SUMMARY:

Around 9 years of experience in Linux/Windows Engineering, Build, deploy & Release Management. Extensive experience in Middleware Architecture, Linux/Windows System Administration, Design, Infrastructure Planning, Deployment, Maintenance & Production Support.

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: 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

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

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

Automation Tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, BladeLogic, Octopus deploy

Cloud Offerings: Docker, Open Shift, AWS EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, EBS, CloudWatch.

SSO: CA Site minder R12, ADFS

BPM Tools: Appian, PEGA, ARIS

Monitoring Tools: App Dynamics, Wily Introscope, Site scope, Splunk, Tivoli

Programming: Shell Scripting, Powershell, Python, HTML, SQL, C++

Databases: Oracle SQL Developer, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, MySQL, RapidDB, Dbaas Exadata(Oracle, Microsoft SQL)

Paas: Apprenda

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

Software products: Qmarkets Idea Management Software, Cipher cloud DocScanner for data encryption, Vormetrics encryption

Source Control: Bitbucket, SVN, GIT, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational ClearCase.

Tools: RPM/YUM Packaging, Toad for Data Analyst, Toad for Oracle, Perfecto Mobile, WinScp, Super putty.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NEW JERSEY

Senior Middleware Architect / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Red hat Linux, Suse Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Sun Solaris and some Windows Servers.
• Successful Upgrade/Migrate the Pega infrastructure and its hosted pega applications from Pega 7.2.x to 7.3.0
• Experience on complete software development life cycle (SDLC) with software development models like Agile, Scrum Model, JIRA, Waterfall model.
• Highly motivated and committed DevOps Engineer experienced in Automating, configuring and deploying instances on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Data centres.
• Experience in maintaining Atlassian products like JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket.
• Experience in development and deployment of applications using JBoss, IBM WebSphere Application and Apache Tomcat.
• Experience in automating the application packaging and configuration using rpm packaging and yum
• Experience in configuring and automating CI and CD process using Git, Team City, Team Services and Octopus Web Deploy for Microsoft.net applications.
• Installing, configuring and implementing performance monitoring tools like Wily Introscope 9.5, Sitescope, Splunk 6.3.1 on all the new and existing applications.
• Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining various BPM tools like PEGA, Appian and IBM BPM.
• Experience in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN) on Linux and windows platforms.
• Experience in installing and implementing Single Sign On (SSO) on all the applications (PEGA, Appian etc.) using CA Site minder R12, ADFS 2.0 with SAML authentication.
• Experience in installing and supporting applications hosted in TOMCAT APACHE, IIS, IBM HTTP & WEB SPHERE.
• Experience in Network Management like DNS, NIS, NFS, LDAP, FTP and system troubleshooting skills.
• Hands on experience (Knowledge) on performance monitoring tools like App-Dynamics, Cloud Watch and Site Scope.
• Automated and deployed database related configurations and scripts using MySQL & TSQL scripts.

Environment: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, IBM WebSphere Application 8.x, IBM HTTP Server 8.x, Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX, Jboss, Apache, CA Site minder R12, ADFS 2.0, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1.1, Apprenda, Pega, F5 load balancer, Toad for Oracle, SQL Server, Wily Introscope 9.5, Sitescope, Splunk, WinScp 5.5.4, Super putty1.4.0.4, Unix Shell scripting, SVN, Bitbucket, Jira, SonarQube, Cloudbees Jenkins

Confidential, TEXAS

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in installing and implementing Single Sign on (SSO) on all the applications using CA Site minder R12, ADFS 2.0 with SAML authentication.
• Installed, Configured, maintained and supported WAS 7.0 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.
• Experience in Software Integration, Configuration, building, automating, testing and releasing code from one environment to another environment and deploying to servers.
• Involved in supporting cloud instances running Linux and Windows on AWS, experience with Elastic IP, Security Groups and Virtual Private Cloud in AWS.
• Extensively worked on 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 Cucumber automation tool.
• Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS and Configuration management using Chef and Ansible.
• Writing chef recipes for various applications and deploying them.
• Performed Data driven testing using Selenium WebDriver and Junit functions which reads data from property and XML files.
• Configured Docker container for branching purposes and Implemented Docker automation solution for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery model.
• Developed Chef Cookbooks to manage system configuration and for Tomcat, MySQL, Windows applications and versioned them on GIT repositories and Chef Server.
• Worked in an agile development team Devops to deliver an end to end continuous integration/continuous delivery product in an open source environ
• 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.
• Migrated environments from IBM AIX 6.1 to Red Hat Linux.
• 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.
• Developed automation scripts to overcome manual efforts for deployment using BMC Blade logic across all applications.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application 7.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.1, Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX 6.1, Sun Solaris 5.1, IBM Rational Team Concert 3.0.1, IBM Rational ClearCase 7.1

Confidential

Senior System Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in design and architecture for unit and integration testing tools like JUNIT, SELENIUM.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins as part of continuous integration and used it as an automation tool for all builds and deployment.
• Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), and PowerShell for automating tasks.
• Good hands-on experience with DevOps configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible.
• Writing Chef Recipes for Deployment on build on internal Data Centre Servers. Also, re-used and modified same Chef Recipes to create a Deployment directly into Linux and Windows servers.
• Setup ANT script-based jobs in Jenkins and worked with Jenkins Pipelines.
• Build scripts using ANT and MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments
• Automated and deployed database related configurations and scripts using MySQL & TSQL scripts.
• Configured Apache, IBM HTTP & IBM WebSphere in the Linux environment using Puppet automation.
• Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers using Nagios.
• Configured Apache web server in the Linux AWS Cloud environment using Puppet automation.
• Gained Extensive knowledge on writing and deploying modules in Puppet.

Environment: Linux, SQL Server 2008, Shell Scripting, Batch scripts, Perl Scripting, Dynatrace, Apache Tomcat Server, Red Hat Linux Jenkins, GitHub, Puppet & Nagios

Confidential

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in installing and implementing Single Sign on (SSO) on all the applications using CA Site minder R12, ADFS 2.0 with SAML authentication & SAML Authorization.
• Analysed the High level design(HLD) and Low Level design(LLD) for preparing the AID.
• Created the Application Infrastructure Design Document(AID) for all the applications for capacity planning.
• Integrated ANT with Jenkins to automate the build process as part of continuous delivery.
• Modified ANT scripts to build the JAR's, Class files, WAR files and EAR files.
• Interacted with the team to build end to end integration.
• Created ANT, Bash & PowerShell Shell scripts for build automation and deployment.
• Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN) on Linux and windows platforms.

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Solaris UNIX 5.1, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Python and ruby scripting, Software Configuration Management (SCM), Site Minder, GIT,SVN