Cognos Admin with Linux knowledge

Position: Cognos Admin with Linux knowledge

Position Type: Full-time

Location: Jersey City, NJ / Charlotte, NC / Plano, TX

Years of Experience: 6 - 8 years of experience

Desired Skills: IBM Cognos

Salary Range: $95,000-$115,000 a year

Job Summary

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

• This is for a position for Lead Cognos Platform Architect/Administrator to manage Cognos Analytics Enterprise shared environment on legacy and containerized environment.
• Role is responsible for designing go-live strategy, capacity planning, performance monitoring, diagnosing complex issues, performing complex upgrades, and carrying out deployments. This role would support platform which server 9 K + users
• Proven Experience with deploying Cognos Analytics on Openshift or Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift preferred)
• Experience with customization and versioning of Cognos container images
• Experience in Data Analysis, IBM Cognos development, Modelling , ETL concepts, SQL , Oracle , Containerization, Cube s Cognos Administration on V12
• Redhat/ Openshit Certification and IBM Certified Administration V12x
• Experience using Cognos analytics APIs for Administration/Automation
• Advance understanding of Databases such as SQL server, Oracle, DB2 and PostgresSQL
• Familiar with monitoring/logging tools such as Openshift Monitoring, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Experience with tuning Cognos Performance within a containerized environment /high availability
• Experience connecting cognos Analytics to wide variety of files, relational and bigdata based data sources
• Self starter with innovative edge with strong communication
• Familiarity with Dynamic Cubes, Data Modules, Framework Manager and Report Server configuration
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of networking , TLS/SSL configuration , load balancing and reverse proxies

Roles & Responsibilities

• As Cognos Analytics Architect, you will design, implement and oversee efficient operating strategy for Cognos Center of Excellence with focus on long term scalability collaborating with other architects.
• As IBM Cognos Analytics subject matter expert , you will advise /educate internal stakeholders about Cognos, Architecture blueprints and best practices.
• Identify areas of opportunities and create project plans to accomplish team objectives with team collaboration.
• Monitor/maintain/plan platform usage metrics using Python frameworks
• Automate Cognos Administration with Cognos APIs or Python
• Analyzing usage patterns and anticipate workload to plan capacity
• Assist and provide guidance to migrate reports from other platforms such as SSRS. Tableau, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Excel
• Mentor junior team members and Cognos Analytics developers
• Keep abreast of recent changes in Cognos Analytics
• PMP Certification and proven experience with managing large infrastructure projects is desired.

Thanks and Regards,

Sajith Nair

Ztek Consulting Inc.

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