Epic – Caché DBA Analyst
- Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in database administration or a closely related technical role.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Epic - Caché DBA Analyst to support, maintain, and optimize the database infrastructure powering Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) applications. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with InterSystems Caché database administration, database performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and production support.
Experience supporting Epic healthcare environments and working with clinical application, infrastructure, and technical operations teams is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Additional Requirements
We are seeking an experienced Epic - Caché DBA Analyst to support, maintain, and optimize the database infrastructure powering Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) applications. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with InterSystems Caché database administration, database performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and production support.
Experience supporting Epic healthcare environments and working with clinical application, infrastructure, and technical operations teams is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, maintain, and monitor InterSystems Caché database environments supporting Epic EHR applications.
- Perform database configuration, performance tuning, capacity planning, and routine maintenance.
- Monitor database health, system availability, resource utilization, and overall performance.
- Manage database backup, restore, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Troubleshoot database issues, performance bottlenecks, locking, connectivity, and production incidents.
- Support Epic application upgrades, database maintenance, patching, and infrastructure changes.
- Maintain database integrity, security, access controls, and operational standards.
- Develop and maintain database administration procedures, technical documentation, and support runbooks.
- Collaborate with Epic application analysts, Unix/Linux administrators, storage teams, and infrastructure engineers.
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for critical production issues.
- Follow change management, incident management, and problem management processes.
- 5+ years of experience in database administration or a closely related technical role.
- Hands-on experience administering InterSystems Caché databases.
- Strong knowledge of database performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Experience with backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery processes.
- Working knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems and scripting.
- Experience supporting mission-critical production database environments.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
- Previous experience supporting Epic EHR environments.
- Experience with InterSystems IRIS or related InterSystems technologies.
- Knowledge of Epic database architecture and healthcare IT infrastructure.
- Experience with high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery testing.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management processes.
- Experience in hospital or healthcare enterprise environments.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Additional Requirements
- Ability to participate in scheduled maintenance activities and production support rotations.
- Ability to collaborate with technical and application teams in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
- Epic certifications - MUST
More about this job
Responsibilities
Administer, monitor, optimize, and maintain InterSystems Caché databases supporting Epic EHR, including performance tuning, capacity planning, backups, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery. Troubleshoot production issues, support upgrades and infrastructure changes, maintain security and documentation, and collaborate with application and infrastructure teams while participating in on-call rotations.
Requirements
Requires at least five years of database administration or related experience, hands-on InterSystems Caché administration, and experience with performance optimization, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, Unix/Linux, and mission-critical production environments. Epic certifications are explicitly required; Epic EHR experience, InterSystems IRIS knowledge, healthcare IT experience, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience are also specified.
Skills
- Database Performance Tuning
- Database Monitoring
- Backup and Recovery
- Replication
- Disaster Recovery
- High Availability
- Unix/Linux
- Scripting
- Epic EHR Support
- Troubleshooting
- Capacity Planning
- Database Security
- Production Support
- Incident Management
- Change Management
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Categories
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Epic EHR
- InterSystems Caché
- InterSystems IRIS
- Database Administration
- Database Performance Tuning
- Database Monitoring
- Capacity Planning
- Backup and Recovery
- Replication
- Disaster Recovery
- High Availability
- Business Continuity
- Unix/Linux
- Scripting
- Production Support
- Database Security
- Access Controls
- Epic Certifications
- Healthcare IT
- Clinical Applications
- Infrastructure Operations
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- ITIL
- On-Call Support