Staff Tableau Administrator
We are seeking a highly skilled and certified Staff Tableau Administrator to manage and optimize our Tableau environments. You will be responsible for the health, performance, scalability, and security of Tableau Server - Cloud and On-Premises (Linux-based). This is a hands-on technical role focused on scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting outages, optimizing queries, and enforcing Tableau best practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer and maintain Tableau Server instances (Cloud + On-Prem Linux OS)
- Proactive performance tuning of Tableau Servers and workbooks
- Build and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Implement multi-site security and user access controls
- Monitor/troubleshoot resource usage, server outages, system failures
- Optimize dashboard designs, extracts, and queries with development teams
- Manage upgrades, patches, backups, recovery, and environment migrations
- Analyze server logs/performance metrics to predict/prevent issues
- Coordinate with IT/Cloud teams for infrastructure optimization
- Serve as Tableau SME in architecture/strategy discussions
- Maintain documentation of configurations, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides
Mandatory Skills:
- 6+ years Tableau Server Administration (Linux deployments)
- Hands-on Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) + On-Premises experience
- Proven performance tuning, HA/DR, outage troubleshooting
- Expert in PostgreSQL repo, Tabadmin/TSM, Tableau Services Manager
- Workbook optimization (extracts, queries, load times)
- Scripting (Bash/Python/PowerShell) for automation
- Security models, governance, permissions management
- Strong problem-solving with preventive mindset
Preferred Skills:
- Server monitoring (New Relic/Datadog) integration
- Tableau Certification (Server Associate/Specialist preferred)
- Networking/security/cloud architectures
- Basic SQL for backend troubleshooting
- Snowflake/Salesforce data source experience
