The Epic Client Systems Administrator installs and maintains Epic client system servers and applications, supporting production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production environments while ensuring system performance, security, backups, high availability, and compliance with Epic best practices for hardware and software configuration.
Job Responsibilities:
-Install and maintain Epic client system servers and applications.
-Monitor server performance and troubleshoot issues.
-Apply hot fixes, security updates, and service packs.
-Maintain Epic client systems backups and verify restores.
-Manage system security and user access.
-Manage and maintain environments serving production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production needs.
-Test failover procedures for high availability.
-Participate in capacity planning exercises to ensure adequate system resources.
-Follow Epic best practices for hardware and software configuration.
-Participate on project teams as a key contributor.
-Coordinate issues with Epic and maintain relationship management with Epic.
-Build and implement Epic client systems servers and applications in support of health system requirements.
-Document configurations, procedures, and system architecture.
-Establish development guidelines to maintain optimum performance.
-Advise information services management in the creation of development guidelines.
-Review existing solutions and recommend new procedures and processes.
-Adhere to enterprise change management procedures per IS policy.
-Make configuration upgrades.
-Identify impact of enhancement requests.
-Assist customers in identifying and resolving problems.
-Serve as escalation point for complex client systems issues.
-Facilitate timely resolution of application defects and issues.
-Develop procedures under approved policy structure.
-Provide users with high quality service and system expertise.
-Analyze, create, and deliver reports as assigned.
-Establish guidelines for hardware standards to maintain adequate performance.
-Propose and implement enhancements to improve system performance, reliability, and data integrity.
-Review hardware for performance issues.
-Identify and perform routine maintenance to ensure high performance.
-Recommend backup schedules and strategies.
-Set up and regularly monitor backups as specified.
-Adhere to enterprise disaster recovery policies and procedures.
-Perform restores from backup.
-Research and recommend security and data access strategies.
-Configure user access based on approved policy, user roles, and responsibilities.
-Work with security and internal audit to comply with corporate security standards.
-Audit data access as scheduled or requested.
-Perform capacity planning for hardware and software support initiatives.
-Assess impact of and recommend solutions based on current and future data volume needs.
-Allocate and reallocate database resources.
-Design database system architecture to meet performance needs.
-Research and recommend database strategies to management.
-Assess and recommend vendor tools for enterprise databases.
Shift/Schedule Details: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Must be available for on-call support (24/7 via pager/phone) (After hours and Weekend participation is common) Incentives (Sign-on Bonus / Relocation): Additional Notes (if any): Required Certifications: Epic Client System Manager Certification or Epic Client Systems Administrator certification(required) - at time of submission Education Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Systems, or related field Years of Experience Required: 1-2 years of related experience Skills & Abilities Strong Epic Hyperspace client support (deployment, upgrades, troubleshooting) Ability to resolve client-side issues (performance, connectivity, printing, access Citrix / VMware Horizon / VDI support experience Strong coordination of after-hours maintenance and Epic upgrades Cross-functional collaboration with infrastructure, network, security, and database teams Strong technical documentation (runbooks, standards, troubleshooting guides) Root cause analysis and participation in incident/problem management ServiceNow or similar ITSM tool experience Ability to test and validate Epic updates and enhancements Restricted States: Alaska California Colorado Connecticut Washington, DC Hawaii Massachusetts Nevada New York Oregon Vermont Washington