Locals Or Nearby Urgent Need Cognos Administrator

H1B GC and Citizens only
Hi Friends,
Hope you are doing great,
I have an urgent requirement from one of my esteem client, I will appreciate if you can have an eye on the below requirement and send me your consultant updated profile ASAP.
Position Title: Cognos Administrator
Location: Reston, VA (Locals Or Nearby)
Duration: Up to 12 months
Phone and in person interview required.
Responsibilities: The overall responsibilities include but is not limited to the following:

• Responsible for installation, configuration, upgrading and maintaining Cognos 10 BI platform in a distributed AIX environment
• Perform Cognos Install and perform upgrades to Cognos
• Provide Configuration, architectural support & guidance for BI environment
• Administering Cognos BI systems on a day-to-day basis to ensure platforms meet our SLAs. This might include installation, support, configuration and tuning
• Provide 24/7 support for Web Reporting issues in the environment with ability to troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues
• Implement migrations, upgrades, patches and service pack implementations in all environments
• Maintain Cognos portal customization and implement new customizations as per business requirement
• Maintain application security as per IBM best practices and handle access requests on a daily basis
• Implement proactive monitors on application and troubleshoot any performance issues
• Participate in Quarterly disaster recovery exercises to recover application in DR site
• Work closely with DBA team to address any performance issues related to Cognos reports and ETL modules
• Work with system admin and network teams to troubleshoot any system level issues impacting application health
• Available for 24/7 support in case of severity 1 production incidents
• Available for off-hour/weekend support for patching and other application maintenance activities

Required Skills:

• 6+ years of experience in Cognos administration
• Manage and drive third parties to the quick resolution of change
• Good exposure of infrastructure technologies
• Strong communication skills, ability to establish and maintain positive collaborative relationship with team members
• Experience in preparing technical design documentation

If my requirement matches your resume, then please do reply on my email id alih(at)usmsystems(dot)com and contact no is 703-955-3955