Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VetsEZ is seeking an InterSystems IRIS/Caché Database Administrator to support a federal government healthcare modernization project for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The role administers, monitors, optimizes, and sustains mission-critical database environments across development, test, staging, and production, including backup and recovery, replication, performance tuning, troubleshooting, deployments, and site-conversion readiness.
Responsibilities
- Administer, sustain, configure, upgrade, patch, and troubleshoot InterSystems IRIS and Caché database environments supporting VX130 and related DMM systems across Development, Test, Staging, and Production
- Monitor and troubleshoot IRIS Mirror consistency, VistA Shadow consistency, Journal Readers, Data Filers, Ensemble/HealthShare transmissions to Oracle Health, high-availability environments, storage utilization, encryption, backups, and data-quality indicators
- Perform database capacity planning, performance tuning, configuration optimization, and proactive monitoring to maintain system availability, reliability, and performance as Data Migration environments evolve
- Execute and validate database backup and recovery activities, including recurring recovery testing, and identify, troubleshoot, resolve, document, and report database, platform, performance, and data-quality issues
- Support InterSystems IRIS on Linux across bare-metal, virtual-machine, and containerized environments while collaborating with Linux, Windows, storage, network, application, VA, and Oracle Health teams to resolve cross-platform issues
- Maintain accurate database configuration, operational, backup/recovery, change-management, and ATO-supporting documentation while supporting production deployments, upgrades, sustainment activities, and site-conversion readiness
- Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure the success of the project
Skills
- The candidate must reside within the continental US
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, with 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience, including significant experience with InterSystems Caché and/or InterSystems IRIS
- * Demonstrated hands-on experience with database operations, configuration, troubleshooting, system design, performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery, and high-availability environments
- * Hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting InterSystems IRIS Mirror and/or Caché/IRIS replication technologies
- * Practical Linux administration experience, working knowledge of Windows Server environments, and experience supporting production systems using formal change, configuration, incident, and problem-management practices
- * Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify, document, communicate, and resolve complex database, platform, performance, and operational issues
- * Strong oral and written communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced operations environment
- * U.S. Citizenship is required
- * Experience with VX130, VistA, Ensemble/HealthShare, ObjectScript/MUMPS, or Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare data platforms
- * Experience supporting InterSystems IRIS across containers/Kubernetes, virtual machines, and bare-metal infrastructure, as well as experience with SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, SQL, scripting, or related enterprise database technologies
- * Previous experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), federal healthcare programs, EHR modernization, or similar mission-critical government healthcare environments
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- 401k with Employer Match
- PTO + Federal Holidays
- Corporate Laptop
- Training Opportunities
- Remote Opportunity
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