Urgent Need - Ab Initio Administrator mostly remote

Ab Initio Administrator

12 + month contract strong possibility of extensions Reston, VA Mostly Remote but hybrid as needed 1X monthly and 2-3X a year for team events
This position is an Ab Initio Administrator and not a developer position. The Senior Ab Initio ETL Administrator is responsible for the tasks involved in administration of ETL tool (Ab-Initio) as well as migrating Ab Initio infrastructure to the Cloud. The candidate will support the implementation of a Data Integration/Data Warehouse for the Data products on-prem and in AWS Cloud like EKS containerization for Ab Initio.
Must have: At least 5 years of Experienced with all the tasks involved in administration of ETL Tool (Ab Initio)
Experienced with managing the project of migration or infrastructure build without supervisor
At least 5 years of Experienced with Advance knowledge of Ab Initio Graphical Development Environment (GDE), Meta Data Hub, Operational Console
Experience with Ab Initio, AWS EKS, S3, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, ProgreSQL, RDS, DB2 2 + years of experience with AWS
Created Big Data pipelines (ETL) from on-premises to Data Factories, Data Lakes, and Cloud Storage such as EBS or S3.
DevOps (CI/CD Pipeline) prefers Jenkins experience
Experience with Advance knowledge of UNIX and SQL
Experience with manage metadata hub-MDH, Operational Console and troubleshoot environmental issues which affect these components
Experience with scripting and automation such as design and develop automated ETL process and architecture and unit testing of the ETL code
Experience with working on the break fix and continuous development items, review, and inspection for the production changes
Perform the code review for the ETL code developed by the development team and guide to resolve an issue.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) knowledge and Demonstrated knowledge and best practices of testing environments and processes
Demonstrated experience working in an Enterprise environment with crossed team interaction and collaboration and policies
Strong testing skills
Excellent problem-solving skills
Strong analytical skills
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Familiar with structured programming techniques
Must be able to perform assigned tasks with minimum supervision
Strong documentation skills
Experience working in an Agile environment is a plus
Software:
o Applies and implements best practices for data auditing,
o scalability, reliability, and application performance.
AWS certification is a plus
Extensive UNIX AIX or Linux and Scripting experience
Extensive SDLC experience with some development or Systems programming experience
Ability to analyze and trouble-shoot Mid-tier/infrastructure issues.
Very strong verbal and written communication skills (Critical)
Ability to facilitate technical requirements gathering and design sessions
Collaborate and interpret business and technical needs
Excellent attention to detail and quality work products (Critical)
Strong customer service skills with internal and external customers (Critical)
Must be able to perform assigned tasks with minimum supervision (Critical)
Strong analytical and documentation skills
Excellent time management ability. (Critical)
Skills Preferred

• Experience with DEVOPS or IAAS
• AIX or Linux
• LDAP
• EIAM (Identity Access Management)
• Ab Initio Admin and Architect
• Integration experience with Hadoop

Looking forward to your response.

Best Regards
Vimal Suri