bachelors or Masters in Software Engineering.
• Preferred: BE/ B. Tech. / MCA / MSc. / BSc
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Build database systems of high availability and quality depending on each end user’s specialised role
Design and implement database in accordance to end users information needs and views
Define users and enable data distribution to the right user, in appropriate format and in a timely manner
Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and backup data
Minimise database downtime and manage parameters to provide fast query responses
Provide proactive and reactive data management support and training to users
Determine, enforce and document database policies, procedures and standards
Perform tests and evaluations regularly to ensure data security, privacy and integrity
Skills
Proven working experience as a Database Administrator
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
Previous experience with DBA case tools (frontend/backend) and third party tools
Problem solving skills and ability to think algorithmically
Degree in a computer discipline or relevant certification
- Experience 4 - 8 years
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- - should be able to work independently with no handholding
- - the ability to work with C/C++ code on Windows/Linux platforms
- - Database knowledge of MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, ideally other ones too: Saphana, Teradata, Postgres.
- - Ability to work on their own fixing defects
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- Create and maintain all databases required for development, testing, and 24x7 production usage. Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in MySQL and MongoDB and InnoDB clusters.
- Expertise in MongoDB, MySQL backup, restore, replication will be
preferred.
- Hands-on Experience in database backup, partial restore, data recovery, upgrades, and migrations
- Experience using AWS RDS, DMS, and CloudWatch·Excellent hands-on experience in Database installs, upgrades, replication setup, backup, and recovery.
- Experience in using database-monitoring tools.
- Should be good at performance tuning and capacity planning.
- Should be good at providing high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Knowledge of NoSQL stores (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc) is a plus.
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Install and maintain the performance of database servers.
Develop processes for optimizing database security.
Set and maintain database standards.
Manage database access.
Performance tuning of database systems.
Install, upgrade, and manage database applications.
Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors.
Recommend and implement emerging database technologies.
Create and manage database reports, visualizations, and dashboards.
Create automation for repeating database tasks.
Be available for on-call support as needed.
Skills Required:
Strong command of MySQL server tools
Advanced knowledge of database security, backup and recovery, and performance monitoring standards.
Understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling
PowerShell and Unix shell scripting skills
Familiarity with SSAS, SSIS, SSRS
Strong mathematical and statistical knowledge
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Impeccable attention to detail
Education and Experience Requirements:
Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field.
MCSE/MCSA certifications preferred
Experience with Linux and Windows Server environments
Extensive experience with database technologies (MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL Oracle, MongoDB)
Experience with cloud services (AWS, Microsoft Azure) a plus
Benefits:
5 Days working
Paid Leaves
Healthy work environment
Rewards and Appreciation
Culture of continuous improvement
Employees engagement activities and work life balance
As a part of the core development team, you will form a pillar of the company. We are looking for a candidate with the right attitude toward accepting various challenges and leading a team. You will be given responsibilities of brainstorming systems design with the founding team, planning and assigning tasks to team members, reviewing their code to ensure quality and standardization, and managing serverless deployments in AWS.
Core responsibilities:
You will be responsible for leading the application and backend development team.
Plan and organize work for the team members.
Review team’s code to ensure quality and standardization.
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.
Brainstorming systems design ideas with the founding team members
Create maintainable solutions, and can easily accommodate new features.
Build a culture wherein everyone helps each other out, and collectively works towards a common goal.
Work with the embedded systems & hardware team for integrations, as and when required.
Must Requirements:
At least 3-4 years of experience.
Should be highly skilled in Flutter.
Should be highly skilled in either Python or Javascript
Should have hands-on experience with using AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, Amplify, RDS, DynamoDB
Should have hands-on experience in either of these technologies - Django, Flask
Should have brilliant knowledge of microservice architecture
Good to have knowledge of Kafka
Should have some experience in leading a team before.
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Leadership skills, to lead by example, earn teammate’s trust, and be a role model to junior developers.
Deep understanding of systems design, and implementation using AWS serverless services, knowledge of costs, and how it may be optimized to achieve the most ROI.
Capability to complete demanding assignments by delegating tasks efficiently, brainstorming with the team, and informing critical concerns to management on time.
Ability to influence cross-functional teams to deliver optimal solutions.
Ability to consistently make timely decisions and balance the work accordingly.
Clearly and concisely convey subtle or complex messages to a variety of audiences.
Capability to follow guidelines and ensure efficiency on given project tasks.
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