Epic Database Administrator

Position: Epic Database Administrator

Location: Fully Remote (up to 10% travel)

Duration: 12-Month Contract

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Epic Database Administrator to manage, optimize, and support enterprise healthcare database environments across on-premises, virtual, and cloud platforms. The role focuses on high availability, performance, security, disaster recovery, and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, install, configure, maintain, patch, and upgrade Epic database environments and related Windows applications.
• Lead and coordinate the Epic ECSA/ODBA team, including project planning, mentoring, and on-call support.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize database performance, capacity, storage, and resource utilization.
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, restoration, and high-availability solutions.
• Manage database security, user access, permissions, auditing, and compliance.
• Support database migrations, upgrades, daily build deployments, and environment synchronization.
• Perform data extraction, loading, conversion, and integration activities.
• Collaborate with Linux, Windows, Oracle, networking, SAN, storage, and application teams.
• Administer SQL Server environments, including performance tuning, indexing, patching, and disaster recovery.
• Maintain technical documentation, scripts, operational procedures, and version control.
• Provide production support, participate in critical incident management, and coordinate 24/7 on-call rotations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Eight years of relevant experience, including Epic ODBA/ECSA.
• Epic ODBA, ECSA, Data Courier, or Chronicles certification.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Epic Clarity certification and experience with Red Hat Linux, cloud services, storage, security, and networking.
• Strong knowledge of Epic Chronicles/Cache databases, SQL Server, Windows, Linux, database performance tuning, and high availability.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, project management, team leadership, and mentoring skills.