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K9 Recruitment places Epicor system administrators with manufacturers, distributors, and Epicor partners across the US and Canada.
This is the keep-it-running side of Epicor: environments, upgrades, access, performance, and the unglamorous discipline that decides whether an implementation stays healthy three years after go-live.
The Work You'd Be Doing
Environment and platform
- Own the Epicor environment estate — production, pilot, test, and training — including refreshes and database copies.
- Administer Kinetic on Epicor's cloud, private cloud, or on-premise SQL Server, and manage the differences between them.
- Apply patches, hotfixes, and version upgrades, with a real regression test plan behind each one.
- Manage the application and task-agent servers, scheduled processes, and integration endpoints.
Security and governance
- Administer users, groups, security groups, menu security, field-level security, and company/site access.
- Build and maintain a defensible segregation-of-duties model, and support audit and compliance requests.
- Own change control: what moved to production, when, who approved it, and how to back it out.
Performance and support
- Monitor and tune system performance — query plans, index health, task agent load, and the reports everyone runs at 8am.
- Run the internal support queue: triage, resolve, escalate to Epicor support, and track recurring issues to root cause.
- Manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery testing for the ERP platform.
- Serve as the technical point of contact for consultants, partners, and Epicor itself.
What We Look For
- 3+ years administering Epicor Kinetic or ERP 10 as a primary responsibility.
- SQL Server administration — backups, indexing, query analysis, and enough T-SQL to investigate a problem.
- Hands-on Epicor upgrade experience, including at least one version jump you personally ran.
- Working knowledge of Epicor security architecture and user administration at scale.
- The temperament for it: methodical, documents things, and does not make untracked changes in production.
Nice To Have
- On-premise to Epicor cloud migration experience.
- BAQ and BPM literacy — enough to read and troubleshoot, even if you do not build full-time.
- Windows Server, IIS, and Active Directory or SSO integration.
- Experience supporting a multi-site or multi-company Epicor deployment.
- Manufacturing environment background.
How These Roles Work
- Structure: Direct hire most often, since this is a permanent internal function. Contract also available — 1099, W2, or corp-to-corp — for interim coverage and upgrade projects.
- Rate or salary: Set by your Epicor depth and discussed openly up front.
- Location: Nationwide. Many admin roles are remote or hybrid; some manufacturers want you onsite near the plant.
- Duration: Permanent placements, plus interim and project-based contract coverage.
Why Work With K9
Epicor is effectively all of what we do, so we can tell the difference between a genuine Epicor administrator role and an IT generalist job with Epicor bolted on. You get the honest version of the scope before you interview.
Apply
Send your resume and a short note on the Epicor environments you have run to kayla@k9-recruitment.com, subject line Epicor Administrator. Happy where you are? Introduce yourself anyway — these roles surface with little warning.
FAQs
Quick answers to common questions about our services and process. Need more help? Just reach out.
For Clients
Epicor is our bread and butter. Kinetic and Prophet 21, as well as legacy E9 and E10 — that's the overwhelming majority of what we place, and it's where our network runs deepest. We also recruit across other mid-market ERPs, including Sage, Infor, and Acumatica.
This is the most common call we get. It's rarely a software problem; usually the project is waiting on a partner's shared resources, or there's nobody internal who owns the system day to day. We place the specific person who unblocks it: a consultant to push the current phase over the line, or a permanent hire so the expertise stays with you after go-live.
Typically less than the large implementation partners. We're a lean firm placing independent consultants, so there's no partner overhead built into the rate — that's structural, not a discount. We also work purely on time and materials. You're not buying a block of hours you may not use, and you're not locked into a minimum. Tell us the scope and we'll come back with a rate the same day. Direct- hire candidate fees are based off a percentage of the candidate's compensation.
Qualification calls, reference checks, and a real conversation about how someone works, not just what's on the resume. For Epicor roles we go deeper — which product, which version, and which modules within Kinetic they've actually configured rather than sat adjacent to.
For most Epicor roles, 24–72 hours. We keep an active bench of Epicor professionals and stay in contact with people who aren't publicly looking — which is where the strongest candidates usually are.
Direct-hire placements carry a guarantee. If it doesn't work out inside the window, we find you a replacement at no additional fee. Contract placements can be ended with notice — there's no minimum term to buy out.
For Candidates
Never. We’re paid by employers, so our services are always free for job seekers.
Epicor Consultants (1099, Corp to Corp, W2), developers, analysts, administrators, data migration specialists, and technical leads — across Kinetic, Prophet 21, and legacy ERP10 and E9. Contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent.
Yes. Most of our roles can be found through our LinkedIn. Send your resume and we'll come to you when something fits — we'd rather know you before we need you and have you in our network.
Absolutely. Many of our clients support remote or hybrid options, especially for contract roles.
We work across both the U.S. and Canada. If you’re authorized to work in either country, we’d love to connect.
Email Kayla@k9-recruitment.com or Brendan@k9-recruitment.com and someone will reach out!
Still have questions?
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