Architect – Computer Systems Engineer ITD-CVISN Systems Architect – MS – MDOT

1.1 Consultant will serve as MDOTs ITD/CVISN Systems Architect to integrate and unify commercial vehicle

registration permitting and enforcement functions for the maintenance of ITD/CVISN Level 1 compliance for

the State. Consultant shall provide architectural guidance and recommendation and also attend monthly ITD

ACCB architecture meetings.

1.2 Consultant will be responsible for archival data retrieval from the MDOT Automated Permit System (APS) a

Visual FoxPro based commercial vehicle violation and permit issuance system in order to query export and

distribute archival data and also calculate statistics financial recaps and other information as required by

MDOT Permits MDOT Financial Management Division and MDOT Legal Division and other entities.

1.3 Consultant will be responsible for the operational management of approximately 500 intranet and internet

exposed Windows and Linux-based virtual and physical servers located statewide. Responsibilities will include

deployment AD management provisioning and troubleshooting of OS stack issues such as OS SQL Oracle

web server application and application performance network name resolution storage and other issues as

they arise.

1.4 Consultant will be responsible for the operational management troubleshooting and onsite and remote

repair/upgrade of Dell/EMC Unity 480F VPLEX VS2 and Isilon Gen 4 5 and Gen 6 storage systems.

1.5 Consultant will be responsible for the operational management troubleshooting and onsite and remote

repair/upgrade of Cisco UCS and HP servers blade systems Virtual Connect infrastructure and FC switches.

1.6 Consultant will be responsible for the operational management troubleshooting and onsite and remote

repair/upgrade of VPLEX Metro.

1.7 Consultant will be responsible for the operational management troubleshooting and onsite and remote

repair/upgrade of VMware vSphere installations located in the Jackson MS area.

1.8 Consultant will be responsible for the operational management troubleshooting and onsite and remote

repair/upgrade of Veeam v11 and v12 Backup and Recovery systems.

1.9 Consultant will be responsible for the operational management including failover troubleshooting and

onsite and remote repair/upgrade of Sun T5-2 and Sun S7-2 servers Solaris 11 and Oracle 12c in a RAC

environment running MDOTs core Financial Management System (FMS) as well as other Oracle-based

systems.

1.10 Consultant will be responsible for the operational management troubleshooting and onsite and remote

repair/upgrade of HP MSL6480 LTO-7 tape libraries.

1.11 Consultant will be responsible for onsite and remote network diagnostics and troubleshooting.

1.12 Consultant will be responsible for onsite and remote datacenter failover processes and procedures (1 hour

response required 24x7 in the event of both planned events and emergencies that require the complete or

partial evacuation of a site).

1.13 Consultant will be responsible for the onsite and remote maintenance troubleshooting and repair of APC

Symmetra PX and SUVT UPS power systems.

1.14 Consultant will be responsible for troubleshooting of streaming video issues using in house developed

monitoring tools and capacity scaling during peak demand.

1.15 Consultant will be responsible for the data management and on site/remote device troubleshooting and

repair of approximately 6 de-duplicated and non-de-duplicated DAS and iSCSI-connected storage repositories

for production systems backups located in the Jackson MS area.

MDOTs IT infrastructure includes two datacenter locations housing HP BL460c Gen 8 blade servers running VMware ESXi

and vCenter which are contained in Cisco UCS blades and HP blades with HP Virtual Connect storage connectivity

virtualization through Dell/EMC MDS 9148T FC switches to Dell/EMC Unity 480F Flash SAN storage and HP Virtual Connect

10GbE connectivity to Cisco core addition to commercial storage products MDOT also uses a similar approach

to Fortune 500 technology companies building some hardware in-house. MDOT designs and builds custom high

performance storage and compute devices to meet specific requirements. These systems include high performance

workstations Fibre Channel block storage targets and deduplication appliances using Windows/Linux and open source

storage software.

In addition MDOT maintains an Oracle 12c RAC environment running on Sun T5-2 servers in separate datacenters. This

environment hosts MDOTs critical Financial Management System (FMS) that is a core system.

The SAN storage data is distributed as a synchronously bi-directionally replicated stretched cluster via Dell/EMC VPLEX

Metro over redundant 100Gbps fiber between datacenters.