SUMMARY:

• Around 10 years of IT experience in Linux/Windows Engineering & Administration, Configuration Management, Build, deploy & Release Management, Middleware Architecture, Design, Infrastructure Planning, Deployment, Maintenance & Production Support.
• Provided cloud solutions which includes Configuration Management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Release Management and to implement Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) to quickly deliver code to customers.
• Experience on complete software development life cycle (SDLC) with software development models like Agile, Scrum Model, Waterfall model.
• Experience implementing various middleware products like IBM Websphere Application Server, Jboss, Tomcat, Apache and Webservers like IBM HTTP Server & IIS on various applications.
• Experience working on version control systems like Bitbucket, SVN, GIT, TFS and used Source code management client tools GitHub and Git GUI and other command line applications etc.
• Extensively worked with CI/CD Build and configuration management tools like Cloudbees Jenkins, Ansible, Octopus deploy, Chef, Puppet, Team city, Team Services, IBM Rational Team Concert.
• In - depth knowledge working with most of the BPM tools like Appian, PEGA, ARIS. Design, Plan and review the Infrastructure, deploy and maintain all the applications.
• Good Knowledge with VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift and Amazon Cloud Services (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, Cloud Watch, Elastic IP, RDS, SNS, SQS, Glacier, VPC, Cloud Formation, Route53) and managing security groups on AWS.
• Implemented SSO in most of the application using CA Siteminder R12, ADFS with SAML and LDAP Authentication.
• Implemented File transfer using various protocols/tools like SFTP, VSFTPD, IBM NDM connect Direct on NFS using NAS/SAN/CIFS.
• Configured networking concepts using DNS, NFS, F5 Load balancer and experience using other load balancing features like Modcluster, Modproxy, ModJK and IBM HTTP Server plug-in.
• Good Hands-on in setting up monitoring tools for all the applications with Wily Introscope, Site Scope, Splunk, Nagios, App Dynamics, Dynatrace & Tivoli
• Extensive experience in writing various automation scripts to automate manual tasks, deploy applications, application build scripts and application packaging using RPM/YUM Packaging, Unix Shell, Windows Powershell, Perl and Python Scripting.
• Expertise in Querying RDBMS such as Oracle, MY SQL and SQL Server by using PL/SQL for data integrity. Good hands-on in migrating all the applications data from standalone database to DBaas/Exadata.
• Good Experience working on Cloud security tools like Cipher Cloud and data encryption using Vormetircs.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5-7, IBM AIX 6.1, Solaris 5.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Windows 7

Middleware products: IBM WebSphere6.x-9.x, Jboss6.x-7.x, tomcat7.x-8.x, Apache 2.x

Web Server: IBM HTTP Server6.x-9.x, IIS 5-6, Apache 2.x

Load Balancer: F5 Loadbalancer, Modcluster, Modproxy, ModJK, IBM HTTP Server plug-in

CICD Tools: Bitbucket, SVN, GIT, Team City, Team Services, Elasticsearch, JIRA, Cloudbees Jenkins, SonarQube, IBM Rational Team Concert

Automation Tools: RPM/YUM packaging, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, BladeLogic, Octopus Web deploy

SSO: CA Site minder R12, ADFS, SAML

Database: Oracle 11g, Oracle 12c, RapidDB, DBaas Exadata, SQL, MySQL, Mainframe DB2, Postgres SQL, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

BPM Tools: Appian, PEGA, ARIS

Monitoring Tools: App Dynamics, Wily Introscope, Site scope, Splunk, CloudWatch, Nagios, Dynatrace, Tivoli, Solarwinds

Programming/Scripting: Shell Scripting, Powershell, bash, Perl, Python, Ruby, DSL, HTML, SQL, PLSQL, C, C++

File Transfer tools: SFTP, IBM NDM Connect Direct, VSFTPD

Source Control: Bitbucket, SVN, GIT, GitHUb, TFS, IBM Rational ClearCase

Encryption Tools: Cipher Cloud DocScanner for Data Encryption, Vormetrics

Tools: Toad for Data Analyst, Toad for Oracle, Perfecto Mobile, WinScp, Super putty, IBM Thread Dump Analyzer, debugdiag.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, LOS ANGELS

Senior Appian Consultant / DevOps Engineer

• Design, build, develop, upgrade and monitor software systems and infrastructure hardware for developing consumer and wealth management banking products and Appian applications.
• Analysed and Implemented the existing manually deployment process into CI/CD workflow infrastructure using Project Management tools using JIRA; Source control tools using SVN, GitHub; Build tools like Jenkins, Automation and configuration management tools like Ansible to automate the Deployment Workflow and other manual Tasks.
• Responsible for planning and designing the infrastructure with disaster recovery planning and engaged in testing all the environment starting from DEV, UAT, STG, PERF, UPG, PRE-PROD, TRAINING, BFUAT, PROD and DR before go Live.
• Installed, configured and build the infrastructure with middleware products like Jboss, Apache to host or deploy Appian and its applications on the Red-Hat Linux Servers.
• Experience working in Appian versions starting from Appian 16.2 and upto latest Appian 18.2.
• Responsible for building any new environment that is required for Appian testing or upgrade.
• Develop various scripts and setup monitors to monitor system usage and performance for all the consumer and wealth management bank products and Appian applications.
• Monitor the Appian application using various monitoring tool like Splunk, SolarWinds, Dynatrace etc. and analyse any issues that alerts during business hours ex. DB Query Timeout analysis, Failed to load appian rule etc., and report back to make sure the environment is stable.
• Submit Firewall rules for the application to talk to external/other services that needs firewall ports to be opened while setting up new enviornments.
• Responsible for Troubleshoot applications, server, software and hardware issues in various managed environments for all consumer and wealth management banking applications with 24 * 7 PROD support.
• Develop, build, automation and test scripts to automate the process for various consumer and wealth management banking applications.
• Recommend, govern and provide best practices, patterns and architecture improvement for designing and developing the consumer and wealth management banking applications to make sure that they are adhering to the Confidential standards.
• Proposing and Implementing Release Cycle with a Release management process.

Confidential, NEW JERSEY

Senior Middleware Architect / DevOps Engineer

• Implemented CI/CD workflow infrastructure using Workflow Management tool like JIRA; Source control tools like Bitbucket, GitHub, TFS; Build tools like Cloudbees Jenkins, Repository manager like JFrog Artifactory, Code Quality Tools like SonarQube, Automation and configuration management tools like Ansible Tower, Release management tool like XLRelease.
• Worked on installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Red hat Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows Servers.
• Responsible for planning and designing the infrastructure with disaster recovery planning and engaged in testing all the environment starting from DEV, SE, UAT, PROD and DR before go Live.
• Experience on-boarding the applications from manual deployment to the CICD work flow by setting up CI/CD scripts for the application team.
• Knowledge of writing and maintaining Ansible build scripts for server management/deployment
• Automating the tasks using Ansible playbooks, Shell scripting and Python
• Experience in configuring and automating CI and CD process using Git, TFS, Team City, Team Services and Octopus Web Deploy for Microsoft.net applications.
• Experience working as DevOps Engineer in Automating, configuring and deploying instances on Docker, Open Shift and AWS.
• Experience in deployment or configuration of applications using JBoss, IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, IIS, IBM HTTP Server.
• Experience in automating the application packaging and configuration using rpm packaging, yum, Unix Shell, Windows Power Shell.
• Installing, configuring and implementing performance monitoring tools like Wily Introscope 9.5, Sitescope, Splunk, Nagios, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, App Dynamics & Tivoli on all the new and existing applications.
• Experience in design and planning the infrastructure for various BPM tools like PEGA, Appian and ARIS.
• Experience in installing and implementing Single Sign On (SSO) on all the applications (PEGA, Appian, ARIS etc.) using CA Siteminder R12, ADFS 2.0 with SAML authentication.
• Experience in installing and configuring SSL to protect the application on the web and the application servers using bank signed or Verisign certificates.
• Experience in implementing NFS using NAS, SAN and setup file transfer between upstream and downstream application using SFTP, VSFTPD, IBM NDM Connect direct.
• Experience is setting up LTM and GTM in F5 load balancer to setup load balancing by creating VIPs, pools, configuration SSL, creating cname, a record etc.
• Experience working on implementing Cloud Security using Cipher Cloud to scan the files uploaded by external facing application and application in cloud to detect virus and encrypt sensitive information.
• Experience in implementing Vormetircs encryption for data security by encrypting the structured file system on the applications running on Linux hosts.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues and finding the root cause by analysing various logs and dumps using debugdiag, IBM Thread dump analyser.
• Installed and configured IBM Tivoli Storage Manager while migrating from IBM AIX to RedHat Linux environment.

Environment: Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Jboss, Apache, tomcate, IBM WebSphere Application, IBM HTTP Server, CA Site minder R12, ADFS 2.0, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, F5 load balancer, SQL Server, Wily Introscope 9.5, Sitescope, Splunk, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, WinScp, Super putty, Unix Shell scripting, Windows Power Shell, GitHub, TFS, Bitbucket, Jira, SonarQube, Cloudbees Jenkins, Ansible Tower, Team City, Team Services, Octopus Deploy, Docker, Open Shift, AWS, cipher Cloud, Vormetrics.

Confidential, TEXAS

Senior DevOps Engineer

• Experience in Software Integration, Configuration, building, automating, testing and releasing code from one environment to another environment and deploying to servers.
• Experience in supporting and managing IBM Rational Concert-RTC.
• Managed RTC administration, source code branching and merging, build definition and build engines. Successfully administered IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Configuring Jenkins for scheduled builds. Setup Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs for end-to-end automation to build, test and deliver artifacts and Troubleshoot the build issue during the Jenkins build process.
• Performed build acceptance testing and smoke testing using Perfecto Mobile tool to test mobile applications.
• Experience working in Configuration management tools using Chef and Puppet. Worked on writing chef recipes for various applications and deploying them on internal Data Centre Servers
• Written/Developed Chef Cookbooks to automate the entire deployment process as well as Infrastructure admin tasks.
• Re-used and modified same Chef Recipes to create a Deployment directly into Linux servers.
• Developed automation scripts to overcome manual efforts for deployment using BMC Blade logic across all applications using Unix Shell, Perl and Python scripting
• Installed, Configured, maintained and supported IBM WebSphere Application Server, JBoss, Apache on Red Hat Linux in all development and different stages of testing environments like PT, SIT, UAT, and FUT up to QA and validated the same in production.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, nodes, data sources, virtual hosts and transports for WAS 7x environments. Installed Refresh packs, Fix packs/Patches for WebSphere Application Server.
• Deployed HTML5 and J2EE applications, configured JDBC, JMS, and JNDI for integration with WAS 6.0/6.1.
• Managed security, performed tuning and implemented clustering on WebSphere Application Server.
• Development and automated scripts to overcome manual efforts of sharing the log files on request by mounting all the logs of various applications in a servers and creating an HTML page to view the logs by the respective team.
• Troubleshooted Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, and class path issues by checking the JVM logs, plug-in logs and the Web Server logs. Analyzed core dump using IBM Thread dump analyser

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application, IBM HTTP Server, Jboss, Apache, Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, IBM Rational Team Concert 3.0.1, IBM Rational ClearCase 7.1, SVN, Jenkins Pipeline, Blade logic, Chef, DSL, Ruby, Perl, Python, Puppet, Winscp, Superputty, putty, Splunk, Wily Introscope, Site Minder, IBM Thread dump analyzer.

Confidential

System Administrator/Production Support

• Configured IBM HTTP Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server & IIS in the Linux/Windows environment respectively.
• Experience in design and architecture for unit and integration testing tools like JUNIT, Loadrunner.
• Experience installing, configuring, administrating, troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup/recovery and upgrading Linux (Red Hat & AIX) in large environments.
• Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by WebSphere Heap Size, garbage collection.
• Worked on .net and deployed the files in the framework applications by using IIS
• Experienced in building and deploying .NET applications on to different environment such a QA, UAT and product
• Experience in automated builds using TFS team build .NET build for .NET applications
• Experience in supporting Windows Cluster server running 2-4 nodes on Windows 2003/2008 supporting applications like web servers, SharePoint and Active Directory environment.
• Manage code repositories in TFS by creating, deleting, merging and securing projects in a proper structure for all releases
• Manage Windows 2003/2008 backup jobs / Ensuring Windows 2003/2008 security updates & patches Hands-on working on data centre migration projects.
• Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers using Sitescope, Tivoli.
• Configured manual deployment on various servers using Blade logic automation using Bash, Perl and Python scripting.

Environment: RedHat Linux, IBM AIX, Windows Server, SQL Server 2008, Shell Scripting, Bash scripts, Perl Scripting, Load runner, IBM HTTP Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server, SCM, TFS, Sitescope, Tivoli, Bladelogic

Confidential

C++ Developer

• Experience in Re-engineering the existing application CLR- Claim Legacy Replacement that was designed to retire IMS DBs and all IMS transaction screens from the legacy world and replace it by creating new DB2 tables corresponding to the IMS DBs that is getting retired and developed web screens similar to the IMS transaction screens in the ARP - Application Replacement Program world\Requirement gathering.
• Analysed the Business requirement document(BRD), the High level design(HLD) and Low Level design(LLD) for preparing the Application Infrastructure design(AID).
• Performed Unit and Integration Testing.
• Developed SQL stored procedures, triggers and functions and invoked the same for integration.
• Developed the code in C++ for all the wrapper functions and business logic to interact with the Mainframe data base, compile it using gCC compiler.
• Created JCL to invoke the C++ wrapper functions and test the functionality by executing the Job through SCM.
• Interacted with the team to build end to end integration. Supported the product post production

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Solaris UNIX 5.1, Mainframe, SQL, DB2, Master Craft Tool, Software Configuration Management (SCM), TSO PST, TSO DB2ADMIN, Star Team, Eclipse IDE, Python scripting, Site Minder