Solution Architect
Afiniti
Total years of experience :18 years, 1 Months
• Assess, Design, and Deliver an Integration Architecture that supports High Availability and Scalability
• Setup and deploy technologies bases on apache lucene for big data, search and analytics.
• Manage Citrix Xendesktop VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) 500 pooled desktops.
• Provide input to project planning, resourcing, and budgeting activities.
• Design and Develop Web Services needed to support interface designs.
• Implementation and management of Network Infrastructure internally in the organization and external clients;
• Define strategy to manage 100’s of VMware Hypervisors, running 3000 VM’s.
• Setup and manage Nagios, cacti and inventory management system.
• Setup and deploy technologies bases on apache lucene for big data, search and analytics.
• Manage projects through JIRA, agile methodology.
• Where applicable, investigate and qualify potential areas in which to introduce Web services.
• Conduct research on client/server hardware, software, and protocols in support of
procurement and development efforts.
• Communicate application problems and issues to key stakeholders, including
management, and end users.
• Collaborate with technology team members, end users, and other
stakeholders to integrate systems and other data together.
• Recommend procurement of new software and hardware where appropriate;
• Prepare status reports to present to stakeholders;
• Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and
implement strategies for improving of further leveraging these systems.
• Organize training for end-users and business consultants;
• Determine required network components to ensure data access, as well as
data consistency and integrity.
• Optimize environments and benchmarking;
• Implement policies, procedures, and technologies (including firewalls) to
ensure Linux/Open Source system security through secure system access, monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.
• Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term
strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers.
• External technology acquisition recommendation, Internal R&D, Firm performance.
• Measure team performance, and manage towards continually higher performance.
• Ensure accurate estimation of projects and on-time delivery.
• Serve as access point to development by other departments.
• Lead team scrums, point estimation and time tracking.
• Lead a group of software developers, primarily PHP developers focused on both API and front-end development
• Manage and deploy call center suits for inbound and outbound campaigns.
• Where applicable, investigate and qualify potential areas in which to introduce Web services.
• Install and configure Linux/Unix systems and software.
• Communicate application problems and issues to key stakeholders, including
management, and end users.
• Collaborate with technology team members, end users, and other
stakeholders to integrate systems and other data together.
• Prepare status reports to present to stakeholders;
• Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and
implement strategies for improving of further leveraging these systems.
• Organize training for end-users and business consultants;
• Develop training materials including content, slides and tools required for successfully delivering training;
• Optimize environments and bench-marking;
• Implement policies, procedures, and technologies (including firewalls) to
ensure Linux/Open Source system security through secure system access,
monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.
• Coordinate with Cloud Hosting and VOIP providers for day-to-day problems;
• Perform and test system backups and restores to ensure system recovery
from error or outage;
• Implementation and management of Infrastructure internally in the organization
• Design complete solution based on oracle technologies.
• Deploy and manage Oracle IDM solution.
• Configure and manage wide range of oracle middleware applications.
• Manage IP Networks and Operating Systems.
• Deploy and manage oracle /sun hardware including M4000 and blade 6000 series servers.
• Make project plans and status reports.
• Setup and manage Oracle virtualization and cloud environments.
• Configure and manage Solaris / Unix / Linux systems.
• Responsible for detailed design and implementation of technical solutions across multiple programs and projects.
• Managing a team of Electrical & Electronics Engineers for Project activities.
• Direct interaction with Circle management for project related decision-making.
• Coordinating with the Vendor teams in Installing equipment works as per customer requirement.
• Leading the infrastructure’s technical direction and long-term goals, keeping systems up-to-date with new technologies.
• Evaluating software tools, products and architecture from a range of third party suppliers to advise on the best suitability.
• Supply internal advice, consultancy and guidance to information technology capabilities.
• Liaise with business users to understand the business requirements and define software, hardware and network requirements accordingly;
• Align IT requirements with corporate goals and provide an independent and objective advice on the proposed IT solutions;
• Present feasibility report to develop agreed solutions and implement new systems;
• Develop a comprehensive implementation plan for deploying solutions;
• Assist clients with change-management activities for new system requirements and any agreed changes requested by a client;
• Recommend procurement of new software and hardware where appropriate;
• Design, test, install and monitor newly deployed systems;
• Prepare status reports to present to stakeholders;
• Organize training for end-users and business consultants;
• Develop training materials including content, slides and tools required for successfully delivering training;
• Implement virtualized distributed environments for clients;
• Deploy high-availability and clustering solutions for clients;
• Implement Backup solution based on cloud hosting (Amazon and Go-grid);
• Optimize environments and benchmarking;
• Coordinate with Cloud Hosting providers for day-to-day problems;
• Manage heterogeneous environments including SAN and XEN;
• Responsible for complete infrastructure, HA, SAN, Backup;
• Implementation and management of Network Infrastructure internally in the organization and external clients;
• Manage Linux/Unix and Oracle 11g VM’s;
• NFS and Soft iSCSI deployment and management;
• Implement para-virtualization on existing VMs;
• Deploy and manage Jboss for Loan Accounting System (Evolv);
• Deploy and integrate quality management solution (Teamcity) with project management (Jira) and version control solution (SVN).
• Design Networks and OS optimization.
• LDAP management and Integration.
• Manage IP Networks and Operating Systems.
• NCR ATM’s and ATM’s network deployment with triple DES Encryption.
• Transaction Switch deployment on Linux.
• Responsible for detailed design and implementation of technical solutions across multiple programs and projects.
• Managing a team of Electrical & Electronics Engineers for Project activities.
• Direct interaction with Circle management for project related decision-making.
• Coordinating with the Vendor teams in Installing BTS Sites and indoor electrical equipment & outdoor installation works as per customer requirement.
• Responsible for Installation, maintenance & integration of BSC & BTS Sites.
• Leading the infrastructure’s technical direction and long-term goals, keeping systems up-to-date with new technologies.
• Evaluating software tools, products and architecture from a range of third party suppliers to advise on the best suitability.
• Supply internal advice, consultancy and guidance to information technology capabilities.
• Work with the Information Security Manager to define infrastructure security standards.
• Implementation and management of Network Infrastructure internally in the organization and external clients
• Implementation and management of VOIP and CRM infrastructure
• Deploy and Manage VMware infrastructure for clients.
• Network and System analysis, project planning, costing and implementation.
• Mange team of electrical engineers for datacenters power management and solar panel installations.
• Microsoft Hypervisor
• Network and System penetration testing / IT security policy
• VOIP and CRM deployment and integration.
• Linux/Unix deployment and integration with existing environment.