Epic Database Administrator

Position Summary

The Epic Operational Database Administrator participates in the development, implementation, and maintenance of software applications and databases using various relational databases, client/server, and object-oriented tools and programming languages. The role involves reviewing database designs, ensuring consistency of standards, procedures, and content, and assembling, manipulating, analyzing, and disseminating data.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and updates large databases.
• Ensures consistency of standards, procedures, and content.
• Analyzes and disseminates data.
• Plans and coordinates database design and development.
• Manages ODB environments for production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production needs.
• Installs and maintains administrative and monitoring tools for high levels of availability and performance of the Epic system.
• Monitors system performance and troubleshoots issues.
• Manages logins for different types of access.
• Applies IRIS and Epic upgrades and updates to production and non-production environments.
• Configures and maintains environment copies according to the environment strategy.
• Responds to emergency and after-hours issues.
• Engages in capacity planning exercises to ensure adequate system resources.
• Collaborates with technical teams and Epic to ensure proactive support.
• Writes and maintains scripts to improve system management tasks.
• Participates in change control processes for all planned application and technical activities.
• Maintains and tests processes related to business continuity.
• Works in an on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, information science, business, or related field.
• Experience: Certification in Operational Database Administration.
• Skills: Strong Unix skills, understanding of operating system concepts, knowledge of command shells and utilities, ability to create, understand, and follow processes for critical maintenance procedures.