SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in design and implementation of fully automated Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment pipelines and DevOps processes. Over 6+ years IT experience encompassing UNIX/Linux Admin experience, and a Middleware/Application Server Specialist.
• 3 years of Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools like Chef.
• Strong UNIX knowledge with 5+ years of experience in troubleshooting, and supporting the systems in Linux/AIX
• Extensive knowledge on installation, configuration, maintenance of Jenkins, for the purpose of Continuous Integration (CI) and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.
• Certified Middleware Engineer with 3 years of experience in IBM MQ 7.x, 8.5, MB7.x, WebSphere Application Server 7.x, 8.5.x, Apache tomcat.
• Managed Amazon web services like EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, Auto - Scaling, AMI, EBS, Cloud Watch through AWS.
• Experience in deploying, maintaining the web applications on cloud instances.
• Strong scripting knowledge, Developed scripts those handle everyday Administration tasks using SHELL and Python.
• Worked on an API named WCaaS(Web Container As A Service) for the migration of Web Applications from IBM WebSphere Application Server to Tomcat.
• Good knowledge in containerization space, created customized Docker images and published them to Amazon ECS.
• Using Vagrant built and configured local virtual development environment.
• Using Splunk and Datadog provided the Monitoring and Log Management facilities.
• Implemented Clustering, Performance tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere MQ 7.x. and Application Server 7.x, 8.5.x
• Good understanding of SSL and Configured end to end SSL at webserver and application level.
• Experience in building visualizations using Splunk and Datadog.
• Good experience in working in highly critical production environments and have ability to work within tight deadlines.
• Exposed to Time and Money Projects (SCRUM).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

API-driven Infrastructure: Vagrant, VirtualBox, OpenStack and AWS

Operating Systems: UNIX and Windows

Operations: Service-now, JIRA

Deployment: GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef & Supermarket

Logging and Analytics: Splunk, Datadog.

Scripting: Shell, Ruby, Java, C

Integration Tools: IBM MQ, MB, Mulesoft anf kafka

Application Servers: WAS, Apache Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DevOps Engineer/Solution Implementer

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Infrastructure automation and Configuration management using Chef.
• Responsible for build automation using Jenkins.
• Build visibility layer for legacy applications.
• Configure Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Autoscaling groups.
• Writing chef recipes to install and deploy the web applications to openstack and AWS cloud services.
• Worked on an API named WCaaS for migration of Web Applications from IBM WebSphere Application Server to Tomcat (The API “WCaaS - Web Container As A Service” builds the complete infrastructure for any Web Application in less than 10 minutes with just one API call. The build process involves Spinning Up an OpenStack/VMaaS VMs with CentOS on two different Data Centers with complete Load Balancer setup (GTM & LTM), Install required libraries, attributes and Tomcat Application, build Tomcat Catalina instances & Deploy the .war file which is an application’s code)
• Use Datadog and splunk as log monitoring tools to monitor critical application components like heap memory etc.

Environment: AWS, Chef, Docker, Vagrant, Jenkins, Github, Websphere Application server, Tomcat, ELK Services, Linux/MAC.

Middleware Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Installation and Configuration of WebSphere MQ/MB, WAS, Apache Tomcat on various platforms like AIX, and Linux.
• Implemented Clustering, Performance tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere MQ 7.x. and Application Server 7.x, and 8.5.x.
• Good experience in configuring the MQ Listeners, channel initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files and Dead Letter Queues.
• Implementing Security using Local OS, Custom and LDAP for WebSphere Application Server Admin Console.
• Worked on out of memory, memory leaks, hung session issues.
• Troubleshooting on issues such as federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with WebSphere Application Server ND.
• Configured end to end SSL at webserver and application level.
• Configuring JDBC and Oracle Database Connectivity.
• Installed and configured message broker components.
• Created MQ objects on distributed and clustered environments.
• Integrated and deployed enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere application server 7.x, 8.5 that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files.
• Worked on Dynamo ATG application servers with SunOne Http servers.
• Configured capital ware security exits for Queue managers and channels.
• Automated several build/support tasks to make sure the issues are addressed in no time.
• Analyzing critical issues and providing workaround / permanent solution and RCA.
• Have good understanding of MQ OAM to set proper access at application level.
• Configured different properties in MB execution group and message flow level using mqsichangeproperties etc.
• Worked with different vendors like IBM and Redhat to trouble shoot and fix the issues at product level for better stability.
• Used monitoring tools like Tivoli, Qpasa, MQ/MB explorer.
• Configured and deployed mulesoft application flows.
• Worked on B2B e-business tool to transfer business files to/from different vendors.

Environment: IBM MQ, IBM MB, Wesphere application servers, Tomcat, Splunk, Mulesoft, B2B, Qpasa, IBM Http server, Dynamo.