What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applications Systems Analyst position at MD Anderson Cancer Center?
The mission of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is to eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation, and the world through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public.
****Ideal candidates will have experience with Red Hat and MD Anderson experience.****
SUMMARY
The primary purpose of the Applications Systems Analyst position is to provide system administration of Linux servers. This includes providing analysis of business and management problems in terms of system and user department requirements.
Support Production Applications
• Perform on-call duties in rotation with other team members.
• Provide assistance to other team members in their on-call rotation.
• Follow-up on any problems encountered during the rotation, document resolution details, and update support documentation as needed.
• Notify management, customers, and business partners of significant problems or system outages.
Deliver Solutions
• Assist in the identification and documentation of business, functional, and technical problems.
• Analyze, document and decompose problems into discreet requirements.
• Research, evaluate and provide input to potential solutions taking into consideration project constraints, organizational architecture standards, customer business processes and emerging technologies, where applicable.
• Participate in the development of work tasks, estimates, schedules, materials and plans to meet business needs.
• Prioritize, monitor, and report progress for assigned tasks and resources.
• Identify and perform processes to produce high quality and reliable solutions.
• Contribute to regular work sessions with staff and customers to discuss priorities and resource allocations to meet defined goals.
• Participate in the design of solutions to meet business needs.
• Translate functional requirements into high-level technical designs and/or business processes in terms of the technical infrastructure; file and database structures; application integration; security; backup and recovery, and monitoring functions; user interfaces; and reports.
• Write detailed technical specifications and/or test plans.
• Create accurate programs, documentation, utilities and test scripts to meet business requirements and team standards.
• Install, configure and document applications, procedures and scripts.
• Perform testing and document results.
Service Delivery
•Provide service to our customers and each other, in a reliable, responsive, safe, friendly and courteous manner.
•Promotes inclusiveness and collegiality by demonstrating respect and professionalism to others at all times.
•Models safe, ethical behavior, mitigating risk to the institution through sound business practices and adherence to MD Anderson’s Standards of Conduct and institutional policies and procedures.
•Responds to requests in a timely manner, communicating expectations for procedures, service arrival, or project deliverables to patients and coworkers.
•Admits when wrong, apologizes and takes steps to resolve a situation to help coworkers before being asked.
•Performs other job duties as assigned which may not be reflected on this position description.
Experience Required:
Bachelor's degree.
Experience Required:
Two years experience, in domain, analysis, design, project management, in Epic software or programming. May substitute require education degree with additional years of equivalent experience on a one to one basis.
Preferred Experience:
Red Hat Experience
Experience as a system administrator / engineer
Kubernetes experience
MD Anderson experience
Certifications preferred:
One or more of the following: One or more of the following:
Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
CompTIA A
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