Epic Disaster Recovery SME / Architect

The Role

Support a large healthcare organization in assessing, strengthening, and validating disaster recovery and business continuity for its Epic environment. This is a 100% remote, long-term contract / consulting opportunity open to candidates anywhere in the world who can work EST hours. We are seeking a senior, hands-on Epic DR practitioner who can work independently across application, infrastructure, security, and clinical/operational teams. Actual Epic environment experience is required; general disaster recovery or infrastructure experience without Epic exposure is not a primary match.

Why This Role

• Assess the existing Epic disaster recovery and business continuity strategy, review architecture, and identify critical application and infrastructure dependencies
• Evaluate RTO/RPO requirements, backup, replication, and recovery capabilities; identify gaps and risks
• Develop practical recommendations and a prioritized Epic DR remediation roadmap
• Review recovery procedures and sequencing across Epic and dependent clinical systems
• Participate in or lead DR testing and validation, including tabletop exercises, technical recovery exercises, and failover/failback testing
• Work with compute, storage, virtualization, networking, backup, and security teams, and collaborate with Epic/application teams to validate recovery requirements
• Document current-state architecture, findings, recommendations, and recovery procedures; provide senior-level guidance to leadership and technical teams

What You Bring

• Hands-on experience designing, assessing, or implementing disaster recovery for Epic environments in healthcare organizations; general DR/infrastructure experience without Epic exposure is not a primary match
• Strong understanding of Epic production environments, recovery requirements, downtime procedures, and application dependencies
• Strong understanding of Epic technical architecture and dependencies across applications, databases, interfaces, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, and identity/access; ability to translate application requirements into infrastructure and recovery requirements
• Experience developing or evaluating DR architectures, recovery strategies, RTO/RPO requirements, and recovery sequencing, including backup, replication, recovery, and failover/failback technologies
• Ability to identify DR gaps and develop practical remediation recommendations
• Experience planning and executing DR tests, tabletop exercises, technical recovery exercises, and/or full failover/failback testing; ability to develop recovery procedures, test scenarios, and success criteria, document findings, and drive remediation
• 7+ years of IT infrastructure, application, or disaster recovery experience, with meaningful healthcare IT experience
• Experience working with healthcare application, infrastructure, security, and clinical/operational teams; ability to communicate credibly across Epic/application and infrastructure teams
• Familiarity with healthcare regulatory and security considerations, including HIPAA and cyber-recovery requirements
• Able to work independently as a senior-level consultant and work EST hours from anywhere in the world
• Preferred: Epic implementation, optimization, or technical infrastructure experience, including Chronicles / database technologies, Hyperspace, and interfaces
• Preferred: Epic environments hosted on VMware, Nutanix, physical infrastructure, or cloud platforms
• Preferred: healthcare cyber-recovery / ransomware recovery and experience with large hospital systems, health systems, or multi-site healthcare environments
• Epic certifications or technical training, and experience working directly with Epic representatives, are a plus