Appian Administrator/Developer

Work Location: Zurich, Hybrid 3-4 days per week in office

Contract duration: 12 months contract + extendable

Great opportunity for a Appian Administrator to join a fast-growing company based in the Zurich.

The Appian BPM Application Administrator serves as the primary technical authority for Appian application operations and is responsible for managing all Appian related application deployments, administration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and technical support activities.

This position will include a high degree of interaction with business and operations units to understand the functional needs of the users of the system as well as the various technology teams, which are responsible for integration points with the solutions.

Technical Skills: Required Experience

• Hands on 3+ experience on Appian Upgrades and hotfix installations.
• Establishes and maintains user accounts, assigns file permissions and establishes password and account policies.
• Installs, upgrades, configures, tests, maintains and supports operating system software in a production environment.
• Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
• Review's performance logs and monitors system performance. Troubleshoots and resolves system hardware, software and communications problems; creates Shell programs and utility scripts; performs configurations and adjustments to enhance database file capacity; performs automated and manual backup and restore processes.
• Installs, configures, and tests software packages. Participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
• Ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values.
• Performs and/or oversees daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Performs and/or oversees daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
• Provides team leadership and technical guidance to less experienced systems administrators.
• Configure Data Source, system properties and Deploy Application for new region setup.
• Coordinate with the application and database team to identify deployment failure reason and act according to the finding.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders on Appian related issues. Work with Appian support to manage Appian tickets.
• Manage/Plan Appian environment upgrades/license renewals.
• Manage/co-ordinate the Appian Release(application) Deployments
• Knowledge in Clustering EJB objects, Scalability and Reliability, JDBC connections and JMS connections.
• Good knowledge with change and incident management process