SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience as Middleware Engineer implementing, supporting and maintaining various Middleware infrastructure, Oracle (BEA) Web Logic 7.0/8.x/9.x/10.x/10.3.x/11g/12c, Red Hat JBoss EAP and Tomcat on platforms like Linux, Solaris, AIX and Windows with experience in implementing Build/Release Management, Infrastructure automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using various tools.
• Experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and VMware infrastructures administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Design, integration, deployment and administration of J2EE Application servers - Tomcat, WebSphere and Jboss Application Server across UNIX, Windows and Linux platforms.
• Strong experience of automating deployments into a delivery pipeline using Jenkins into QA, UAT, Staging and Production.
• Extensively used Git, Jenkins and uDeploy for the deploying the application to test environment.
• Experienced working in a transforming DevOps culture implementing CI/CD process using tools like GIT, Jenkins, Maven and Chef.
• Experience in creating Rundeck jobs for automating deployment process
• Installed NoSQL database like MongoDB, and maintained database server.
• Experience in setup Nagios Server for monitoring Hosts, Applications, and installed Victorops to notify oncall team.
• Extensive experience in monitoring tools like SCOM, appdynamics, Dynatrace, ca APM, vrealize operations (VRops), Solarwinds
• Standardized Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and Windows platforms.
• Extensively experienced in using tools like Ant, Maven, vagrant, Chef, Puppet, ansible, Docker, GitHub, and working knowledge on other tools like MS Build.
• Developed and maintained end-to-end build scripts using build.xml, pom.xml for packaging the enterprise applications, EAR, WAR and JAR with ANT and Maven respectively.
• Automating Cloud infrastructure setup via Cloud formation, terraform and - IBM Urbancode Deploy Ansible Playbook. - AWS Code Deploy.
• Monitored 100% of data center devices by integrating Zabbix using Linux, Zabbix, and Ansible.
• Expert in implementing continuous integration and deployment systems using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Ansible and Rundeck.
• Solid experience in deploying Enterprise and Web applications on WebSphere Application Server, JBoss EAP and Tomcat Clustered environments using console, via scripts and maintaining Load balancing and High availability.
• Worked directly with application teams to resolve issues related to Enterprise and Web Applications hosted on WebSphere, JBoss and Tomcat.
• Experience in configuring SSL on EWS along with Apache HTTP Server using mod ssl and keytool for Tomcat and JBoss server.
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment using various CI Tools like Jenkins/Hudson, TFS,Team City and Sonatype Nexus.
• Installed Fixpacks, eFixes, and cumulative fixes to the existing infrastructure and new environment.
• Configured WebSphere Resources including JMS, JDBC, Connection pooling and many Resources for WebSphere Environments.
• Experience on various Web Servers such as Apache, IIS and IBM HTTP Server.
• Well versed with all data center functions (production operations, network, change control, DR/Business recovery and systems management).
• Extensive experience in Installing, Configuring, Administering and Troubleshooting of WebSphere Application Server and proxy with IBM HTTP Servers on different flavors of Linux, UNIX and Windows.
• Creation of custom nodes and federating to Deployment Manager and managing it through admin console and wsadmin scripts.
• Good Experience in implementing Vagrant, Puppet, Chef, Splunk, Jenkins, Docker, as DevOps Engineer.
• Experience in installing fix packs and refresh packs for WebSphere Application Server using Update Installer in GUI and Silent mode and migrating to latest versions.
• Successful implementation of Workload Management and Fail Over mechanisms using horizontal, vertical and hybrid clustering environments as per the cost analysis.
• Experience in deploying applications in WAR, EAR and JAR formats on WebSphere Servers and Clusters.
• As part of continuously delivering Agile team, develop, test, and deploy Data platform features Develop ongoing test automation using chef, Python based framework using Ansible to Setup/teardown of ELK Stack.
• Configured WebSphere resources such as JDBC provider, Data Sources to connect databases, MQ Queue Connection Factories, MQ Queues to Connect to MQ Server. Extensively involved in Tuning of connection Pools.
• Experienced in trouble shooting and automated deployment of WAR, JAR, EAR files to web and application servers like Apache, WebLogic, IIS, JBOSS, WebSphere, Tuxedo and Tomcat.
• Involved in tuning and monitoring application deployed on WebSphere using Tivoli Performance Viewer and external Monitoring tools such as Wily and SiteScope.
• Created of Virtual Hosts and Host Aliases. Secured Applications with installation of SSL certificates. Generated Self Signed and Signed Certificates (Generate CSR and Import Signed Cert to Keystores) through ikeyman, and OpenSSL.
• Provided on-call Production Support (24x7), monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development, TEST, QA, Staging and Production Environments.
• Experienced with Windows XP/NT/2000/2003, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and HP-UX platforms.
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills, ability to lead bridge calls during production issues.
• Excellent Leadership, organization, planning and co-ordination skills developed from managing teams, working in groups and working with complex projects.
• Understanding the business requirements, Design documents and Technical specifications of the Application.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and time-management skills.
• Experience in operational 24/7 Support, troubleshooting, monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications for high volume, and secure transactions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 / 7.2 / 7.1 / 6.2 , Solaris 8/9/10, SUSE Linux, AIX 5.3, V6.1, Windows 2003/2008, Windows NT/XP, Windows7

Database and DB Tools: Oracle 12c/11g/10g, MS SQL Server 2005, TOAD, SQL Navigator, SQL Plus, MS Access, Oracle database 12.

Applications: MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver

Application Servers: IBM Web Sphere 6.x, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, Oracle Weblogic 8.1/9.x/10.x/12.x Oracle SOA Suite 11g, OSB 11g, OEM 11g, Weblogic Portal 10.3.5, Glassfish, V3.1/4.x, Tomcat 5.x, 6.x, Jboss AS 7.0/6.0/5.1, TIBCO 5.10x, 5.1x, 4.9x

Webserver Servers: Apache Web Server 2.x/2.2.x, SunOne 6.1, IIS5.x/6.x/7.x, Oracle HTTP Server, IBM HTTP Server.

Languages: Java, C, C++, PL/SQL, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL

J2EE Technologies: Servlets, JSP, JDBC, RMI, JMS, JTA, JNDI, JMX, EJB, Visual Studio 2013/2012/2010/2008/2005 , Front Page, SQL Enterprise Manager, SQL Management Studio 2008/2012

Tools: and Utilities ANT, MAVEN, Jenkins, JIRA, Nagios, JIRA, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Cute FTP, JProbe, Ant, XMLSpy, Symantec Esm 6.5 HP Proliant Blade Servers, Remedy, Service Now, Build tool Robot, Cruise Control Web Methods Developer, FIPS 201, AEM5.6.1, SiteMinder policy server R6.0 SP5 CR32.

Scripting Languages: WLST, UNIX Shell Scripting (Bourne, Korn, C and Bash), Perl Scripting, Jython, Python

Networking & Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, Telnet, T3, T3S, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, LDAP, RMI/IIOP.

Case & Version Control: Subversion, Clear Quest, JIRA, CVS, Perforce, Visual Source Safe.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidentia, Rochester, NY

Senior Middleware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained JBoss EAP 4.x/5.x/6.x, Jboss EWS software on IBM AIX, Sun Solaris and Redhat Linux in Dev, Test and Production Environments.
• Configured clusters Web Logic 8.x/9.x/10.x/10.3.x/12c and JBoss server 5.1.0.GA and EAP 6.0
• Worked on Optimization and performance tuning techniques and also have Experience in performance tuning.
• Closely worked with other Scrum, Program and Portfolio teams to deliver code and system.
• Interactions with product management to build Epics and Features, and architects to build the architectural runway with team sprint plan and stories.
• Configured Jenkins as a common build engine to build and deploy applications to DEV, QA, UAT and PROD environments.
• Participated in Scrum of Scrums (SoS) for cross team communications and removed all impediments, and worked with system team for infrastructure needs
• Worked on Splunk, AppDynamics, JIRA and BMC Remedy for monitoring and troubleshooting to create an Incident/Problem ticket for Root cause analysis.
• Implemented and designed AWS virtual servers by using Ansible roles to ensure deployment of web applications. Implemented a 'server less' architecture using API Gateway, Lambda, and Dynamo DB and deployed AWS Lambda code from Amazon S3 buckets. Created a Lambda Deployment function, and configured it to receive events from your S3 bucket
• Using Jenkins AWS CodeDeploy plugin to deploy to AWS.
• Proficient in setting up and configuring Baselines, Branching, Merging, and Backup through CVS and Subversion.
• Worked on Nagios Monitoring tool, and configuration with Puppet and AWS cloud management with puppet automation.
• Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS),Microsoft Azure& configuration management using puppet.
• Manage deployment automation using Puppet, MCollective, Hiera, Custom Puppet modules.
• Worked with Nexus for maven reposit.
• Created deployment tickets using Jira for build deployment in Production
• Jboss configuration is done in thoroughly firewalled environment using TCP.
• Installed, configured Jboss 4.x/5.x/6.x software binary in all environments.
• Involved in certification of Jboss image to be complaint with existing tool set.
• Configured Jboss server authentication with corporate LDAP.
• Create Jboss 6.0/7.x domains with central management and multiple instances across different physical servers.
• Performed the automation using Chef Configuration management and managing the infrastructure environment with Puppet.
• Implemented AppDynamics applications performance monitoring for applications.
• Experience in designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, Auto Scaling groups. Cloud as a code with Ansible.
• Responsible for production support of Ebilling application for Genre.com.
• Involved in setting Jboss 7.0 EAP Host Controller and Domain controller processes for remote administration Jboss domain processes.
• Maintained Splunk dashboards and associated charts, graphs, and drilldowns to enable managers, administrators, users and analysts to maximize the utility of the Splunk platform and applications.
• Supported multiple teams for multiple applications including Java/J2EE and .Net.
• Configured Proxy Plug-in between Jboss and Apache using Mod jk module.
• Involved in strategy/design/implementation in migrating applications from Jboss 6.x to 7.x.
• Trouble shooting the IIS issues based on IIS logs and Event viewer logs.
• Configuration of application pools in IIS and all aspects of IIS configuration from website prospective for Dev/ Test/Stage/Prod environments.
• Monitoring and application analysis utilizing AppDynamics
• Creating and raising the certificate requests (CSR) and installing SSL on IIS servers for Dev/Test/Stage/ Prod environments.
• Worked on migration from WebLogic 10.3.x to Web logic 12.1.x
• Provided Web Logic server instances into WebLogic clusters for high availability.
• Oracle Enterprise manager 12 Cloud Control for monitoring.
• Assist with the instrumentation of production and non-production applications and systems. Customize AppDynamicsto provide dashboards, monitoring, and setup notification for varies Paychex applications.
• Configuration and Administration of OSB, and Oracle SOA Suite 11g and its components.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and tune Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite 11g components.
• Deploy SOA Composite application/services and integrate Services through Adapters.
• Automated various tasks using Shell scripts and WLST scripts .e.g. OSB export and import scripts, SOA application deployment scripts, WebLogic Deployment scripts.
• Deployed the applications to Tomcat Application Server and static content to Apache web servers
• Puppet Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows - Batch, Shell script etc.
• Work closely with DBA in creating SOA 11g schemas using RCU tool and implementation of SOA purge scripts
• Verify AppDynamics(AppD) controller monitor and manage Paychex entire application -delivery system, from the web browser, mobile app client request through the network, middleware, and backend database and application servers including assist in tuning and troubleshooting. Oversee continual improvement of the enterprise infrastructure monitoring.
• Deployed and maintained Splunk deployments in clustering and high availability scenarios.
• Configured JNDI server as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS connection factories, queues and topics.
• Configured WebSphere with oracle database using Type 2 Drivers.
• Upgraded CA Policy Server from version 12 SP3 CR09 to 12.5 CR02 or later in development, staging and production environments. Upgraded Web Agents and maintained further releases of SiteMinder.
• Automated system configuration using Puppet.
• Manage and coordinate Web application build/deployment and supporting all SiteMinder applications on DEV, QA, and Production environments
• Involved in working with WebSphere ND Virtual Enterprise to manage your all App servers like WebLogic, WebSphere in one administration console.
• Worked in WebLogic server and Jboss like jdbc, security, and install apache server configuration.
• Performed installing, configuring, administering and performance tuning clustered SOA environments.
• Worked with Big IP F5 Load Balancer administration, shell scripting for alerting and alarming on applications.

Environment: Jboss AS 7.0/6.0/5, AppDynamics, TIBCO 5.10x, 5.1x, 4.9x Unix/Linux, Splunk, Oracle WebLogic 10.3.6, Oracle SOA 10g/11g, OEM 11g, IIS5.x/6.x/7.x, GlassFish V3.1/4.x, Shell/Perl Scripting, webMethods Integration Platform 8.2/9.x, Web Methods Developer, SDLC Agile, Oracle11g RAC, puppet, RHEL 5.x/6.x, AIX 5.3, V6.1, SiteMinder Policy Server R6.0 SP5 CR32, Siteminder Policy Server R12 SP3 CR09 Apache Server 2.2.22, Site minder, WLST.

Confidential, Columbus OH

Senior Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebLogic Application server 11x/12c using graphic and silent mode and configured Weblogic domain
• Determined and suggested hardware and software specific to the System and customized as per the requirements.
• Generated reports with IBM Appscan with intelligent fix recommendations to ease remediation
• Configured Node Manager for running managed servers
• Worked with the management team on Puppet
• Installed and configured Apache HTTP Server 2.0, Tomcat 6.0, IIS 6 and Sun One Web Servers in various environments.
• Used AppDynamics to setup monitoring alerts and dashboards.
• Installed and configured plug-ins for Apache HTTP server and Sun One Web server to proxy the request for WebLogic server.
• Administered and managed a Splunk server to monitor both the Windows and Linux physical and virtual environments.
• Manage AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GITHUB and Puppet.
• Experience in analyzing the proxy server log in comparison with WebLogic logs to narrow down the malformed request
• Ansible configuration of on premise installations of App Dynamics APM. Automation with Run deck for Disaster Recovery.
• Performed migration and upgraded WebLogic server 9.x to WebLogic 10.x/11x and to the recent version 12c.
• Developed Puppet Modules for installation & auto healing of various CI & CD tools like Jenkins, Nolioagents, MSSQL, Nexus etc. these modules are designed to work on both windows and Linux platforms.
• Converted production support scripts to Chef Recipes and AWS server
• Updated JDK's and installed service packs and patches for WebLogic Server.
• Integration of Jenkins with Jira, GitHub.
• Installed, configured and managed WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat servers with Nagios and AppDynamics tools for monitoring performance.
• Worked on Oracle Fusion 11g architecture making most of the investment in applications
• Also installed, configured, and administered JBOSS 6.0 server in various environments.
• Used Devops, Ansible Puppet and Gerrit
• Wide variety of platforms utilized including Nutanix, ServiceNow, AppSense and the full suite of Citrix products.
• Used centralized configuration for multiple servers in JBOSS domain mode.
• Using Python Scripting in DevOps users to model and manage the entire application from load balancers to database.
• Experience in Batch-Scripting for automating and reducing the time taken for everyday tasks.
• Used Azure for cloud computing
• Deployed the static content to apache web servers and applications to Tomcat Application server.
• Deployed web and enterprise applications on JBoss application server.
• Developed processes, tools, automation for Jenkins and DevOps based software for build system and delivering SW Builds.
• Installation and implementation of AppDynamics on all Prod and Non-Prod environment for monitoring of all java, node.js, php, .Net, python application.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Used Nagios to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems in various components including applications, services, servers, and network protocols.
• Installed, Configured and utilized AppDynamics and Splunk in the whole JBoss Environment. Troubleshooted issues occurring during installation.
• Deployed various J2EE and enterprise applications (WAR, JAR, RAR, EAR) on managed servers and cluster environment, maintained Load Balancing, High Availability, and Failover.
• Created bash and ksh scripts to monitor domains, recycle clusters, monitor disk space, number of Apache connections, and ran them as cronjobs for timely running programs.
• Configured JNDI as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBCdata source, JMS connection factories, queues, and topics.
• Configured and administered JDBC Connection pools/multi pools/ data sources on WebLogic server.
• Hosted web Application on multiple IIS servers under a load balancer
• Used IIS as a web server to respond to the requests from the browser.
• Installed, configured, upgraded and managed Puppet Master, Agents & Databases. Integration of Puppet with Apache and Passenger.
• Used mvsmon.exe for remote IIS debugging.
• Configuring the HTTP Server for various clustered appservers using virtual hosting enabling SSL security.
• Also, responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test products such as Apache Server.
• Coordinating between the AppDynamics support and application owners by raising CRs to find the root cause.
• Deployed various J2EE applications (WAR, JAR, EAR) on managed servers in clustered and non-clustered environment.
• Worked with Atlassian tools like Bamboo & Jira
• Automated the Build Process using Jenkins.
• Installing of HTTP plugins for Apache, iPlanet and Microsoft IIS
• Used ANT, Puppet/ Chef Scripts with Ivy to build the application and deploy.
• Involved in monitoring error logs, troubleshooting, and fixing the problems
• Handled Memory issues, such as application leak, WebLogic leak and sun java bug by tuning and profiling memory with third party tools.
• Implemented security by configuring Secured Socket Layer (SSL) for client authentication and data encryption
• Configured LDAP server using Sun One Directory server for user authentication
• Configure Siteminder with Web servers.
• Configure F5load balancer with Web servers. Used F5 to capacity, performance, and reliability of the applications
• Used OIM for access management, directory services, decision making and strengthening security.
• Used Visual studio for Integration Development.
• Developing Bash and Ansible playbook scripting for automating configuration management on the CI/CD build and deployed production
• Implementing Puppet, Chef, Splunk, Jenkins, Docker, and DevOps, openstack.
• Develop and run UNIX shell scripts and implemented auto deployment process.
• Solved server hang issues such as Deadlock, Application, and Database level lock by taking thread dump and analyzed to get the root cause of the han
• Set up Wily for monitoring, notification, root cause analysis and data reporting
• Performance monitoring and JVM Heap size and EJB monitoring using Wily Introscope and Load testing using Mercury Load Runner and Jmeter with Thread and Heap Analysis Using Samurai thread dump
• Used Subversion (SVN) to maintain present and historical source code versions and documentation.
• Used Build Forge and Jenkins for enterprise scale infrastructure configuration and application deployments.
• Used HP OpenView for managing applications, network conditions and status across the platform
• Involved in a team to design a strategy and well-organized planning in data center migration using TDS.

Environment: Oracle WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g/12c, AppDynamics, JDK 1.3/1.4/1.5, JRockit 8.1, Apache 2.x, Tomcat 6.0/6.1,Visual Studio, Sun One/ iPlanet, IIS 6, Splunk, DevOps, Solaris 8,9, Azure, Red Hat LINUX, Windows 2003, F5 Load balancer, Siteminder, Nagios, JMX, IBM Appscan, Oracle 8i/9i, JDBC,Perl, AWS,LDAP, Docker, subversion, EJB, JSP, Servlets, XML,MS Office, OpenSSL, Secure SSH.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed IBM HTTP Server on different nodes and configured them by generating the plug-in.
• Responsible for deploying, monitoring application, log files and provided information to the developers.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security System for WAS Administration for Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Configure Site minder on IBM HTTP Server for single sign on (SSO).
• Involved in installing Web Servers like IBM Http Server and installing corresponding plug-ins on the Web Servers to communicate with the Application Server.
• Deployed applications using deployment scripts and administration console.
• Maintained applications which are deployed in Apache Tomcat Servers.
• Used Web Sphere Admin Console and wsadmin/JACL/Perl scripting to install enterprise EAR, WAR files or for hot deployment.
• Applying fix packs and Refresh packs for WebSphere Application Server.
• Monitored for application core dumps, or forced thread dumps and analyzed the dumps to check for issues using thread analyzer.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server in conjunction with DB2, Federated multiple nodes to a deployment manager.
• Deployment of EAR & WAR files on WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment Manger.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Involved in Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server's and Clusters.
• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical clustering of application servers for achieving work load management (WLM) and avoiding single point failure and making all the application servers highly available.
• Monitored and Configured WAS, diagnosed and resolved WAS issues and failures.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis for applications running in production on WebSphere Application servers.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling
• 24x7 on-site operations support for different environments in project.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1, IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3, CSD 08, IBM DB2, Solaris Sun, Linux, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, Sun ONE webserver 6.0, 6.1, SP3, Netegrity Siteminder Policy Server 6 SP6.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed & developed GUI for claim creation, processing and tracking.
• Created Use Case Diagrams in UML.
• Modified JSPs, used struts tag libraries and Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL).
• The user interface components are developed using Java AWT/swing API.
• Maintained Struts architecture throughout the application.
• Developed the bean classes for better data exchange between the MVC layers.
• Managed by the Network Management System(NMS) and TCP/IP and UDP.
• Some Exposer to Layer2/Layer 3 Protocols.
• Used multi-threading and socket programming.
• Developed the business layer components as Stateless Session Beans based on EJB API.
• Developed the data access layer components as entity Beans based on EJB API.
• Developed web based user interface screens using HTML and Java Script.
• Created CSS to get unique look and feel across the related facets.
• Client Side validations were done using JavaScript.
• Deployed the EJBs on JBoss.
• Developed Entity Beans as Bean Managed Persistence Entity Beans and used JDBC to connect to backend database Oracle.
• Designed and implemented Connection pooling for high-level performance.
• Involved in separation of components and deploying in different servers and balancing the load among each Server.
• Solved performance issues and brought optimal output from the available resources.
• Involved in group meeting with teammates and made substantial changes to the architecture to improve performance of the Application.

Environment: JDK 1.2/JDK1.3, EJB 1.0, JSP, JSTL, JavaScript, Servlets, Unified Modeling Language, Eclipse, WinCVS, UML, XML, JBoss Application Server, Oracle, Java AWT/Swing API.