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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

* Lead and manage a global team of 10, fostering a culture of trust and transparency.* Develop career growth plans and provide ongoing training to enhance team knowledge utilizing Udemy Business, Crowdstrike University, and AWS Skill Builder / Security Training.* Implement an engineering-driven, security first, human-centric approach to security. * Responsible for managing $2.5MM Security, AWS, and IT budget, and reduced AWS spend 42%.* Define and execute the strategy for the company’s cybersecurity program.* Regularly assess and communicate acceptable levels of risk with the CTO and SVP Engineering.* Ownership in the development, management, and execution of the company's Business Continuity Plan and disaster recovery strategies.* Implement DAST, SAST, and security monitoring and compliance tooling: Vanta, Qualys, Synopsys Whitehat, SonarQube, Crowdstrike Falcon, AWS Security Hub / AWS Inspector, Automox, and M365 Advanced Threat Protection* Responsible for IT infrastructure, including network and systems administration, ensuring robust performance and reliability. * Ensure the effective deployment, maintenance, and scaling of AWS SaaS infrastructure and applications.* Implement monitoring and alerting to assist in achieving 99.90% SLA SaaS uptime utilizing Nagios, CloudWatch, Datadog, and Splunk.* Implement SIEM, IDS, IPS utilizing Splunk, Crowdstrike Falcon Complete, OSSec, AWS GuardDuty and Advanced Shield.* Ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards (NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, SOC2).* Conduct comprehensive security risk assessments and prioritize risk remediation in line with business goals and technical impact.* Implement security controls in a SaaS environment and maintain up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats and trends.* Perform Third Party Risk Management for all internal vendors.* Respond and comply with all RFP and Client Vendor Risk and Security Assessments.

Minnetonka, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Define hardware or software technical approach and design of product or major feature;Implements complex portions of product design.• Anticipates, identifies, and solves a wide array of database and system problems whereinformation is available and data analysis is required.• Provide database design direction and work as a design leader of a large, complex project. Plansand organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity• Participate in the definition and implementation of database-related goals, objectives, policies andpriorities; Recommend and implement resulting policies and procedures.• Ensure adherence to database best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance policiesand procedures. Promote data management methodologies and standards• Identify opportunities for improving service delivery methods and procedures; Identify resourceneeds; Review with appropriate management staff to implement improvements• Stay abreast of new database trends, technologies and innovations; Define long-term strategicgoals for Surescripts’ database environments, including architecture vision and standards• Define short-term tactical solutions to achieve long-term objectives and an overall databasetechnology roadmap• Create strategies and plans for data security, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity,archiving, and performance• Ensure that data strategies and architectures are in regulatory complianceIdentify and evaluate the appropriate tools, software, applications, and systems to support datatechnology goals. Liaise with vendors and service providers to select the products or services thatbest meet company goals• Collaborate with project managers and business unit leaders for all projects involving enterprisedata• Participate in the development of others by facilitating training and providing feedback andguidance

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Complete ownership of Oracle Production, Test, and Development environment.Responsible for Oracle 11g and 12c RAC Architecture, Configuration, and Administration.Plan and execute all necessary Oracle patching and 12c upgrades.Perform day-to-day database administration and performance monitoring tasks.Ensure availability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.Perform root cause analysis, and resolution, for Oracle incidentsUNIX shell scripting, PLSQL tuning and SQL scriptingPerforms ongoing proactive performance tuning of the database instances.Provide production support 24x7 for all the Oracle and EBS environment.Documenting and promoting Database technology standards.Responsible for space management and capacity planning for databases.Develop and manage the backup and recovery process for RDBMS.Troubleshoot RDBMS, RAC, and ASM related issues using diagnostic and performance tools.Assists with impact analysis of any changes made to the database objects.Troubleshoots with problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools.Implements and enforces security for all of the Oracle Databases.Actively participates in supporting test plans, test environments, benchmarks and statistics.Manage and mentor team of four DBAs.

Minneapolis, Mn

Design, administer, tune, and support Oracle 12c, MySQL 5.7 Enterprise, and SQL Server 2008/2014/2016 databases. Architect database infrastructure to comply with federal HIPAA Regulations and University Security Policies.Provide database encryption for data at rest and encrypted backups as well as secure encrypted connections via SSL for data in transit.Responsible for database Backup, Recovery, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity plans, utilizing RMAN, Data Guard, MySQL Enterprise Backup 4.0, BOX Cloud Storage, and Amazon S3.Implement 2Factor Authentication via DUO for VPN, Remote Desktop, and local login to secure PHI and Private Highly Restricted datasets.Develop compliant Change Management, Patch Management, and Access Management programs for Academic Health Server Operations Team.Define a Database Log Management policy using Splunk and perform anomaly remediation.Monitor and Alert on full database environment with local custom scripting and Oracle Grid Control 12.1 and 13.1 using additional plugins for MySQL Enterprise and SQL Server.

Bloomington, Minnesota

 Perform daily administration of Oracle 11GR2 and 10GR2 Databases, including RMAN backups, purge jobs, space monitoring, and statistics. Deploy new database environments and maintain/upgrade existing. Execute daily migration of development software code to QA. Responsible for packaging software for GA, maintenance release, and hot patch. Maintain data model using ERWin. Analyze performance metrics during release certification. Enhance and standardize DBA shell scripts for automated jobs. Implement NetApp Snapshot Manager for Oracle and design process flow for utilizing in release packaging.

Plymouth, Mn

* Validate Audit control wording and evidence gathering for SSAE-16 SOC1 and SOC2 audits.* Support delivery of risk and compliance services by performing gap analyses, assessments, and audit to meet client and business security requirements.* Translate privacy and security requirements into implementable technical, process, and organization controls.* Develop a standard Vulnerability Management Program across the business unit for application and infrastructure vulnerability assessments, manage remediation plans, and coordinate 3rd party manual vulnerability penetration testing. * Create and present business Service Catalog and Service Level Agreements for Sales and Services teams.* Implement, train, and report on business unit Change and Incident Management Programs.* Database Architect for global Data Center Migration.

Plymouth, Minnesota

DBA Team Lead (Apr 2011)Senior Database Administrator (Mar 2009)Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance management including annual reviews of 2 direct reports.Manage workload and service requests, streamlining processes for operations and engineering teams.Manage database infrastructure including database strategy, capacity planning, version and patch management, performance tuning, configuration management, recovery and disaster recovery management, license management, and data modeling.UDB 8.2, 9.5, 9.7, Oracle 10g and 11g R1 & R2, RAC, ASM on Linux and Solaris, OEM Grid Control, RMAN, NetApp, ERStudioStabilize the DB2 Environment. Consolidate, upgrade, tune DB2 databases. Implement consistent and standard configurations, designs, and recovery.Automate and script standard maintenance and monitoring activities.Manage and develop DBA team members. Responsible for mid-year and annual performance reviews.Review and enhance all documentation.Completed Oracle 10g Admin II and 11g R1 RAC Admin training classes.

Directly responsible for two 8T data warehouses and 63 OLTP databases. Support full UDB AIX/Solaris environment of 66 servers, 112 databases. Largest supported data warehouse is 97 partitions sized for 130T.Effectively improved ETL and reporting queries 50-99% via SQL tuning and database configuration analysis utilizing Query Patroller, DB2Advise, DB2 Snapshots, etc.Designed Central Deploy methodology for consistent, repeatable, and zero-defect deployment of DDL and database changes. Instituted version control for all DDL and database changes.Designed and automated necessary database maintenance and monitoring activities, including backup, runstats, reorg, space.Provide 24x7 support, perform troubleshooting, and analyze problem resolution to RCA. Designed CentralStatus system for recording full environment database metrics for near real-time analysis, historical problem resolution, and non-steady state prediction.Completed DB2 LUW Performance Tuning and Monitoring for Single and Multi-partition DBs.

Lead a DBA team to install, replicate, monitor, and maintain over 200 databases in production, development, unit test, and integrated test environments. This DB2 UDB V8.2 EE/EEE (multi-partition) AIX environment is spread over 17 servers, 9 multi-terabyte storage systems, and operated in a multi-version global warehouse architecture.Develop implementation methodologies and physical design conventions to maintain quality and consistency.Version control all database changes as code to correspond with each application release.Move, Load, Replicate, and Manipulate tables sized from 100 rows to 4 Billion rows.Tune databases to operating system and optimize queries for maximum performance.Install and configure DB2 software and test fixpak levels for production release.Develop and Implement a backup and disaster recovery strategy that reduced costs $3 million. Perform annual recovery testing.Implementation of corporate security standards and ongoing support for database access.Create utilities and scripts to verify integrity of database installation.Develop database monitoring utilities for regular maintenance and data movement.Initial training of new database administrators and continuous education of the entire DBA DB2 AIX team.Provide 24x7 production database support.Level 1 and Level 2 AIX Administration and support.Other Project WorkDB2 OS/390 Mainframe migration to AIX. Migrate Warehouse mainframe databases to distributed DB2 AIX environment.Oracle DBA. Provide Implementation, Administration, and Maintenance support for Oracle Databases on Oracle 8i AIX Server Platform. Duties included DDL implementation, Performance Tuning, and SQL monitoring.Oracle to DB2 Migration. Migrate Oracle 8i databases on AIX to DB2 UDB on AIX.