COGNOS ADMIN

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

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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.