MicroStrategy Administrator AWS & MCE

Compunnel, Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services firm is seeking a MicroStrategy Administrator to manage and optimize BI environments. You will lead installations, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with teams to enhance data analytics. This role requires deep expertise in MicroStrategy and AWS, with a minimum of 12 years of experience in BI and Data Analytics, including hands-on MicroStrategy administration. Excellent communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics.
• 5+ years in MicroStrategy Administration, including Cloud.
• 5+ years with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC).

Responsibilities

• Lead installation and maintenance of MicroStrategy components.
• Perform capacity planning and system health checks.
• Troubleshoot BI environment issues including SQL failures.

Skills

MicroStrategy Administration

AWS

SQL performance tuning

Linux/UNIX scripting

Collaboration skills

Tools

MicroStrategy Developer

AWS EC2

Linux

SQL

Job description

The MicroStrategy Administrator is responsible for administering, optimizing, and maintaining MicroStrategy Cloud Environment (MCE) and on-premises BI ecosystems.

The role requires deep expertise in MicroStrategy platform management from both operating system and BI tool perspectives.

This position plays a key role in capacity planning, performance tuning, automation, security governance, and supporting high-availability and AI-enabled BI solutions across AWS and MCE environments.

The role collaborates closely with cross-functional teams and supports enterprise-scale analytics environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead installation, configuration, upgrade, and maintenance of MicroStrategy components (Intelligence Server, Web, Library, Collaboration Server, Workstation) across MCE and AWS.
• Perform capacity planning, system health checks, and performance tuning for scalable MicroStrategy infrastructure.
• Utilize System Manager and GenAI-based workflows for automation, monitoring, and incident response within MCE.
• Administer MicroStrategy roles, LDAP groups, RBAC configurations, and security profiles ensuring compliance with data governance and PII standards.
• Define and execute migration procedures for MicroStrategy application/configuration objects across Dev, QA, and Production.
• Manage patching, version upgrades, content migrations, and configuration tasks in alignment with MCE change control processes.
• Collaborate with cloud teams to configure and maintain AWS‑hosted analytics environments including EC2, RDS, S3, and VPC integrations.
• Support cloud database connectivity (Redshift, PostgreSQL, Snowflake) and optimize BI workloads.
• Troubleshoot BI environment issues including SQL failures, report performance, cube refresh problems, and governing settings.
• Provide technical support to developers and clients for reporting, dashboards, environments, and demo assistance.
• Configure MicroStrategy web interfaces, Tomcat/WebSphere instances, and user portals.
• Set up Operations Manager, Enterprise Manager, monitoring frameworks, and alerting for MicroStrategy KPIs using tools like DataDog and System Manager.
• Perform performance analysis and capacity sizing for scalable MCE and AWS deployments.
• Assist with security administration, including creation and modification of roles, groups, and user access portals.
• Handle deployment and testing of new MicroStrategy configuration/reporting packages.
• Support client onboarding including data source configuration, security role setup, and reporting interface creation.
• Build dynamic dashboards, visualizations, and auditing metrics as needed.
• Work effectively with global teams and external clients for troubleshooting, demonstrations, and knowledge transfer.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of overall experience in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in MicroStrategy Administration, including MicroStrategy Cloud (MCE).
• 5+ years of strong proficiency in AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC integrations).
• 5+ years of experience with Linux/UNIX environments and shell scripting.
• Deep expertise in SQL performance tuning, troubleshooting, and diagnostic analysis.
• Strong knowledge of governing settings, Intelligence Server configurations, and reporting optimization.
• Hands‑on experience with MicroStrategy Developer, Architect, Command Manager, Object Manager, System Manager, and License Manager.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of MicroStrategy tools and clients.
• Strong SQL query writing and troubleshooting experience.
• Ability to support migrations across environments (Dev/QA/Prod) and administer security, LDAP groups, and user interfaces.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing MCE migrations and upgrades (11.x ? 11.5+).
• Exposure to AI-based automation tools such as aXet.maia or aXet.agentic for workflow orchestration.
• Strong understanding of cloud data governance, RBAC, and encryption standards.
• Knowledge of ServiceNow, JIRA, and Confluence for governance and project tracking.
• Experience with dynamic dashboards, visualizations, and metric auditing.