SUMMARY

• More than 7+ years of extensive experience in WebLogic administration including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, load balancing, clustering, deploying applications, performance tuning and maintenance of WebLogic server versions 8.x/9.x/10.x
• Excellent working experience in DevOps model
• Expertise in SOA administration
• Expertise in writing build scripts to handle complex automation / administration using ANT, MAVEN, Shell scripting, WLT and Python
• Very good experience in Installation and configuration of Jenkins as continuous integration tool
• Hands on experience with wily Introscope 7.x/8.x for monitoring alerts to WebLogic server.
• Well experienced in installation and implementation of security through LDAP, Active Directory and integrity SiteMinder for single sign - on
• Extensive working experience in setting up multiple domains, clustering, load balancing etc.
• Hands on experience with installation and configuration of BIG IP load balancer
• Proficient in deployments and troubleshooting issues with JAR, WAR and EAR files in single node and clustered environments.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Apache Web Server, Microsoft IIS Web Server and Sun Java System Web Server (IPlanet 6x)
• Expertise in configuring WebLogic resources like JDBC connection pools, multi pool configuration, jms, Authenticator providers in security realms etc.
• Expertise in setting up WebLogic jndi security
• WebLogic administration, monitoring and troubleshooting using admin console and JMX.
• Strong knowledge at Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows and HPAUX- Open view administration platforms.
• Good at server performance tuning - Thread Dump Analysis, Core Dump Analysis when server crashed unevenly.
• Hands on experience with JMS Configurations - JMS Server, Connection Factory, Foreign JMS server, Message Bridge, Topic/Queue, distributed destinations.
• Expertise in security set up, creating security roles, group policy, user authentication, auditing and authorization.
• Expert in Automation of Release and Deploy configuration management to different environments i.e. development, QA, UAT and production.
• Thorough understanding of Virtual machines and cloud computing services (AWS), networking TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, SSH, SCP and web coverage services (WCS)
• Experience with Linux/UNIX environments and shell scripting for Build & Release automation
• Defining Branching strategies and CM build cycle in a complete SDLC for different projects.
• Proficient with Shell Scripting for build automations
• Experience automating deployments on Application Server WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat and WebSphere
• Experience with defining release strategy, process and preparing user documentation for software configuration management
• Experience with implementing project change control into software release management in multiple technical environments including UNIX, LINUX and Windows
• Experienced with automating release process using Maven, Jenkins, and JIRA as tools in diversified project environments.
• Used Clear Quest, Jira, Remedy as defect management system.
• Proficient with Java, Microsoft .Net applications build & Release
• Capable of working both as a team player and independently.
• Possess effective oral and written communication skills and strong analytical problem solving capabilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Internet/Java Technologies: JSP, Servlets, EJB2.0, XML, HTML, JavaScript, JNDI, JMS JDBC 2.0.

Web/App servers: Oracle/BEA WebLogic 9.x/10.x,11g WebLogic Portal Server 9.x/10.x,11g Apache Tomcat 5.0/4.5, IIS 6.0, Apache server 2.x, SunOne Webserver (IPlanet)6x.

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2008/2005, Sybase

Scripting: MAVEN, ANT, Shell script, WLST, Perl, Python

Protocols: Http, Https, Ftp, t3, t3s, TCP/IP, LDAP, SNMP

Platforms: Red Hat Linux 5.4, Solaris 8/10, AIX 5.3, Windows, HP-UX 11.11i.

Others: SOA, Jenkins, Rational Clear Case, Oracle Enterprise Manager(OEM), OBIEE 11g, Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD), LDAP, Active Directory, Oracle Enterprise manager, JDeveloper, IBM WebSphere MQ, Sun One Directory Server, CA SiteMinder, Wily Introscope 7.x/8.x, SiteScope, TeamForge, JProbe, HP OVO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Sr. DevOps (Release) Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in DevOps migration/automation processes for build and deploy systems.
• Implement the Build automation process for all the assigned projects in Vertical Apps domain
• Monitor the UAT/Production Environments for any down time issues by performing regular cron job updates in servers.
• Excellent hands on experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting the issues and performance tuning of WebLogic/Apache/IIS and Tomcat
• Creating JDBC and JMS resources.
• Hands on working with LDAP configuration. Configuration of Groups, Roles and policies. Assigning users to Groups and Roles
• Support the code builds by integrating with continuous integration tool (Jenkins)
• Written Maven scripts, Installed Jenkins, written shell script for end to end build and deployment automation.
• Built Continuous Integration environment (Jenkins, Nexus). And Continuous delivery environment (Puppet, Yum, Rsync).
• Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) Using Jenkins, Nexus, Yum and puppet.
• Able to create scripts for system administration and AWS using languages such as BASH and Python.
• Build server deployment on Cloud (EC2) servers with help of DevOps tools like Puppet.
• Created Security groups and policies using Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS).
• Excellent experience in writing the Unix and shell scripts in order to automate the process of daily monitoring, build and deployment activities
• Expertise in writing MAVEN/ANT scripts for automation of build and deployment of SOA components. Experienced in writing WLST scripts.
• Implemented JShint/JSlint testing tool to automate the code review process and published the results on Jenkins as well the graph by comparing everyday nightly builds.
• Maintain a Live Like environment to test any production issues on the setup and push it into production.
• Configure and maintain stress server in different geographical location and provide setup in every release to perform stress testing.
• Performed creating Docker images and launching virtual images
• Configuration Management using Subversion (SVN) and maintaining admin related files.
• Automating the regular tasks in Subversion and streamlining the process of access to SVN.
• Migrated Projects from SVN to GIT.

Environment: WebLogic, Tomcat, apache, Java/J2EE, Subversion, Jenkins, JIRA, OpenStack, Maven, GIT, ANT, Puppet, AWS, Python, Remedy, Docker, Unix Shell Scripting.

Confidential - Cleveland, OH

Sr. Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed configured and administered BEA WebLogic Server 10.x in various environments.
• Configured and administered J2EE services including JDBC JMS and JNDI in WebLogic Server 10.x
• Release Engineer for a team that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
• Designed and managed build and release methodologies.
• Deployed code from DEV/QA/Staging /PROD.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the CVS/Subversion Repositories and the access control strategies.
• Managed SVN repositories for branching, merging and tagging.
• Established processes and tools to maintain code base integrity, including check-in validation rules and Branch/merge processes.
• Installed and Configured Jenkins for Continuous Integration.
• Responsible for the Plugin Management, User Management, and END-END build and deploy setup using Jenkins.
• Used Jenkins& CHEF to perform automated CI Builds and Deployments.
• Used MAVEN as a build tools on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Worked as a system administrator for the build and deployments process on the enterprise server.
• Worked closely with the development team and SQA team for product releases.
• Implemented Configuration Management, Change Management policies and procedures.
• Build configured and support Application team environments.
• Deployed the applications to Tomcat Application Server and static content to apache web servers.
• Used JIRA as ticketing tool.
• Integrated JIRA and SVN to do the pre-commit checks using hook scripts.
• Used Shell and Perl Scripts for automating the daily tasks.
• Worked with development, testing, deployment, systems/infrastructure and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems.
• Supported and developed tools for integration, automated testing and release management.

Environment: WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, Subversion, CVS, Java/J2EE, MAVEN, Jenkins, CHEF, Tomcat, JIRA, LINUX, XML, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts.

Confidential, NC

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured WebLogic clusters and deploying J2EE applications in the cluster in a production environment in Solaris
• Administrated using the system administration tools like system administration console, Node manager, WLST and command-line interface.
• Deployed J2EE Web and EJB modules using Ant tool WebLogic command Line
• Worked closely with development and testing teams to implement fixes in testing and production environments.
• Installed Oracle-8i server, Oracle client software on the application server and configuring the connectivity using JDBC drivers
• Set up and configured MQ series messaging service via JMS Server
• Configured clusters, load-balancing and fail-over solutions and Web server plugins for WebLogic application server
• Installed and configured of F-5 / BIG IP load balancer to work with WebLogic server
• Certificates generation and installation using OpenSSL and Key tool
• Server Performance Tuning - Thread Dump Analysis, Core Dump Analysis when Server crashed unevenly LDAP, Oracle 8i/9i/10g on UNIX (Solaris/AIX/Linux) and Windows environments.
• Created JDBC connections to database like SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i and MS SQLServer databases. Performed Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by WebLogic Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools and taking Thread dumps and analyzing to find the problems in application.
• Web Server/Proxy server setup and administration (Apache, Tomcat, IPlanet, Apache SSL etc.)
• Used Ant scripts and UNIX Shell scripts for configuration.
• Monitored and performance tuned WebLogic JVM Heap size garbage collection JDBC Pools and JMS
• Integrated IPlanet webserver 6.0, Apache 2.0 and IIS 6.0 with WebLogic (9.x/10.x) server
• Developed scripts (start, stop, backup and recovery processes) for WebLogic application server administration
• Developed WLST/Jython, Python, ANT scripts, UNIX shell scripts to automate the deployment process
• Configured Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication and two Way SSL for WebLogic 8.1/9.2 using key tool
• Deployment of J2EE Web applications EJB components and enterprise applications (WAR, JAR and EAR files)

Environment: WebLogic, Subversion, GIT, Java/J2EE, JDK, ANT, MAVEN, DB2, UNIX, Windows XP, HP Quality Center.