OBJECTIVE:

Cloud Engineer, DevOps, Datapower, Confidential WebSphere Middleware specialist

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Professional with 5 years of experience in IT industry comprising of build release management, software configuration, design, development and cloud implementation.
• Cognitive about designing, deploying and operating highly available, scalable and fault tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Extensively worked using AWS services along with wide and in depth understanding of each one of them.
• Highly skilled in deployment, data security and troubleshooting of the applications using AWSservices.
• Experienced in implementing Organization DevOps strategy in various operating environments of Linux and windows servers along with cloud strategies of Amazon Web Services.
• Proficient in writing Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) in YAML and JSON format to build the AWS services with the paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code.
• Exposed to build tools like ANT, MAVEN and bug tracking tool JIRA in the work environment
• Solid developer background with deep understanding of Web service and implementation: SOAP, Restful, WS - policy, Micro Service and API integration
• Deep understanding of SDLC with intensive practice on both multiple tiers application development and operational activities

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud computing: Amazon AWS, Formation, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, ELB, Route 53, Lamda. Confidential Bluemix, Azure, Docker Data Center, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes.

DevOp CI/CD: Ansible, Puppet, git/github, Jenkins, Maven, Delivery Pipe line, AWS code deploy, eclipse, PostgreSql, Junit, testNG

Confidential WebSphere Middleware Suite: Confidential WAS ND (6/7/8.5), MQ 5/6/7, WMB 7/8, IIB9Datapower XI52, XC10, WESB, BPM/BPS, Mobile First Platform

Operating system: Linux (Redhat, centOS, uBuntu ), Solaris 8/9/10, Windows Servers

Security infrastructure: PKI/PMI, SSL, Saml SSO solution, Oauth, LTPA, Kerbrose

DW/BI: SAP Business Object, Confidential Cognos, Informatics ETL

Web server: IHS, Apache, IIS, Nginx

Database: Oracle 9i, Oracle 11 G, SQL server, My SQL, Access, DB2

Scripting Languages: Python, Troposphere, AWS BOTO3, UNIX Shell Scripting (awk, bash, expect, ksh, sh), Java script, XSLT

Server Software: Tivoli, MySQL,HP OVO, Confidential Tivoli endpoint management, e-trust

CAREER HISTORY:

Technical Specialist - Cloud Engineer & DevOps

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead POC initiative, build prototype model on public Cloud (AWS, BMX) to evaluate technology component capacity ensure major principles meet the business expectation
• Analysis and define network topology to enable hybrid cloud implementation, collaborate internet service provider, cloud vendor, internal network engineering to setup dedicated link to provide high throughout and secured connection between on premise resource and cloud application.
• Design and implement elastic, fault tolerance and high available solution by using AWS auto scaling, Elastic load balance, Route 53, EC2, and placement group services
• Automate the AWS infrastructure delivery by Cloud formation, including authoring CF template to build the fundamental network components such as VPC, Security group, route tab, subnet, ACL, NAT Gateway., IAM policy .
• Define,, architecture and implement CI/CD using Jenkins, Maven, Catlight, AWS code deploy.
• Build Prof of the concept l of serve less application model using AWS API gateway, Lamda and Dynamo DB, resolve and troubleshooting tech issue during migration
• Mange user access to AWS resources, create user and group, define MFA, role, resource trust policy, IAM access policy and ACL to regulator the security control of all type resources.
• Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes
• Use Anbsible play book, Cloud formation template to provision infrastructure and software components such as RDS, MQ, elastic search, Nginx, ClaimAV, Tomcat, PHP, Junit
• Lead activities to setup and maintenance of Could Platform network environment, define and implement firewall rule, PVC, network ACL, security group, routing table, DNS entries, NAT gateway on both cloud platform and Confidential managed internal network
• Define application migrate and deployment approach onto Cloud environment, collaborate development, QA and operations to elaborate the process and author build book, deployment guide, operation guide etc.
• Integrated front end Cloud based deployment environment with on premise resource by leveraging corporate infrastructure services such as intrusion detect, virus scan, security /user repository, logging, application security and app monitoring in compliance with organization security, monitoring and auditor policy
• Implement Organization DevOps strategy in various operating environments of Linux and windows servers along with cloud strategies of Amazon Web Services.
• Acquired practical exposure with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools like Jenkins, git, Maven and Ansible to merge development with testing through pipelines.
• Lead engineer activities to build Docker Date Center enterprise for a provincial wide project - Mobile Immunization management system. The DDC solution includes multiples UCP, DTR, nodes which built on rhel-7-server
• Define and build Docker swarm (cluster), configure swarm nodes, overlay network for services, Load balancing, service discovery DNS and load balancing.
• Define migrate guide line and lead implementation of Docker-lized container deployment approaches to replace original build, test deployment procedure.
• Setup and configure Docker trust repository, including trust and notary, s, image scanning, repository automation, image caching
• Install major components of DDC, includes UCP, DTR, LDAP, swarm manager. Configure network communication, define and implement fault tolerance, and Haigh availability.
• Performa L3 Administration of Docker Data Center environment, including Server Refresh, Firmware upgrade, renew, system backup and recovery, troubleshooting.
• Acquired practical exposure to Kubernetes, install binary, setup Kubernetes cluster for Dev environment. Deploy and Orchestrate applications.
• Work on DHDP platform refresh project assignment, build, configure WAS 8.5.5.9 instances, application depended.
• Auto mate application deployment, monitoring and software roll out by Unix scripting.
• Define and set up security policy and work load balance by Datapower A/O
• Deploy Datapower XI52 MPGW service and related security objects to realize content and transportation layer encryption to meet security standard.
• Implement Datapower AAA policy to enable federated SSO by integrating JWT and WebSphere based LTPA token

Middleware Specialist - WAS, Cloud and Datapower

Confidential

Technology Skills: WAS ND 7/8/8.5.x, BPM8/8.5, Cognos, Tomcat, Datapower XI52, MQ, ESB, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Provide middleware infrastructure services to multiple accounts, including infrastructure design, planning and implementation. Perform L3 administration tasks in a 24x7 production environments.
• Installation, configuration and setup WebSphere application 8.5 based middleware and security infrastructure, migrate applications from lower version for ATB financial group, Alberta Human Services and Economic.
• Built BPM 8.5 advanced deployment environment for major insurance company, major tasks includes middleware infrastructure design, planning, implementation and document build book, service and deployment guide.
• Act as tech lead for system integration project for Economical Insurance using WebSphere IIB and Datapower to mediate various protocol and data format. Such as MQ, http, SOAP/XML and Cobol/copybook.
• Responsible for administrating middleware infrastructure includes apply fix pack, monitoring, performance tuning, diagnosing, troubleshooting for Confidential banking and insurance clients.
• Setup network environment for each new build application environment, work with network team to implement firewall rule, route table on network devices
• Tech lead of security infrastructure migration from webgate to Datapower for economic Insurance group, implemented PKI/PMI based SSL profile secure Datapower service.
• Install, configure, maintenance and troubleshooting Tomcat which is the major middleware infrastructure components for Confidential Cognos for BNS and Desjardins.
• Install and configure Confidential Cognos components, deploy the report packages, response and resolve issue reported from business users.
• Lead develop application package deployment approaches for insurance clients: Deanjardins and Economic, custom and automate deployment by shell and WAS jyson scripting.
• Lead middleware infrastructure refresh project for ATB financials: Built WebSphere Application Server ND topology with IHS, identity manager, setup SSL based security TLS, And PKI based encryption for data protection.
• Install, configure WebSphere Datapower appliance, manager user security, develop firewall/XMLservice policy and deploy to various environment
• Plans, organizes and coordinates systems management and operations functions within Middleware domain, streamlined incident, problem management and RFC process in ITIL V2 Frame work.
• Perform L3 operational assignment duty as Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, and Capacity Management in compliance with ITIL practice. Won excellent mark on annual service level survey with 100 percent client satisfaction rate.

Middleware Support

Confidential

Main Technology: WAS 6, 7 and 8.5, Tomcat, Linux, AIX, Oracle, IHS, Cognos, WESB, Oracle, Confidential Tivoli directory service, Informatica, BI/DW

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Middleware SME, offered consultant service in middleware domain to assist detail requirement define, system design, non-function requirement, project sizing and scope manage.
• Support multi-tier network architecture banking applications, typically includes edge components such as load balancer, web server, BI Data warehouse, Transaction database based data tier, business logical on application servers.
• Gathered and analyzed project requirements, design and deploy application implementation and migration in middleware domain for BMO capital market, major projects: Trade Surveilling, Acrimize Risk Manager, Customer Information File (CMCIF) solution.
• Handled deployment of J2EE applications to WebSphere Application Server, installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console or Jython scripts.
• Define, implement and maintain SSO infrastructure to integrate business level applications, Lead the implementation of SAML SSO consisting Confidential SalesForce, Datapower, OpenSAML, nodeJS, Tivoli directory server.
• Build WebSphere Application Server ND topology with IHS, identity manager, setup SSL utilize WebSphere plug-in, profile customizes tools, ikeyman and s to secure communication on Enterprise Platform Service.
• Responsible for installation, customization, administration, support, performance tuning and capacity sizing for UNIX and Linux System which is provisioned for LOB applications. Perform prerequisite Checking and hardening before implement middleware infrastructure.
• Install and configure remote WebSphere plug-in for Confidential HTTP Server. Manually updated plug-in files for IHS servers located in DMZ
• Define and implement load balance approach for each tier of business application.
• Performed admin tasks of Middleware platform including software update roll out, performance tuning, application release control, renew, and healthy check
• Interface with Change management, client services, manage and continually improve IT operational process result in "Excellent" rating after routine audit
• Work on remedy tickets for change and incident management to document monitoring and recovery steps. Capturing incident follow-ups and completing formal post implementation reviews.
• Work with project manager, development team and vendors to assess, research, analyze and document business and system’s needs
• Interacted with the testing teams to ensure performance testing and tuning exercises are successful
• Assessed, planned Change Management process. Represented weekly Change Advisory Board (CAB) meeting and facilitated stakeholder analysis & impact assessment
• Assesses, researches, analyzes processing issues using ITIL best practices, systems tools and techniques

Senior System admin - UNIX / WebSphere /MQ

Confidential

Main Technology: Solaris 8,9,10, Windows 2003/2008,, Shell, scripting, Weblogic 11G, WebSphere App Server 7/8/8.5, MQ, Confidential Tivoli, DB2, IIS, Datapower, IHS, Oracle, SAP business object, Cognos, J2EE, SSL, PKI

Responsibilities:

• Technically support and maintain different OS platform concerning to AIX, Solaris and Redhat Linux, Aix version from 5.3 to 7.1, Solaris version from 8 to 10, Redhat from 5.3 to 6.2
• Responsible for installation, customization, administration, support, performance tuning and capacity sizing for UNIX and Linux System
• Develop and customize UNIX shell scripts to automate application deployment, update, performance monitoring and resource management
• Deployed middleware infrastructure into UAT and Prod, installed product binary, configured running environment, managed resources/security and developed application deployment strategies.
• Review and Valid application descriptor, troubleshooting abnormal during application deploy
• Application deployment and resource configuration: JDBC, JMS and other EIS according as well as security mapping as per application statement and descriptor
• Responsible for production environments admin tasks Server build, Harding, patching, package management, performance monitoring
• Work on work load balancer, configure and monitor WAS, http server and database load balance with various stratagems to meet business requirements.
• Develop and test shell scripts to facilitate administration tasks: application package deployment, collect server information, system monitoring, backup and regular healthy check
• Problem determination - work on problem management system using problem solving techniques to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical, organizational or process problems.
• Perform end-to-end incident management. Responsible for time-critical User Service/ Infrastructure restoration, technical troubleshooting within complex IT systems environment. Working with customers, internal IT and infrastructure teams, third party data providers etc. throughout the service restoration process.
• Responsible for development of ITIL based enterprise problem management policies, processes, targeted communication approach and escalation strategy

Middleware Infrastructure Advisor

Confidential

Technology: WAS 6/7, MQ, ESB, J2EE, WPS, J2EE, WSDL, MQ

Responsibilities:

• Participated multiple Integration projects, design, develop and implement middleware infrastructure with various products: Confidential WAS, tomcat, Tivoli Identity manager, IHS, Oracle directory service, Oracle RAC, Confidential Tivoli access manager.
• Installation, configuration and setup middleware and security infrastructure for Confidential China Customer center, to serve the large scale business applications and CRM .
• Performed daily admin task of middleware environment including WAS, WPS, ESB, MQB and Tomcat. Responsibilities covering software install, configure, patching, performance monitoring, problem management
• Offer WebSphere support service throughout software development and test, including JVM performance tuning, troubleshooting escalated issues to ensure middleware infrastructure meet design expectation
• Involved in development project representing infrastructure, gathering, sizing and analysis project requirement and produce implement documents.
• Implemented WebSphere infrastructure as per implementation design and document the process managed middleware resources: JBDC, JMS, RAR, JAAS, to satisfied application requirements
• Developed Wasadmin and Jython scripts to automation application deployment, update, performance monitoring and resource management
• Responsible for application software life cycle administration including: version control, software update testing, deployment, patching management, issues reporting.
• Responded to Middleware escalation from Help desk, business user and developer. Identified and resolved medium to highly complex production problems for support of applications
• Responsible to resolve Middleware and infrastructure problem escalated by testing, business, Help desk and address the issue in timely manner
• Conducted security compliance activities per contractual security requirement

JAVA /SQL Application developer

Confidential

Technology: J2EE, Eclipse, SQL server, Oracle 8, JSP, C ++, SQL plus, Struts, Ant

Responsibilities:

• Provision of technical requirements specifications, design of software module interfaces, and data models necessary for product customization and prototype.
• Created database program in SQL Server, Oracle Database manipulate data accumulated by Internet Transaction.
• Designed, developed and configured software applications (interfaces), servers, and software components customized to meet specific needs and requirements
• Developed Javascript behavior code for User Interaction.
• Designed and developed web site application using J2EE, XML, EJB, Servlets, JSP under the Apache Struts Framework.
• Designed and developed EJB components and deployed under the Apache Tomcat application server
• Designed and developed the JSP pages with HTML, Core Java, JavaScript, and CSS and accomplished the front end validations