My Job role includes setting up the private cloud or migrating the customer infrastructure to public cloud offering like AWS or IBM cloud orcastration(ICO) as per the deal.• Setting up the openstack or ICO for private cloud.• Setting Region server.• Setting VMware or KVM environment .• Migration Existing work load.• Setting up the Heat templates, or RDS template.• Setting up the network on either AWS level or private or ICO network layer.• Being part of the UAT.• Working with various platform support teams for OS and middle-ware go live as part of the transition to study state.I support the same account in Steady State as well

The IT Delivery Download Hosting Environment (DHE) mission is to provide the application hosting environment for IBM web site applications related to software downloads, publications, and data exchange. DHE provides the appropriate Network, Server, and Middleware infrastructure that is needed by these applications.Security:Information Technology Corporate Standard (ITCS) Compliance ( ITCS is IBMs internal corporate IT Security Standard ).IES (Inter-Enterprise Services) Certification (Environment, pSeries, xSeries & zSeries).DSRT (IBM tool for documentation and authorization of network and firewall level change) Approvals and firewall Rule Change Review.Firewall Process Management.Architecture Adherence:Compliance with IC2 Architecture and IPG's.Standards & Guidelines & Infrastructure Rules.Reference Architecture: Author and Consult on and Implementation of Business Controls CIRATSRISKSAudits (data requests)ASCA / ITAR / SOX / SPIRisk Management: Secondary Controls Executive reporting Tracking (due dates, task plans) Strategy & Planning to minimize burden on SDCCore Tasks: Co-leading Internal Cloud implementation. Network Architecture consulting and guidance. Integration with service lines (process and compliance). Implementation of new technologies . Documentation of new components. Strategy and Planning. Prioritization / Escalations. Problem Determination Consults.Steady State:Provide technical leadership for on-going problems between service lines and organizations.On-going upgrades based on investments and security.Oversight of core infrastructure ( routers, switches, VPNs, NW, storage, SMTP, DNS).Oversight of Common Services Infrastructure (Proxy, Frontend & Application Server Load Balancing, Firewall Usage, Base Authentication (WI and ED LDAP) and Authentication using Secure Reverse Proxy , Shared File system (GSA). Documentation of changes for Implementation Architecture.Application capacity sizing / monitoring.

Manage and handle break fix situations.Analyzing the Esx logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem.Work in coordination with the Hardware and Storage team to diagnose the cause and assist in resolving the issue .Work with the Infrastructure Architects for Design and deployment of VMware virtual Infrastructure .Work with the Application Architects for Design and deployment of OS and Middleware components.Work with the Darwin implementation for automated Virtual machine builds along with middleware on it as per specification provided .Work With Capacity Planer for efficient capacity management of Virtual Infrastructure.Work with the Infrastructure Architects for creation of Reference architecture for Virtual Infrastructure and IBM Internal Cloud.Provide Level 1 support for IBM Internal Cloud.Interacting with next Level engineers in situation of a complicated issue for IBM Internal Cloud.Work with IBM Internal Teams to create OS image of various operation systems and flavors (Redhat Linux, SUSE Linux , windows 2003 , windows 2008 etc) for deployment within IBM . Provide technical leadership for on-going issues as an SME to various Steady state teams .Provide process oriented guidance to the Steady state teams .Provide Steady state support for Business transformation outsourcing .Have the servers compliant to IBM security standards irrespective of clients they support or the role they play.Make sure the servers are patched to the level and to work on closing the gaps found with the same .Have the servers Audit ready all the time .Respond to Audit request .Maintenance and manage of Linux, windows and VMware ESX servers .Provide L3 support for , virtual Center , Linux and VMware ESX servers.Work with product Vendors to obtain solution for ongoing critical issues .Create Technical documentation and tech shares within Multiple Teams. Give Training.

Analyzing the Esx logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem.Design configuration setup and maintenance of VMware virtual Infrastructure,ESX, SAN, VMotion, HA, DRS and Virtual Machines.Configuration, administration and troubleshooting for LINUX servers mainly Red Hat Enterprise Linux.core dump AnalysisDisk dump AnalysisRoot cause AnalysisTesting and validation of patches for Linux serversAnalyzing the sysreport for the servers to diagnose the root cause and provide the resolution.Diagnosis for Kernel panics.Performance tuning and optimization at kernel level.Installing HBA drivers and configuring multipath.Work in coordination with the Hardware and Storage team to diagnose the cause and assist in resolving the issue.Interacting with next; Level3 engineers in situation of a complicated issue to get further assistance and then communicate the client of the resolution.

Design configuration setup and maintenance of HPC clusters Design configuration setup and maintenance of Load-balancing clusters on LVS Design configuration setup and maintenance of MySQL clusters Design configuration setup and maintenance of Linux-HA clusters.Management of Mail Server, Web server and File servers. Design configuration setup and management of Apache based WebDav Server Array.Management of Hp Blade serverOS customization, localization and compilation of several third party softwares.Kernel Recompiling, Tuning and Optimization .Virtualization : XEN.Thin Client customization.

Design configuration setup and maintenance of HPC clusters Design configuration setup and maintenance of Linux-HA clusters.Management of Mail Server, Management of Web server and File servers. Assembling of Intel motherboard based servers, Tyan motherboard basedservers, and Super micro motherboard based servers. Amd based servers.Integration and management of IBM, Hp, Dell servers and Hp blade serversConfiguring servers with all Intel stack-1 and stack-2 raid cards and 3ware Sata raid cards.Management of raid serversConfiguration and troubleshooting of Intel San and Nas boxes .