SUMMARY

• Around 9 years of IT experience including proven experience in providing Configuration, Administration, Disaster Recovery, Implementation, Integration and Backup related responsibilities involving multiple architectures highlighting Web and E - Commerce Solutions with emphasis on customer satisfaction.
• Provided operational support experience in a large environment. This could be OS, application, DevOps, or Database or multiple combination.
• Experience in implementing and supporting IAM security with proficient understanding of best practices. Experience in implementing and supporting identity cloud solutions.
• Technology Expert with IBM WAS, WCS and IHS Web server setup, Installation, configuration and capacity planning.
• Implementing and supporting application security measures to protect computer systems, networks, and data.
• Currently engaged on installing WAS configuration to AWS platform.
• Having experience in implemented various SOAP & REST based web services using IIB and DataPower. Experience in collecting Requirements and developing Design documents.
• Expertise in configuring a domain, deploying applications, configuring data sources, logging, and web subsystems in WebSphere, WCS, JBoss and WebLogic.
• Debugging probe on DataPower application and analysing the instance with header response.
• Configured SSL using Self-Signed certificates and CA certificates between Application Server and Web Server, Web Server and browser, and LDAP Server.
• Expertise in setting up enterprise-scale highly available WAS/Portal infrastructure by implementing High Availability (HA), Workload Management(WLM), Node Groups, JVM cloning and disaster recovery mechanisms.
• Experience in implementation of Workload Management (WLM) of WebSphere Application Server using vertical and horizontal clustering, and in performance tuning usingTivoli Performance Viewer.
• Strong experience in Administration and Maintenance of WASND clusters (vertical, horizontal, hybrid) and deploying applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Experienced in deploying J2EE components in Base and ND WebSphere Application Servers V6.x/7.x/8.x/9.0, WebLogic using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), WAS Admin Console, shell/wsadmin/JACL/Jython scripting.
• Expertise in developing WSCP scripts and Shell scripts to administer and automate batch job scheduling including backup and recovery processes.
• Highly experienced in utilizing Shell, JACL and Jython scripts for administration, maintenance, troubleshooting and for ALL day-to-day activities.
• Experience in installing patches and fixes for WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in Planning, Installation and Administration ofWebSphere MQ, on various platforms.
• Installation, Maintenance, Fixes upgrades, general Administration, Deployment, Troubleshooting and Performance tuning of AWS, WebLogic application servers.
• Experience in working with logs, traces and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer and Admin Console.
• Experience in performance tuning usingTivoli Performance Viewer, CA Introscope Wily.
• Used Wily Performance tools for monitoring and tuning the WebSphere environment like configuring Heap size, Thread pool size, Session Management, connection pool size.
• Expertise in Single Sign-On domain using Tivoli Access Manager, Site Minder, Identity Management and LDAP.
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills, ability to lead bridge calls during production issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Amazon Web Services, IIB, ODR, IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0/8.5/8.0, IBM WebLogic Application server, WCS, IBM MQ 7.0/6.0, Brokers, JBOSS Application Server 7.x, Apache Tomcat, IBM DataPower, IBM API Connect.

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 6.x, 5.x/4.x, Sun Solaris 8.0/7.x, Linux 8.0/7.x, HP-UX 11.x, Windows 95/98/NT/2K/ 2003, 2008, 2012 R2.

Languages and Scripts: Java, J2EE, C++, C, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JACL, Jython, Shell scripting, Perl, JavaScript.

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server, Sun One/ iPlanet Web Server, AWS, IIS, ODR.

Network /Protocol: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, REST, SSH, Telnet, FTP, RMI/IIOP and WAP (WTP/WSP).

Tools: CI/CD, SOAP-UI, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, CA Introscope Wily, AppDyIT Service Management and, AppDynamics, Jira, Slack, Confluence, ServiceNow, Venafi.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rhode Island

WebSphere Admin Lead/APIC

Responsibilities:

• Currently working on installing WAS configuration to AWS platform with Middleware delivery team on project delivery.
• Cloud platform experience on security, EC2, EFS, EBS, S3 and KMS.
• Deployed Open Shift Enterprise on Red Hat 7.3 environment and integrate with private Docker registry.
• Created a docker-registry and router pods in the Openshift environment to serve user requests.
• Created Ansible playbooks to automate system operations.
• Expertise in deploying J2EE applications (partial/full deployment) on the IBM WebSphere application server through the admin console as well as through wcsadmin scripts.
• Administrating the all vignette environments including Production. Involved in production support activities like problem analysis, impact analysis and fixing the same.
• Work with the dev ops team to install and configure Nginx, Apache Karaf, Hybirs, and AEM dispatcher on Amazon Cloud Red Hat servers for different environment Dev and QA.
• Responsible for installing Jenkins master and slave nodes and configure Jenkins builds for continuous integration and delivery.
• Involved in helping application teams in setting up readiness and liveliness probes for minimizing the downtime for application deployed in Open shift.
• Created fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and process for multiple projects using Docker, Jenkins, OpenShift and Ansible.
• Experience with XML and related technologies and strong working knowledge on IIB, IBM Websphere MQ.
• Provides support for day-to- day maintenance activities for API connect, Datapower and IIB, working directly with developers as required.
• Worked on API Connect upgrades, customize advanced developer portal, created API documentations. Integrated API with IIB (IBM Integration Bus) and fulfilment platform application.
• Supporting 1300+ servers on 85+ applications (WebSphere application servers, JBoss, WebLogic, Tomcat) and 800+ (MQ, brokers) and maintained 1000+ certificate renewals as BAU activity on Venafi tool.
• Led and trained resources from offshore in WCS Admin. Worked closely with client team to resolve any issues or improve system performance.
• Performance tuning and strategies on various application for Tomcat and WebSphere, including migration to latest versions.
• Implementing and supporting application security measures to protect computer systems, networks, and data. Implementing and supporting single sign-on, multi-factor and directory service-based solutions.
• Worked on multiple upgrade projects and automation EAR deployments via Jenkins and Puppet.
• Experience in administration and configuration of Splunk.
• Experience with L2/L3 protocols, IPv4/IPv6 and TCP/IP stack and with web-based services and protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, REST, Apache, Tomcat) experience on advanced Linux concepts.
• Experience with tools like Jira, Slack, Confluence, ITSM, ServiceNow and AppDynamics on daily basics.
• Configure Application dashboard to monitor all services including heap, response, latency, errors, transaction details etc on AppDynamics tool.
• Decommission old servers on post upgrading the servers for applications.
• Configure playbook documentation for setting up alert system with EMR team.
• Implemented and supported IAM security with proficient understanding of best practices.
• Execution day to day hands on with release engineering aspects of DevOps including the configuration management, Build and Deployment Management, Continuous Integration and Delivery Ansible based deployment and configuration automation solution.
• Providing security services that enable business while maintaining the highest levels of service and support without compromising a strong risk position.
• Supporting tier-1 applications like Master Data Management, IBM Content Navigator, Content Manger on Demand, IAM Security SailPoint, RSA, SSO, Online and Mobile Banking include Consumer, Commercial, Payment Treasury and Branch teller for Production environment.
• Proven experience with highly complex risk issues in a technology environment and appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and supporting existing systems for WebSphere Application Server 7.0/7.5/8.0/8.5, 9.0 WebLogic 10.x/11g and IBM MQSeries 6.0/7.0, Linux platforms using silent and console methods.
• Handling internal and external servers with F5 and windows.
• Experienced in Service Oriented Architecture understanding of business process choreography terminology.
• Created vertical & horizontal clusters to establish Load balancing and Failover strategies in WebLogic application server.
• Debugging probe on DataPower application and analysing the instance with header response.
• Analyse the errors with service from IBM API Connect and extract analytics to analyse the errors for product.
• Dynamically react to changing business requirements with the ability to install new versions of a process and migrate running processes to a new version.
• Implemented Workload Management (WLM) on WAS Network Deployment (ND) and Portal environments using multi servant cloning and clustering techniques including process server topologies.
• Used Workload Management. (WLM) for optimizing the performance of WebSphere Application server.
• Configured scalable applications through Server Groups, Profiling (Cloning) and Clusters.
• Monitoring the error logs, fixing the problems, and tuning parameters of WebSphere, WebLogic and JBoss environment.
• Enabled security and configured Secure Socket Layer (SSL) between Web Server, WebSphere Application Server, and Process Server.
• Installed SiteMinder web agents and configured the webservers to communicate with the policy server.
• DevelopedWebSphere administrativetasks usingwsadmin (JACL & JYTHON)scripts
• Experienced in most of the WebSphere admin tools including wsadmin, backup config, JACL, Jython Scripts, TPV, Resource analyser, Log Viewer.
• Managed Security and performance optimizations for JBoss by analysing dumps using the memory analyser tool.
• Enabled the security for WebSphere Application server 6.x/7.x/8.x by configuring it with the LDAP server.
• Configured WebSphere global security with LDAP registry. Created users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console, users and groups in LDAP and added them as WebSphere Console Groups.
• Experienced in performance tuning by tweaking WebSphere configuration parameters like JVM heap size, JVM web container threads, DB connection pooling etc.
• Experienced in debugging memory problems by analysing garbage collection, heap dumps.
• Worked closely with load testing teams in user acceptance test environments to fine tune the applications before production deploy/migration.
• Configured automation health checks to verify the status of the JVMs and application services.
• Involved in opening and working on several PMR’s with IBM support. Worked actively with IBM level 2 & 3 support engineers on several critical issues to isolate the source of problems. Good exposure with troubleshooting tools, enabling a trace, collecting must gathering information and analysing the data.
• Involved in several disaster recovery exercises as part of the quarterly failover process. Failovers were at the Web, Application, and database layers.
• Administered the MQ Queue manager, Queues and Channels, Debugging the day to day problems.
• Experienced in defining synchronized and persistent IBM MQ Series, On Demand Router(ODR), Queue Manager, Channel Mangers and Queues.
• Implemented theclusteringof queue managers to achieve workload balancing and to reduce system administration.
• Working with CA Wily Introscope, Dynatrace and HP performance manager to monitor key performance indicators for a system like CPU Utilization, Peak Disk Utilization, Active Processes, Run Queue Length, Network Input Packet Rate, Network Output Packet Rate etc.
• Involved from team as point of contact for handling entire Exadata migration for 50+ applications.
• Experienced in change control procedures and coordinating technical activities with Security, Network, DBA teams and other IT departments.
• Responsible for all QA level change approval on post reviewing the change requirements with steps.

Environment: IBM Web sphere Application Server 9.0/8.5.5/8.0/7.0, IBM Portal Server 8.x/7.x, IBM MQSeries 6.0/7.0, IBM HTTP Server 8.x/7.x/6.x, CA Introscope Wily 9.0, Site minder Policy Server 6.0, DB2, Oracle 9i/10g, AIX, Z/OS and Linux Windows 2008, IBM MQ, MB, DataPower, APIC, AppDynamics, ServiceNow, Jira.

Confidential

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration IBM WebSphere Application Server ND/Tomcat and IHS on Sun Solaris8 and Windows 2003 server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Fixpack WAS applications from 7.0 to 8.0 and 9.0 in development, test, and production environments along with MQ migrations.
• Implementation horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere in a workload managed cluster to avoid failovers.
• Performed the package, build, integrate and deployment of enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 4.0/5.0 that involved the creation and editing of EAR, JAR, WAR files using AAT.
• Configured WebSphere/Tomcat resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling.
• Installed plug-ins and worked on issues related with the AppServer and Web Server connectivity.
• Troubleshooting various issues like Heap size, class path, thread pools and port conflicts.
• Deployed Enterprise applications on clustered Application Servers through admin console and by using automated scripts on UNIX/Windows environment.
• Created users, groups in LDAP (TDS) and mapped them to the enterprise applications running on WAS.
• Generated web plug-in and configured with web servers by doing manual edits.
• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server/Tomcat resources like JDBC, J2C, JMS and Connection Pooling.
• Integrated Enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deployed using Admin console, automated using wasadmin scripts (JACL &Jython).
• Reviewed Web Server, Application Server Performance Monitoring data using both Wily Introscope and Tivoli Performance Viewer and reviewed historical Tivoli logs for root cause analysis, recurring events and involved in troubleshooting.
• Maintained UNIX Shell Scripts, JACL to automate the WebSphere administration (deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state etc...).
• Worked on Problem tickets (PMR’s) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues.
• Participated in Disaster recovery activities with yearly based on Teir-1 and 2 level applications.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server ND 6.1.x/6.0.x/5.1.x/5.0.x, Sun Solaris 8, Windows 2000, DB2UDB 8.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.x/2.0/1.3, XML, Tivoli Directory Server v5.0(LDAP), Tivoli Performance Viewer, wsadmin, Jacl.