What are the responsibilities and job description for the COGNOS ADMIN position at Blue Spire Inc?
Company Description
Blue Spire Inc is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business-process outsourcing services. We are dedicated to helping clients grow through our combined business-IT knowledge, thoughtful innovation and dedicated workforce.
Who we are: We are a company of diverse, talented people with a passion for pursuing excellence.
- Our Core Values
- Excellence
- Leadership by example
- Integrity & Transparency
- Fairness
- Client Value
What we offer: It is not a job. It is a journey. An experience. A challenging and enjoyable work environment.
Come grow with us
- Learn
- Ideate
- Execute
- Work
- Inspire
Job Description
Responsibilities:
• Communicate and co-ordinate with clients on technical aspects.
• Troubleshoot complex project-issues
• Own application design, development, testing & support tasks/activities
• Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities to the team
• Attend project meetings & work with other groups/departments
• Drive team building and on boarding efforts via mentoring
• Strengthen client's confidence in Saama and Saama's ability to deliver
• Provide scalable solutions for handling large data volumes and complex reporting
Requirement:
• Mandatory Experience in Cognos 10.2
• Strong experience in Software Development/Engineering with 3 years as sr consultant or team leading
• Installation of releases of Cognos Application servers (both 32 bit and 64 bit installs)
• Installation and configuration of Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query Studio, Metric Studio, Cognos ReportNet and analysis tools such Cognos Transformer
• Patching, Upgrade, Migration of Cognos Application servers
• Maintain the integrity, security, performance and availability of Cognos environments
• High availability and Disaster recovery – installation and configuration at Application server layer
• Install, upgrade, patch, configure, troubleshoot and administer a variety of 3rd party vendor tools
• Performs database and software life-cycle activities to ensure highest level of system performance and availability and compliance with business requirements
• Monitor Application servers for compliance with established standards, policies, configuration guidelines and procedures
• Provide capacity analysis reports/data and recommendations for improvements
• Responsible for application server backup/recovery, performance analysis and tuning, and monitoring
• Advanced troubleshooting (ability to think outside of box) and advanced shell scripting for all databases involving Oracle, SQL Server
• Installation and security implementation
• Configuration and maintenance
• Patching, cloning, troubleshooting application errors/issues, App and SQL tuning, advanced troubleshooting (ability to think outside of box) for Cognos tools
• May lead the work of others or provide guidance to entry level roles
• This position is full-time and will require after hours and on-call support and weekend maintenance
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.