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Atmos Energy•Dallas, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr Applications Administrator will be responsible for creating, monitoring, managing, troubleshooting, and patching application landscapes, and transporting code changes between landscapes to support various applications. This role involves reviewing the growth and performance of landscapes to prevent outages or degradation of service levels. The ideal candidate will utilize advanced administration and troubleshooting techniques to complete complex assignments and solve difficult problems. Additionally, this position will mentor and coach other IT staff, explore automation opportunities for process standardization and error reduction, and stay current with the latest technologies and their applications in the workplace. The role also involves defining and implementing standards for application implementation and administration, ensuring compliance with SOX requirements, and providing risk assessments for IT security functions. Planning and designing control functions for segregation of duties, reviewing landscapes for efficiency and integrity, and creating documentation for maintenance, change, and recoverability are key aspects. The position requires evaluating and testing the integrity and recoverability of applications and data, earning and maintaining relevant certifications, and acquiring deep knowledge of cloud architecture, including the impact of database and application design decisions on operating costs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Technology or a related field
4 years of experience in supporting Java based applications, JBoss, Tomcat, IBM MQ Broker, Job scheduling tool, Single sign on tool, monitoring tools, Unix shell scripting and writing SQL (SQL Server and Oracle).
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 , python , linux
Details of experience in AI Application Development & integration
Details of experience in administering scheduling tools like UC4
Total number of years of experience ( 8 – 12 years of minimum experience)
Requires the 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.
Requires the ability to perform analyses involving ratios, percentages and simple statistical methods
Requires 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 in order to provide support of various applications.
Reviews growth and performance of landscapes to avoid outages or degradation of service levels.
Utilizes advanced administration and troubleshooting techniques to complete complex assignments or to solve difficult problems.
Mentors, coaches and supports other IT staff to improve technical abilities; and assist in completion of challenging assignments.
Explores ways for automation to reduce the human-error factor and to achieve process standardization.
Keeps abreast of the latest technologies, and enhancements.
Understands and communicates the relevance and application in the workplace.
Researches and implements enhancements and new technologies as required.
Simultaneously assigned to multiple projects.
Coordinates tasks with other project team members as appropriate.
Defines and implements standards for implementation and administration of applications, and compliance with SOX requirements.
Provides risk assessments regarding development and maintenance of Information Technology security functions that protect information availability and integrity.
Plans and designs control functions to maintain segregation of duties for SOX controls.
Reviews landscapes and makes recommendations for changes, to ensure efficiency and integrity of information.
Creates documentation to support the maintenance, change and recoverability of information.
Evaluates and tests the integrity and recoverability of application and data by reviewing and testing proper back-up and recovery procedures.
Earns and maintains certification in related application administration areas.
Acquires and maintains deep knowledge of the cloud architecture which includes knowledge of the impact of database and application design and architecture decisions and how they affect organization’s operating costs.