PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7+ years strong experience in installing, configuring, monitoring and trouble - shooting application servers like Oracle WebLogic 8.X/9.x/10.x/11g/12c, JBoss EAP 6/7 and Apache Tomcat 6.x/7.x/8.x on Sun Solaris, Red hat Unix, AIX and Windows.
• Strong experience in installing, administering, monitoring and trouble-shooting IBM HTTP Server, Apache HTTP Webserver on Sun Solaris, Red hat Unix, AIX and windows.
• Strong experience in installing, administering, monitoring and trouble-shooting IIS 8/8.5/10.
• Experienced in installing, upgrading, configuring and troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application servers ND V5.1/6.x/7.0/8.5, IBM WebSphere MQ V6.x/7.0 on AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows Platforms.
• Experience in deploying WAR, and EAR build files on Web Logic application servers and JBOSS 6.x/7.x, tomcat Application servers using manually and automation tools like Udeploy and Anthill pro.
• Experienced in build of WebLogic 11g/12c and tomcat 6.x/7.x as services in windows servers.
• Strong experience in configuring JDBC connection pools, data sources, JMS, distributed destination queues and topics
• Experience in applying plug-ins for WebSphere application servers with IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat server on AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows Platforms.
• Experienced supporting live SOA systems deployed in large OFM implementations using administrative tools like Oracle Enterprise Manager OEM, Oracle OSB and WebLogic console.
• Extensive experience in production environments, involved in performance tuning, tweaking the JVM parameter, analyzing heap dumps, thread dumps, configuration of the connection pools
• Analyzed activity log files and diagnosing application server issues using Log Analyzer and also have experience in using different kinds of tools like Thread Analyzer, GC analyzer and Heap Analyzer.
• Created JMS Server, Connection Factory, Foreign JMS server, Message Bridge, Topic/Queue, Distributed destinations as part of WebLogic JMS Configurations.
• Experience in clustering (both horizontal and vertical), creation and maintenance of Domains, Nodes and Managed Servers instances in a BEA WebLogic environment.
• Deployed applications on WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, High Availability and Fail over functionality.
• Expertise in setting up WAS - MQ connectivity by configuring JMS settings in WAS console and debugging issues related to WAS- MQ connectivity issues.
• Experience in applying plug-ins for WebSphere Application Servers with IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat server on AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows Platforms.
• Experienced in Secured Socket Layer (SSL) configuration, creating self-signed certificates, generating certificate requests, Import/Export certificates and creating key databases
• Experience in configuring routing using mod jk connector for Tomcat and JBoss through AJP.
• Experienced in configuring Single Sign On (SSO) using Site Minder, Identity Management and LDAP.
• Experience in Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like Subversion (SVN) and GIT (GitHub).
• Experienced in setting up CI/CD environments, version control and SCM. Responsible for building out and improving the reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure.
• Involved in configuration of MQ series objects like Queue Manager, Queue, Channels and Transmission Queue.
• Used F5 Load Balancers for creation of VIP and configured load balancing policies for the load balanced members.
• Experience in working on Wily Introscope, Dyna trace and perceiver for monitoring software and hardware.
• Experience in Scripting and Automation using bash, perl and Shell
• Experience on Udeploy and Anthill deployment tools and strong experience in build and deploy the applications in clustered environments
• Experience in deploying applications by using Jenkins for continues integration and continues deployment in WebLogic, Tomcat and JBoss application servers
• Experience in working with logs, traces and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer.
• Demonstrated ability to complete projects in deadline-oriented environments.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills with capability to handle new technologies.

SKILL:

Application servers: WebLogic Server 9.x/10g.x/11g.x/12c; IBM WebSphere MQ 5.x/6.x/7.0, WAS 5.x/6.x/7.0/8.0; JBoss application servers 5x/6.x7.x, Tomcat 6.x/7.x/8.x

Webservers: IBM HTTP Server6.1, Apache Server 1.3.x/ 2.0.x, IIS 8/8.5/10

Monitoring Tools: Heap Analyzer, log Analyzer, Wily Introscope, Nagios, Splunk.

Scripting: UNIX shell scripting, Bash, Perl.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003XP/Vista, RED HAT LINUX, SOLARIS and AIX.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2003/2005/2008.

Security and Others: SiteMinder, LDAP, ITCAM, Introscope.

Build tools & Other: Jenkins, Maven, MS Office, WINSCP, GIT, SVN

Config Management tool: Chef, Puppet, Ansible.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Middleware Administrator/Web Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administrated & monitored WebLogic 11g/12c, JBoss EAP 6.x/7.x, Tomcat 7.x/8.0.x, Apache HTTP2.2/2.4 in windows and Linux environments.
• Worked on upgrade of WebLogic servers from 10.3.6(11g) to 12.x.x, Tomcat servers from 6.x, 7.x to 8.
• Installed and configured WebLogic 12.2.1 from scratch (created domains, multiple managed instances, machines, clusters and configured data sources, JMS and deployed applications.
• Configured WebLogic plug-in on Apache Webservers and F5 Load Balancer with WebLogic Server
• Deployed J2EE Application archives (WAR, JAR, and EAR) in clustered and stand-alone environments on application servers like WebLogic, JBoss and Tomcat manually and also using application deployment tool Anthill and IBM Udeploy
• Worked on data source configuration and troubleshooting the issues of JDBC and JMS in WebLogic.
• Build experience of tomcat and WebLogic in windows and Unix platforms.
• Configured proxy and reverse proxy plugin for Apache 2.2 Webservers with WebLogic 12.1.3.
• Installed and configured CA SiteMinder for Apache Webserver 2.4 for Single Sign on protection.
• Developed, Deployed and maintained several web applications using SOA architecture.
• Worked on Build and configuring sites on Windows IIS servers.
• Worked on WebLogic In-place upgrade from 12.1.3 to 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.3.
• Configured Wily Introscope agent on WebLogic 12.2.1 for monitoring of J2EE matrices after deployment.
• Installed and configured CA SiteMinder for Apache HTTP 2.2/2.4 Webserver.
• Using Oracle SOA Suite configured SOA server and OSB for the middleware.
• Configured routing using mod jk connector for Tomcat and JBoss through
• Configured JMS applications to connect to Message Queue by creating bindings files.
• Developed SOA composites which involved in database, File and JMS integrations using DB Adapter, JMS Adapter and File Adapter.
• SSL Certificate expertise in creating and managing digital certificates with Venafi Trust Protection platform in QA and production environment.
• Experience in troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung session and session replication, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with Network Deployment Manager.
• Configured security in SOA server and OSB server and implemented role-based authentication.
• Dealt with issues of memory troubleshooting and CPU during the production environment.
• Worked on migrating SOA and OSB services from 11g to 12c.
• Patched Apache Webserver 2.2.17 to 2.2.24; Migrated applications from WAS 6.x/7.x to 8.x and RedHat JBoss 5.x to 6.x
• Worked on setting up vault for JBoss EAP 7 and extracting using vault JBoss tool.
• Dealt with troubleshooting of Memory and CPU issues in production environment.
• Installed open SSL certificates using java key tool commands.
• Involved in configuring and administering of JMS connection factories. Managed application configuration for release specific activities during release environments.
• Configured Tomcat 8.0.32/34 to work with Apache HTTP server.
• Experienced in the maintenance of the JBoss Application servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development, testing, UAT and production environments.
• Development of SOA Common Utility like Common Logging & Notification Service.
• Troubleshooting issues JBoss related servers and applications as part of infrastructure team.
• Troubleshooting and fixing defects found during Application upgrades and Server Migration.
• Worked with automation tools like HPSA and HPOO for security, patching, audit, installation and compliance with respect to our internal standards.
• Involved in preparing the game plans for build and configuration of WebLogic and JBoss servers.

Environment: BEA WebLogic 11g/12c, Tomcat 6.0/8.x, JBOSS EAP 5.x/6.x, Apache 2.x-WebLogic plug-in, Apache 2.0/2.2/2.4 Webserver, LINUX, SUN SOLARIS, Perl, CA Introscope monitoring tool, HPSA, HPOO, Oracle DB,GIT, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Middleware Administrator/Web System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on administration of Oracle WebLogic 10g/11g/12c, JBoss EAP/WildFly and Tomcat 6.x/7.x application servers.
• Installed and configured multiple domains and completely created new development, test, and production environments.
• Installing, configuring and administering a large number of clustered web application servers (JBoss Enterprise application Platform, JBoss EWS, Tomcat, hosted on RHEL/Windows platforms.
• Involved in on-call support for major applications that involved troubleshooting issues in application components, application servers, Webservers, load balancers.
• Installed and configured of JBoss mod jk load balancing in a reverse proxy environment
• Involved in database connectivity using JDBC Database and Connection pools. Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by analyzing Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools on JBoss.
• Good experience with IBM WebSphere Application servers 5.1/6.x/7.0/8.5.
• Configuring SOA composite application resources, Configuring JMS Server and its modules on SOA and OSB.
• Managing and monitoring service engines, and updating the state of SOA composite applications.
• Installed, configured and administered and integrated Apache Webserver with the WebLogic Application servers for load balancing.
• Worked in the migration of applications from WebLogic 9.2.2 to WebLogic 10.3.5 and WL 10.3.5 to 12.2.1.
• Experience in Installation and configuration of JBoss Application servers 4.0.x, 5.1.x and Tomcat 5.x, 6.x, 7.x.
• Experience in applying patches and plug-ins for JBoss Application servers.
• Working with infrastructure team to deliver environments for each project release on time.
• Performed multiple deployments during upgrade of WebLogic Server from 11g to 12c in Web Center Environment.
• Troubleshooting and fixing the issues occurred during the deployment of Java applications and EJB components.
• Performed multiple and consistent deployments to WebLogic environments as part of application rollout and eventually scripted it to automate deployments.
• Responsible for configuring JDBC connection pools
• Utilized Remedy Problem & Change management application for management of problem tickets.
• Configured Webserver plug-ins for Application servers WebLogic and JBoss
• Configured WebLogic JMS Configurations - JMS Server, Connection Factory, Foreign JMS server, Message Bridge, Topic/Queue, Distributed destinations.
• Used Wily for understanding Heap and thread behavior of application.
• Monitoring the logs, fixing the problems and tuning parameters on WebLogic environment.
• Worked on build and configuration of Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss on Windows/Unix platforms.
• Worked on configuration changes in IIS and tomcat on windows and involved in troubleshooting of logging and memory issues in IIS.
• Expertise in developing WLST scripts and Shell scripts to administer WebLogic servers including deployment, configuration and monitoring.
• Have a good Working knowledge on Nagios and Splunk Monitoring tools.
• Analyzing the log files, taking thread dumps, JVM Dumps and Exception stack traces
• Experienced in setting up WebSphere MQ distributed queuing environment
• Worked on creating and installing SSL certs and renewing certificates in Application servers.
• Worked on shell scripting to automate the start/stop scripts for WebLogic, tomcat, JBoss Application servers and Apache http Webservers.
• Worked as a part of 24/7 on-call support for production and non-production environments.

Environment: Oracle WebLogic Server 9.x/10g/11g/12c, IBM WebSphere 6.x/7.x/8.5, JBoss application servers 4.0.x, 5.1.x and Tomcat 5.x,6.x,7.x, IBM Http Server v6.1, Apache Http Server 2.2/2.3, IIS 8/8.5, Red Hat, Sun One, SOLARIS, AIX 6.1, Splunk, Shell Scripting.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured JBoss Application servers for development, QA and production systems
• Used configuration wizard and configuration builder extensively to create and manage WebLogic/JBoss domains
• Involved in setting up the cluster environment for WebLogic/JBoss Server
• Configured Node manager to administer the Managed servers
• Configured JDBC connection pools and data sources for the applications
• Configured JMS Connection factories and Queues for messaging applications
• Involved in WebLogic/JBoss server performance testing and analyzing performance metrics
• Deployment of various application packages including JAR, WAR, EAR, RAR and properties using custom scripts in development
• Deployed applications from admin console of JBoss EAP 5.1 as well as with Udeploy and Anthill.
• Tuned OS parameters like Swap and virtual Memory settings to improve the JBoss performance
• Installed, Configured and used Hermes JMS to interact with WebLogic JMS providers, discover WebLogic queues and topics, copy/delete messages, and drop XMLs in WebLogic JMS queues and IBM MQ queues
• Involved in WebLogic/JBoss Cluster configuration for Load Balancing and Failover conditions
• Secured the WebLogic/JBoss system resources like JDBC, JNDI, JMS by defining security policies and by configuring custom security authorization providers
• Created bash and corn shell scripts to monitor domains, recycle clusters, monitor disk space, monitor number of Apache connections, and ran them as cronjobs
• Actively involved in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck by enhanced performance ensuring upstream queuing.
• Worked on build and configuration of Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss on Windows/Unix platforms.
• Worked on configuration changes in IIS and tomcat on windows and involved in troubleshooting of logging and memory issues in IIS.
• Worked on creating and installing SSL certs and renewing certificates in Application servers.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication
• Created the Data Source, Connection Pool and test the Connection to connecting the DB or not
• Created scripts to deploy applications from command line and automate log archiving
• Administered performance tuning capabilities in solving environmental/configuration issues that customers have in Webserver plug-ins, Cluster setups, JMS Bridge configurations, Connection Pools setup etc., these involve third party products interaction with the WebLogic/JBoss Servers

Environment: BEA WebLogic Application servers 6.x/7.x/8.x, JBoss 5.x, Apache Webserver, Microsoft 2000/2003, RHEL, Sun Solaris.

Confidential

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on administration of BEA WebLogic 10.0 MP1 Application servers and IBM WebSphere Application servers V6.
• Installed, configured and administered BEA WebLogic server 8.x/10. x.
• Installed, configured and administered and integrated Apache Webserver to work with the Application servers.
• Support in migration of applications from WebSphere V6 to WebLogic 10.3.
• Working with engineering team to deliver environments for each project release on time.
• Performed multiple deployments during migration of applications from WebSphere Application servers to WebLogic 10.3.
• Configured WebLogic Server resources using WLST for all web applications in the upgraded environment.
• Created managed servers and configured Clusters for these managed servers.
• Very strong understanding of apache mod rewrite rules for redirecting the URL’s in many web-based applications.
• Configuring NSAPI Plug-in and ISAPI Plug-in to communicate with the WebLogic server.
• Worked closely with network team and SSO - Single Sign On team.
• Installing patches to different versions of WebLogic using Smart Update tool.
• Upgrading the versions of WebSphere using the Update Installer.
• Configured and administered WebLogic services like JMS, JNDI, JMX and JDBC.
• Involved in cluster environment creation and deploying various J2EE applications on the managed servers and implemented Load Balancing, High Availability and Failover features.
• Involved in Load testing of the application running on WebLogic server using various tools.
• Thread and Heap analysis using thread dump tools like IBM Heap Analyzer, samurai and TDA and finding the blocking and locked threads.
• Involved in creating SSL certs and renewing certificates.
• Troubleshooting and fixing of problems on WebLogic Application servers.
• Configuration of JDBC connections and data sources with Oracle database server 10.x.
• Monitoring the error logs, fixing the problems and tuning parameters on WebLogic environment.
• Written Unix Shell Scripts and scripts for the Auto Deployment process of applications.
• Maintaining code and configuration file in version management tool like ClearCase.
• Involved in configuring management, software deployment, change management, performance monitoring, and application maintenance.
• Documenting the SOP’s and design procedures and test plans for the support of the applications in the Environment.
• Worked with several vendors for some advanced troubleshooting.

Environment: WebLogic 8.1/9.2/10.3 , WebSphere 6.x/7, Apache 2.x, Sun One, IIS, Linux, Windows (2000, XP), EJB, J2EE applications, JDBC, XML, UNIX shell Scripting, Perl Scripting, BMC Patrol, WLST.

Confidential

Jr Level WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in setting up the dev, testing and Production environments of WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, WebSphere Servers from scratch.
• Installed, configured and administered WebSphere Application servers 7.0/8.0, WebSphere Message Queue (MQ) v6.0/7.0 on AIX and Solaris platforms.
• Installed configured and administered JBoss 4.x/5/7 and integrated Apache Webserver to work with the application servers.
• Created administration and managed server clusters in JBoss 5/6, Integrated JBoss application servers with database sources.
• Deployed and un-deployed both JBoss services and custom applications.
• Worked on JBoss clustering, set up new configurations for JDBC providers, data sources, connection pools, Connection factory settings, virtual hosts etc.
• Installed JON Agent, TWS Agent and Splunk forwarder for all JBoss.
• Created/Modified scripts extensively in Perl, shell, JBoss CLI for automating different tasks like log rotating, monitoring disk spaces, checking the connected processes, deploying the applications, etc.
• Configured horizontal and vertical scalability of WebSphere to support failover mechanism and to utilize system resources to the maximum extent.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server 6.1/7.0 and configured the plug-in with local and remote WebSphere Application servers.
• Updating and Migrating queue manager attributes from MQ V6.0 to V7.0
• Deployed Applications on WebSphere application servers manually and using scripts.
• Configured Web-Server interfaces (plug-in file), Session Management, virtual hosts, Data Sources, HTTP transports for Application server instances and applications.
• Enabled Security features using LDAP user registry for authentication and authorization privileges for Admin console.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and Connection Pools.
• Worked with the scripting team and modified several scripts for Configuration and Installation of WebSphere 7.0/8.0.0.2.
• Involved in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application servers and for distributed platforms.
• Intensively involved in IBM WebSphere Application servers troubleshooting scenarios like Out of memory, Java hangs, crashes, and hung Threads.
• Worked on problem tickets (PMRs) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues.
• Applied Fixes, Patches to WebSphere Application servers 7.0.
• Monitored Applications and performed performance tuning by configuring caching, queuing, pooling, JVM parameters and DB connection pooling through Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope dashboards.
• Deployed applications in development, testing, uat, and production environments and followed change management practices and 24/7 support.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application servers 7.0/8.x, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/8.x, AIX 6/6.1, Solaris 8/9/10, Oracle 10g/11i, DB2 9.x, Wily Introscope 7/8, Shell Scripting.