SENIOR ASSOCIATE

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Qualification:

BE/B Tech

Responsibility:

Design

• â–ª Define standard operating guidelines.

• â–ª Create System Architecture (scalability, availability).

• â–ª Define the roles from a security perspective.

• â–ª Adopt best practices.

• â–ª Create roles as per specification and ensure alignment to SOX requirements.

• â–ª Develop and implement Disaster Recovery Plan.

• â–ª Perform a data management strategy (such as when customer wants to go for archiving).

• â–ª Present the proposed Infra architecture to customers and seek signoff.

• Implementation.

• â–ª Build HA environment in UAT and PROD.

• â–ª Apply best practices and standard operating principles.

• â–ª Expert knowledge in provisioning various PAAS products like DBCS,SOACS and,MFTCS.

• â–ª Scale up PAAS instances and LB setup.

• Service Support and Maintenance.

• â–ª Review incident/problem/change management plan created by team â–ª Track issue/problem resolution.

• â–ª Conduct RCA.

• â–ª Define communication and issue resolution matrix.

• â–ª Drive and implement best practices for resolution of issues.

• â–ª Liaise with business users/SMEs to resolve issues if required.

• â–ª Review patch fixes created to prevent recurrence of complex problems â–ª Track adherence to SLAs.

• â–ª Guide team members in the course of incident/ problem management.

• â–ª Conduct change impact assessment.

• â–ª Collate change records.

• â–ª Share change records with relevant stakeholders.

• Configuration, Deployment and Closure.

• â–ª Create strategy for roll back.

• â–ª Conduct dry run on pilots.

• â–ª Monitor the processes are being followed.

• â–ª Document changes in the system.

• â–ª Resolve issues that arise during project deployment/ closure.

• â–ª Check that all action items mentioned in the deployment checklist have been completed.

• â–ª Post final acceptance, conduct all closure schedules.

• â–ª Provide support in creation of a final project report.

• â–ª Conduct handover to AVM team.

• Monitor all system/security administration activities and ensure all audit requirements are met.

• Ongoing System Administration.

• â–ª Guide team to implement alert systems.

• â–ª Define KPI/SLAs.

• â–ª Resolve escalations.

• â–ª Conduct RCA of issues.

• â–ª Develop report on service level availability of the system and capacity utilization.

• â–ª Manage identity management experience.

• â–ª Conduct security risk assessment.

• â–ª Ensure business continuity is maintained.

• â–ª Seek feedback on security experience and take actions to ensure compliance is maintained.

• â–ª Optimize system performance.

• â–ª Proactively analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks.

• â–ª Identify end use/applications performance problems and determine optimal performance settings.

• â–ª Hands on in various tools like WLST,Shell scripting and Oracle CLI.

• Knowledge Management.

• â–ª Create and update knowledge articles in the knowledge management repository.

• â–ª Provide guidance to team members to maintain all documentation related to project.

• â–ª Conduct KT sessions.

• â–ª Create knowledge articles on the problem, workaround solutions.

• â–ª Monitor and report the usage of knowledge articles.

• â–ª Maintain knowledge management database.

• Training and Recruitment / People Management.

• â–ª Provide assistance in selection of representative employee groups for training.

• â–ª Conduct training.

• â–ª Mentor team members in project teams with respect to product and domain skills on projects.

• â–ª Conduct technical, face to face interviews with candidates and support recruitment process.

• â–ª Set goals for team members and monitor performance.

• â–ª Coordinate with the project/program manager in understanding how the employee can better contribute to the project, seek feedback and address concerns.

• â–ª Conduct performance appraisal for team members.

• â–ª Organize team initiatives on a periodic basis.

• System Improvement and Standardization.

• â–ª Understand customer's business and recommend improvements on existing systems and processes.

• â–ª Actively seek out opportunities and provide domain inputs for improvements in systems performance and security.

• â–ª Introduce synergies between various teams to integrate various platforms.

• Project Planning and Setup.

• â–ª Understand resource plan.

• â–ª Plan for knowledge enrichment, change management and quality management.

• â–ª Conduct estimation of time utilization of different resources and activities â–ª Identify appropriate processes based on project landscape.

• â–ª Identify gaps and advise on improvements if required.

• â–ª Share inputs in creation of project plan with Project Manager.

• â–ª Review hardware/software requirement plan.

• â–ª Validate system build.

• â–ª Understand the test strategy, evaluate the design and identify gaps in the test plans, if any.

• â–ª Define KT plan.

• â–ª Customize project management system.

• â–ª Define standards and set Cognizant 20.

• â–ª Provide all support required during presales activities.

• â–ª Lead conversations with cloud product vendors on roadmap / architecture discussions / potential issues as needed by clients.

• Requirement Gathering and Analysis.

• â–ª Understand the requirements from clients/ functional consultants.

• â–ª Participate in client calls and seek clarifications.

• â–ª Create a requirements traceability matrix.

• â–ª Provide inputs during creation of operational concepts and scenarios.

• â–ª Perform requirements feasibility with regards to implementation.

• â–ª Prepare high level infrastructure requirement.

• â–ª For support projects, understand the customer landscape.

• â–ª Evaluate if Cognizant has sufficient capabilities to support the project.

• â–ª Evaluate customer demographics and prepare analysis reports.

• â–ª For PAAS, define topology,sizing,storage ,security and networking rules.

• â–ª Define strategy to migrate work load from onprem to cloud.

• Sales Support.

• â–ª Provide support in presales activities by providing inputs during proposal development from a system perspective.

• â–ª Provide inputs for estimation of sizing, infrastructure cost etc.

• â–ª Collaborate with Business Analysts to create RFP responses.

• â–ª Participate in seminars /conferences.

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Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. It is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Cognizant is part of the NASDAQ-100 and trades under CTSH.