PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A professional with 8 years of experience in Oracle Applications DBA and DevOps Tools which includes Build and Release management, DevOps, Cloud Automation and Configuration management.
• Experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodology.
• Experience in cloud computing tools like AWS, Amazon EC2, S3, EBS, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch and Cloud Formation.
• Configuring the Docker containers and creating Docker files, Docker compose files for different environments and Integrated and version controlled them.
• Managed servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform instances using Ansible configuration management.
• Perform build and deployment activities for various releases for all the regions like Development, QA, UAT and Production.
• In depth knowledge of software build, release engineering concepts and configuration management. Familiar with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and Agile process and experienced in SDLC, SCM practices.
• Expertise in Source code management tools such as Git, GitHub.
• Maintained team’s confluence page with documentations on Build processes, Branching strategies, Tool setups and Deployment instructions.
• Jenkins was used for building and Maintained Continuous integration effort with GIT along with scheduled builds.
• Used Jira to track the status of my user stories/ Tickets and communicate with requester regarding story/ticket.
• Trained individual teams on installing Maven in their local and creating Java projects and Building with Source code before building on production servers.
• Proficient at analysing information system needs, evaluating end - user requirements, custom designing solutions, troubleshooting for the applications and database issues.
• Skilled in swiftly ramping up projects with competent skills and ensuring on time deliverables.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Efficient administration of Oracle Applications using various ad utilities.
• Concurrent manager administration and maintenance.
• Opening, managing, and resolving Oracle Services Requests (Tar’s).
• Experience in Oracle Database Administration 9i /10g/11g.
• Experience on Integrated SOA Gateway Administration
• Experience on database installation in LINUX and Windows platform.
• Experience on Oracle Applications installation in LINUX platform.
• Experience on Peoplesoft installation in LINUX and Windows platform
• Experience on SIEBEL installation in LINUX and Windows platform
• Experience on SSO Integration with Oracle Applications.
• Experience on Integrated SOA Gateway Integration with Oracle Applications.
• Knowledge in RMAN, ASM, RAC, Data Guard, Golden Gate, Upgradation of database from lower version to higher version.
• Experience in WebLogic Administration
• Handling DevOps tools like Ansible, AWS, Docker, Git, GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus
• Oracle Applications Administration: Versions R12, 11i, R12.2
• Oracle Database Administration: Versions 11g, 10g, 9i.
• WebLogic Administration
• SSO and ISG integration with Oracle Applications
• Platforms: Red Hat Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux.
• Migrating all the different applications from filers to NGI zone
• Database upgrade, Patching, Patch analysis, Baseline patching and RDBMS patches, cloning.
• Handling Production environments with strong skills and proficiency.
• Technical notes and documentation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Automated cloud deployments using Ansible, Yaml, Scripting and AWS Cloud Formation templates
• Responsible for administration of GIT version control and Perform activities branching, tagging, backup, restore, access permissions
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, and GitHub and AWS
• Design, develop and implement an automated Linux (Centos, Amazon) infrastructure using Collective and AWS and move existing applications off windows seamlessly to it while aggressively growing
• Enabling customers to better manage software development, deployments and infrastructure with tools such as Ansible, Jenkins and GitHub
• Wrote Ansible playbooks to automate the deployment process
• Implemented and maintained branching and build/release strategies utilizing GIT involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery
• Worked on build tasks using Maven, Ant make files and worked with development team to migrate Ant scripts to Maven
• Expert in installing and configuring Continuous Integration tool Jenkins for build and deployment automation
• Involved with set up of continuous integration and daily builds using Jenkins with Artifactory repository manager. Integrated Jenkins with various DevOps tools such as Nexus, SonarQube
• Deployed applications on top of webservers like Tomcat/ WebSphere servers
• Configured and deployed instances cloud environments and Data centers, also familiar with EC2, Cloud watch, Elastic Search and managing security groups on AWS
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
• Optimized volumes and EC2 instances and used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups
• Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Autos calling groups
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch
• Spontaneous issue resolves by engaging DBA, Dev and test teams and played a central point of contact role. Provided 24*7 support on call

Confidential, Cochin

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Processes, Tools, Automation for Jenkins based Software for Build system and delivering SW Builds
• Managed build results in Jenkins and deployed using workflows
• Delivered specific versions of various components of an application into target environments
• Maintain and track inventory using Jenkins and set alerts when the servers are full and need attention
• Developed build and deployment Scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments
• Familiar and experienced with Agile Scrum development. Proposed and implemented branching strategy suitable for agile development in Subversion
• Installed and Configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing an automation solution
• Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process
• Used Jenkins for automating build and deployment
• Worked on applying patches and recommending necessary security fixes for web Application servers
• Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows - Batch, Python, Shell script etc.
• Troubleshoot the build issue during the Jenkins build process
• Resolved system issues and inconsistencies in coordination with quality assurance and engineering teams

Confidential

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined GIT branching strategy for projects based up on their releases. Set rules on who can merge pull requests.
• Used Jenkins for integrating the SCM tools such as Git and Github for automatic build processes.
• Created different types of Java projects based on user’s request, such as JAR, WAR and EAR projects.
• Involved in change management plans by interacting with Development, Testing and production teams and documenting the entire functions of the teams towards release of applications.
• Contribute and drive build automation initiatives as well as determine requirements for build deployment tools like Jenkins.
• Maintained the consistency of the source code in Git by restricting developers from certain privileges such create and delete branches.
• Restricted branch permissions to developers based on the tasks assigned to avoid merge conflicts.
• Resolved merge conflicts by bringing in Developers and reviewing the code and committing after finalizing the appropriate code.
• Introduced best practices in development environments to minimize the bugs and increase the productivity by training developers on configuration management tools such as Ansible and Docker.
• Released the application in various environments using Jenkins.
• Used JFrog Artifactory to publish artefacts by integrating it with Jenkins.

Confidential

Oracle Apps DBA

Responsibilities:

• Migrating all instances to cloud zone
• Supporting provisioning team by providing the os details
• Doing pre health checks and post health checks before migration and after migration respectively
• Port validation and dns push validation
• Shutting down the services and bringing up the services before and after migration respectively
• Monitoring and troubleshooting after completing the migration and before releasing it to customers
• Working closely with quality check team, storage team, sysadmin team and provisioning team in order to accomplish the targets which is downtime given by customer
• Reactive issue resolution.
• Troubleshooting all Oracle Apps Issues like Forms, Apache, CM
• Managing concurrent managers -ensure system is running smooth, monitoring throughput, watch for long runners.
• Working with oracle support for resolving any bugs reported by the users.

Confidential

Oracle Apps DBA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Installation and Administration of Linux server, Oracle Applications, Siebel Server, Peoplesoft Server, WebLogic server
• Created, configured and maintained WebLogic managed servers and server clusters.
• Deployed and maintained web, Java, and enterprise applications.
• Configured JDBC with databases such as Oracle
• Worked on validating the passwords for WebLogic schemas
• Worked on SSO Integration
• Worked on Integrating Integrated SOA Gateway with Oracle Applications
• Troubleshooting all Oracle Application Issues like Forms, Apache, CM
• Troubleshooting WebLogic server Issues, Administrating WebLogic server components Like Node manager and Managed servers
• Worked on Various DBA activities like Adding Tablespaces, clearing database objects locks, compiling invalids, changing user passwords, Increasing SGA, granting privileges
• Clearing persistence and cache at server level
• Worked on Workflow configuration
• Worked on Oracle Wallet configuration
• Patching and Cloning Oracle Applications
• Taking Weekly backups and copying them to DISC and restoring them when needed
• Worked on generating WSDL's
• Resolving configuration issues raised by development teams.
• User account management - creating users, disabling users, responsibility management.
• Changing Passwords of apps, sys, system and specialized users every quarter in TEST, DEV and PROD.
• Working with oracle support for resolving any bugs reported by the users.
• Bouncing the application server components depending on the customer request
• Bouncing database
• Compiling package and package body
• Compiling forms, jsp pages
• clearing persistence and cache at server level

Confidential

Oracle Apps DBA

Responsibilities:

• Reactive issue resolution.
• Troubleshooting all Oracle Apps Issues like Forms, Apache, CM
• Patching the Apps systems for 11i and R12, R12.2.
• Resolved configuration issues raised by development teams.
• Administration by using AD Utilities.
• User account management - creating users, disabling users, responsibility management.
• Managing concurrent managers -ensure system is running smooth, monitoring throughput, watch for long runners.
• Worked on password changes of apps, sys, system and specialized users every quarter in TEST, DEV and PROD.
• Working with oracle support for resolving any bugs reported by the users.
• Automation of compressing the old archives and moving them to backup disk.
• Bouncing the application server components depending on the customer request
• Bouncing database
• Compiling package and package body
• Compiling forms, jsp pages
• Clearing Database Object Locks,
• clearing persistence and cache at server level