SUMMARY:

• 7+ Years extensive experience in the IT industry in DevOps, JBOSS, WebLogic, and Tomcat Administration, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Maintenance on WebLogic Servers.
• Expertise in installation, administration, maintenance of WebSphere Application Server Base & Network Deployment (5.1/6.0/7.0/8.0 ), WebSphere Portal Server (5.x/6x.) on UNIX and Windows environments.
• Expertise in building the Docker Images for WebSphere and WebLogic.
• Created the cloud automation for WebSphere actions like install, configure and deployment.
• Performed Migration tasks (Back up and Install, Fresh Install) of WebSphere Application Servers from 6.1 to 7.0 on various environments
• Expertise in setting up WebSphere resources, Virtual Hosts, Shared libraries and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) parameters
• Extensive experience in handling all the aspects of Installation, Configuration and Administration of OracleWebLogic Server versions 8.x./9.x/10.x/11g/12c on Windows, Red Hat LINUX and SUN Solaris operating systems.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting, Load Balancing, and Clustering, Deploying Applications, Middleware Performance Tuning and Maintenance of Applications and Web servers.
• Extensive experience in setting up Multiple Domains, Configuring, Monitoring, Administering Admin Servers, Managed Servers, and NodeManager.
• Used WLST to administer and monitor WebLogic Application Server, Performed regular performance tuning and monitoring in WLST.
• Proficient in Shell Scripting and Performance Tuning of UNIX systems with proven skills in UNIX System Administration.
• Well - versed in defining and configuring Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications and EJB’s.
• Configured Virtual Hosts and Work Managers in WebLogic server to manage resources.
• Configuration Management using Subversion (SVN) and maintaining admin related files.
• Experience in Administration / Maintenance of source control management systems such as GitHub and Subversion SVN .
• Experience in setting up the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI and CD) for Release Automation of Java and Oracle Fusion Middleware Applications (Oracle ADF, Oracle SOA, OSB)
• Setup ANT script based jobs in Jenkins and Worked with Jenkins Pipelines
• Experience in working with ANT Scripts, MAVEN for deployment and running test suites for various firm wide applications
• Well versed with deployment of J2EE applications such as WAR, JAR, EAR, and RAR in clustered environment using Admin console, Shell scripts &WLST scripts.
• Expertise in application deployment (JAR, WAR, EAR files) and troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server, Portal Server, IBM Http Server, Weblogic and WebSphere MQ related issues
• Experience in migrating source code repositories from between various version control systems like SVN to Git.
• Configured various jobs in Jenkins and Hudson for deployment of Java based applications and running test suites
• Experience in working with Software Configuration Management tools - Puppet and Chef
• Expertise in the Administration, Installing, Configuring Servers like Apache 2.0, JBoss 5.0, Tomcat 6/7/8.
• Strongly experienced in the Installation, Configuration and Administration of JBoss Application Server versions 5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Extensive experience in Installing and Monitoring performance parameters through JON 2.4 and JConsole for Jboss.
• Experience in configuring and administering JDBC resources (DataSources, connection pools), JMS resources (Queue, Topic, connection factory) in WebLogic and JBoss .
• Excellent working experience in finding the Memory Leaks and adjusting the JVM Heap Sizes and Garbage Collector Parameters during performance monitoring and performance tuning of WebLogic/JBoss servers.
• Proficient in analyzing Log files such as WebLogic/JBoss server logs, node manager logs and Plug-in logs for troubleshooting and problem determination to resolve issues.
• Experience in Business Integration services using different versions of IBM WebSphere Message Broker (IBM WMB v6, v7 and v8) and IBM Integration Bus (IIB9 and IIB10).
• Administration and Configuration of WebSphere MQ on different environments like Windows, Linux and AIX.
• Excellent in development, Installation, configuration, maintenance, up-gradation, remote technical support, patch management, troubleshooting, repair, monitoring and supporting of WebSphere technologies.
• Created and modified the existing ANT scripts, creation of custom tasks definitions, dependent targets, targets for multiple environments
• Experience in developing shell scripts and JACL/JYTHON scripts for various WebSphere Administration Tasks
• Strongly experienced in the installation, configuration and administration of Apache 2.0 HTTPWeb Server, and Tomcat 6/7/8.
• Extensive Experience in creating and configuring Clustered environments to maintain load balancing and high availability of applications on Oracle WebLogic Server/Tomcat/JBoss.
• Experience in collecting Thread Dump, Heap Dump and analyzing them by coordinating with development team.
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration and deployment of virtual servers through VMWare.
• Experienced in Web Security, Open SSL, SSO, SOAP, SAML 1.1 and Monitoring Tools. Packet traces using Ethereal/Wireshark or equivalent TCP/IP troubleshooting.
• Good Experience with Protocols and Utilities like TCP/IP and HTTP/HTTPS.
• Working experience on different Databases like Oracle, DB2, Sybase and SQL Server.
• Experience in 24/7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to OracleWebLogic, Apache, Tomcat and JBoss servers.
• Good understanding of different types of search and reporting commands in Splunk.
• Good experience in using monitoring tools Dynatrace, BSM, App Dynamics, Moogsoft, HPOV, Kibana and Grafana.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Middleware: Oracle WebLogic Application Server 8.x./9.x/10.x/11g/12c, BEA WLS 8.x/9.2/10.x,11g,12c Oracle Service Bus 11g/12c, WebSphere Application Server 7.x to 8.5.5, WebCenter and BI Publisher 11g, Oracle SOA Suite11g/12c, Apache-HTTP Server 2.0/2.2/5.x, Apache Tomcat 6.x/7.x/8.x, JBoss 4.x/5.x/6.x Oracle RAC, Sun One Webserver 6.x (iPlanet 6.0), MS IIS server 4.x/5.1/6.0, IBM MQ-series, MySQL

Programming Languages: C++, SQL, PL-SQL, Java

UNIX, Solaris, Red Hat LINUX, HP: UX, Unix-AIXWindows 98/2000/NT/XP/VISTA.

J2EE Technologies: Servlets, JSP, JDBC, RMI, JMS, JTA, JNDI, JMX, EJB and Applets.

Web Technologies: JDK 1.4/5/6, HTML, XML, DHTML, MSXML, ASPX, Eclipse.

Performance Monitoring & Testing Tools: Wily Introscope, JMeter, Splunk, JProbe, Mercury Load Runner, Grinder, Samurai, Oracle Identity Management, RSA Access Manager and Identity Manager, TDA, Sitescope

Scripting Languages: WLST, UNIX Shell Scripting (Bourne, Korn, C and Bash), LINUX, Perl Scripting, PHP Scripting, ANT Scripts.

Packages: JDK 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5/6 , JSDK 2.0, J2EE

IDE s/Utilities: Eclipse, Oracle WebLogic Workshop, MS Visual Studio 2005, SSH, OpenSSL, Putty, and WLST.

Database: Pointbase, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/10.x, MS SQL Server, My SQL, MS Access and DB2.

Networking & Protocols: TCP/IP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, SSL, IDM 6.0 and 7.0

CI Tools: Jenkins, Bamboo, Hudson, Chef, Puppet, AWS, Amazon EC2

Build Tools: ANT, MAVEN

Version Controlling Tools: Subversion, Perforce, GIT,CVS

Other Tools: Adobe Photoshop, MS Visio, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, MS Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, RTP, NC

Sr. WebLogic /WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on creating ANT scripts to build and deploy Java/J2EE, Oracle ADF and Oracle SOA based enterprise applications to WebLogic Application Servers.
• Installed, configured and troubleshooted JBOSS Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.4, WebLogic Server 10.3.x, 12.1.3, 12.2.1, Tomcat 8.x and Apache 2.4, under Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris environments.
• Installed and renewed SSL certificates for Web/App servers.
• Administered WebCenter Portal version 11g.
• Handled entire migration from WebSphere Application Server 7.x to 8.5.5 on AIX, Linux, Solaris and Window 2012 systems.
• Installed, Configured and administrated IBM WebSphere Application server (WAS) 8.x and WebLogic 12.x on various environments and created the cloud environment for the applications.
• Involved in integrating with other enterprise softwares like IBM & Sun-one HTTP Server, WebSphere, IBM Tivoli Directory Server ldap, IBM ODM, Jboss, Tivoli Access Manager and Production Support of various systems/software on Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux and Windows environments.
• Configured and administered the JDBC, JMS and JNDI in OracleWebLogic Server11g and 12c.
• Setup the Jenkins jobs for Continuous integration process and to execute test cases
• Set up the scripts for creation of new snapshots and deletion of old snapshots in S3 using S3 CLI tools
• Experience in maintaining and executing build scripts to automate development and production builds.
• Set up the Jenkins CI/CD process for over 60+ applications and Jenkins master slaves for the entire CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience in maintaining, executing, and scheduling build scripts to automate DEV/QA/UAT builds.
• Worked with the development team to generate deployment profiles (jar, war, ear) of Java based applications using custom ANT Scripts
• C onfigured Single Sign-on architecture using Site minder 6.0 and integrated it with WebSphere Application Server and Apache Web Server.
• Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues and class path issues by checking the JVM logs, plug-in logs and the webserver logs, check the JVM's, Connection Pool sizes.
• Worked with MQ team to resolve the issues with Queues and QMGRs with in the IBM WebSphere server.
• Supported vendor applications deployed on WebSphere application servers.
• Responsible for building/deploying consistently repeatable build/deployments to company production and non-production environments using JENKINS & BUILD Pipelines, ANT, MAVEN
• Installed and configured WebSphere MQ Series 5.x on AIX, Windows and Linux and configured proxy plug-in with Apache and IBMIHS web servers.
• Deployed Java/J2EE applications to WebLogic server using Jenkins builds
• Created Jython and Weblogic WLST scripts to automate the deployment process
• Involved in leading Automation Deployment Team by working with Puppet.
• Setup the Chef Infrastructure for the environment for software configurations management
• Configured multiple cookbooks, recipes, templates and attributes on workstations to be deployed to various chef nodes
• Provided configuration management expertise to all software development projects
• Set up the Linux Cron jobs for automating various build related jobs and application data synchronization jobs
• Worked on customization of existing Python scripts of some of the internal applications
• Worked on configuring the Apache Tomcat for Java applications deployment.
• Worked on extending the Python WLST scripts for WebLogic server
• Worked with SVN and GIT version controls.
• Setting up new development branches, merging branches, facilitating the releases
• Setting up the SVN and GIT repos for Jenkins build jobs.
• Migrated Apache from 1x to 2.4.10 and Tomcat from 6x to 7.0.55.
• Managing the database DDL, DML scripts in SVN and GIT
• 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.
• Interacted with the data warehousing team regarding extracting the data and suggest the standard data format such that Splunk will identify most of the fields.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon WebServices.
• Imported and managed multiple corporate applications into Tortoise SVN and implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance Automated SQL Scripts.
• Worked with the RHEL for enterprise environment and CentOS for the POC environment
• Used Jenkins and Ansible for Continuous Integration and continuous deployment in multiple environments.
• Experience in creating users, groups and roles in LDAP server
• Migrated OBIEE RPD and WebCatalog objects from Dev to QA environment.
• Experience in writing the re-write rules in Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0
• Setup the JMS and JNDI on the WebLogic servers
• Experience in working with various authentication providers in the Weblogic application server environment

Environment: Tortoise SVN, Jenkins, Java/J2EE, ANT, MAVEN, GIT, Splunk, AWS, OpenStack, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, WebCenter, WebSphere, Puppet, Chef, Python Scripts, Shell Scripts, Sonar, UNIX, JIRA, Ansible, Jython, GIT, Jython.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Middleware/WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Developed and supported the Software Release Management and procedures using agile/scrum.
• Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion/CVS support for different projects.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/CVS Repositories, views, and the access control strategies for different parallel development teams.
• Installed (GUI, Silent mode) configured and maintained IBM WebSphere Network Deployment Server V8.5.5.0/v8.x/V7.x/V6.x, IBM HTTP Server V8.5.5.x/V8.0.x/v7.x/6.x,
• Played a major role in migrating WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on Solaris to WebSphere Application Server 7.0.
• Deployed EARs, WARs in the WebSphere Application Servers.
• Installed, Configured and administered OracleWebLogic Server 10.0 MP1, 10.0 MP2, 10.3, 11g, 12c, Oracle SOA suite 11g and Webservers like iPlanet/Apache in Development, Test and Production Environments.
• Installed and configured and managed Splunk and Dynatrace (for performance) dashboard to proactively monitor live network bandwidth, memory usage, and hard drive status, and application error logs.
• Designed and implemented Subversion and CVS metadata including elements, labels, attributes, triggers and hyperlinks.
• Implemented & maintained the branching, merging and build/release strategies utilizing Subversion/CVS.
• Used ANT and MAVEN as build tools on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Automated the entire build and deployment process using Jenkins and Hudson for Continuous Integration, and also documented the process .
• Managed and Monitored JVM performance by WebLogic Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools.
• Connected continuous integration system with GIT version control repository and continually build as the check-in's come from the developer.
• Worked on Nexus repository to maintain artifacts and used as a local repository.
• Coordinated the Development Team, QC and Application Support in Deploying the Code to the right System Test Environment using Hudson Tool.
• Expertise with Oracle Identity Management 11g, Configure IDM OVD, SSO with Oracle Weblogic portal and Webcenter suit, Set up all environment for development and production including Oracle SOA suit, oracle Weblogic portal 10.3.2, Oracle database 11g and Oracle IDM 11g.
• Created multiple Make, ANT, MAVEN, Shell scripts for build automation and deployment.
• Created inventory in Ansible for automating the CD
• Involved in Development, deployments and infrastructure with tools such as Chef, Jenkins and GITHub.
• Created scripts for Backup and restoring SVN repositories.
• Converted old builds using MAKE to ANT and XML for doing Java build
• Experience in writing playbooks for Ansible and deploying applications using Ansible.
• Manage configuration of Web App and Deploy to AWS cloud server through Chef.
• Deployed the Java applications into web application servers like Apache Tomcat.
• Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of BEA WebLogic server 8.1/9.2/10.x, Oracle SOA11g & Oracle Service Bus 11g.
• Executed user administration and maintenance tasks including creating users and groups, reports and queries.
• Managed SVN branching and merging for older projects in multiple simultaneous releases
• Worked as a system administrator for the build and deployments process on the enterprise server.
• Integrated Eclipse with Selenium Server for doing the automated smoke testing of the application standalone URL’s related to deployed package after the build and deployment process.
• Actively monitored and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere MQ application.
• Created scripts for creating queues, managing dead letter queues, extracting error code text from *.h files, testing MQ queues and managing logs.
• Documented project’s software release management procedures with input decisions.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Developed, maintained, and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.
• Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management.
• Created views and appropriate meta-data, performed merges, and executed builds on a pool of dedicated build machines.
• Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Ant, Maven, Subversion, Jenkins, Dynatrace, Clear Case, Clear Quest, UNIX, Junit, Chef, Puppet, Apache, AWS, WebSphere MQ, GIT Hub, SVN, Hudson

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Middleware/ JBoss Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & Administration of Clustered WebLogic Server 10.x/11.x/12c on Production Environment.
• Creation of WebLogic domains and setting up Admin & Managed servers for JAVA/J2EE applications on test and production environments.
• Installation, configuring and monitoring of JBOSS 6.1 servers and integrated SunOne Web Server to work with the Application Server.
• Deployed the EAR, JAR, WAR applications on multiple WebLogic Server Instances and JBoss servers.
• Involved in working with Load balancing/Firewall to achieve failover and high availability.
• Configured JMS resources Queues, Topics, and JDBC connection pools and data sources for WebLogic/JBoss server instances.
• Configuration of Horizontal and Vertical Clusters.
• Created Domain Templates to replicate the environment on new WebLogic/JBoss servers.
• Worked with WLST scripts and Shell Scripts to automate frequently done tasks like deployments.
• Experienced in analysis of thread dumps, core dumps, server hang and high CPU utilization conditions in WebLogic and JBoss.
• Optimizing the memory usage by tuning Garbage Collection.
• Monitoring WebLogic/JBoss Server health and security.
• Analyzed Log files such as WebLogic/JBoss server logs, node manager logs, Plug-in logs and thread dumps for troubleshooting and Problem determination to resolve issues.
• Responsible for Java Application Server administration and tuning experience (e.g. JBoss, WebSphere, Tomcat, WEB LOGIC)
• Involved in assisting QA team in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebLogic/JBoss Application Servers.
• Installed, configured and administered Apache 2.2 and Tomcat 7/8 on Linux.
• Installed and configured HTTP Proxy Plug-ins on Apache Web Server to send traffic to request dynamic content from WebLogic Application servers.
• Implemented security by configuring Secured Socket Layer (SSL) for client authentication and data encryption.
• Configured LDAP using Active Directory for user authentication and authorization.
• Installed, configured and deployed virtual servers through VMWare on Windows environment.
• Installed and configured Jrockit Mission Control (JRMC) in production environment to monitor system critical parameters such as garbage collection, memory leaks, CPU utilization, file/network I/O.
• Responsible for 24x7 production support of mission critical applications running on WebLogic and Apache/Tomcat Middleware.

Environment: WebLogic 10.x/11.x/12c, JBoss 6.1, Apache 2.2, Oracle Jrockit 6, VMware, JDK, J2EE, JDBC, Tomcat 7/8, Red Hat Linux, Shell Scripting.

Confidential, Colmar, PA

WebLogic Adminstrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuring, troubleshooting and maintaining the Web Logic 9.2/10.3.1.
• Tuning and managing WebLogic application servers in all in development, Testing and Production for better performance.
• Developed and managed Domains using configuration wizard and configuration builder.
• Configured Node manager for administration of Managed servers.
• Configuration of JDBC connections and data sources with Oracle database server9i troubleshooting and fixing up problems.
• Created the JMS Server, JMS Connection Factories, Queues, Topics, File Store, Database Store and Message Bridges and monitored.
• Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by WebLogic Heap Size, garbage collection and JDBC Pools.
• Developed scripts (start, stop, backup & recovery processes) for WebLogic application server administration.
• Developed ANT, UNIX shell scripts and Perl scripts to automate the deployment process.
• Created WebLogic Portal domain and created projects, portal application in WebLogic workshop.
• Configured WebLogic Virtual hosts in WebLogic 9.1/10.3.1 server.
• Applied patches/service packs for security and to remain in good performance.
• Performance and tuning WebSphere MQ as needed.
• Configured Tomcat 5 to work with Apache Http server, IIS, SUNONE.
• Configured SSL in Web Logic application server.
• Implementing Load balancing for the application using the F5 Load balancer with WebLogic server 8.1/9.2/10.3.1 .
• Implemented SSO using Siteminder 5.5 using SAML 1.1 authentication and authorization and implemented between an identity provider and a service provider.
• Interacted with developers and Database Administrators to ensure a smooth and bug-free application deployment.
• Dealt with high CPU issues and custom execute queues and tuned TCP/IP parameters
• Troubleshooting with Thread and Heap analysis for detecting blocking and locked threads
• Familiarity with Confidential Active Directory, TOAD, Citrix, JIRA ticketing system, KeePass (password safe keeper) and SVN sub-version tool.
• Provided support for various applications in Production Environment.

Environment: WebLogic 9.2/10.3.1, Apache 2.x Server, IBM IHS, IIS , WebSphere, SUNONE, Tomcat 5 , SQL Server 2000, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2000 , Solaris9, Linux, F5 Load Balancer, Oracle 9i, JDK 1.5,HTML, JDBC, JNDI, JMS, SNMP, JTA, Spotlight, Site Minder, ANT, UNIX.

Confidential

Application support

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Maintenance of BEA Weblogic Server 8.1 on Red Hat Linux and Windows Operating systems.
• Design and develop JDBC connection objects for the data retrieval and update.
• Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Failover functionalities.
• Monitoring the application servers with the help of Sitescope and also by writing UNIX scripts that will send an email/page whenever something fails.
• Configured Node manager to administer the Managed servers of WebLogic.
• Created and maintained Design documents (low & high level Design Documents).
• Involved in the design, development and execution of test plans and strategies.
• Designed and developed web applications using Servlets, JSP, Java Beans and Threads.
• Developed JSP with HTML and JavaScript for data presentation and collection.
• Configured clustering EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
• Designed and developed modules from scratch as part of enhancement.
• Developed Java Scripts and HTML pages for front end.
• Developed several JSP Pages and Servlets for the front end.
• Developed Stored Procedures for extracting data.
• Involved in Performance Tuning and Bug Fixing.

Environment: WebLogic 8.1, Red Hat Linux 5/Windows Server 2003, Unix, J2EE, JProbe, Wily Introscope Linux, Java, Struts, Hibernate, HTML, DB2, Java Script, Eclipse 3.