Overview
Tableau Administrator with Linux / Windows and AWS Experience
Location : St Louis, MO
Duration : Long Term
We are seeking an experienced Tableau Administrator with a strong background in Linux and Windows system administration , as well as hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) . The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing Tableau environments, ensuring high availability, performance tuning, user and content administration, and collaborating with cross-functional teams for deployments and upgrades. In addition, the role requires managing the underlying infrastructure on both cloud and on-prem environments.
Responsibilities
- Tableau Administration – Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain Tableau Server and Tableau Desktop across environments.
- Manage Tableau Server users, groups, permissions, and site roles.
- Monitor server health, performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting.
- Automate tasks using Tableau command line tools and REST APIs.
- Coordinate Tableau patching, backups, and restore operations.
- Collaborate with BI teams to deploy dashboards and data sources.
- Support content migration between development, test, and production environments.
- Linux / Windows System Administration – Manage and maintain servers running on both Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Ubuntu) and Windows Server operating systems.
- Handle OS-level troubleshooting, scripting, and automation (e.g., using Bash, PowerShell).
- Perform system upgrades, patch management, and performance tuning.
- Maintain security best practices and compliance standards across OS environments.
- AWS Administration – Provision and manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, etc.) used for Tableau hosting and data integration.
- Automate infrastructure deployments using tools like AWS CLI, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
- Optimize cost and performance of cloud-hosted environments.
- Ensure proper IAM role and policy management, as well as secure connectivity between Tableau and AWS data sources.
Required Qualifications
7 years of experience in Tableau Server administration.Strong experience with both Linux and Windows system administration.3+ years of hands-on experience in managing AWS infrastructureProficiency in scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python is a plus).Experience with Tableau upgrades, distributed installations, and clustering.Understanding of Tableau metadata and PostgreSQL repository.Knowledge of Active Directory / LDAP integration with Tableau Server.Experience with monitoring tools and log analysis (Tableau Server logs, AWS CloudWatch, etc.).Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.J-18808-Ljbffr