IBM DataPower / IIB at Cognizant in Charlotte, North Carolina

Job Description:

Lead Administrator

Qualification:

Bachelor's in engineering or equivalent

Responsibility:

Project Planning & Setup:

• Plan for hardware and the software requirements and submit it to supervisor for review.

• Assist customer in identifying hardware/software requirements.

• Set up system for evaluation during requirements stage(depending on the type of project: implementation/ support/ transformation).

• Conduct discussions with different stakeholders to finalize test objectives.

• Verify system build, test environment and iteration test plan.

Requirements Understanding and Analysis:

• Analyze and validate the system and infrastructure requirements.

• Determine the infrastructure required for application deployment.

• Conduct sizing based on the inputs during requirement gathering (hardware configuration).

• Identify any prerequisites and dependencies for application.

• Prepare a master list for installation.

• Map all functional requirements to technical requirement.

• Prepare high level infrastructure requirement.

• For support projects, understand the customer landscape.

• Evaluate if Cognizant has sufficient capabilities to support the project.

• Evaluate customer demographics and prepare analysis reports.

Design & Implementation:

• Define technical solution by understanding various functional and non functional requirements.

• Create system architecture (scalability, availability).

• Explore and evaluate multiple design options.

• Share design and obtain buy in from various stakeholders.

• Develop the design for disaster recovery plan.

• Validate the application design.

• Design, develop and finalize the security strategy.

• Perform a data management strategy (such as when customer wants to go for archiving).

• Develop deployment plan (production, quality).

• Initiate the build for development after the design is finalized.

• Define any deployment required as prebuild system.

• Plan for system maintenance strategy like monitoring, configure clean up activities.

• Define standard operating guidelines.

• Define the roles from a security perspective.

• Adopt best practices.

• Build system for QA.

• Build application environment for testing.

• Create roles as per specification and ensure alignment to SOX requirements.

Testing Management:

• Review test results and provide technical inputs from a system administration perspective.

• Transition roles from development to QA environment.

• Make any role corrections if required.

• Follow up with development team for rework on code defects and close the same.

Project Closure Activities:

• Conduct activities related to system administration during configuration which are requested by clients.

• Create build for production system.

• Liaise with technical lead (development) and deploy system architecture in production system.

• Develop SOPs.

• Post final acceptance, create all documentation.

• Participate in handover to AVM team.

• Provide support for agreed number of overlap days.

• Provide any support required on defects identified.

• Develop SOPs for security procedures.

• Maintain all audit related requirements.

Ongoing System Administration:

• Define KPIs/SLAs.

• Define alert systems and guide team to implement them.

• Create back up and recovery plans.

• Monitor adherence of system maintenance activities and resolve escalations.

• Conduct RCA of issues.

• Develop report on service level availability of the system and capacity utilization.

• Monitor security audit log and take necessary actions.

• Manage identity management experience.

• Conduct security risk assessment.

• Ensure business continuity is maintained.

• Seek feedback on security experience and take actions to ensure compliance is maintained.

• Optimize system performance.

• Proactively analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks.

• Identify end use/applications performance problems and determine optimal performance settings.

• Support relevant teams in resolution of application performance problems.

Sales Support:

• Provide support in presales activities by providing inputs during proposal development from a system perspective.

• Provide inputs for estimation of sizing, infrastructure cost etc.

• Collaborate with Business Analysts to create RFP responses.

• Participate in seminars /conferences.

People Management:

• Provide assistance in selection of representative employee groups for training.

• Conduct training with the help of academy.

• Mentor team members in project teams with respect to technical skills on projects.

• Conduct technical, face to face interviews with candidates and support recruitment process.

• Coordinate with the supervisor in understanding how administrators can better contribute to the project, seek feedback and address concerns.

• Provide inputs during performance appraisal of administrators.

 

Must Have Skills

• DataPower Low Latency Applianc

• DataPower Security Gateway

• DataPower Caching Appliance

• DataPower B2B Appliance

Technical Skills

SNo	Primary Skill	Proficiency Level *	Rqrd./Dsrd.
1	DataPower Low Latency Applianc	PL4	Required
2	DataPower Security Gateway	PL4	Required
3	DataPower Caching Appliance	PL4	Required
4	DataPower B2B Appliance	PL4	Required

 

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level	Generic Reference
PL1	The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2	The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3	The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4	The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.

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