SUMMARY

• A dedicated system administrator with over eight (8) years of experience in Administration, Operations, Implementation, Automation, Upgrades, Maintenance and Designing across multiple platforms

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Ansible
• Hadoop
• HDFS
• Splunk
• Cassandra
• Python
• GIT
• WPS
• AWS
• OpenStack
• IBM WebSphere Portal
• CSICO IDS
• CISCO ASA
• WAS v6.x LINUX
• OS/390
• Windows NT
• PDM
• Tivoli
• DB2 and Oracle
• IBM WebSphere application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x
• IBM WebSphere MQ server 5.x/6.x/7.x
• IBM DB2
• UNIX (AIX
• Sun Solaris
• Http web server
• Jython
• Tivoli performance Viewer
• Tivoli Access Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Texas

DevOps Engineer (Ansible)

Responsibilities:

• Experience in working with Ansible versions 1.8 & 2.0, Tower version 2.1.
• Experience in upgrading Hadoop 1.3 to 2.2 using Ansible.
• Experience in installing and updating Ambari and its RPMs on multiple clusters.
• Experience in Core Users and Groups creation and their mapping.
• Experience in deploying and configuring Splunk Forwarder in multiple Clusters.
• Experience in Deployment, configuration, and maintenance of Hadoop servers.
• Experience in automating the existing Hadoop environments installations, configurations.
• Experience in Automating using roles, jinja2 templates, group vars, host vars, and loops.
• Experience in working with GIT to store the code and integrated it to Ansible Tower to deploy the playbooks.
• Expert knowledge and experience with Software Version Control systems: GIT.
• Experience in creating inventory, job templates and scheduling jobs using Ansible Tower.
• Experience in packages installation for Hive, Oozie, Zookeeper, Ambari and Webhcat severs.
• Experience in Creating appropriate documentation, make recommendations for improving existing architecture.
• Experience in documenting Automation processes, procedures, installations, configurations, and projects.
• Experience in working closely with database administrators and infrastructure teams to support day - to-day.
• Experience in working with server clusters consisting of thousands of machines.
• Experience in deploying applications in Docker Containers.
• Experience in installing Zookeeper and configuring Mesos master info to Zookeeper.

Confidential, Philadelphia

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in automating the existing IBM environments installations, configurations.
• Experience in writing Ansible playbooks.
• Experience in scheduling jobs using Ansible Tower.
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience in using docker containers.
• Experience using open-shift enterprise 3 and deployed applications using Docker containers in the cloud with Paas.
• Automated Openshift workflows to reduce development to QA time.
• Experience in Automating using roles, jinja2 templates, group vars, host vars, and loops.
• Experience in working with GIT to store the code and integrated it to Ansible Tower to deploy the playbooks.
• Expert knowledge and experience with Software Version Control systems: GIT.
• Experience in creating inventory, job templates and scheduling jobs using Ansible Tower.
• Experience in Writing Python modules for Ansible customizations.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installing, configuring, Administering and troubleshooting, IBM WebSphere Application server 6.x/7.x, JBOSS 5.x/6.x, and WebSphere Portal 6.x/7.x,
• Troubleshooting issues related to middleware products for different clients (production support, Hung threads, deadlock, Memory Leak, slow performance issues).
• Worked with network Security using CISCO IDS and CISCO ASA firewall.
• Worked with NoSQL Platforms and Extensive understanding on relational databases versus No-SQL platforms
• Installed and Configured NoSQL Environments and acted as first point of contact for issues.
• Used UNIX shell scripts to automate the monitoring and administration process.
• Installed, configured, administered WebSphere Application Server on Sun Solaris 8/10.
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshot WebSphere in a clustered environment
• Involved in installation and upgrading different versions of WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in setting up environments for UAT/SIT/PRE-PROD/PROD, designing the infrastructure depending on load the application going to put on Wily by metric count, designing fail-over strategy planning the disaster recovery.
• Solid experience in enabling different kind of utilities in wily to solve memory leak/Dead Lock issues like leak hunter, instance count & enabling boundary trace method.
• Involving in integrating wily introscope with WebSphere application Server/portal server.
• Involved in installing EPAgent V7.x/V8.x which monitors disk utilization and performance issues.
• Experience in automating Websphere 5.0 Application server for web applications development and deployment of JSP and EJB components.
• Involved in setting up different utilities like error detector, leak hunter, SQL Agent as needed.
• SQL Agent is used to debug slow SQL query performance related issues.
• Troubleshooting issues like slow performance using wily for applications deployed on portal/application server.
• Solid experience in using different kind tools like Heap Analyzer/Thread Analyzer/GC analyzer etc.

Confidential

WAS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WAS different Versions on AIX.
• Deployed large Web-based transaction systems in WebSphere application Server 5.0.
• Responsible for administration, development and implementation of web applications using WebSphere Application Server5.0.
• Worked with various project teams to provide support in performance tuning and issue resolution.
• Involved in load testing to see how much business the load server would be able to handle.
• Used SiteScope to monitor all the production environments during deployment of applications
• Actively participated in day-to-day operations of the environment either being involved in development or production support all the time.
• Involved in setting up of Deep Diagnostics tool to monitor the applications from top down approach.
• Installed and configured the iPlanet (Sun One) Web servers & setup firewall filtering with Squib Proxy server for web caching on Sun Solaris.
• Implemented the functional areas for several product groups on Sun Enterprise servers and setup NFS exports for sharing the file systems.
• Maintained Websphere 5.0 Application server for web applications development and deployment of JSP and EJB components.
• As a WebSphere Admin created and managed the connection pools of the WebSphere and clusters and created data sources.
• Deployed application EARs on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in QA, Pre-Production and Production environments on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.
• Profiled all the J2EE Applications and worked with Application Development, and QA teams to resolve possible memory leaks, improve application integrity, performance and resolve all issues, bugs before deploying in Production.
• Installed and Configured JBOSS Application Server.
• Deploying the application in local JBOSS instance and testing the application flow
• Implemented SSO (Single Sign-On) among the applications configured with Access Manager.
• Written some Shell/Jacl scripts to automate the process like node federation for distributed platforms.
• Wrote Perl, JACL Scripting to automate business tasks like rotation, compression of web agents.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuned the system caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Performed WebSphere Configuration backup and restoration using scripts
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshoot WebSphere in a clustered environment on AIX.
• Utilized skills in shell, and wsadmin/JACL scripting to automate deploying, updating applications, migrating data and automating batch jobs.
• Troubleshooted and successfully resolved LDAP, SiteMinder and WAS
• Troubleshooted problem-tickets, worked with developers to identify the root cause and resolve the issue or propose a potential work around.
• Mentored development and support teams on WAS operation and problem determination.
• Configured enterprise applications and corrected performance problems by monitoring server availability and resource utilization analysis.
• Managed multiple high profile, complex projects and implemented with minimal disruption to end-users
• 24x7 on-site operations support for different environments in project.

Confidential

WAS Administrator/On-Call support

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server 6.0 for use in the development and testing environment.
• Experience in the WebSphere 5.x,6.x Installation and configuration in Clustered Environment.
• Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management, WebSphere MQ objects creation, server groups & clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration, Network Deployment Configuration in WebSphere 5.1
• Created a testing environment to run applications on WAS 6.0.
• Deployed and configured an EJB and Web Application to run on WAS 6.0.
• Installed and Configured WAS 5.0 on AIX and Windows Intel platforms.
• Deployed large Web-based transaction systems in WebSphere application Server 5.0.
• Responsible for administration, development and implementation of web applications using WebSphere Application Server5.0.
• Worked with various project teams to provide support in performance tuning and issue resolution.
• Provided load/stress and architecture validation testing.
• Also responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM Http Server
• Installed WebSphere Application Server (5.0) on Solaris Platform.
• Developed WebSphere backup scripts using WSADMIN and JACL scripts.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.0 on AIX.
• Installed and configured the iPlanet (Sun One) Web servers & setup firewall filtering with Squid Proxy server for web caching on Sun Solaris.
• Implemented the functional areas for several product groups on Sun Enterprise servers and setup NFS exports for sharing the file systems.
• Integrated various reports into the application. The reports were created using Seagate Crystal Reports and the application was created using Vision JADE.
• Maintained Websphere 5.0 Application server for web applications development and deployment of JSP and EJB components.
• As a WebSphere Admin created and managed the connection pools of the WebSphere and clusters.
• Write scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, troubleshooting etc.
• Supported a 24X7 production system.
• Maintained the local Apache web server running on a Solaris server.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• 24x7 on-site operations support for different environments in project.