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Atmos Energy•Dallas, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr Applications Administrator role focuses on the administration, management, and support of application landscapes and middleware tools. This position involves creating, monitoring, managing, troubleshooting, and patching application environments, as well as transporting code changes. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in administering middleware tools, Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, scripting languages, AI application development and integration, and scheduling tools. This role also includes mentoring junior staff, exploring automation opportunities, staying current with technology trends, and contributing to multiple projects simultaneously. Additionally, the position involves defining and implementing standards, ensuring compliance with SOX requirements, providing risk assessments for IT security, planning control functions for segregation of duties, and recommending landscape changes for efficiency and integrity. Documentation, backup and recovery testing, and maintaining certifications are also key aspects of this role. A deep understanding of cloud architecture, including the impact of database and application design on operating costs, is required.

Requirements

Details of experience administering middleware tools like IBM Broker/MQ
Details of experience in Microsoft power platform administration
Details of experience in Azure administration
Details of experience in scripting using powershell
Details of experience in scripting using python
Details of experience in scripting using linux
Details of experience in AI Application Development & integration
Details of experience in administering scheduling tools like UC4
8 – 12 years of minimum experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Technology or a related field
4 years of experience in supporting Java based applications
Experience with JBoss
Experience with Tomcat
Experience with IBM MQ Broker
Experience with Job scheduling tool
Experience with Single sign on tool
Experience with monitoring tools
Experience with Unix shell scripting
Experience writing SQL (SQL Server and Oracle)
Ability to communicate politely, clearly and effectively with internal and/or external customers at a high level such as senior management on matters of a technical and/or complex nature.
Ability to perform analyses involving ratios, percentages and simple statistical methods
Working knowledge of various software applications to create documents, reports and/or graphics and support databases.

Responsibilities

Create, monitor, manage, troubleshoot and patch application landscapes and transport code changes between landscapes to provide support for various applications.
Review growth and performance of landscapes to avoid outages or degradation of service levels.
Utilize advanced administration and troubleshooting techniques to complete complex assignments or solve difficult problems.
Mentor, coach and support other IT staff to improve technical abilities and assist in completion of challenging assignments.
Explore ways for automation to reduce the human-error factor and achieve process standardization.
Keep abreast of the latest technologies and enhancements, understanding and communicating their relevance and application in the workplace.
Research and implement enhancements and new technologies as required.
Be simultaneously assigned to multiple projects and coordinate tasks with other project team members as appropriate.
Define and implement standards for implementation and administration of applications, and compliance with SOX requirements.
Provide risk assessments regarding development and maintenance of Information Technology security functions that protect information availability and integrity.
Plan and design control functions to maintain segregation of duties for SOX controls.
Review landscapes and make recommendations for changes to assure efficiency and integrity of information.
Create documentation to support the maintenance, change and recoverability of information.
Evaluate and test the integrity and recoverability of application and data by reviewing and testing proper back-up and recovery procedures.
Earn and maintain certification in related application administration areas.
Acquire and maintain deep knowledge of the cloud architecture, including knowledge of the impact of database and application design and architecture decisions and how they affect organization’s operating costs.