IBM Cognos Admin Remote C2C jobs – USA, Remote (EST/CST)

Tech Mirrors; Dearborn (MI); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors in the United States is seeking an experienced IBM Cognos Administrator to manage Cognos Analytics environments across Dev/QA/UAT/Prod, focusing on reliability, security, and performance.

The role requires hands-on administration, deployment, monitoring, and integration with LDAP/SSO, with collaboration across IT and business teams. Remote work from the US is supported, with banking domain experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience administering IBM Cognos in large enterprise environments.
• Hands-on administration of multiple environments (Dev/QA/UAT/Prod).
• Familiarity with banking security and governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain Cognos Analytics environments.
• Administer Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Configure authentication with LDAP, Active Directory, or SSO.
• Monitor performance and resolve bottlenecks.
• Support HA, DR, and disaster recovery implementations.
• Collaborate with infra, DB, network teams and maintain runbooks.
• Provide Level-2/3 support and ensure regulatory compliance.

Skills

Cognos administration

Enterprise support

IT security governance

Performance tuning

Tools

IBM Cognos Analytics (11.x/12.x)

Cognos Configuration

Content Store Admin

Framework Manager

Cognos Connection Portal

Cognos Dispatcher/Gateway

LDAP/AD/SAML/SSO

SSL Configuration

WebSphere/Tomcat/IIS

IBM HTTP Server (IHS)

Databases: Oracle/SQL Server/DB2

Linux/Windows Server Admin

Shell/PowerShell

Backup/Disaster Recovery

Performance tuning

Job description

Role - IBM Cognos Admin (Pure Cognos admin only)

USA, Remote (EST/CST)

We are seeking an experienced IBM Cognos Administrator with strong expertise in administering, supporting, and optimizing enterprise Cognos BI environments within the banking and financial services domain. The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining highly available Cognos infrastructure, ensuring platform security, performance tuning, user administration, and supporting mission-critical reporting applications while adhering to banking compliance and governance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain IBM Cognos Analytics environments.
• Administer Development, QA, UAT, and Production Cognos environments.
• Perform Cognos server configuration, dispatcher management, gateway setup, and content store administration.
• Monitor system performance and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Configure authentication using LDAP, Active Directory, or Single Sign-On (SSO).
• Manage Cognos security, user roles, permissions, and folder-level access.
• Perform migration of Cognos reports, packages, and security between environments using deployment archives.
• Troubleshoot report execution issues, scheduling failures, and metadata-related problems.
• Perform backup and recovery of Cognos Content Store and application configurations.
• Configure report scheduling, bursting, event management, and subscriptions.
• Support high availability (HA), load balancing, and disaster recovery implementations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, database, network, and application teams for issue resolution.
• Maintain operational documentation, SOPs, deployment guides, and runbooks.
• Support production releases and provide Level-2/Level-3 application support.
• Ensure platform compliance with banking security, audit, and regulatory standards.

Required Technical Skills

• IBM Cognos Analytics Administration (11.x/12.x)
• Cognos Configuration
• Cognos Content Store Administration
• Framework Manager knowledge
• Cognos Connection Portal
• Cognos Dispatcher and Gateway Administration
• Report Scheduling and Bursting
• LDAP / Active Directory Integration
• SSL Configuration
• WebSphere / Apache Tomcat / IIS
• IBM HTTP Server (IHS)
• Oracle / SQL Server / DB2 databases
• Linux and Windows Server Administration
• Shell Scripting / PowerShell
• Backup and Disaster Recovery
• Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning

Preferred Skills

• IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) exposure
• Cognos SDK knowledge
• Automation using Python or PowerShell
• ITIL Foundation Certification
• DevOps/CI-CD deployment experienceCloud exposure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with Control-M or enterprise scheduling tools

Nice-to-Have

• Exposure to Tableau or Power BI.
• Knowledge of Snowflake, SQL, or Data Warehousing.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience supporting regulatory and operational reporting.
• Understanding of banking data governance and compliance