SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 9+ years of System Administration experience with 6+ years as Middleware Administrator.
• Proficient in Software Development Life - Cycle (SDLC) phases of design, development, implementation, deployment, testing and Maintenance by using Agile/scrum and Lean methodologies, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD) practices.
• Expertise in middleware administration & implementation of web based enterprise applications on IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.5, WebLogic 12c/11g, JBoss EAP 6.5, DataStage 7.0,8.1,8.3, 9.1 and 11.0, apache Tomcat 7/8 in deploying, Configuring, Tuning, Clustering, Performance monitoring and troubleshooting admin related issues.
• Experience in Unix/Linux Systems Installation, Configuration, Implementation and performance Tuning,
• Skilled in troubleshooting problems in the operational infrastructure and applications, including follow-up problem resolution, root cause analysis and process improvement.
• Experience in using Thread Analyzer, Log Analyzer and Heap Analyzer to detect and analyze problems.
• Highly proficient in automating environment builds, administration, deployment operations using standard scripting utilities like Unix Shell, ANT, WSAdmin, JACL, Jython and Python.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Nagios, Grafana, Graphite, Splunk, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Heap, Log and Thread Analyzer, ISA (IBM Support Assistance)

Scripting Languages: Shell, Jython, COBOL, JACL

Defect Management: Jira, Bugzilla, HP QC, Confluence

Security: Window Active Directory, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, JAAS, LDAP, Custom Repository, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and SSO

Databases: Oracle 9i/8i, DB2, MySQL, ESQL, XA, NoSQL

Web Protocols: HTTP,HTTPS,UDP,SSL,DNS,POP,TCP/IP,FTP,SMTP,SOAP,TCP/IPV4,FTP,SMTP,Telnet

Other Tools: Putty, WinSCP, Xming, eXtream Scale, MFT, Connect Direct, TIBCO iProcess, Intel SOA, BizTalk, Teamsite, Entrust, Site Minder V6.0, Wily IntroScope, Tivoli, Data Power

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Pleasanton, CA

Sr. WebSphere Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Install and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server V 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0, IBM HTTP Server v 8.5/8.07.0/6.1/6.0 on IBM AIX, Red Hat 6.5.
• Administration, maintenance and integration of Apache web server.
• Creating Projects, adding users on Data stage 7.1, 8.5,9 and 11.
• Providing L2 Middleware support on production environment (App hosting, DataStage, MQ, MB, ESB, Clarity and Tandem
• Responsible in updating the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for the IM’s and Defects raised.
• Representing the CRB (Change request board) meetings on planned Change Requests, C-tasks on daily basis.
• Responsible for Change ticket approvals and understand the requirements based on Dev environment test results.
• Work with vendors (Dell, IBM and HP) and developers for application related issues and actively involved in minor and major integrated releases.
• Trouble shoot on inbound, out bound rejects and SFTP job failures in ESB (enterprise service bus).
• Monitoring the production jobs on middleware tracks (CAWA, DataStage and Clerity Jobs)
• Taking care of Nagios alerts on alert priority and production impacts.
• Responsible for shift handover updates and follow up with offshore teams.
• Maintain the confluence pages up to date on issues basis and reviewed by Clients in weekly Infra meetings
• Create the Jira stories on alerts setups and ticketing service issues.
• Participated in Several BCP plans in production and completed successfully.
• Troubleshooting Issues related to Applications based on tickets, Infrastructure (Webserver, Middleware, Databases etc.), based on Architecture.
• Supporting 24/7 on severity calls and production issues, coordinating with offshore teams shift basis.
• Taking care of weekly maintenances on MFRH Clerity application servers and DataStage servers. (Reboot the servers, regions and nodes)
• Monitoring performance using with Grafana, Grafite and other service now dashboards.
• Create and maintain support documentations and reviewed production support documentation provided by developers for best practices.
• Opened issues with Vendors to resolve problems. Managed communication until resolution.
• Communicating with developers though seminars and Learn sessions regarding new open source tools for build and dependency management tools.

Environment: IBM Websphere 8.5.0.2, IHS, WebLogic 11g Server Administration, WebSphere MQ 7.5, DataStage 7.0, 8.1, 9.3, 11.0, Apache, IIS 7.5, Windows 2008/2012 R2, Linux, AIX,, Splunk, Nagios TOAD, TFS

Confidential - Parsippany, NJ

Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server V 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0, IBM HTTP Server v 8.5/8.07.0/6.1/6.0 on IBM AIX, Red Hat 6.5.
• Administration, maintenance and integration of Apache web server.
• Designed, Created and Managed Continuous Build and Continuous Integration environments in agile projects.
• Deployed Enterprise applications to WebSphere application server/Apache Tomcat server.
• Monitored performance of J2EE applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Continuously monitoring and improve our infrastructure for performance, stability, scalability, and security.
• Implemented and maintained Load balancing for the application using the F5 Load balancer.
• Enabled Global Security and Application security using LDAP by configuring OS repositories, Stand-Alone LDAP and Federated LDAP repositories.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server features for High Availability, Load Balancing and Work Load Management.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, and virtual hosts for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Enabled Security Socket Layer (SSL) by requesting and generating digital certificates for implementation of HTTPS between Plug-in and Application Server.
• Involved in configuration of JDBC Providers, XA Data Sources along with tuning Connection pool settings for various application databases on DB2, SQL, and Oracle Servers.
• Created and maintained support documentation and reviewed production support documentation provided by developers for best practices.
• Troubleshooting Issues related to Applications, Infrastructure (Webserver, Middleware, Databases etc.), based on Architecture.
• Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting on Sterling Order Management and In-depth Knowledge of Sterling SDF and API’s
• Deployment and troubleshooting of .Bar files on the IIB environments
• Planning and Configuring and Managing brokers
• End to end WMQ admin support and also have been part of Installations and configurations of WMQ & WMB on various environments like Windows, Linux and AIX.
• Ability to administer the message objects associated with all WebSphere MQ objects such as Queues, process definitions, Channels and Listeners.
• Involved in troubleshooting of channels in Distribution queuing. Hands on experience with Migration of MQ from Lower to higher versions.
• Upgraded IBM MQ/MB on different platforms by applying APARS.
• Installation experience of Cognos on Windows and on UNIX flavors.
• Worked on server management, release management, license management, and Cognos installation, tuning, configuration and package management.
• End to end configuration and deployment of Cognos Reports, Security, upgrading along with Cognos BI administration.
• Installation, Configuration, deploying and troubleshooting of Oracle WebLogic Administration Server.

Environment: IBM WebSphere 8.5.0.2, IHS, WebLogic 11g Server Administration, WebSphere MQ 7.5, Apache, IIS 7.5, Windows 2008/2012 R2, Linux, AIX, Wily IntroScope, Splunk, TOAD, TFS, Cognos BI 10.1/10.2, Tivoli, IIB 9.0

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting Issues related to Applications, Infrastructure (Middleware), based on Architecture.
• Responsible in updating the Root Cause Analysis for the IM’s and Defects raised.
• Worked in resolving Autosphere Issues used for deployment.
• Implemented Horizontal and Vertical Clustering, Performance tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Servers.
• Applied Patches to the WebSphere servers and upgraded service packs of the WebSphere 7.x from one version to other.
• Involved in setting of High Availability and clustering for WebSphere.
• Worked on SCM tools like Perforce and ClearCase to check-in / Checkout code and changes.
• Used Autosphere and Blade logic automation tools to install and configure WebSphere and Webservers.
• Created security roles, group policy, user authentication, auditing and authorization
• Worked on Web Security tools- LDAP Server, SSL Certificates and client authentication.
• Installed and configured Apache HTTP Server plug-in to proxy the request from Apache HTTP Server to the WebSphere and WebLogic Servers.
• Configured the WebLogic proxy plug-in and the applications on Apache and SunOne Webservers.
• Instrumentation of JVM’s for monitoring health using Wily IntroScope tool.
• Configured Single Sign-on architecture using Site minder 6.0 and integrated it with WebSphere Application Server and Apache Web Server.
• Work with vendors and developers for application related issues and actively involved in minor and major integrated releases.
• Involved in MQ servers administration which include creation and administration of MQ objects
• Restating QMGRS, Channels and backing up and purging the messages that are in DLQs, BOQs.
• Troubleshoot issues related to MQ by looking at the appropriate log files.
• Achieved Work Load Management by Clusters in WAS 6.x/7.x.
• Troubleshoot 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.
• Troubleshoot Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, & class path issues.
• Opened issues with Vendors to resolve problems. Managed communication until resolution.
• Troubleshoot issues on Class Loaders etc.,
• Used Autosphere and Blade logic automation tools to install and configure WebSphere and Webservers.
• Worked on troubleshooting Web-Services and API’s.
• Troubleshoot Build / Release issues related to code branches / streams, VOB’s Merging issues, check code issues before Release etc.,
• Participated in resolving the Defects raised by Testers and Developers.
• Designed, Created and Managed Continuous Build and Continuous Integration environments in agile projects.
• Performed 24/7 on-call support and Participation in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes.

Environment: WebSphere 6.1.x,7.x, WebSphere Portal Server 6.x, WebLogic 10/11g Server Administration, WebSphere MQ, Apache & IHS 2.0/6.x, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Oracle, Wily IntroScope, SiteScope, Splunk, TOAD, Perforce, ClearCase, GitHub, FundTech, SiteMinder, AutoSys

Confidential - Tampa, FL

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with developers to define and configured application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications
• Implemented Horizontal and Vertical Clustering, Performance tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/7.0.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console.
• Using Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Perform J2EE builds for the project, compile projects and package ear file using ANT scripts, Maven and provide suggestions to fix the code in case of build failure.
• Set up Continuous Integration builds using Hudson\Jenkins\Build Forge build management tool.
• Create new scripts to automate the build and deploy process, develop and maintain build tools to reduce manual tasks. Setup builds scripts for different projects.
• Set up streaming and branching strategy in subversion depending on the solution center.
• Generate SCM plans for different solution center.
• Actively involved in creating WIKI documents for build and SCM related topics and resolving queries opened by developer over the internal technical forum.
• Communicating and educating developers though seminars and Lunch and Learn sessions regarding new open source tools for build and dependency management tools.
• Worked with developers and QA team in various stages of development and testing and taking the application from DEV to Test to QA and PROD environments.
• Deployed J2EE applications to Application servers in an agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process.
• Find out the code overlays for concurrent coding and resolve the Merge conflicts from the repository

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0,IBM Http Server 6.1/7.0, IIS, Apache, IBM WebSphere MQ, LDAP, SSL, SSO, Splunk, Sun Solaris, Windows, Python, SVN, Jenkins

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and implemented Windows 2000, 2003 Servers, and Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Troubleshoot Server and Client issues.
• Installation/Upgrade & Configuration of Servers On Linux Platform - Network Configuration, Firmware Install, OS Install, File system Configuration.
• Extensively worked on Linux 4.0X and 5.0X series on the system and Network Administration on Red Hat Linux.
• Installed & Configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and 5.0 Network servers with SAMBA file server & FTP server.
• Configured Linux server Hardening, SQUID proxy server with access control list for Internet.
• Recognize and troubleshoot problems with server hardware and application software. Document troubleshooting standards and procedures.
• System Administration support including activities for Backups, recovery, monitoring and controlling access permissions and privileges
• Diagnosing user related issues and provide solutions. Backup & Restoration by using tar, cpio and dump.
• Responsible for adding, creating new users, groups and setup home directories and appropriate access restrictions to software and directories & files using access modes.
• Installing and configuring of windows servers and troubleshooting server related issues. Backup and restore of AD, and files/folders.
• Perform Security Health Check of Windows servers and other compliance.
• Performed timely Patch management as per the Schedule and involved in change Management as per the process.
• Planning and configuring new internal & external websites
• Website content and application release management and creating Virtual directories.
• Application support for ASP, .NET & java based hosted internal & external websites.
• Deploying .Net based Applications and Java based apps on IIS 6.0
• Troubleshooting application issues hosted on the IIS and provide RCA for the issues.

Environment: Windows 2008, 2012 Servers, MQ SQL, SQL Server, IIS, Apache, Linux, AD