VIVEK KUMAR SHARMA PF: 4363671 Assessment Year 2020-21

AAR FORM SELF APPRAISAL

As on 31st March 2021
Name of the Officer: Vivek Kumar Sharma
Grade / Scale: MMGS – III
PF Index No: 4363671
Assignment (s): INB
Branch / Office GITC, BELAPUR

1. KRA01: Identifying and Implementation of 5 Improvement in INFRA

 Leading Participation in ongoing setup of Near DR at GITC and Bunker sites at Sify Rabale & CTRLS
Hyderabad
 Associate participation in Sanovi DC-DR Automation Project. Successfully implemented Sanovi with
Resiliency Orchestration tool for DC-DR Automation for INB Applications with an objective of
reduction of RTO
 Associate participation in ongoing implementation of PIMS Arcos gateway solution for Secured Access
to Servers from ODC Chennai
 Lead participation in taking over of CCS Deployment process from TechM
 Identified the EOL Assets (End of Life) and disposal and E-waste

2. KRA02: Implementation of Projects CR -Medium

 Lead Participation in PIMS Biometric enabling Project. Project Completed at GITC and in-process at
ODC Chennai
 Lead participation role in NDR/Bunker Setup Project

3. KRA03: Timely closure of IS & Other Audits/Timely closure of RBI IT examination, Other
Observations & deviations

 As Infra lead for BBPS and CCS Application, Ensuring Timely closure of IS Audits/VAPT /RBI IT
observation
 To strengthen the security, removed all the weak ciphers from BBPS Web server and performed the SSL
offloading on Load Balancer of BBPS
 Properly closer of findings outcome in External PT, VA, observed in Internal/Third Party Security
review

4. KRA04: SOC /Phishing /Risk /Compliance Incident Management and its closure in timely
manner

 Monitoring of SOC daily virus report and closure of issues if any with the support of development team
 Interaction with SOC team and attending to the log monitoring process and observations. Overseeing
Vulnerability/Penetration testing (VA/PT) and ensuring closure of findings.
 SCD Compliance as per latest SCD.
 Keeping the track of Scheduled and Un-Scheduled Downtime for INB Applications and update it on
daily basis on Archer Tool

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5. KRA05: Log Monitoring and Management

 As a part of User Access Review, User Access logs at PIMS level are being reviewed on monthly
basis and ensuring it inline with User Access Policy
 Monthly review of Critical commands logs and following with Vendors, in case of any issue
 Monitoring of several logs like sys logs, application level logs, alert logs and taking necessary action
accordingly.

6. KRA06: Patch Management / Hardening of servers in Staging, DR and Production setup

 Patching for OS, Load Balancer, Application Server, Database Server, etc. The current patch level is
N-1, as per our patching policy.
 For Cloud Hosted Application BBPS and OAO , Integrated with ITSM Tools and Patches are pushed
centrally.
 As part of infra Team, managing installation of patches/ fix packs/ bug fixes for Solaris OS / Red Hat
Linux OS/ IBM HTTP Web server / IBM WAS ND Application servers, Oracle
.
7. KRA07: Performance monitoring - Operations, Application and Infrastructure

 As part of performance monitoring, performs Daily monitoring of Dynatrace Report and check the
anomalies, taking it with vendors for resolution
 Lead role in implementation of new version of Dynatrace Monitoring Application
 Co-Ordinating with UAT team for performance testing of INB Applications

8. KRA08: Web sphere Administration and Upgradations

 Taken the Admin control from Vendor and taken over the CR Deployment process on WAS
 Associate participation in WAS upgradation and coordinating with Vendors (IBM & TechM) for WAS
upgradation to version
9. KRA09: Capacity Management: CPU, Memory, Storage, TPS, Bandwidth

 As the part of Infra lead for BBPS And CCS , regularly checking the capacity report and HW health
status and ensuring the figures should be below the threshold values
10. KRA10: Back up and restoration

 Daily checking of Comm-Vault Backup report and ensuring its successful completion
 Ensuring restoration testing at regular interval, and in-line with Backup policy

Name: Vivek Kumar Sharma

(Dy. Manager-Systems)
PF No 4363671