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Sr. Associate - Projects
4-14 years
Hyderabad / Secunderabad
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Sr. Associate - Projects
Cognizant
posted 2mon ago
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Job Description
Lead Administrator
Qualification :
Bachelors in engineering or equivalent Responsibility :
Project Planning & 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.
- Verify system build, test environment and iteration test plan.
Requirements Understanding 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.
- Map all functional requirements to technical requirement.
- Prepare high level infrastructure requirement.
- For support projects, understand the customer landscape.
- Evaluate if Cognizant has sufficient capabilities to support the project.
- Evaluate customer demographics and prepare analysis reports.
Design & Implementation :
- Define technical solution by understanding various functional and non functional requirements.
- Create system architecture (scalability, availability).
- Explore and evaluate multiple design options.
- Share design and obtain buy in from various stakeholders.
- Develop the design for disaster recovery plan.
- Validate the application design.
- Design, develop and finalize the security strategy.
- Perform a data management strategy (such as when customer wants to go for archiving).
- Develop deployment plan (production, quality).
- Initiate the build for development after the design is finalized.
- Define any deployment required as prebuild system.
- Plan for system maintenance strategy like monitoring, configure clean up activities.
- Define standard operating guidelines.
- Define the roles from a security perspective.
- Adopt best practices.
- Build system for QA.
- Build application environment for testing.
- Create roles as per specification and ensure alignment to SOX requirements.
Testing Management :
- Review test results and provide technical inputs from a system administration perspective.
- Transition roles from development to QA environment.
- Make any role corrections if required.
- Follow up with development team for rework on code defects and close the same.
Project Closure Activities :
- 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 system architecture 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 :
- Define KPIs/SLAs.
- Define alert systems and guide team to implement them.
- Create back up and recovery plans.
- Monitor adherence of system maintenance activities and resolve escalations.
- Conduct RCA of issues.
- Develop report on service level availability of the system and capacity utilization.
- Monitor security audit log and take necessary actions.
- Manage identity management experience.
- Conduct security risk assessment.
- Ensure business continuity is maintained.
- Seek feedback on security experience and take actions to ensure compliance is maintained.
- Optimize system performance.
- Proactively analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Identify end use/applications performance problems and determine optimal performance settings.
- Support relevant teams in resolution of application performance problems.
Sales Support :
- Provide support in presales activities by providing inputs during proposal development from a system perspective.
- Provide inputs for estimation of sizing, infrastructure cost etc.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts to create RFP responses.
- Participate in seminars /conferences.
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.
- Conduct technical, face to face interviews with candidates and support recruitment process.
- 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.
Must Have Skills
- SAP HANA Basis
The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Cognizant is a global community with more than 350,000 associates around the world.
- We don t just dream of a better way - we make it happen.
- We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what s right.
- We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that s right for you.
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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