Middleware Specialist Resume
AtlantA
SUMMARY
- Middleware Administrator with 7.5 years of experience in leading IT strategy, Infrastructure, Remote Infrastructure Management, and IT Operations & management in a high - performance, highly redundant, and resilient IT infrastructure solutions.
- Expertise in Oracle Web logic and Fusion Middleware administration and support on Oracle Web logic Server10g, 11g &12c and DevOps and IBM Websphere.
- Experience working on different products of Oracle Fusion Middle ware 11g &12c (Oracle Coherence, Oracle SOA Suite12c, and Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Service Registry, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, Oracle SOA Governance)
- Experience configuring networks for Clustering, Load Balancing, Routing, Failover, High Availability, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH.
- Experience in configuring Oracle Clustering services (CRS), like Horizontal and Vertical Cluster and High Availability features.
- Experience with Continuous Delivery of Applications to App Servers like Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Apache Tomcat.
- Experience installing, Configuration, maintenance, administration on Oracle WebLogic Application Server, IBM WebSphere and Apache Web Services and Linux Systems
- Experience automating routine WebLogic administrative tasks such as Health Checks, Log File Rotation, CPU Utilization and Server Alerts on WLST and Linux Shell scripting.
- Worked on different Monitoring and Security Tools such as ITSM Tool, Service Now, Splunk and Kanban.
- Worked on improving SLAs by performing RCA on incidents with the goal of prevention of recurrence.
- Experience supporting applications by monitoring performance, performing server maintenance, working on Incident/Change/Problem tickets and server patching during business and non-business hours.
- Configuring, Automating and Deploying Ansible for Configuration Management to existing infrastructure.
- Experience in using Continuous Integration concepts by using tools like Jenkins and Maven.
- Hands on experience with ForgeRock Open AM and OpenIG.
- Experience with Identity and Access Management
- Experience with supporting all aspects of SDLC
- Hands on Experience with release and deployment in WebLogic Application servers.
- Experience in scripting - Ansible, Cloudformation, JavaScript and UNIX shell scripting automation (Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet) experience with cloud platforms AWS (Auto scaling, AVI, security, EC2, EFS, EBS, S3, KMS, Kubernetes, Docker)
- Experience in SRE/DevOps discipline and tools, automation frameworks, building CI/CD pipelines, production monitoring, capacity management, security, and authentication.
- Experience with development and operations in cloud native technologies (AWS, GCP)
- Strong analytical & troubleshooting skills.
- Experience working on Incident and Change management tickets using ServiceNow, BMC Remedy.
- Experience supporting mission critical infrastructure in a fast-paced environment and participation in 24x7 on-call duties.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Application Server: Oracle WebLogic Server 10g, 11g, 12c, Apache Tomcat, IBM Web Sphere (WAS)
Operating Systems: Red hat Linux, Windows, Unix
Cloud Technologies: Oracle Cloud, AWS
Configuration Management Tool: Ansible.
CI and Build Tools: Jenkins, Maven
Monitoring Tool: Splunk, App Dynamic, Cloud watch, BMC Remedy, ServiceNow
Scripting and Tools: Red-Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows, JDK Platform, Oracle Linux, Solaris, Shell Scripting, Kafka, Cassandra, WLST, PL/SQL, UNIX / Linux, Putty, Win SCP, TCL, F5 irule, Ansible, Service Now, TCP/IP, FTP, LDAP, DNS, Java Jdk
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Middleware Specialist
Confidential, Atlanta
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Installed, configured and administered WebLogic Server 12c on Red Hat Linux in Prod, DEV and SOA environment
- Administered and coordinated deployments on 30+ servers using Oracle Enterprise Manager and WebLogic Admin Console as administrator on Oracle Fusion Middleware products.
- Configured JDBC and JMS servers on WebLogic application.
- Managed WebLogic clusters having multiple Managed servers on Cluster of machine.
- Migrated Oracle WebLogic applications on 8 to 10 servers from Oracle version 11g to 12c in Prod and Non-Prod environment.
- Installed Fusion Middleware Products, created WebLogic Domain and configured domains including repository creation in RDBMS.
- Created Domain configuration, managed and monitored changes using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Developed scripts to automate the build and change of Middleware components using tools such as WLST and perform weekly patching on servers related to bug fixes.
- Deployed and maintained applications using Oracle Forms/Report Services and using J2EE framework components including JDBC, JMS and JNDI.
- Deployed the server using Ansible and Jenkin.
- Work with CI/CD Process to integrate Application.
- Configured and managed Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates for WebLogic server.
- Created shell scripts on Linux/UNIX environments to automate day to day activities.
- Analyze and troubleshoot application errors related to Oracle Fusion Middleware components.
- Deployed multiple applications on WebLogic server and maintained Load balancing, High Availability and Failover functionality.
- Maintenance and troubleshooting WebLogic, applied Hotfixes, resolved incidents within SLAs and provided timely response to Service Requests on ITSM tool.
- Worked on high availability solution implementation like cluster and multi-node implementation.
- Provided support for day-to-day maintenance and troubleshooting in Fusion Middleware and WebLogic application.
Oracle WebLogic Administrator
Confidential
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- As Oracle Web Logic Administrator, was responsible for application support and included production support involving on-call rotations and production incident resolution.
- Installed, configured, and administered Web logic server 11g on Red hat Linux 5/6 in both production and development environment and SOA environment.
- Installed Web logic servers in single and multiple machines under single admin server and configure domains in a cluster.
- Installed Web logic server, create domain and manage the server using WLST tool.
- Used the WebLogic Server Administration & IBM Websphere Console to control production-specific deployment details.
- Deployed multiple applications on WebLogic server and maintained load balancing, high availability and fail over functionality
- Installed and monitored SSL certificates in the Production environment.
- Monitoring and gathering performance statistics like CPU Utilization, Swap, Disk, TCP Counts, Thread Dumps, Heap dump analysis for the application servers and analyzing them to improve the system availability and response time
- Was responsible for coordinating with the other infra team, evaluating patch risk levels, scheduling and applying the quarterly PSU patches.
- Created new WebLogic servers, clusters, JMS queues, messaging bridges and destinations.
- Managing and coordinating ongoing upgrade and migration of platform to stay up to date with the software versions and patches being released to mitigate bugs and issues.
- Performing application deployments as requested by the application teams on the respective environment.
- Automated deployment of application update/patching or changes to domain configuration through CI/CD process using Jenkin, Maven and configured using Ansible.
- Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by Web logic Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools and taking Thread dumps and analyzing to find the problems in application.
- Migrate applications from Websphere platform to Red Hat OpenShift cloud platform Support upgrades in OpenShift platform and perform changes at F5 akamai to migrate applications without impacting availability.
- Provide support for certificate management.
- Troubleshoot issues on Application servers, Websphere JBoss NodeJS and WebProxy servers IBMHttpHAProxy and provide permanent resolutions.
- Capacity planning and performance tuning of infrastructure hosted on Linux platform and Enterprise Cloud Platform
- Configure Splunk dashboards and alerts for applications and Infrastructure
- Work on iRules on F5 for traffic routing and troubleshooting network components involving tcp dump analysis
- Managing incident, problem, change, release, configuration, SLA, availability, and capacity.
- Involved in 24/7 on-call support for production environment.
System Administrator
Confidential
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Created, configured and maintained Web logic managed servers and server clusters.
- Configured High Availability based environments in clusters.
- JDBC and multi data-source connections with Oracle 11g database.
- Distributed JMS servers, modules, queues, and connections.
- Managed Web logic clusters having multiple managed servers on cluster of machines
- Responsible for creating clusters including Horizontal and Vertical Clusters, cluster members to implement High Availability, Workload Management and Fail Over.
- Created CSR to renew the SSL certificates for the existing URLs.
- Configured Session Time Out Settings, PMI Settings and Shared Libraries.
Middleware Administrator
Confidential
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Worked on various Middleware Platform, Tools and Technologies.
- Maintained current description and documentation of application\platform configuration, including tracking and documenting any changes to environments
- Knowledge to manage the project, coordinate between departments, create test plans, and provides timely and accurate status reports.
- Maintained a safe and secure work environment, developing personal growth opportunities
- Worked on ITSM tool to track Incidents and Change Request.
- Monitor tickets, critical jobs, alerts and interfaces for issue similarities
Software Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Successfully completed Web logic administrator Training and worked on real time environment.
- Administrate WebLogic environments, providing best practices and principles
- Familiar with ITIL Process, IT Infrastructure and IT Strategy.
- Good attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Able to learn and support/configure new software