23 Jul
SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER ANALYST III
Vacancy expired!
- Analyzes system operational requirements, (a) builds utilities, tools, and routines to meet those requirements, (b) resolves single - event issues and (c) ensures inter-product compatibility. Manages, coordinates and implements concurrent projects that typically are medium to high risk, include multiple departments and new technologies and have a significant financial or operational impact on key business processes.
- Consults with clients, other departments, department staff, vendors, and technical support personnel to (a) determine customer application platform hosting needs and functions, (b) propose application platform configurations to meet customer needs, and (c) determine operating procedures and systems design to ensure system performance meets user requirements.
- Conducts feasibility studies, including cost benefit analyses, to determine appropriate and cost-effective application hosting solutions and to assist in evaluating long-range office automation, information processing, and communications technology needs. Recommends automation hardware, peripherals, and software necessary to implement system design.
- Prepares systems specifications and bid proposals and assist in analysis of bids.
- Interacts with vendors, staff and clients to clarify and resolve application technical operational and management issues/needs.
- Installs, tests, and updates system software and departmentally developed or third-party application software products for delivery over proprietary, local, and wide area computer networks.
- Provides technical support and expertise to evaluate and recommend resolution of difficult technical system problems.
- Evaluates and configures systems for system performance and serviceability, reliability, availability, and performs operational requirement studies within a system environment context, and recommends enhancements or changes to the system configuration to maintain optimum system performance and utility.
- Writes user guides, system standards, and technical system documentation.
- May produce, text, and execute utility programs using advanced system language.
- Plan, develops, and implements backup and recovery procedures for large complex systems which may involve multiple platforms.
- Monitors and analyzes application platform processor and storage capacity utilization. Prepares plans and recommendations for capacity modifications to meet changing utilization trends.
- Keeps abreast in current application platform developments, system technology, and trends.
- The capabilities, limitations and principles of systems and peripherals; the principles, methods and procedures used in system capacity and performance evaluation; mathematical and statistical methods applicable to the analysis and evaluation of system performance.
- Techniques and methods of systems analysis and design; computer system configuration and configuration management concepts; the basic principles and techniques of computer programming and code development; the basic principles and techniques of data networks and their relationship to Monterey County network operational components; the principles and techniques of system administration; security methods for managing confidential data; problem diagnosis and troubleshooting techniques to evaluate system failures and prescribe corrective action; application backup and recovery concepts and methods.
Vacancy expired!