Siteminder Administrator Resume
Charlotte, NC
SUMMARY
- Over 8+ years of experience in Architecture, Installation, Configuration, Development, Deployment, Administration, Trouble Shooting and Migrating of CA SiteMinder, Sun One Directory Server, Web security.
- Experience in installation of various Operating systems such as Solaris, Red Hat (LINUX), Windows.
- Implemented projects from the planning, design phase and provided expertise in designing end to end IDAM solutions for customers.
- Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Deployment and Maintenance of SiteMinder Components like the Policy Server, Web Agent, Policy Store, User Store and Key Store .
- Configured CA SiteMinder System objects like Agents, Agent Conf Objects, Host Conf Objects, User Directories, Domains, Administrators and Schemas.
- Experience in implementation of CA Identity Manager Solution from scratch by creating the environment and setting up the endpoints.
- Strong knowledge regarding delegation of the management of users and application access using CA Identity Manager R12.x.
- Strong experience in up - grade of SiteMinder Policy Server, Policy Store, AdminUI, Web Agents from R12.0 to R12.52/ 6.x to 12.x
- Configured Single sign on (SSO) between applications that are integrated and deployed to policy server including different domains as well using Cookie Provider .
- Experience in implementation of Security Management tools in enterprise wide Applications to achieve Authentication, Authorization and Accountability
- Installed and configured web agents on IIS, Apache web servers, WebLogic & IBM server and troubleshoot issues associated with these configurations.
- Expertise in analyzing the logs (trace logs, logs) and Trouble Shooting issues in Integration of other applications using CA SiteMinder (Access Management) and Identity Management tools along with LDAP and Web-server agents.
- Strategized project scoping and specifications documents, to clearly communicate the project roadmap.
- Experience in installing, configuring SiteMinder policy server, Web agents, Sun One Directory server (LDAP) and various Web & Application servers.
- Experience in Administrating SunOne directory server and expertise in upgrading SunOne Directory Server version 5.2 to 6.0 and 6.0 to 6.3 in production environment
- Experience in setting up SSO environments. Integrated SSO products such as Netegrity SiteMinder and Sun One LDAP with existing enterprise applications and middleware applications.
- Experience in configuring Web Agents, Rules, Responses and Policies associated with GROPS and JAAF (Custom Agents) for application server (JBoss, IIS).
- 24/7 administration in a web hosting organization providing server and application support (Netscape/iPlanet/SunOne Web, Messaging, Admin, Directory, Proxy, Application) that would also include Administering (Rollover, restoring backup, restarting, verifying) the Policy Servers and LDAP servers for all the certificate renewals and software patching on the Policy, LDAP, and Web Servers in all the environments
- Excellent knowledge about the functionality of the SiteMinder components and Identity manager components.
- Strong experience with different Web Servers and Application Server Security and Application deployments.
- Expertise in configuring and troubleshooting Webservers like Apache 2.0/2.2, IHS 6.1/7.0, IIS v6.0/7.5, iPlanet 6.0, Lotus Domino 8.0 and Application servers like JBoss, WebSphere and WebLogic.
- Strong analytical, problem solving, communication skills and a good team player.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
IAM Tools: CA SiteMinder 12.52 SP3/R12/6.x/5.x/4.x, Web Agents R 12.52/12.51/ R12R6/4.x, Policy Server 12.52/r12 SP3/r12.0 SP2/ SP2IDM Tools: CA Identity Manager 5.6, Transaction Minder 6.x
Products: CA SiteMinder Access Manager
Databases: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 , DB2.
Web Servers: IIS 5.0/6.0/7.5, Apache 2.x, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle iPlanet Web Server, IBM HTTP Server, Lotus Domino 8.0.
Application Servers: WildFly (JBoss) 9.0.0/8.0.0/7.0/6.0/5.1 , IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5/8.5/ 8.0 , Oracle WebLogic Server 12c R2/ 11g R1 PS5/PS3/ PS2
Tools: vi editor, JXplorer, Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003, Visual Source Safe, TOAD, VMWare 4.x/5.x.
Platforms/ OS: Windows NT/2003/2008, Linux (Red Hat 6.4/6.7), UNIX (Solaris 9/10, AIX).
Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, SSH, HTML, XML, JDBC, SNMP, HTTP, LDAP, UDDI and SOAP.
Directory Server: SunOne 4.x/5.x, iPlanet, Netscape Directory server 4.x, MS Active Directory, IBM-Tivoli Directory Server
Packages & Utilities: MS Project 2000, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Charlotte, NC
Siteminder Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Designed and architecture IDM and SSO solution for the client. Involved in the capacity planning and infra setup for the security solution.
- Installed, configured and maintained CA Site-Minder Policy Server 12.0/12.5, Sun ONE Directory Server on Linux, Windows platforms.
- Upgraded SiteMinder environment from 12.50 to 12.52.
- Experience in installing, configuring Site-Minder policy server, Web agents, Netegrity Transaction Minder, Active Directory server (LDAP) and various Web & Application servers.
- Implemented CA Identity Manager Solution for provisioning, delegated administration, workflow implementation and generating audit reports to be compliant with the security regulations.
- Installed and configured Policy Store 12.50 to 12.52.
- Configured custom alerts and e-mail notifications based on the business needs.
- Worked with application team in gathering the requirements for new application setup. Then installed and configured the web agent along with the configuration on the SiteMinder Policy Server.
- Experience in Configuring CA Site-Minder policy server, framing Rules and Policies, Policy Server maintenance, SSO call clearance, Web Agent & Application agent installations, trouble shooting production problems.
- Experienced in assisting Web Administrators, LDAP Administrators to determine what the best values for Site-Minder parameters and tune the system to boost Site-Minder performance in the Web Tier, the Application Tier, and the Data Tier.
- Integrated new applications with SiteMinder. Created Agents, Agent Configuration objects, Authentication schemes, Created Realms, rules, Responses and policies and Installed web agents on different platforms.
- Configured SSO Integration Adapters for session cleanup as part of Single Logout (SLO) in the SSO implementation.
- Configured the Trace logs in policy server and WebAgent to keep track of user activities.
- Worked with existing user stores and new external LDAP stores. Integrated Active Directory, Sun One directory servers as user stores &SQL Server as Policy store.
- Expertise in analyzing the logs (trace logs, smps logs, warn logs, alarm logs) and Trouble Shooting issues in Integration of other applications using CA Single-Sign-On and Identity Management tools along with LDAP and Web-server agents.
- Configured WebAgents on web servers and for different client applications.
- Experience with performance tuning of policy servers and associated components and generating performance reports using customized crystal reports.
- 24x7 production support.
Environment: CA SiteMinder 12.x, WebAgent 12.50/12.52 , Sun ONE Directory Server 6.X, Apache 2.x, Linux 6.7, Windows 2000/2003/2008 .
Confidential, FL
Siteminder Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Created Siteminder Policy Server and worked with application team for WebAgent installation and configuration for SSO enterprise integration.
- Installed and upgraded CA Siteminder Policy Server 6.0SP6 to r12SP3.
- Installed and Configured CA Siteminder Web Agent on IIS, Apache and SunOne Web Servers.
- Monitored various alerts and taken corrective actions to resolve the incidents to stable the environment.
- Make sure that tickets are acknowledged and addressed with in SLA’s.
- Prepared various documents as ready reference to help team members on recurring issues.
- Providing recommendations for improving efficiency on operational activities and contributing.
- Worked on performance tuning of Web Agents, Policy Servers, Policy Stores and User Stores to meet and maintain operational requirements (process, thread, connection, cache).
- Partner with product teams, design and build, incident and problem management teams to ensure compliance and quality service delivery.
- Raised RFCs (Request for change) as and when required to manage the different issues related to various applications.
- Perform root cause analysis for the incidents and problems to avoid similar kind of issues in future.
- Worked with CA support on issues and taken recommendations based on their inputs.
- Worked with the application team to troubleshoot errors when integrating with SSO.
- Send updates and communication emails to management on critical severity incidents.
Environment: Netegrity SiteMinder 6.x, Web agents 6x, WebSphere 5.x/6.x, Apache 2.x, IIS 5.0, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.2/6.1, XML, LDAP, Linux
Confidential, FL
Siteminder Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Installed, configured and maintained CA SiteMinder Policy Server 5.X/6.X, CA IDM and Sun ONE Directory Server on Linux, Windows platforms.
- Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1 on UNIX platform, Linux.
- Used Site Minder for authenticating the user passwords for the web application.
- Worked with SiteMinder administration for user directories, agents, logs and cache management, agent configuration objects.
- Worked on Configuring the Domains, User directories, Rules, Realms and Policies.
- Worked on Load balancing the SiteMinder for high performance.
- Involved in the Upgradation of SiteMinder Policy Servers from version 5.5 to 6.0 and SiteMinder.
- Web Agents from version 5.5 to 6.x
- Installed and configured the LDAP Sun ONE Directory Server. Configured the multi master replication in Sun ONE Directory server.
- Implemented CA Identity Manager Solution for provisioning, delegated administration, workflow implementation and generating audit reports to be compliant with the security regulations.
- Mentor development and support teams involved in problem identification and solving.
- Installed SiteMinder Policy Server Optional Pack and Web Agent Optional Pack for Federation web services.
- Worked on Fine tuning of Web agent and policy servers for optimized performance
- Implemented password policies for all the applications using SiteMinder.
- Worked with existing user stores and new external LDAP stores. Integrated Active Directory & Sun One directory servers as user stores & SQL Server as Policy store.
- Experience with using Integration Kits and Token Translators for integrating identity enabled web services into SSO environment.
Environment: JDK 1.4/1.5, J2EE, JDBC, XML, SAML 2.0, CA SiteMinder 5.X/6.X, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.X/6.X, CA Identity Manager r8/r12, Tomcat 5.5, Apache 2.0, Wily Introscope 7.0/7.2, Linux, Windows 2000/2003, Oracle 10g/11g, SQL Server 2005, DB2 8.X.
Confidential, NJ
Siteminder Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for installing, configuring, customizing, and supporting an Enterprise-Wide, transactional, mission-critical SiteMinder infrastructure (Authentication and Authorization service).
- Manage, architect, design, test, migrate, deploy and debug SiteMinder policy servers, web agents and ASA agents used to authenticate/authorize users for Bunge’s web sites and external applications. Policy servers are single-sited, load-balanced (through SiteMinder's implementation), and configured with AD/ADAM user directories and policy stores.
- Responsible for recommendations regarding strategies for SiteMinder-based Auth/Az services (e.g. upgrades, product alternatives, architecture).
- Primary point of contact for internal & external customer-related issues related to Auth/Az. Interface with vendor, internal and external customers to resolve issues with SiteMinder. Primary point of contact for identifying and tracking SiteMinder-related issues.
- Responsible for creating and managing processes for SiteMinder support and external user management.
- Primary point of contact for identifying and implementing internal audit processes for SiteMinder-based Auth/Az processes.
- Tuned Policy Servers and Web agents for optimum performance, provide recommendation for necessary OS and hardware resources.
- Implemented SAML2.0, WS Fed based SSO with third party applications as well as business partners using HTTP POST Profiles.
- Implemented Identity Mapping to integrate SiteMinder with WebSphere Portal going against different user repositories.
- Implemented Directory Mapping to allow SiteMinder to authenticate from Active Directory and authorize from Domino to allow fine grained access control to home grown Wiki application.
- Implemented IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) using IIS for internal Portals
- Implemented SiteMinder password policies for external SunOne LDAP user repositories
- Installed and configured BOXI Report Server for SiteMinder audit logs registered with JBOSS adminUI. Audit logs are configured to be stored in Oracle 10g RAC.
- Implemented audit log rotation using SiteMinder scripts and cron jobs running hourly.
- Responsible for day to day management of Active Directory, SunOne and ADAM in Non production.
- Customized authentication schemes to comply with Bunge’s internal and external security policies as well as ability to save credentials for less secure applications.
- Working on integrating Mobile (Black Berry) applications with SiteMinder using custom authentication scheme developed on SiteMinder SDK.
- Implemented proof of concepts on site with CA Identity Manager, Virtual Directory Server (similar to IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator) and packaged custom authentication schemes(mobile authentication, knowledge based authentication).
- Installed and configured PingFederate servers with SiteMinder , OpenID,and LDAP adapters.
- Configured PingFederate as an Identity Provider to provide SSO with ADP
- Configured0 PingFederate as an Identity Provider to provide SSO with CapGemini BPOpen
Environment: SiteMinder 6, ADAM, AD, SunOne, PingFederate v6, Oracle 9.x,10.x,Linux 4.0, Linux 5.0, Windows 2000/2003/2008
Confidential, PA
System Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for day-to-day support on security.
- Collaborated with developer’s testers and end users to ensure technical compatibility.
- Developing solutions for existing products and systems.
- Produced project feasibility and cost analysis reports.
- Installed, configured and Administered IIS web servers.
- Upgraded and configured Microsoft Windows servers.
- Worked on Remote Administration through Net Meeting, MSTSC, WebEx, and Remote Assistance.
- Prepared testing schedule for complete systems.
- Conducted requirements analysis testing and prepared proposals for replacement systems.
- Provided support for change control and system updates.
- Worked within available project budgets.
Environment: : Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007, Active Directory, Windows 7, Office 2007, HP Service manager 9, McAfee Antivirus.