The Business Solutions Branch (BSB) of the Chief Information Office, a sector within the federal department of Industry Canada (IC) requires the resource based professional services of one (1) Senior Technology Architect to work under the SITT & CIPO Development and Support Directorate.Project tasks are centered on the application support and operations related to the CIPO application infrastructure following specifications and requirements according to IC’s standards and guidelines and legislative requirements.SCOPE OF WORK / KEY ACTIVITIESThe scope of work for the Senior Technology Architect includes, but is not limited to the following:Duties/Tasks• Architect a technology plan to organize and manage the configuration, integration and installation of CIPO’s virtualized servers;• Document and diagram the virtual network architecture, storage architecture and configuration of the virtualized environment;•Provide expertise and co-ordination for the integration, configuration and installation of CIPO’s redundant, high availability, virtualized environments;•Provide expertise and co-ordination for the virtualized, dual Virtual I/O servers and related IBM Power VM environment on pSeries servers;•Provide expertise and co-ordination for the virtualized midrange client application servers, with multiple environments for application rollout and maintenance;•Provide expertise and co-ordination for the virtualized storage system;•Provide expertise and co-ordination for the dual Hardware Management Consoles (HMC);•Architect a technology plan to organize, configure and co-ordinate the migration of the virtualized storage system;•Architect a technology plan to optimize and co-ordinate the implementation of the Ethernet and fibre network solutions, storage solutions, tape backup solutions, changes to virtual I/O servers;•Document configurations and procedures and store in a shared library;•Architect a technology plan to implement, maintain performance and availability monitoring and automatic notification for the virtualized servers;•Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize business applications utilization and performance;•Forecast utilization and performance demands and recommend system improvements to meet CIPO’s business requirements;•Provide expertise and co-ordination for the installation, setup, cable, configuration of the hardware required in racks as required;•Prepare, create and review technical documents, including operational plans, release schedules, productivity improvements, application/system log files, guides and documentation used by col-leagues, management, application development/maintenance teams and clients;•Participate in the analysis, development, integration, testing, tuning and implementation of applications, projects, and initiatives to determine their impact on CIPO’s business lines applications;•Provide 3rd level configuration and application support to the virtualized environment, involving multiple development, quality assurance and production support environments, each with its own data-bases and connectivity to legacy systems and external interfaces;•Monitor and resolve problems identified in daily health check and log files on an on-going basis;•Script and document procedures;•Analyze business requirements and recommend technical opportunities;•Participate in application/network performance base lining;•Plan, develop, test, and co-ordinate implementation of upgrades appropriate to PowerVM, HMC, mid-range and related hardware;•Co-ordinate procurement, installation and maintenance of hardware, software and network connectivity;•Adhere to CIO’s service management procedures;•Work in collaboration with CIO’s Application Architect and Development Teams;•Participate in Threat Risk Assessments and Vulnerability Assessment for projects;•Participate in Project Readiness Reviews;•Participate in Network design meetings between multiple government departments; and•Assist with and participate in the delivery of high availability applications services.Deliverables•Virtualization expertise related to architecture, configuration and implementation of projects and initiatives requirements and system upgrades;•Detailed configuration documentation of the virtualized architecture, network and storage environments;•System performance reports for the Virtual I/O Servers and for individual LPARs’ on virtualized ma-chines in response to application implementation, as well as, historical system performance reports as application and systems evolve;•Technical advice and assistance in procurement of software, upgrades or hardware;•Weekly Activities Summary report;•Weekly Project/Task report;•Participation in Vulnerability Assessments and respond to any identified risks;•Participation in Data Centre maintenance shutdowns; and•Architecture Evolution plans to align with CIPO’s IT Modernization Strategy and consolidation of data centres.WORK LOCATIONThe contractor will carry out the work on Industry Canada premises located at 235 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
