What are the responsibilities and job description for the Epic - Operational Database Administrator position at Exodus Integrity Services (EIS)?
Job Summary:
As Epic Operational Database Administrator (ODBA), you will play a crucial role in managing and maintaining the databases that support Epic systems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Creating and managing the ODB environments that serve production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production needs
- Installing and maintaining the administrative and monitoring tools necessary for high levels of availability and performance of your Epic system
- Understanding performance metrics, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues
- Managing the logins for different types of access, including login behavior and working environment configuration
- Applying IRIS and Epic upgrades and updates to production and non-production environments
- Configuring and maintaining environment copies according to the environment strategy
- Responding to emergency and after-hours issues
- Engaging in capacity planning exercises to ensure adequate system resources
- Collaborating with your technical teams and Epic to ensure proactive support
- Writing and maintaining scripts to improve system management tasks
- Participating in change control processes for all planned application and technical activities
- Maintaining and testing processes related to business continuity
- Following vendor and Epic best practices for hardware and software configuration
Skills:
- Strong Unix skills using the command-line prompt, including navigating directory structures and file manipulation
- Understanding of operating system concepts such as user and group ownership and file permissions, file system/volume group configuration, etc.
- Knowledge of a command shell (Korn, POSIX, Bourne, or C), plus languages and utilities such as awk, sed, and Perl
- Ability to create, understand, and follow processes to ensure successful execution of critical maintenance procedures
- Strong leadership and communication skills, both written and oral.
Education and Experience:
- Epic ODBA certification required.
- Willingness to obtain certifications via Epic if requested.
- Minimum of three (3) years progressively responsible experience in information systems. Health care setting preferred.
