What are the responsibilities and job description for the CMDB Administrator position at Dynamic Enterprise Solutions Inc?
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CMDB Administration support 100%
Seek an individual to learn and support the CMDB data updates while grasping how the CMDB is
used on a day-by-day basis at Abbott. The CMDB is highly complex with different uses
depending on the organization and or the devices.
Work as liaison to the CMDB customers and Data Stewards ensuring data updates provided are
accurate, complete and follow best practices used in the Configuration Management s Center of
Excellence
o Requires good communication skills and ability to communicate back-n-forth with the
customer until the data is proper.
o Realize new/update data requests routinely have bad data, the CMDB Admin must work
directly with the customer to assure they understand exactly what we need to know and
why it matters.
o Single point of contact for all CMDB users globally
o Answer questions regarding data or the ITSM/CMDB system.
o Contact tier 2/3 support when unable to answer question
o Collaborate with customers to support and assist IT initiatives involving CMDB data
o Collaborate with Application Portfolio team ensure Application Health and IT lifecycle is
managed. Be able to identify gaps and remediation steps.
CMDB Data updates
o Can be 1 up to 500 devices per request
o Entry is via Incident or Service Requests
o Review audit reports and CMDB Health Dashboards. Based on findings reach out to
device owners or respective CoE Data Stewards for data remediation.
o Perform updating and removing Application to Infrastructure relationships
o Review, collaborate data corrections and execute mass updates to the CMDB
Will be the only authorized user allowed to the mass import data to the CMDB
o Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the different Configuration (CI) Classes and
Attributes per class
o Learn to know the attribute default values to ensure imports and updates maintain CI
data accuracy.
o Provide urgent updates to the CMDB data to ensure IT tools are working as expected.
Gain an understanding of external CMDB data sources. The desired resource won t necessarily
support the integration, but needs an understanding of the external data sources
o Be able to provide plain language explanations to business customers when data is
sourced from one of these other systems.
Assist with configuration of ServiceNow Discovery schedules.
