Hello Partners,
*Disaster Recovery Solution Architect *
Location – Candidates can sit in Atlanta, GA, Minneapolis, MN
6-12 Months Contract
Disaster Recovery Program to mitigate the risk of a disastrous situation
with our Data Centers that would cause them to be nonfunctional for an
extended period of time.
Between loss of booked revenue (through refunds and OA rebookings), loss of
new revenue, damage to the Delta brand, fines, and various intangibles, a
disaster would likely cost Delta more than $293 million per “average” da
significantly more if the disaster occurs during a peak travel time. The
business consensus is any outage of more than 2 hours translates into 1 day
of financial impact.
Initial projects covered mainframe systems, including Deltamatic, OSS, and
Delta MVS. Additionally, the “Wave 1” DR project for non-mainframe systems
covered 13 “Compliance-Critical” systems – those systems required to
legally operate the airline. These represent a start, but those systems
only cover a small fraction of all of the Delta systems required to resume
operations, and collect additional revenue, after a disaster. Additionally
Wave 1.5 is currently underway that will cover Core IT systems.
The strategic approach for addressing this need breaks the overall Disaster
Recovery Program into 5 overall Waves. Wave 1 (Compliance Critical) and
Wave 1.5 (Initial Core Applications) are currently underway. Additional
future waves are outlined below. Funding for this Program will be gated to
accommodate completion of all of these Waves. The number of overall
Business systems are from a point in time, and will change.
· Implement a virtual DR environment architected to be easily expandable to
accommodate future DR Waves that are capable of handling a peak production
load. This environment must be architected in a fashion to enable DR end to
end Dress Rehearsal testing multiple times a year.
· Implement all remaining Core applications.
· Implement high priority Wave 2 applications that standardly fit into the
virtualized DR environment
· Analyze needs for infrastructure upgrades to support effective operations
during a Disaster event and implement as budget allows, initiate additional
projects, or schedule for future DR Waves.
· Investigate additional virtualization technologies/options to enhance the
DR virtualization environment to accommodate future DR Waves
· Determine the strategy for DR coverage of applications that will not
technically work in the visualized DR environment.
· Implement remaining redundant external data feeds.
· Analyze needs for any Sterling Forest DR infrastructure enhancements
required to support DR Dress Rehearsal end to end testing in coordination
with the virtualized DR environments in ATL and MSP, and implement as
budget allows, initiate additional projects, or schedule for future DR
Waves.
· Expand Data replication, at a minimum, to maintain the resiliency of
critical real-time data for Wave 2 applications. Additional data may be
included if synergies are found with future DR wave systems’ data.
· Analyze needs for DR avoidance to avoid the need to duplicate older
technologies in the DR Virtual environment and implement as budget allows,
initiate additional projects, or schedule for future DR Waves.
· Define DR related Business processes in cooperation with the appropriate
Business Groups
· Define and implement the architecture, processes, and design need to
support a return “home” strategy. “Home” may be a completely new data
center location in the case where the original Production data center is
not recoverable.
· Ensure communication of the DR plan and process within the IT
organization and to appropriate Business groups.
Manager Notes:
- *WAN/LAN Network Design and Operation *
- *But to what extent?*
- *DR Purposes – take a look at our existing network and work with the
engineers to establish how we are going to redesign it for disaster
recovery.*
- *Highly self-motivated, independent.*
- *Experience with datacenter disaster recovery designs and
implementation.*
- *Experience with VMware Virtualization*
- *Familiar with F5 Load Balancing Equipment*
- *Global Sight Selection (DNS Sight Selection*.
Regards:
Sam Williams - Recruiting Manager
ITBrainiac Inc.
Direct : 646-499-5264|| Fax : Fax 312.582.2699
116 Village Blvd, Suite 200 - Princeton, NJ 08540
swilli...@itbtalent.com || swilli...@itbrainiac.com
www.itbrainiac.com
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