Cognos administrator

Pennsylvania  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Job Description:

Title: Cognos administrator

Location Pittsburgh, PA 15238

Cognos administration, installation, and configuration experience, no BI developers

Primary Responsibilities:

  • 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
  • Analyze Java Heap dumps and provide root cause analysis for application teams
  • Responsible for Application Server backup/recovery, performance analysis and tuning, and monitoring
  • Deployments at Database level, Cognos, Middleware products, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere commerce applications, Version control systems
  • Advanced troubleshooting (ability to think outside of box) and advanced Shell Scripting for all databases involving Oracle, SQL Server, Commerce, WebSphere
  • Installation and security implementation Middleware infrastructure components
  • Configuration and maintenance of web-tier infrastructure (Apache, IIS, etc.)
  • Patching, cloning, troubleshooting application errors/issues, App and SQL tuning, advanced troubleshooting (ability to think outside of box) for Cognos tools

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, ie, military, trade school, certificate, etc.
  • 5-7 years of Cognos administration experience
Start date
n.a
From
Software Specialists
Published at
10.11.2015
Project ID:
1016614
Contract type
Freelance
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