Cognos Administrator

Cognos Administrator

Beaverton, OR

· Installing and Configuring Cognos on Linux systems

· Knowledge of AWS a must

· Administering, configuring, tuning, and maintaining Cognos BI 10 & 11.xx in non-prod and Production environments

· Performing daily Cognos activities, such as report/package/cube deployments, managing users access, monitoring schedules, and monitoring overall system

· Working with Cognos developers, IBM support, database administrators, and other IT operations resources to troubleshoot issues and ensure the system is working properly

· Managing Cognos servers, including applying patches

· Working closely with the report developers to manage deployments and security throughout the environment

· Planning and coordinating outages with development team, database team, and other stakeholders

· Managing the architecture, capacity, security, and system performance optimization (both Cognos and Windows), making technical recommendations as needed

· Researching, assessing, and implementing Cognos best practices

· Monitoring server resource utilization and administering servers to maintain system efficiency

· Utilizing third-party tools to support administration and monitoring of system resources

· Administering a large number of schedules and events to ensure best performance

· Creating and maintaining Cognos user roles/permissions, working closely with the Active Directory Team

· Analyzing Cognos and other server/system logs on a daily basis to identify and proactively resolve those issues

· Generating and maintaining system administration documentation, including configuration specifications and rationale for specifications in environment

· Maintaining and updating security plans

Implementing, documenting, and coordinating server and storage policies procedures, and standards

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