Description
Job Description
Our client is seeking an energetic, customer service oriented and technically talented and experienced IBM Product Administrator (Datastage and/or Cognos 11) to help support mission critical infrastructure in a dynamic and fast-paced production environment. A self-starter who is proactive and self-motivated to achieve operational excellence. Technically versatile, has the aptitude to increase technical breadth and the attitude and personality to help grow/maintain a World Class organization.
Required Skills:
- Automating operational processes using Scripting languages such as Shell/Ruby/Python/Puppet tools.
- Performing daily activities, such as managing users access, monitoring schedules, and monitoring overall system
- Working with developers, software vendor support, database administrators, and other IT operations resources to troubleshoot issues and ensure systems are working properly
- Managing Servers ie Design, develop, test, patch and maintain infrastructure as necessary
- Researching, assessing, and implementing best practices
- Analyzing server/system logs on a daily basis to identify and proactively resolve issues
- Act as the technical expert for support and enhancement issues
- Knowledge of Cognos, Infosphere or WebSphere architecture design and implementation.
- Setup new database connections and security procedures
- Perform capacity planning
- Works with Client Management/Other Team Lead to provide timely, appropriate level of communication with respect to the work assigned.
- Provides technical and functional expertise on development projects.
- Strong design, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent presentation and organizational skills.
- Linux (RHEL 7 with SELinux a plus)
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- BA/BS degree and/or 5-7 years of experience Excellent communication skills and self starter attitude
- Must be able to pass a criminal background check
Desired Skills:
- Implementing application migrations to cloud providers
- Identify and recommend applications for implementation or migration to cloud services
- Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, or PostreSQL - ability to connect and configure Linux applications to Database Servers
- Ability to run SQL scripts
- Datastage Experience
- Cognos 11 Experience
- Experience in managing AWS cloud services like EC2/S3/RDS etc is a huge plus.
- Comfortable in Multi-OS environment a plus (Linux and Windows Server)
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Normal demands associated with an office environment. Ability to work on computer for long periods, and communicate with individuals by telephone, email and face to face.