Sr Application Administrator

We are recruiting for a Senior Denodo Application Administrator in Rochester, NY.

Salary: $58,000 - $82,000

NO C2C FOR THIS ROLE

• The Sr. Denodo Application Administrator is focused on building, maintaining, monitoring and auditing of on premise application installations.

• This may include and is not limited to ensuring security standards are applied, troubleshooting, developing new solutions and leading projects to upgrade components or whole systems.

• The Lead Administrator reviews and provides recommendations for architecture standards related to on premise applications and the evaluation of cloud solutions and combinations of cloud and on premise solutions.

• The Sr. Application Administrator is a senior team member in on-call rotations executing, advising and/or directing others during daily development efforts, system maintenances and instances of system failures.

• The Sr. Administrator works in concert with wider support and project teams to identify and evaluate risks and opportunities for efficiencies and is part of a team that supports the planning and implementation of new systems or functions and ensures that application maintenance and upgrades are delivered on-time and with quality.

Responsibilities for the Senior Denodo Application Administrator include:

• Supporting the assigned technical area:

• Works independently leading and providing technical support for non-production and production environments, including trouble shooting and remediation of technical issues.

• Takes a lead role in working with third party vendors and software companies.

• Researches and answers technical application, database, server and security configuration questions, serves as a final escalation point for support and provides on call support after hours as defined by the application support requirements.

• Provides direction to technical personnel and handling escalations or more complex / interdisciplinary requests for technical support, including application, system to system integrations and security administration.

• Monitors non-production and production environments and works in conjunction with, and/or leads, database administrators, security and systems administrators to provide performance tuning on application, database, server and security settings and features.

• Provides direction for the tools and scripting used to efficiently manage code migrations, environment builds, testing and implementation.

• Approves and applies patches; delivers minor and major application upgrades.

• Works with, and often leads, technical resources and in some cases functional / business analysts to understand application, database, server or security requirements and translates technical or systems specifications for implementation.

• Leads and/or actively participates design sessions to design complex technical enhancements to the application, database, server or security landscape.

• Completes assigned application administration deliverables, and leads teams in the completion of their assigned deliverables, including the configuration of applications, database, server or security settings and features; implements and provides ongoing support.

• Leads and/or actively participates in application administration maintenance or implementation plan walkthroughs.

• Develops technical documentation to be used by application administration development or support teams.

• Leads and/or actively participates in testing of newly developed applications, integrations, systems, solutions and upgrades of applications or application support tools.

• Leads and/or works closely with technical resources and in some cases functional / business analysts to prepare test plans, test data and complete integrated testing.

• Develops best practice application administration and change management procedures.

• Actively participates in smaller systems projects or enhancements, ensuring delivery upon assigned application administration tasks in alignment with project plans and estimates. Sometimes leads technical teams in the delivery of their assignments.

• Provides input for, and sometimes prepares, project plans and budgets related to application administration for projects and enhancement.

• Leads and/or actively participates in regular team retrospective events with a continuous improvement mindset.

• Promotes, and leads, the identification, recommendation and delivery of application administration improvement opportunities that improve the system solution.

• Promotes and demonstrates the sharing of application administration knowledge, provides cross-training, peer support and leads team meetings.

• Leads and/or actively participates in the estimation and planning of future application administration work plans.

• Develops, reviews and approves application administration documentation and procedures used to maintain applications, databases, servers, and security.

Requirements for the Senior Application Administrator include:

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, Data Science or Engineering required.

• Graduate Degree preferred.

• 4-5 years related experience required.

• 5+ experience on Denodo preferred.

• or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience required.

• 2-3 years' experience in a supervisory capacity preferred

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills required.

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and help team members embrace technology change required.

• 7+Install, configure and administer Denodo 8.x servers in HA environments preferred.

• Proven track record executing multiple work streams and producing consistent results required.

• Strong understanding of system/application administration activities required.

• Knowledge on Active Directory, network firewall, SQL server/DB is essential required.

• Experience with authentication and authorization methods such as Shibboleth, LDAP and Active Directory preferred.

• Experience on Denodo Upgrade is essential. Upgrade to V8 is plus preferred.

• Some exposure Denodo development is plus.

• Experience supporting Cloud and on premises applications preferred.

• Experience with multi-tier applications employing application and web servers preferred.

• Experience with project management from planning through implementation preferred.

• Denodo Administrator Certification within the first year of employment will be acquired by the client.

If you are interested in this Senior Denodo Application Administrator job, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis go to www.akkodis.com. If you have questions about the position, please contact Mike Keegan at 585-465-1236 or michael.keegan@akkodis.com

Pay Details: $58,000.00 to $82,000.00 per year

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