SUMMARY

• Overall 18 years of IT experience in Applications Development and Production support, which includes 11 years in IBM Mainframe and 7+ years in Devops
• Proficient in Requirement Engineering, Design, Development, Testing and Debugging techniques, Implementation, Acceptance and support of IT applications
• Domain experience in the areas of Banking, Healthcare, Insurance and Retail
• Trained on ISO 9000, SEI - CMM Level 5
• Proficient Knowledge of Amazon Web Services including Compute, Storage, Database, Application services, Security, and compliance.
• Experience in Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform modules to create/Manage and destroy infrastructure on AWS.
• Experience and good understanding with IAAS, PAAS, SAAS environments.
• Created Bash Script for Automatic Backup of Artifacts, Jenkins Configuration.
• Integrated Ansible Playbooks with Jenkins for Push button deployments of higher environments including Integration, Stating and Production.
• Experience in automating the day to day tasks (data source changes, deployments, config changes).
• Experience in working with Active - Active environments and geo-location based routing of the traffic.
• Experience in server migrations, application integration to virtual machines.
• Automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Good Knowledge on monitoring tools such as Wily Introscope, Tivoli performance viewer, Thread dump analyzer, Splunk, and New Relic.
• Experience in container-based deployments with aws elastic container service.
• Experience working with Docker Hub, Internal Docker Registry and Docker Engine.
• Experience in installation and configuration of software load balancer HAProxy.
• Expertize in Maintaining ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana).
• Experience in network administration, deploying and troubleshooting of DNS, LDAP, Load Balancing, SMTP, Firewall etc.
• Hands on experience with GITHUB, SVN subversion, and build tools like ANT, and Maven.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.
• Experience in using JIRA to have track the user stories created and updating the progress in JIRA,and HPSM. Worked extensively in Agile Development process.
• Good Knowledge, understanding on MQ installation and configuration MQ resources (Queue Managers, Queue connection Factories and Queue destinations.)
• Experience in handling log files by implementing the log rotation and autosys.Troubleshoot with Tcpdump, Netstat, telnet and openssl.
• Good Knowledge on Amazon Cloud (EC2) Hosting and AWS Administration.
• Experience in architecting, setting up data centers and migration of applications.
• Good presentation, customer support and trouble shooting skills & experience in providing 24x7

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Database: DB2, IMSDB, Hadoop bigdata

Operating System: Z/ OS 390,Unix, Linux, CentOS, Unix, Windows, Mac, Solaris, IBM AIX

Programming: COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM,HIDAM,C,CICS,PL-SQL

Tools: / Applications: HadoopPig,Hive,Change Man, SPUFI, Expeditor, QMF, File AID, CA7,Control-m,Abendaid,Jcl, IDCAMS, IEBGENR, IEFBR14,REXX,File Manager, Fault Analyzer, ISPF/SDSF, Control-M, BMP, DLI, Endevor,Devops

Scripting: Shell Scripting, Perl, and Python

Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet and Ansible,and Terraform

Build/Release/DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Ant, Maven, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes

Versioning Tools: GitHub/SVN, BitBucket

Web/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, HTTP Server, Weblogic, Websphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Richmond,VA

Programmer Analyst - Mainframe Devops

Responsibilities:

• Involving in the design and coding of the complicated business modules
• Update PROCS, JCL, Control Cards, Job Doc, and Other support documents, to in corporate updated changes.• Participate in testing - support test batch runs.
• Worked within the cloud for integration processes.
• Develop test plans, perform unit, integration testing and user Acceptance Testing and ensure all Quality guidelines are followed by all the team members
• Provided 24/ 7 Production Support on biweekly basis and responsible all CMS control-m jobs related issues and resolutions as per defined SLA standards
• Route cause analysis of Problem Logs created thru incident tool/emails from the users
• Configured and deployed micro-services and instances for example AMI’s, EC2, ECS, Auto-scaling, S3 and security groups using Cloud Formation.
• Worked on deploying build artifacts to AWS EC2 environments.
• Migrating On prem applications to Oracle cloud Infrastructure.
• Provide complete application support across various application servers such as WebLogic, WebSphere and apache tomcat, which includes, customizing configuration changes between multiple environments and gathering the new requirements from Dev and Business teams.
• Work on Red Hat Enterprise Linuxoperating systems to build development, integration, staging and production environments of various platforms.
• Experience in Setting up the build and deployment automation for Terraform scripts using Jenkins.
• Responsible to create and maintain documentation for the run engine functions and participate in incident resolution while performing root cause analysis on production issues.
• Providing help to the application team members with queries regarding application server/webserver configuration in relevance to their applications.
• Involved in mainframe modernization into cloud AWS
• Prioritizing of Production fixes/user requests and solving requests by fixing the code and analyzing the job flow on Control-M

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CONTROL-M, EAZYTRIVE,MQ,CICS,FILEAID,VSAM,File Manager, Fault Analyzer, ISPF/SDSF, Control-M, BMP, DLI, Endevor,DeVOPS with Phython,Jenkins,GIT,Jenkins, WebLogic, Oracle BPM, Unix/Linux

Confidential - Johannesburg, SA

Technical Programmer Analyst - Mainframes

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the new requirements to prepare the functional specifications
• Involving in the design and coding of the complicated business modules
• Develop test plans, perform unit, integration testing and user Acceptance Testing and ensure all Quality guidelines are followed by all the team members
• Provided 24/ 7 Production Support on bi weekly basis and responsible all CMS control-m jobs related issues and resolutions as per defined SLA standards
• Route cause analysis of Problem Logs created thru incident tool/emails from the users
• Prioritizing of Production fixes/user requests and solving requests by fixing the code and analyzing the job flow on Control-M
• End-to-end ownership for the support tickets and resolve the production issues within SLA
• Prepare/Review the impact analysis of design documents of small enhancements for all modules (General Ledger applications)
• Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all General Ledger applications
• Creation of Hive tables, loading and analyzing data using Hive queries; involved in implementing data visualization using Hive, writing Hive queries to test the test cases

Environment: Mainframes, COBOL,JCL,DB2,CONTROL-M,File Manager, Fault Analyzer, ISPF/SDSF, BMP, DLI, Endeavor

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end responsibility and accountability of all the projects (Finance Control System (FCS), Automated Suspense Control (ASC), National Validation System (NVS), Corporate Control Database (CCD), Foreign Exchange Rate System (FXRSYS) and intranet General Ledger (iGL)). Managed Teams, monitor/track & communicate the project status to all stakeholders.
• Provided 24/7 Production Support and responsible for all GL service related issues and resolutions as per defined SLA standards
• Route cause analysis of Problem Logs created thru Peregrine tool/emails from the users
• Prioritizing of Production abends/user requests and solved requests by fixing the code and analyzing the job flow on CA7
• End-to-end ownership for the support tickets and resolve the production issues within SLA
• Prepare/Review the impact analysis of design documents of small enhancements for all modules (General Ledger applications)
• Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all General Ledger applications.
• Develop test plans, perform unit, integration testing and user Acceptance Testing and ensure all Quality guidelines are followed by all the team members

Environment: COBOL II, IMSDB, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, File-AID, XPEDITOR, JCL, REXX,HIDAM, BMP/DLI,ENDEVOR

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed many custom Batch programs using COBOL, IMS, JCL and DYL280 to meet the Business Requirements
• Gathered requirements from end-users and prepared detailed technical specifications for the implementation of new customizations.
• Created test plans and executed UTP (Unit Test Plan).
• Developed/Enhanced many Online Screens for Allotments Modules using CICS, DB2.
• Involved in Retro/Repayment modifications, Pay Calculation Program changes.
• Prepared program specifications and diagrams, developing coding logic flowcharts

Environment: COBOL, IMSDB,JCL, File-Aid, Informatica