SUMMARY

• Over 12 years of professional experience in Implementing Organization DevOps/ Middleware strategy in various environments of Linux and windows servers along with adopting cloud strategies based on Amazon Web Services.
• Experienced in Cloud Technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) VPC, EC2, Cloud formation, S3, IAM, RDS, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Dynamo DB and Elastic cache.
• Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, DynamoDB tables, EBS volumes; to set alarms for notification or automated actions; and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system.
• Maintain build profiles in Team Foundation Server and Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline.
• Experienced in ITIL Incident Management and coordination in a large organization
• Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
• Expertise in working with other Middleware softwares and tools Including IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0.x/7.0x, Xenos Enterprise servers 3.x/4.0, Apache Tomcat 6.0, IHS 5.x, 6.x, Brava Enterprise Servers 6.0, IBM FileNet P8 4.5.1, 5.x, F5, ActiveMQ, ZooKeeper, Integration Manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, IBM File Net P8 4.x/5.0.
• Team player with effective communication skills (verbal and written) for both highly technical and non - technical audiences
• Ability to work on multiple concurrent projects and prioritize effectively

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Apache Tomcat, Xenos Enterprise Server, Lotus Connections, Brava Enterprise Servers, Jboss

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, Teradata, DB2

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0, Win XP, Linux, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, VMWare, MAC OS

Tools: &Technologies: Microsoft Dynamics CRM, IBM File Net P8, Tivoli Access Manager, Netegrity Siteminder, MS Office Suite SharePoint, Adoble lifeCycles, Actuate, LoadRunner, Dynatrace, Jmeter. Jira

Web Server: iPlanet, IBM HTTP Server (IHS), IIS, Apache web server

Languages & APIs: Java, Perl, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, Unix scripting, XML

Cloud: AWS, Open Shift, MS Azure

Monitoring: Splunk, AppDynamics, Wily Introscope, Kibana, Graphite, Wire shark, Cloud Watch

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Cloud Release Operations with Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assigning/ Releasing tickets to deployment team
• Assisting developers with issues and concerns related to the Code releases - project management
• Involved on developing technical diagrams and plans and build specification documents for build teams
• Experienced as a Build and Release Engineering in automating, building, deploying, and releasing of code from one environment to another environment.
• As a Sr. Ops Web Release Engineer, my role includes Middleware automation, Release management, Environment Management, Continuous integration, continuous deployment, Incident management, version management. Build and deploy scripts - maintaining and managing those using Jenkins
• Experienced in developing STAGE policies and process documentation to ensure products are released without errors.
• Experienced in Redhat OpenShift pod deployments and troubleshooting.
• Responsible for preparation of documentation using Atlasssian Wiki pages.
• Responsible to analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for SVN and Git.
• Responsible for the Plugin Management, User Management, Build/Deploy Pipeline Setup and End -End Job Setup of all the projects.
• Involved in rolling out canary deployments for subset of users. Used to install Ansible for managing different services in AWS deploy the application in AWS
• Worked with Source Code Management System Git/Bitbucket and with build manager for Java projects Maven.
• Extensively used Jira ticketing to track, assign, report and submit tickets for all sort of deployments and issues.
• Worked on Blue-Green Deployment strategy using auto-scaling groups in AWS Cloud.
• Integrated Hipchat (Internal Private Online Chat) with deployment process to know the live update of deploying Application.
• Analyzes operations processes/ procedures to determine potential enhancements or improvements, recommending appropriate actions or solutions consistent with overall goals.
• Support the objectives of Service Management by contributing and influencing peers to help support Release Management achieve elevation.
• Ensured preparation for release-to-production and fulfilled technical release dependencies.
• Updates and communicates release status. Escalates issues in a timely manner where required.
• Maintain status in Release Control System and other tracking systems where necessary for release intake.
• Experienced in Canary Testing for the apps deployed both on cloud - AWS or virtual servers, to switch the production traffic from Active to Inactive farms.
• Extensively used Plunger to flush out the apps after deployments to get the updated code results.
• Experienced in using Splunk, Kibana and Graphite monitoring systems to alert the traffic problems on the Cloud pods or ELBs or servers.
• Established relationships and built trust between Business teams and the technical delivery teams
• Collected information from Project Manager and client on requirements needed to complete project
• Managed the Maven Repository using JFrog Artifactory tool and used the same to share the snapshots and releases of internal projects.
• Experienced in using JIRA tool to create and update stories and also for tracking project status.
• Experienced in Identifying the code team responsible for issues and helping them to troubleshoot it & helping work through performance issues.
• Working with broader teams to ensure all issues are being addressed, which includes project coordination.
• Experienced in ELB based AWS Deployments using S3 buckets.
• Experienced in doing MySQL deployments and changes in the tables with coordinating from DB teams, Onshore and offshore.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Web Systems Engineer/ Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Trained new hires technically and to answer questions and concerns what they have.
• Finding joy in solving problems for others and helping teams learn about our process on deployments and troubleshooting.
• Prepared documentation of the technical process on how the team works.
• Installation, Configuration, testing and deployments to the WebSphere application servers in a single/clustered environment on AIX and Linux operating systems
• Install, configure and applying Fixpacks to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5.0 for performing deployments, Solution Import, Importing Security roles & Tenant Creation
• Installation and configuration of Apache Tomcat and IBM HTTP Servers
• Setting up AppDynamics on the servers to monitor the health of an application.
• Deployments and configuration changes to Apache Tomcat and Websphere. Writing new scripts for easy deployment and Preparing documentation for new applications and footprints for new and existed applications on Apache Tomcat and Websphere
• Perform root cause analysis of production impacting issues, including opening problem cases with vendors and driving them to conclusion
• Maintaining and bug-fixing existing applications and infrastructure
• Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, dynamic configuration, monitoring and spend optimization of servers in the cloud environment
• Installation of Apache Tomcat 6.0 and WebSphere Plug-in components. Created definition on Admin console to manage web servers and perform generation and propagation of plug-in Participate in database design based on approved architecture.
• Working with the support team to manage the patching schedules and looking after the App servers and Webservers.
• Strong working knowledge of the Splunk platform, including day-to-day administration of our multi-site distributed Splunk environment.
• Experienced in troubleshoot performance and access issues, as well as installation of Splunk upgrades throughout our clustered environment.
• Experienced in performing advanced searching and reporting to help customers with the implementation specialized/custom dashboards. Performing maintenance and optimization of existing clustered Splunk deployments.
• Responsible for all the backups during the patching work. Checking the mounts and the processes and bringing all the servers up and running once the patchwork is completed.
• Installation and Configuration of CA Wily Introscope 8.x/9.x.
• Configure Websphere/ Apache Tomcat resources such as JDBC providers and data sources, JMS, shared libraries, virtual hosts. Write scripts to handle system administration tasks such as log rotation, backup and recovery, server start/shutdown tasks
• Day to day management of incidents, operational maintenance and support, and proactive / preventative analysis of systems
• Creating SVN/CVS access to customer and preparing quarterly Audit report.
• Identified a RFC which previously resulted in outages across multiple applications with HP Release control tools
• Use Introscope Performance Viewer for performance monitoring and tuned database connection pooling parameters, thread pools, JVM Heap parameters and GC cycles.
• Providing technical support to Dev, SIT and UAT teams for the deployments and technical issues. QA team’s customization and Personalization using Admin Console. Troubleshooting and Administration of WebSphere Admin Server, and HTTP Server. Configured the application server for different databases. Debug WebSphere Application Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle.
• Experienced in troubleshooting and finding root cause for the errors/ issues in application server, web server and DB related issues.
• Installation and configuration of Brava Enterprise Servers 6.0 on Apache Tomcat servers through windows operating system.
• Worked on Integration Manager (IM) to move content out of federation.
• Installation, configuration and administration of IBM FileNet P8 5.x and Workplace XT works on IBM FileNet P8 4.5.1, 5.x
• Working on F5 Load Balancing Management Portal to perform tasks like Enable/Disable ports, Enable IP/Disable IP, Upport/Downport and to check connections.
• Supports Production server’s issues and deployments.
• Experience in UNIX Shell scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting
• Maintain a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations on Run Books and SharePoint.
• Experienced in Weekend support customer service to clients all over the world regarding Websphere application servers, Integration Manager, Transformation services, FileNet, Apache Tomcat, F5 and web services.

Confidential, Rochester, MN

IT Sr. Executive Ontology Operations & Systems Admin/ Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working for Semantics Services Environment (SSE) team on Enterprise Terminology Management Environment
• Complete requirements and high-level workflow design of the end-to-end process.
• Complete technical design/ architecture, development, and testing.
• Works with Amazon AWS tools and assist in building infrastructure for various web applications, assist with documentation and security assessment
• Execute Integration work
• Deploy and operationalize an initial set of platform capabilities such as: shared concepts between the enterprise terminologies and ontologies; interoperability between our terminology and ontology tooling
• Experienced in continue consuming terminologies and ontologies ‘as is’; and to consume terminology concepts with ontological definitions as well as ontologies built on our enterprise terminologies (new capabilities derived from integration/ interoperability); and able to collaboratively author, import, or otherwise create new terminologies (systems, vocabularies, and/ or concepts) and ontologies (classes, relationships, and/ or individuals); for formal relationships either to the source(s) for the values of a given concept or to the capability for delivery.
• Responsible for managing Linux patch cycle plus any additional patches that may pop up
• Created new physical servers and workstations
• Experienced in
• Branching/ Merging/Conflict resolution using source control tools such as Git, SVN.
• Build control tools such as ANT, MAVEN.
• Continuous integration and deployment tools such as Jenkins,Chef, Puppet.
• Responsible for Migration of Virtual servers to Physical servers (Procurement and Budgeting involved)
• Responsible for work coordination between multiple teams Core, Build, Test and Developer teams.
• Manage work and assist Project manager with budget and Project assignment and server work.
• Manage Apache and TomCat configurations, security groups, and password maintenance
• Manage any instances of Maui NLP server that Ontology team needs
• Respond to server problems and Recycle/Rebuild servers as needed
• Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management
• Launching and configuring of Amazon EC2 (AWS) Cloud Servers using AMI's (Linux/Ubuntu) and configuring the servers for specified applications using Jenkins.
• Build application and database servers using AWS EC2 and create AMIs as well as use RDS for Oracle DB.
• Responsible to Automate as much of server recycle/rebuild as possible with CORE team
• Configure and Deploy TopBraid upgrades on EVN and TBL servers
• Maintain automated deploy processes with CORE team
• Experienced in Cloud Technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) VPC, EC2, Cloud formation, S3, IAM, RDS, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Dynamo DB and Elastic cache.
• Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, DynamoDB tables, EBS volumes; to set alarms for notification or automated actions; and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system.
• Involved in Regression test TopBraid upgrades and Archive off old change history from the servers
• Responsible for Catalog cleanup and Work with CORE on Cloud initiatives and projects that come up
• Copy PROD data into DEV/TEST/UAT environments and switch from PROD access/security roles
• Responsible for Budgeting, Planning and time reporting and documentation of all the process and technical documentation. Performs or assists with billing, time, and expense tracking.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Web Engineer / Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, testing and deployments to the WebSphere application servers in a single/clustered environment on AIX and Linux operating systems
• Install, configure and applying Fixpacks to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5.0 for performing deployments, Solution Import, Importing Security roles & Tenant Creation
• Installation and configuration of Apache Tomcat and IBM HTTP Servers
• Setting up AppDynamics on the servers to monitor the health of an application.
• Deployments and configuration changes to Apache Tomcat and Websphere. Writing new scripts for easy deployment and Preparing documentation for new applications and footprints for new and existed applications on Apache Tomcat and Websphere
• Installation of Apache Tomcat 6.0 and WebSphere Plug-in components. Created definition on Admin console to manage web servers and perform generation and propagation of plug-in Participate in database design based on approved architecture.
• Working with the support team to manage the patching schedules and looking after the App servers and Webservers.
• Responsible for all the backups during the patching work. Checking the mounts and the processes and bringing all the servers up and running once the patchwork is completed.
• Installation and Configuration of CA Wily Introscope 8.x/9.x.
• Configure Websphere/ Apache Tomcat resources such as JDBC providers and data sources, JMS, shared libraries, virtual hosts. Write scripts to handle system administration tasks such as log rotation, backup and recovery, server start/shutdown tasks
• Experienced in ITIL Incident Management and coordination.
• Day to day management of incidents, operational maintenance and support, and proactive / preventative analysis of systems
• Creating SVN/CVS access to customer and preparing quarterly Audit report.
• Re-creates, analyzes, troubleshoots, and diagnoses incidents relating to multi-tier applications
• Identified a RFC which previously resulted in outages across multiple applications with HP Release control tools
• Use Introscope Performance Viewer for performance monitoring and tuned database connection pooling parameters, thread pools, JVM Heap parameters and GC cycles.
• Providing technical support to Dev, SIT and UAT teams for the deployments and technical issues. QA team’s customization and Personalization using Admin Console. Troubleshooting and Administration of WebSphere Admin Server, and HTTP Server. Configured the application server for different databases. Debug WebSphere Application Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle.
• Experienced in troubleshooting and finding root cause for the errors/ issues in application server, web server and DB related issues.
• Installation and configuration of Brava Enterprise Servers 6.0 on Apache Tomcat servers through windows operating system.
• Worked on Integration Manager (IM) to move content out of federation.
• Installation, configuration and administration of IBM FileNet P8 5.x and Workplace XT works on IBM FileNet P8 4.5.1, 5.x
• Working on F5 Load Balancing Management Portal to perform tasks like Enable/Disable ports, Enable IP/Disable IP, Upport/Downport and to check connections.
• Supports Production server’s issues and deployments.
• Experience in UNIX Shell scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting
• Maintain a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations on Run Books and SharePoint.
• Experienced in 24/7 on call support customer service to clients all over the world regarding Websphere application servers, Integration Manager, Transformation services, FileNet, Apache Tomcat, F5 and web services.