SUMMARY

• Over 15years of experience in the installation, configuration and maintenance of the IBM WebSphere Application Server on AIX, Linux, Solaris, UNIX, WINDOWS NT platforms and setting up the development testing and production environments
• 5 years of experience working with Jenkins, Ansible and other DevOps tools like Salt/GitHub/Splunk
• Experience working on Jenkins pipelines
• Experience working with SpringBoot and JBoss servers
• 1 year of experience working with Docker/Kubernetes containers
• Over 5 years of experience in BPM and ODM 7.0/8.0/8.5 versions.
• Worked on AWS servers
• Scripting experience using Jython scripts to perform WAS configuration tasks.
• Experience in optimization of enterprise applications using WebSphere Application server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x, WebSphere Portal Server 5.x, 6.x, Workload management, LDAP, JNDI, IBM HTTP Server, and performance tuning
• Experience migrating applications to different version of WebSphere
• Setting up WebSphere deployments using Jenkins plugin and automating the deployment process
• Ansible usage to install WebSphere and configure components
• Experience with JDA installing with WebSphere
• Experience working with JBoss and Tomcat servers for 5 years
• Experience working with Ansible and Jenkins for DevOps
• Experience with Relational databases like DB2, ORACLE, SYBASE and SQL Server
• Strong technical knowledge includes WebSphere Application server security experience with LDAP, including complex secure sockets layer (SSL) configuration on IBM HTTP Server (Apache based)
• Experience with WebSphere administration duties: version upgrades, applying patches, maintenance, monitoring and support
• Extensive experience in migrating existing infrastructure and applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.x and WebSphere Portal 5.x to 6.x using migration tools
• Experience in installation and maintenance of IBM HTTP Server, Apache Server, and IIS Web Server
• Well versed in implementing Work Load Management (WLM) methodology and fail over mechanisms using cloning and clustering including horizontal and vertical cloning
• Extensive experience in tuning WebSphere components such as JVM Heap, DB connections, WebSphere plug - in and web-container pool
• Experience in deploying J2EE applications on IBM WebSphere application server 5.x, 6.x using Apache ANT and AAT (Application assembly tool)
• Worked with Ansible and Jenkins, along with Chef
• Experience being on 24x7 production support, solving major production issues related to WebSphere and Web Servers, and databases
• Excellent documentation, verbal and written communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers/Web Servers: IBM WebSphere 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.0/8.0/8.5/XD, Apache Web Server, IBM HTTP Server 5.x, 6.x, 7.0,8.0,8.5,9.0, IIS Web Server

Operating Systems: Linux (RedHat and SUSE), AIX (4.3, 5.1, 6.1), Sun Solaris (8.0, 9.0), Windows (NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, XP)

Databases: Oracle 8/9/10, DB2 7.2/8.1, MS SQL Server

DevOps: Jenkins/Ansible/Github/Splunk/Salt/AWS/SpringBoot/Openshift

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, PHP, JSP, Servlets, EJB

Tools: WSAdmin, JACL, Jython, VMWare

Networking: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, DNS

Other: WebSphere Portal 5.x/6.x, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Holland, MI

Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install WebSphere Application Server 8.5,9.0 on Windows, Linux platforms
• Install patches and apply fixpacks as needed on different platforms
• Create servers with Springboot to enable Gitlab auto deployments
• Work with Openshift Containers making changes via Bitbucket and HelmCharts
• Planning and prioritizing of CI/CD using Jenkins and Ansible.
• Migration of WebSphere from Windows 2008 and Windows 2016 version
• Deploy WebSphere applications using Jenkins
• Configure clustering and stand-alone WebSphere servers
• Deploy automated and non-automated applications using Manual procedure and Jython scripting
• Was Involved in Performance Tuning for Application Server, Datasource Tuning for Oracle, DB2
• Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, memory leaks, hung servers
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization, and memory Utilization using Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Configuration of federated repository LDAP
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN
• Created Jython scripts to configure & start servers and install
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues
• Deploy files into production and troubleshoot issues, including rollback procedures

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.X/8.5, RedHat Linux, Windows, Oracle 9/10, Tivoli Directory Server

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Middleware Architect

Responsibilities:

• Install WebSphere Application Server 8.0, 8.5,9.0 on AIX, Linux platforms
• Install and Configure IBM ODM 8.5
• Install patches and apply fixpacks as needed on different platforms
• Planning and prioritizing of CI/CD using Jenkins and Ansible.
• Completed migration from WebSphere 7.0 to 8.5.5.13 version on Linux.
• Setting up Redhat OpenShift and Docker based AWS builds.
• Deploy applications using Ansible via Jenkins tower
• Configure clustering and stand alone WebSphere servers
• Install/Setup WebSphere 8.0 and migrate applications from 7.0 version.
• Deploy automated and non-automated applications
• Was Involved in Performance Tuning for Application Server, Datasource Tuning for Oracle, DB2
• Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization, and memory Utilization using Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Managed J2EE security and JAVA2 security in WebSphere and 7.0 and 8.0
• Involved in Integration of federated repository LDAP
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN
• Created Jython scripts to deploy EARs, configure & start servers and install
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues
• Deploy files into production and troubleshoot issues, including rollback procedures

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.X/8.5, RedHat Linux, Solaris, AIX, Oracle 9/10, DB2 8.1, Tivoli Directory Server

Confidential, Atlanta

Middleware Architect

Responsibilities:

• Install IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x on Linux/AIX/Windows platforms
• Use Kubernetes, Redhat OpenShift for container-based applications
• Used scripts for build, deployment and maintainance tasks using Docker, Jenkins and Python
• Configure Data Sources, Profiles and custom application settings
• Managed J2EE security and JAVA2 security in WebSphere 6.x/7.x/8.x.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN
• Install, configure and maintain continuous integeration, and management tools
• Worked with OMS Sterling on WebSphere 7.0 version
• Setup different environments for OMS Sterling and enabled Datasync
• Responsible for deployment of applications and restart of servers manually after the deployment

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.X/8.X, RedHat Linux, Oracle 9/10, DB2 8.1, Servlets, EJB, Tivoli Directory Server, Active Directory (LDAP Server).

Confidential, Pittsburgh

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with AWS Servers, including using Ansible and Jenkins tools to automate pipelines
• Install WebSphere Application Server 8.0/8.5 on Linux/AIX platforms
• Install and Configure Docker using Redhat Openshift
• Point team player on OpenShift for creating new projects, services for load balancing troubleshooting pods through ssh and logs
• Install and configure JBoss.
• Install and configure AWS server for WebSphere
• Install IBM Configuration Manager
• Working on Middle-tier, WebServices, XML, SOAP Messages
• Configure datasources, web servers and applications according to client needs
• Deployments, routine checks and daily tasks completed on time
• Worked with Chef to deploy some recipes on Linux server systems
• On call to support new releases, supported go LIVE of new applications
• Troubleshooting permissions issues with installing WAS and ODM softwares

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.X/8.X, RedHat Linux, Oracle 9/10, DB2 8.1, Servlets, EJB, Tivoli Directory Server, Novell eDirectory (LDAP Server).