ob Description-
Role: Systems Administrator (Tableau)
Location: Columbia, MD
Length: Contract to Hire
Overview: Our client is looking for a Tableau Systems Administrator to be the point of contact for Production Support.
Principal Responsibilities
- Define or guide the definition of technical architecture to meet business requirements in infrastructure and applications products implementations.
- Provide infrastructure sizing, including hardware and software requirements.
- Plan, design and execute performance tests of the platform.
- Analyze, troubleshoot and / or tune product performance or deployment issues when required, either during implementations or post go-live.
- Develop and document technical architecture, system design, performance test results and other technical aspects of the implementation.
- Define or assist with best practices during implementation and integration of Tableau Platform
Required:
- 7+ years of product implementation, system integration or development experience with strong understanding of Tableau Architecture and Administration
- 3+ years of experience with Tableau installations, configuration and administration Strong expertise with Tableau platform sizing, troubleshooting, tuning disaster recovery
- System Admin (includes New site creation, Server maintenance/Upgrades/patches, Schedule control.
- Strong knowledge experience with Windows Servers (2008/2012) networking technologies Experience with Windows Active Directory, SAML for security architecture and IIS for Web Servers Experience with Storage devices like NAS, SAN
- Change management including software, hardware upgrades, patches, platform monitoring, availability and performance management, and service reporting (KPI)
- Incident management, showstopper resolution, root cause analysis
- Backup and recovery
- Usage monitoring, technical policies set up and controls, admin best practices, technical audits
- Assist in identifying and migrating data sources to tableau server
- Partner with business to design tableau KPI scorecards dashboards
- Desktop best practices gathering, FAQ for publishers, provide guidance to users
- Advanced knowledge and experience of Tableau Software
- Strong Knowledge in BI tools including ETL, OLAP Cube, Other BI tools
- Knowledge and experience of infrastructure servers and OS (windows, VM)
- Resource monitoring and repository Audit reporting, Backup and restore
- Dashboard Development and data source troubleshooting
- Strong understanding of best practices
- Good interpersonal, communication skills. Autonomous.
Preferred:
- R (Rserve) on Linux environment
- Rest API, Java knowledge
- PowerShell ( scripting to turn on and off or monitoring services etc )
- Python scripting
- DB Interaction and SQL Query trouble shoot
- Network Issue Troubleshooting
- Experience with industry BI/Reporting toolsets including Business Objects