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Role Requirements – Cognos Architect
The Cognos Architect will be responsible for:
•End to end installation of Cognos on DEV, UAT, and PROD environments.
•Ensuring the installation follows IBM best practices, including recommended deployment topology.
•Automating the installation and configuration wherever possible using scripts or deployment templates (PowerShell, Linux shell, or Ansible preferred).
•Leading the migration to new Cognos servers, including environment refresh and configuration replication.
•Performing performance tuning, including memory optimization, dispatcher configuration, service tuning, and cache settings.
•Recommending optimal server sizing, configuration settings, and architectural improvements to ensure stability and performance.
•Implementing and managing load balancing across Cognos Dispatchers/Gateways for improved session distribution and high availability.
•Managing all Cognos service configuration, including security integrations, data source connections, and dispatcher/gateway settings.
•Ensuring high availability and failover configurations are set up as needed.
•Applying Cognos security model best practices (integration with AD/SSO where applicable).
•Supporting content store configuration and optimization, including backup/restore strategy.
•Producing installation documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
•Coordinating with infrastructure, security, and DBA teams to ensure compliance with internal standards.
•Windows IIS to expose the Cognos application for end user.
Role Requirements – Cognos Architect
The Cognos Architect will be responsible for:
•End to end installation of Cognos on DEV, UAT, and PROD environments.
•Ensuring the installation follows IBM best practices, including recommended deployment topology.
•Automating the installation and configuration wherever possible using scripts or deployment templates (PowerShell, Linux shell, or Ansible preferred).
•Leading the migration to new Cognos servers, including environment refresh and configuration replication.
•Performing performance tuning, including memory optimization, dispatcher configuration, service tuning, and cache settings.
•Recommending optimal server sizing, configuration settings, and architectural improvements to ensure stability and performance.
•Implementing and managing load balancing across Cognos Dispatchers/Gateways for improved session distribution and high availability.
•Managing all Cognos service configuration, including security integrations, data source connections, and dispatcher/gateway settings.
•Ensuring high availability and failover configurations are set up as needed.
•Applying Cognos security model best practices (integration with AD/SSO where applicable).
•Supporting content store configuration and optimization, including backup/restore strategy.
•Producing installation documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
•Coordinating with infrastructure, security, and DBA teams to ensure compliance with internal standards.
•Windows IIS to expose the Cognos application for end user.
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive fair and impartial treatment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or on any other basis which is protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government-issued ID during each interview. All candidates must be authorized to work in the USA.
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