General Description:

• Cogniance is a professional software development consultancy that works with startups and sustainable high tech companies on the development of Web 2.0 and Mobile products.
• Cogniance is building a world-class company on a strong foundation of world-class people. Cogniance is a brand new company with a big vision where each successful employee has the possibility to influence the shape of the company and new products.
• Currently we are looking for a Senior Systems Analyst to join our team.

Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in *nix, networks and DB administration
• 24x7 on-call support ready, exp with multi level support
• CI, infrastructure automation and monitoring tools
• Work experience with fast growing systems
• Ability to review and provide improvements for server infrastructure and deployment process
• Basic Perl programming skills
• Upper-intermediate level of written and spoken English

Responsibilities:

Role assumes an involvement into project-related activities on all stages:

• Startup and Planning: coordinating infrastructure planning and setup tasks related to NOC, feasibility research for the integrations and deployments of new services etc.
• Execution: technical mentoring of more junior NOC team members, collaboration with the engineering teams, ensuring compliance with the defined NOC SLA models in project's SoW, customer communications etc.
• Deployment: execution of the planned deployment plans and architectures, ensuring safe operations etc.
• Support and Maintenance: periodic backups, log analysis, patch deployments, customer request processing etc.
• Pre-sales: working with Solution Architecture and Project Management teams on the technical proposals and system architectures, especially on the deployment models and SLA definitions for NOC support activities

Personal attributes:

• Cogniance encourages flexible working practices and values results. Members of the Cogniance team are expected to be resourceful and self motivated. Flexibility and ability to work well without direction as part of a multi-skilled team are essential. 

Educational requirements:

• MS/BS degree in Computing Sciences or equivalent is preferred. Credit will be given for candidates who do not have relevant degrees but can demonstrate equivalent work experience. 

Liabilities:

• In the course of the fulfillment of his obligations, the Senior System Analyst must comply with corporate ethics and policies (e.g. accountability for all property entrusted by Cogniance).The Senior System Analyst shall also bear non property responsibility for his obligations to be performed in due time and quality. 

Rights:

• In addition to the rights assigned to a person in accordance with legislation in force, the Senior System Analyst will have access to Cogniance confidential information according to company security policy and respective documents 

Location and Communication:

• The position is located in Cogniance development office in Kyiv, Ukraine. Successful candidates will be engaged in core development activities closely cooperating in a team with software architects, designers and engineers. The Senior System Analyst will report to Engineering Manager. 

Compensations and Benefits:

• Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank rate, performance based salary review 2 times a year, annual bonus based on company revenue sharing program, extensive career plan, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance and the chance for international travel. 

If you are interested in this position, please send us detailed CV   matching the title of the opening in the subject line. Only successful candidates will be contacted for the interview.