Role Title: Citrix Server Engineers needed Estimated Start date: ASAP Duration: 6+ months (possibly extended up to 1 year or more) Location: Columbus, OH or NYC, NY (location still to be decided by the client)
Required skills: Requisite operational background in Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and PS5, Windows 200 Metaframe XPe FR3, Windows 2003 Presentation server 4.0, Windows 2003(x86 and x64) XenApp4.5 (5.0), Windows 2008 Role description: Discover, record and analyze infrastructure support servers at exit sites (approx 20) E.g. Domain controllers, WINS, FTP and utility servers Discover, record and analyze Citrix-hosted applications on stand-alone or farm nodes servers (approx 240) Operating system versions, services (FTP, print, etc) Discover, record and analyze back-end database connectivity, in/out bound feeds linked to hosted applications (approx 70) Discover, record and analyze network security, firewalls and DMZ environments as/if required Discover, record and analyze local or SAN/NAS storage related to Citrix app servers and their LOB-managed database engines (approx 30) Discover, record and analyze user and line-of-business subscribers Leverage resource manager tools to identify usage patterns Develop impact assessments based upon hosted application and servers (N users, X lines-of-business, Y global locations) Convert Citrix server instances from physical to virtual (P2V) as per scope Leverage client' s provided virtualized hosting facility (VM farms) Provide technical Q&A data to workflow coordinators Documented information gathered from server analysis becomes input to workflow systems that drive datacenter operations activities Work with LOB technical liaisons to test parallel (swing), fork-lifted or virtualized environments Manage iterative QA, UAT cycles and go/no-go assessments Manage off-hours/night/weekend cut-overs and provide Day 1 support as required by application suite Partner with workflow coordinators to support equipment migration (forklift) and re-initializing services Execute logical decommissioning of existing servers/services once migrated to end-state in receiver site(s) Removal of all user data Removal of monitoring tools Removal of Citrix application layer Create operating run-books (OPBs) based upon new Citrix application server and site configurations (physical and/or virtual) Develop proceduralized “take-down” books by consolidating existing (client)/GTI/CTS Citrix decommissioning processes; maintain log books for each server and/or application set Publish and provide all documentation to the client (hardcopy and or electronic) Partner with client' s Citrix production support, engineering teams and infrastructure deployment teams to ensure Day 1 turnover meets production readiness standards and servers are 100% supported. SRINI [email protected] 303-351-9131 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ORACLE DWH DBA" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oracle-dwh-dba?hl=en.
