SUMMARY:

• Support 24/7 for production environments
• Configuring web tier and app tier and integrating several components in the architecture
• Proficiency on AWS and related services like S3, EC2, EBS, RDS, ELB and Route53 etc.
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer overseeing deployments in AWS (S3, ELBs, EC2, EBS, Route53) Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, performing ITIL Release Management and Change Management activities
• Oracle certified Oracle - WebLogic server Administrator with expertise in J2EE Infrastructure including application server (WebLogic), WebSphere, proxy servers (Apache, iplanet) setup & configuration on UNIX & Windows environments.
• Experience in Middleware Administration and Application Support of mission critical Banking, Retail, Telecom domain applications with good communication skills and ability to plan, organize and lead projects.
• Expert in WebLogic installation, domain, cluster, JDBC data source, JMS, and LDAP security provider configurations, web-application deployment, monitoring & support, root-cause analysis, trouble shooting in production and non-production environments.
• End to end design and build of middleware environments, which include setting up of Weblogic/JBoss/Tomcat application servers, Iplanet/Apache web servers, proxying from web to application servers and load balancing traffic through F5.
• Expertise in application performance & JVM/heap tuning, application process & procedures documentation, shell-scripting, process automation, cron jobs, PL/SQL and Database queries, stored-procedures, functions, and triggers.
• Strong organizational & interpersonal skills, including work with application/software vendors, and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent offshore team coordination, shift-work handling, multi-tasking, and incident/outage management
• Team oriented, motivated, self-directed, result oriented, and able to work independently under high work load.
• Ability to learn and use new tools and technology to support the needs of the business.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuring, Tuning and troubleshooting of WebLogic Server 8.x/9.x/10/11 and 12c in various environments.
• Solid experience in deploying various WAR, JAR, EAR, RAR applications in clustered environment using Admin console & WLST scripts.
• Experience in developing the startup and shutdown scripts for the WebLogic servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AWS Services: EC2, S3, ELB, Auto scaling Groups, Glacier, EBS, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation/Terraform, Cloud Front, RDS, Redshift, VPC, Direct Connect, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, OpsWorks, IAM, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, RedShift, EMRMiddleware: WebLogic 12C, Weblogic11g, OHS, OFM Apache2.2 (Proxy Servers), tomcat 6, Jboss Application server, SOA suite

Monitoring Tools: HP openview, Cacti, Topaz BAC, Wily-Introscope-8.1, HP Diagnostics8, SNMP2, IBM Tivoli

O.S.: Red Hat Linux, UNIX (RHEL 5.1, Solaris-10), Windows-2003

RDBMS: Oracle11g (RAC), 10g, PL/SQL, TOAD, SQL.

Load Balancer: F5-BIG IP

Incident/Change Management Tool: Subversion, BMC Remedy 6 and Remedy 7Network / Protocols: Network/DNS, TCP/IP, SOAP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, FTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Middleware Engineer

Environment: EC2, S3, ELB, WebLogic Server 12C/10.3, Tomcat 8.0, Apache HTTP Server 2.4, ServiceNow, JIRA, Oracle APEX, OFM, Open shift, Docker

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud-based infrastructure and its solutions.
• Perform OFM and WebLogic patching
• Perform JDK upgrades
• Cloning of environments and deploying applications
• Perform multiple number of Production/UAT deployments on applications hosted on WebLogic, tomcat
• Configured JDBC, JMS, Security providers /LDAP configurations on WebLogic clusters using WebLogic console
• Performed domain configurations and complete setup of WebLogic, apache and tomcat.
• Create and configure elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment.
• Create S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to serve static content for a web application.
• Perform Apache (2.3 - 2.4), WebLogic upgrade from (10.3 - 12.1)
• Part of multiple upgrade deployments including Solaris to Linux migration, DB migration etc.
• Performed emergency changes and change requests on Production, UAT Environments
• Experience with large scale environments
• Performed build and retirements of WebLogic, Apache and Tomcat
• Configuration and Integration of Apache Server with WebLogic server.
• Coordinate with several teams to resolve various levels (system, network, firewall) of problems
• Worked on configuration and troubleshooting requests from multiple applications
• Provided on call support for production applications

Confidential, Reston, VA

Middleware Administrator

Environment: WebLogic Server 12C/10.3, Tomcat 8.0, Apache HTTP Server 2.4, ServiceNow, BladeLogic Server automation console 8.9

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for multiple applications in production, UAT, SIT
• Perform multiple number of Production/UAT deployments on applications hosted on WebLogic, tomcat
• Configured JDBC, JMS, Security providers /LDAP configurations on WebLogic clusters using WebLogic console
• Performed domain configurations and complete setup of WebLogic, apache and tomcat.
• Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment.
• Performed Apache (2.3 - 2.4), WebLogic upgrade from (10.3 - 12.1) and multiple JDK upgrades
• Part of multiple upgrade deployments including Solaris to Linux migration, DB migration etc.
• Troubleshoot application issues and resolve tickets within SLA
• Performed emergency changes and change requests on Production, UAT Environments
• Experience with large scale environments
• Performed build and retirements of WebLogic, Apache and Tomcat

Confidential, SFO

Technology specialist - Weblogic Administrator

Environment: WebLogic Server 10/10gR3/11gR1/12.1, WebSphere AS, Tomcat 6.0, Apache HTTP Server 2.2, WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0, Autosys r11, Big IP, IIS, Sun Java System (iplanet), Shell scripting

Responsibilities:

• Lead a midsize team to provide seamless support to Confidential homepage and mobile applications.
• As Lead, was responsible for implementing uptime SLA & availability SLA for various applications in environment.
• 3rd level production on call support for critical set of Internet Banking applications hosted on Weblogic app and WebSphere MQ integration servers like Confidential homepage, online banking, mobile banking etc.
• Proactive monitoring of all production applications through HP OVO, Alarm Point, General Nelson and Wily Introscope tools.
• Support for maintenance activities like scheduled PQC patching & monthly requests
• Working on critical production issues ensuring least possible downtime and providing effective resolutions and ensure speedy recovery from production failures
• Also acted as bridge between IT & Business layers.
• Supported and troubleshoot issues on legacy business system
• Maintained daily status reports, development and defect trackers for onsite communication.
• Coordinated all onsite calls and meetings.
• Deployed .war, .jar & .ear applications on different versions of Weblogic.
• Upgraded the JDK version of Weblogic.
• Involved in setting up and configuring WebLogic cluster for multiple environment.
• Performed horizontal and vertical weblogic clustering of servers.
• Performed emergency changes and major deployments in production environment
• Handled server hangs, dead locks application and database level locks by checking thread dumps and analyzing them to find the root cause of the issue.
• Played major role in bringing the project from severe escalations to stability.
• Resolved multiple Severity 1 issues reducing production outage duration
• Submitted multiple documents on process and troubleshooting issues in internal repository.
• Received multiple appreciations from various teams for handing issues efficiently

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Application Administrator

Environment: Weblogic 8.1, 10.3, 11, SOA 11g, ORACLE Apps, Tomcat, OID, JBoss, Remedy, ITG, Oracle BPM,

Responsibilities:

• End to End maintenance of various applications installed on Weblogic, SOA etc.
• Trouble shoot application issues, perform deployments and changes in pre prod, UAT and Production environments
• Handle transitions from Implementation to Support.
• Installation, Configuring and troubleshooting the WebLogic Application Servers 8.1/9.2
• Application Deployment on BEA WebLogic 8.1on a single Server and a cluster of Servers.
• Worked on Red Hat Enterprise 4/5 platform and Sun Solaris one.
• Configuring Clusters on WebLogic using the WebLogic Console.
• Performed hot deployment of application on WebLogic7.0and 8.1.
• Configuring database connectivity using JDBC and Configured WebLogic Virtual hosts
• Configured SSL communication between adminserver and node manager
• Mentoring new project recruits
• Configuring database connectivity using JDBC and Configured Weblogic Virtual hosts.
• Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by tuning Weblogic Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools.

Confidential

Weblogic Administrator, WebSphere admin

Environment: Weblogic 9.2, Apache 2.2, Oracle UCMS, Oracle Stellent, HP openview, Cacti, Topaz BAC, BMC Remedy 6 and Remedy 7, WebSphere

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Web Logic Server 9.2, and 10.1
• Implement Clustering concepts (both horizontal and vertical).
• Perform many critical deployments on Weblogic, Apache, Oracle database and Oracle UCMS.
• Trouble shooting production issues
• Coordinate with several teams to resolve various levels (system, network, firewall) of problems
• Analyzed and reviewed code changes with developer, and verified /validated Change Requests.
• Proactively work on improving system stability, availability, and performance
• Investigate issues, prioritize and resolve multiple critical issues, and help management in determining the impact and provide input into their resolution
• Coordinate and prioritize escalated activities, including implementation of system upgrades, enhancements, and testing.
• Installation and configuration of WebLogic servers, Node manager, domain, cluster, JDBC data source, SSL, and LDAP security provider.
• Creating new file system, permitting user to mount file system, monitoring free space, disk usage, locating files, clearing log files, administration and monitoring of disk based file system.
• Involved in 24/7 support for production environments.
• Played major role in bringing the project from severe escalations to stability.
• Performed many critical deployments within short notice and received appreciations.
• Submitted Kshop documents like restoration of content in UCMS, Issues on indexer.
• Install and configure Linux, Weblogic, monitoring tools
• Configured high availability on Weblogic and Apache.