POSITION SUMMARY:

The Operational Database Administrator (ODBA) is a critical, hands-on role. This person installs and administers your operational database (ODB) environments.?This person?also performs environment setup and configuration, proactive monitoring, and maintenance.?

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?Caché?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 your change control process 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?

• Include the following as a final bullet point: Strive to embody Fastmed’s core values of STAT (Service, Teamwork, Accountability, Transparency) and embrace Fastmed’s philosophy of Compassionate Hospitality.

  
  

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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?

  
  

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION:

**IT IS OUR PREFERENCE THAT WE HIRE SOMEONE ALREADY CERTIFIED IN THE BELOW, IF THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE, THE BELOW WOULD APPLY.

Company will?send Operational Database Administrator through an EPIC certification program, some is onsite at EPIC’s headquarters in Madison, WI and some is online. Must be able to travel.?