IS Epic Database Administrator - Systems Administration

Nationwide Children's Hospital•Columbus, OH

About The Position

Overview: The Epic Database Administrator I supports, monitors, and maintains Epic’s Cache, Clarity, and Caboodle databases to ensure availability, performance, and security. Duties include designing and implementing infrastructure, managing updates and backups, testing disaster recovery, resolving issues, and performing ETL processes. Provides customer service, technical troubleshooting, and on-call support to maintain reliable operations. Epic Clarity and Caboodle Administrator experience or certification strongly desired. Job Description Summary: Administers, maintains, develops and implements policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of company databases. Implements data models and database designs, data access and table maintenance codes; resolves database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other distributed data issues.Ability to work on call schedules to meet job requirements; requires routine after-hours support and occasional overnight travel. Job Description: Essential Functions: Designs and implements database structures and security measures to ensure data integrity and availability. Monitors and optimizes database performance to ensure efficient data processing and retrieval. Detects, troubleshoots and resolves database related performance problems. Installs and configures database software and related tools to support business operations. Maintains databases, installing patches and upgrades to database environments. Establishes, maintains and monitors sound backup and recovery policies and procedures to minimize data loss in case of system failures. Sets up and maintains documentation and security control standards. Collaborates with others to troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues. Manages database security, collaborating to determine appropriate database access needs; provides gatekeeper function for database access. Keeps up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in database management and suggests how to best leverage these new capabilities. Keeps up to date on DBA training and certifications. Develops and maintains disaster recovery plans, routinely testing DR scenarios. Participates in capacity planning exercises to forecast database management requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in related Computer Science areas, or equivalent experience, required.
Advanced skills in SQL, PL/SQL, database design, database tuning and performance optimization.
Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.
Ability to work on call schedules to meet job requirements; requires routine after-hours support and occasional overnight travel.
OCCASIONALLY: Driving motor vehicles (work required) additional testing may be required, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs
FREQUENTLY: Decision Making
CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Computer skills, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Peripheral vision, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use, Seeing – Far/near, Sitting
Two years of experience as a Database Administrator, preferred.

Nice To Haves

Epic Clarity and Caboodle Administrator experience or certification strongly desired.
DBA Certification, preferred.

Responsibilities

Designs and implements database structures and security measures to ensure data integrity and availability.
Monitors and optimizes database performance to ensure efficient data processing and retrieval.
Detects, troubleshoots and resolves database related performance problems.
Installs and configures database software and related tools to support business operations.
Maintains databases, installing patches and upgrades to database environments.
Establishes, maintains and monitors sound backup and recovery policies and procedures to minimize data loss in case of system failures.
Sets up and maintains documentation and security control standards.
Collaborates with others to troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues.
Manages database security, collaborating to determine appropriate database access needs; provides gatekeeper function for database access.
Keeps up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in database management and suggests how to best leverage these new capabilities.
Keeps up to date on DBA training and certifications.
Develops and maintains disaster recovery plans, routinely testing DR scenarios.
Participates in capacity planning exercises to forecast database management requirements.