SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in DevOps/Build Release Engineer/Middleware Administration, automating, building, deploying, managing and releasing of code from one environment to other environment.
• Auto Scaling of Infrastructure using Amazon OpsWorks and Chef Deployment scripts and also Continuous Integration using Ant, Maven using Jenkins.
• Experienced at Software Development Life Cycles including requirements analysis, design specification, coding and testing of enterprise applications and Agile Programming Methodologies.
• Experience in monitoring System/Application Logs using Splunk to detect Production issues.
• Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), Ruby, Python and Powershell for automating tasks.
• Experience in Linux Administration, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery in multiple environments like (DEVEL/TEST/STAGE & PROD).
• Installed, configured and maintained Tomcat application server 7.x/6.x/5.x on Red Hat Linux, AIX 6.1/5.3, Windows 2008 and on Windows.
• Experienced in automation using PowerShell Scripting.
• Used PowerShell Scripting for automating processes and collecting reports for daily tasks.
• Created and migrated mailboxes using PowerShellon Exchange 2010 in a cluster environment.
• Experience with Windows NT, server 2000, server 2003 and server 2008 Administration.
• Installing, Configuring, and Administering IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.x, Websphere Portal Server 7.0/6.1 and IBM HTTP Server 8.x/7.x on AIX 6.1/5.3, Red Hat Linux platforms.
• Implemented clustering, performance - tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Servers 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0.
• Deployment of the Business processes by creating JAR, WAR and EAR files to IBM WebSphere application servers.
• Expertise in Conducting systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI, IAM through AWS Console and Application programming interface (API) integration with puppet.
• Experience in using Tomcat and Apache web servers for deployment and hosting tools.
• Experience in Utilize configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet etc.).
• Experience in working on version controller tools like Subversion (SVN), IBM Clearcase, Git, GitHub, Stash and continuous integration management using Jenkins.
• Implemented clustering, performance-tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Servers 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of RDBMS and NoSql tools such as SQL Server 2008/2012/2014 , MySQL, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB & Cassandra.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication
• Experience in shell scripts (Bash), Ruby, Python and PowerShell for automating tasks.
• Installed and configured an automated tool Puppet that included the installation and configuration of the Puppet master, agent nodes and an admin control workstation.
• Day to day job included but not limited to handling Tickets, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Extensive experience using MAVEN and ANT as build tools for the building of deployable artifacts (jar, war & ear) from source code.
• Strong analytical, diagnostics, troubleshooting skills to consistently deliver productive technological solutions.
• Coordinated with the Offshore and Onshore teams for Production Releases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services: EC2,IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), RDS (MySQL), S3, Glacier, Route 53, SES, VPC, Monitoring

Configuration Management: ANT, Maven (3.1.x,), GIT (1.7/1.8/2.2/2.3 ), Jenkins, Puppet(2.x/3.x), Chef(12.x).

Tools: / Webservers: Web Sphere Application Server (8.x,7.x) Netscape/iPlanet Server, MQSeries, Oracle WebLogic Server, JBOSS(7.x,6.x), Apache server(2.x), Nagios, Apache Tomcat (7.x/6.x), IBM AIX (6.0,5.3).

Scripting/ Languages: Javascript, Perl, Java, Shell scripting, Python, PowerShell Scripting and Perl Scripting.

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 10,9,8 &10 Linux (Red Hat 6.x,5.x,SUSE Linux 10),AIX, VMware, Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2012 , CentOS, Ubuntu.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, West Allis, WI

Sr DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Written suit of chef recipes for automating DevOps in Amazon Cloud(AWS).
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers(ELB), EC2 instances, SSL certs and cloudwatch alerts for various environments used by the development team.
• Installed, configured and maintained Tomcat application server 7.x/6.x/5.x on RedHat Linux, AIX 6.1/5.3, Windows 2008 and on Windows.
• Defined processes for CI, application delivery and development environment setup on Windows, Mac and Linux environments.
• Configured CI for various projects using Jenkins, GIT, Maven and Shell scripts.
• Implemented clustering, performance-tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Servers 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0.
• Experienced in automation using PowerShell Scripting.
• Used PowerShell Scripting for automating processes and collecting reports for daily tasks.
• Deployment of the Business processes by creating JAR, WAR and EAR files to IBM WebSphere application servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of RDBMS and NoSql tools such as SQL Server 2008/2012/2014 , MySQL, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis & Cassandra.
• Regular Build jobs are initiated using the Continuous Integration tool with Jenkins.
• Developed puppet manifests for deploying, configuring, and managing collected for metric collection and monitoring.
• Wrote Chef cookbooks for deploying, configuring, install shield and managing collected for metric collection and monitoring.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT source control.
• Develop and implement an automated Linux infrastructure using Chef.
• Good experience in AWS (Amazon Web Services) including deploying new server instances through automation with CHEF and Jenkins.
• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Creating snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances.
• Operating Systems UNIX, Linux/Solaris Windows NT, Windows 2000 and 2008, XP, and DOS, VMware Programming Languages Java, J2EE. C, C++,Python,Ruby, Perl scripting, Shell scripting SCM Tools Subversion/SVN, CVS, PVCS, Harvest, Crucible, Fisheye, Perforce, Team Foundation Server, Github
• Working experience in EBS, S3, VPC and Cloud watch for AWS instances.
• Implemented GIT branching and merging operations for Java Source Code.
• Hands-on Experience of the J2EE Framework and its components as related to Java build, test, deployment and release management initiatives.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts
• Written make Maven and Ant build tools for application layer modules.
• Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting WebSphere, WebLogic, JBOSS, Tomcat and Apache server instances

Environment: Tomcat application server, Red Hat Linux, ANT, MAVEN, GIT, Jenkins, Chef, AWS, Puppet, Ant, Perl, Shell, Maven, shell, bash, python, ruby.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/6.x, CentOS and installation of packages and patches for Red Hat Linux Servers.
• Installed Chef-Server Enterprise On-Premise/WorkStation/ Bootstrapped the Nodes using Knife. Designed and implementedChef, including the internal best practices,cookbooks, automatedcookbookCI and CD system.
• Work with virtualization team to maintain Hyper-Vand VMware environments.
• Document, upgrade, installation, configuration, troubleshooting and monitoring.
• Implemented clustering, performance-tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Servers 8.0/7.0/6.1/8.0.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of RDBMS and NoSql tools such as SQL Server 2008/2012/2014 , MySQL, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB & Cassandra.
• Extensive experience using MAVEN and ANT as a Build Tool for the building of deployable artifacts (war & ear) from source code.
• Experienced in automation using PowerShell Scripting.Used PowerShell Scripting for automating processes and collecting reports for daily tasks.
• Created and migrated mailboxes using PowerShellon Exchange 2010 in a cluster environment.
• Experience in software Build tools like Apache Maven, Apache Ant to write Pom.xml and Build.xml respectively.
• Strong hands on experience with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, PowerShell, and JavaScript.
• Hands-on Experience of the J2EE Framework and its components as related to Java build, test, deployment and release management initiatives.
• Used ANT and MAVEN for building the applications and developing the build scripts.
• Incorporated the Code Quality Tools Findbugs and Cobertura into ANT Projects.
• Implementing new projects builds framework, Continuous Delivery framework using CHEF, Jenkins & maven as build framework tools.
• Experienced in applying plug-ins for WebSphere Application Servers with IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat server on AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows Platforms.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and AWS
• Configured Apache web server to proxy separate servers for the teams Subversion SCM server, Jenkins build server and Nexus repository from a single host using the default port.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication
• Configured Docker container for branching purposes. Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and AWS
• Managed builds and wrote Build scripts for JAVA and WebSphere based applications and also maintained source code repository in subversion, GIT.
• Deployment of the Business processes by creating JAR, WAR and EAR files to IBM WebSphere application servers.
• Wrote Puppet manifests files for all applications to manage the configuration files and to manage them as services.
• Written make Maven and Ant build tools for application layer modules.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Implemented clustering, performance-tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Servers 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0.
• Expertise in installation, administration, patches, upgradation, configuration, performance tuning and troubleshooting various Linux and Windows based servers like Red Hat Linux 4/5/6, CentOS5/6, Sun Solaris 8/9/10 SuSe EL 7/8/9/10 and Window NT 2000/2003/2008.
• Experience with Configuration Management Tools (PUPPET, Ansible).
• Management of Red Hat Linux user accounts, groups, directories and file permissions.
• Applied the Clustering Topology that meets High Availability and Failover requirement for performance and functionality.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administering Enterprise Puppet 3.x/2.X and upgrading puppet master for each Dev/QA/Prod environments.
• Created GIT configuration record for builds using derived objects generated during build audit process.
• Responsible for building and releasing packages for testing.
• Working closely with Web Administrators to setup an automated deployment for SharePoint applications using SVN and Git Tools.

Confidential, Moline, IL

Build Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained Tomcat application server 7.x/6.x/5.x on Red Hat Linux, AIX 6.1/5.3, Windows and on Windows 2008.
• Installed, Configured, and Administered IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.x, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Web sphere Portal Server 7.0/6.1 and IBM HTTP Server 8.x/7.x on AIX 6.1/5.3, Red Hat Linux platforms.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administering Enterprise Puppet 2.x/3.X and upgrading puppet master for each Dev/QA/Prod environments.
• Developed puppet manifests for deploying, configuring, and managing collected for metric collection and monitoring.
• Configured Jenkins build jobs to provide continuous automated builds based on polling the Subversion source control system during the day and periodic scheduled builds overnight.
• Set up Jenkins build jobs to provide one click deployments of the latest software build to WebSphere clusters for use by developers and support personnel. These were implemented using a combination of Jenkins configuration, BASH and Jython scripting.
• Developed Ruby and Shell scripts to automate build processes
• Worked on Configuration management tool Chef for continuous delivery. Rewritten recipes for new environments.
• Hands-on Experience of the J2EE Framework and its components as related to Java build, test, deployment and release management initiatives.
• Implemented Continuous Integration Builds using Anthil pro, automated deployments and Notifications.
• Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting WebSphere, WebLogic, JBOSS, Tomcat and Apache server instances.
• Deploying an ELK stack into production using Chef and Docker.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of NAS mounts on Solaris and Linux Servers.
• Created and Maintained Subversion repositories, branches and tags.
• Experience in Web Services architecture in SOAP and WSDL, administering BigIP.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0, Apache Tomcat 7.x/6.x, JBoss EAP 6.0, Apache Webserver 2.x, IBM DB2, IBM MQ 6.0, IBM AIX 5.3, Shell scripting.

Confidential

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in installing WebSphere Application Server, Jboss, Weblogic, WebSphere MQ, Tomcat, across the Middleware environments on UNIX, Linux and Solaris Platform with Web Content Management.
• Extensive experience using MAVEN and ANT as a Build Tool for the building of deployable artifacts (war & ear) from source code.
• Installed, configured and created multiple instances of standalone servers on JBoss EAP 6.2.3.
• Involved in major migrations like WAS 6.0 & 6.1 to 7.0 and WebSphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0.
• Configuring WebSphere admin console, Deploying new applications (. ear files) into different application servers, and creating new application servers, and configure virtual hosts and node agents and nodes, cell.
• Involved in Load balancing/Tuning/Clustering for JBOSS, Web logic and WebSphere Application Servers.
• Install, configure and maintain Internet, Intranet Applications on WebSphere Application Servers, IBM HTTP Server and Tomcat with Oracle and DB2 databases on diverse UNIX flavors that include AIX and Windows Platforms (NT/2000) in multi-clustered high availability environments.
• Automated WebSphere deployments using WAS admin, Jython. Worked with SCM/Build forge team to integrate the deployment scripts.
• Automated application install, uninstall and enhancements through Shell and WSCP scripts.
• Responsible for driving the effort for all the Middleware deployments. Provide investigation and correction of error conditions or application discrepancies for supported applications on both Test and Production systems by communicating with Middleware development groups and other support groups.
• Configuring and enabling Global Security for the WebSphere Admin Console, managing WebSphere variables and Monitoring and analyzing the performance data with Tivoli Performance Analyzer and Tivoli monitoring tools.

Environment: JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere Portal Server 5.3/6.0, IIS, Apache Http server 2.1/2.0, IBM DB2, Oracle, IBM WebSphere MQ,Wiley, ANT.