AR_final file_2018-19

The Daily Functions of the Six Computer Centre Staff 1. Architecting overall IT solution/technologies required for IUCAA, and present it to the Computer Users’ Committee for consensus. 12. Day-to-day administration of VMware infrastructure and various servers catering to Administration, such asAD, etc. 18. Procurement, installation and periodic upgradation of mathematical software, such as Matlab, IDL, Mathematicameant for general IUCAAusers and cluster users. 4. Maintenance of IT hardware in the campus, including servers, desktops, mobile computing equipment, printers, etc. 13. Maintenance of Video Conferencing equipments and end user support. 14. Management of inventory of Computer Center consumable items and Assets and Furniture and their tracking. 11. Administration of Ruckus wireless network covering the entire office as well as residential campus. Providing end users support for Wi-Fi devices, such as laptops, mobile devices, etc. 8. Maintaining Zimbra e-mail servers andmirror sites hosted at IUCAA, and their day-to-day administration. 5. Providing in-house design, development and maintenance support to the Administration automation software (iOAS), and IUCAAwebsite. 17. Infrastructure, management and coding support to IT intensive projects such as Big Data, AstroSat, LIGO - India, etc. 19. Hardwaremaintenance and administration of clusters in coordination with OEM. 20. Assisting Estate Department with Data Centremanagement activities. 10. Design, management and administration of network topology and firewall rules. 15. Procurement of SSLcertificates and software for all the relevant web servers. 21. Architecting new hardware solutions to address operational needs. (POC for Nutanix Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is under evaluation.) 2. Framing policy documents and finalizing them in consultation with the Computer Users’ Committee members. 3. Drawing up specification of the RFP (Request for Proposal) tender document for IUCAA IT required to be purchased and oversee all purchases related procedure and follow up. 9. Configuration andmanagement of data backups. 16. End user service support toMembers of IUCAA, Visitors andAssociates. 7. Designing web portals, consisting of online applicationmodules for jobs, workshops/ schools, etc. 6. Successful implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission payments, using software developed in- house. ( 158 )