Systems Architect

Description of the job functions the contractor will be expected to perform.

This consultant will resolve problems which require an intimate knowledge of hardware OS and application stack including VMware Cisco and HP servers and blade systems Sun SPARC T5-2 and S7-2 systems Oracle RAC Dell/EMC products and mainframe network technologies as well as a wide range of OS DB and application expertise such as but not limited to Oracle Linux and other distros Sun Solaris 11 Windows Server (all versions) VMware vSphere (consisting of ESXi 5.5 though ESXi 8 vCenter 6.5 through 8 installations) Oracle 10g through 19c database environments Microsoft SQL Server technologies.

1. 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. 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. 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. Consultant will be responsible for the operational management troubleshooting and onsite and remote repair/upgrade of VPLEX Metro.

1. 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. 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. 1. 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. 1. Consultant will be responsible for the operational management troubleshooting and onsite and remote repair/upgrade of HP MSL6480 LTO-7 tape libraries.

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

1. 1. 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. 1. Consultant will be responsible for the onsite and remote maintenance troubleshooting and repair of APC Symmetra PX and SUVT UPS power systems.

1. 1. Consultant will be responsible for troubleshooting of streaming video issues using in house developed monitoring tools and capacity scaling during peak demand.

1. 1. 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.

These Jackson-area sites currently host approximately 500 Windows and Linux VMs. IT Consultant will be responsible for the installation maintenance upgrade and troubleshooting of any and all aspects of this infrastructure and VM farm including OS and application issues within the VMs themselves.

Additionally MDOT IT infrastructure includes two Gen 4 Gen 5 and Gen 6 Dell/EMC Isilon clusters containing production data as well as Veeam backup of VMs with the data being partially replicated via SyncIQ and failover managed via Superna Eyeglass.

IT Consultant will additionally be responsible for management and troubleshooting of backup issues replication issues and capacity management as well as Isilon-related issues including OneFS upgrades.

MDOT also operates Traffic Management Centers (TMC) with approximately 1100 remote camera sites that transmit video image data through the TMCs to physical and virtual servers located across the State. Virtualization includes Cisco UCS HP DL380 and DL385 G7 G10 servers Dell/EMC SAN Dell/EMC Unity 480F VMware vSphere. IT Consultant will be responsible for the installation maintenance upgrade and troubleshooting of any and all aspects of all hardware infrastructure and associated VM farms including OS and application issues within the VMs themselves

IT infrastructure support will occasionally include emergency response requiring IT Consultant to be available and present to respond to critical time sensitive issues that involve IT infrastructure power and cooling problems as well as scheduled management tasks and maintenance. These tasks will require IT Consultant to occasionally be available and onsite both after hours and on weekends within an hours notice in addition to being onsite during normal business hours.

Emergency responses can include but are not limited to datacenter failover powering down of compute and storage systems monitoring of critical systems and recovery.

Consultant will additionally serve as an ITD/CVISN (Innovative Technology Deployment/Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks) Systems Architect serving MDOT who is a stakeholder in this federally sponsored program to nationally integrate and unify commercial vehicle registration permitting and enforcement functions. Mississippis ITD/CVISN Architect must have a strong background in systems analysis and design as well as networking engineering and database analysis and design and application design as required for the maintenance of CVISN Level 1 compliance for Mississippi. Consultant must have experience with ITD/CVIEW (Commercial Vehicle Information Exchange Window) databases and software including multi-Agency deployments of FMCSA systems including SafetyNet SAFER Data Mailboxes Aspen and other Federal systems.

Consultant will be responsible for the maintenance query development and execution data export report generation and calculation of financial and statistical metrics from in-house developed systems used by the MDOT Permit Division and Financial Management Division including the Automated Permit System (APS). These systems were developed in Visual FoxPro 6 and 7.

Consultant will be responsible for the maintenance and update of SSL/TLS certificates installed in approximately 140 servers within the MDOT infrastructure.

Required Skills/Experience (MANDATORY)

Provide the minimum required skills and/or experience the contractor must possess to qualify for this position. These requirements will be transferred to the Score Sheet and candidates without these requirements reflected on their resume will NOT be presented to the manager for consideration.

Individual proposed must have verifiable working experience in the following;

1. 8 years experience Department of Transportation oversize and overweight permitting rules regulations procedures and with current oversize and overweight vehicle permitting and routing technologies.
2. 8 years experience Commercial vehicle rules regulations registration permitting and enforcement processes.
3. 8 years experience with architecture and implementation of CVIEW data exchange and ITD/CVISN Level 1 Compliance

Preferred/Not Required

Provide any skills/experience that would be helpful for the candidate to possess but not required. Examples: Previous supervisory experience WebLogic experience helpful etc.

Implementation and management of IT projects within the government sector including specific experience working with state government