Lead Cognos Infrastructure

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Cognos Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer to join our team.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Cognos on-prem to cloud migration (IBM Cloud), Okta and SSO integrations, Customer resource and Data Migrations.

Candidate will play a crucial role in managing the transition of Cognos environments from on-premises to the cloud while ensuring seamless integration, user migration, and security protocols.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the migration of IBM Cognos BI solutions from on-premises infrastructure to IBM cloud platforms.
• Plan, design, and implement cloud architectures to support Cognos environments with best practices for performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth migration of Cognos servers, content stores, and configuration settings.
• Troubleshoot and resolve any issues during the migration process to ensure minimal downtime.
• Configure and maintain Okta integration for secure authentication and seamless access to Cognos environments.
• Work with security teams to enforce strong authentication mechanisms, user roles, and access controls.
• Lead the user migration process, ensuring proper user provisioning, de-provisioning, and role mapping during cloud migration.
• Use Terraform, CloudFormation to automate cloud resource provisioning.
• Implement monitoring solutions to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of Cognos BI solutions in the cloud
• Collaborate with data teams to ensure secure and efficient data migration, including content store, reports, and dashboards.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience working with Cognos BI and cloud migration projects.
• Experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation is highly preferred.
• Proven experience with Cognos administration, infrastructure, and deployment.
• Strong expertise in Cognos on-prem to cloud migration strategies and implementation.
• Hands-on experience with Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions and Okta integration.
• Experience with user migration, including user role assignments and data management.
• Expertise in data migration for Cognos environments, including content store migration and report/data transfer.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as IBM, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong background in DevOps practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor) to ensure optimal performance in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of database management, SQL, and scripting for migration and automation tasks.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in cloud and on-prem environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams.

Interested candidates kindly send your updated resume to