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Associate - Projects
2-3 years
₹ 3.05 - 18L/yr (AmbitionBox estimate)
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Chennai
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Associate - Projects
Cognizant
posted 2mon ago
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Flexible timing
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Job Description
- Understand application specific resource configuration.
- Develop deployment plan (production, quality).
- Initiate the build for development.
- Define any deployment required as prebuild system.
- Plan for system maintenance strategy like monitoring, configure clean up activities.
- Identify tools and technologies to be used in the project as well as reusable objects that could be customized for the project.
- Implementation.
- Provision, install and configure application environment for developers in on prem and cloud.
- Deploy latest patches, provided by vendors, in development environment to improve the stability of development system.
- Apply rapid deployment solution.
- Apply best practices and standard operating principles under guidance Create roles and profiles for application security based on the specifications approved in the design phase.
- Familiar with security setup like generating ssh keys.
- Testing.
- Review test results and provide technical inputs from a system administration perspective.
- Configuration, Deployment and Closure.
- Conduct activities related to system administration during configuration which are requested by clients.
- Create build for production system.
- Liaise with technical lead (development) and deploy applications in production system.
- Develop SOPs.
- Post final acceptance, create all documentation.
- Participate in handover to AVM team.
- Provide support for agreed number of overlap days.
- Provide any support required on defects identified.
- Develop SOPs for security procedures.
- Maintain all audit related requirements.
- Ongoing System Administration.
- Monitor production system KPIs (stability, performance, security) on a regular basis.
- Define alert systems and implement them.
- Automate regular administration tasks like provisioning and monitoring.
- Create back up and recovery plans.
- Monitor adherence of system maintenance activities.
- Support relevant teams in resolution of application performance problems.
- Monitor security audit log and take necessary actions.
- Support common database and compute node administration tasks.
- Knowledge Management.
- Update knowledge articles in the knowledge management repository.
- Maintain best versions of training documentation, installation and configuration documentation, security and application maintenance documentation.
- Maintain knowledge management database.
- Training and Recruitment / People Management.
- Provide assistance in selection of representative employee groups for training.
- Conduct training with the help of academy.
- Mentor team members in project teams with respect to technical skills on projects.
- Coordinate with the supervisor in understanding how administrators can better contribute to the project, seek feedback and address concerns Provide inputs during performance appraisal of administrators.
- Project Planning and Setup.
- Plan for hardware and the software requirements and submit it to supervisor for review.
- Assist customer in identifying hardware/software requirements.
Set up system for evaluation during requirements stage(depending on the type of project
implementation/ support/ transformation) - Conduct discussions with different stakeholders to finalize test objectives.
- Requirement Gathering and Analysis.
- Analyze and validate the system and infrastructure requirements.
- Determine the infrastructure required for application deployment.
- Conduct sizing based on the inputs during requirement gathering (hardware configuration).
- Identify any prerequisites and dependencies for application.
- Prepare a master list for installation.
- For PAAS, understand topology,sizing,storage and security.
- Support admin tasks required to connect PAAS products to onprem systems.
Must Have Skills
- SAP DART
- SAP ILM
- Amazon S3
- Azure Storage
- SAP Archiving
- User Access & Identity Mgmt
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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As it is an one of the largest service based company we have an lot of learning opportunities. Work culture is pretty professional. Flexible of work hours
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In the recession time cognizant has done massive layoffs. So it is mandatory to give an security for an employee and regarding hikes there is no recognition of hardwork done.
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