Senior Database Administrator (Epic ODBA)

Overview

Ardent Health is a leading provider of healthcare in growing mid-sized urban communities across the U.S. With a focus on people and investments in innovative services and technologies, Ardent is passionate about making healthcare better and easier to access. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent delivers care through a system of 30 acute care hospitals, 24,+ team members and more than sites of care with over 1, affiliated providers across six states

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Database Administrator (Epic ODBA) will play a vital role as a team member managing, optimizing, and securing our large and diverse database environment, ensuring seamless operation and data integrity. You’ll manage a large  IRIS environment on RHEL , ensuring Epic systems run smoothly, securely, and efficiently. In addition, you’ll support  MS SQL (including Cogito)  and help expand into cloud and open-source platforms such as  PostgreSQL and MySQL .

Responsibilities

• Epic ODBA Management : Oversee the operational aspects of the Epic database environment, including installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Perform daily Epic ODBA operations : performance monitoring, tuning, patching, incident response, and security.
• Manage Epic major release cycles — from planning through go-live.
• Use Epic tools like Red Alert, System Pulse, Kuiper, and Instaserver  to keep databases healthy.
• Help support our MS SQL environment and Cogito database ecosystem.
• Expand skills into cloud, open-source databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), and Oracle.
• Build proactive monitoring and alerting solutions to prevent downtime.
• Document best practices and mentor IT staff.
• SQL Database Administration : Install, configure, maintain, and optimize MS SQL Server engines and databases, ensuring data integrity, availability, and performance.
• Epic Cogito Database Administration : Manage the MS SQL environments in support of the Epic Cogito data warehousing environment.

Other Database Administration : Willingness to learn other database environments in support of the overall company mission. These will include Open Source database platforms (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and / or Oracle. Expected tasks would include installation, configuration, backup and recovery, and security.

Qualifications

Education & Experience :

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities