SUMMARY

• Highly seasoned, accomplished and certified Middleware/Devops administrator, offering 10 years of experience leading company Middleware/Devops strategies.
• Equipped with broad based background in information technology, and administration services such as configuration, designing, developing, testing, documenting and deploying Middleware solutions.
• Possess in - depth Knowledge of Middleware technologies, and extensive experience in Weblogic, Jboss, Websphere and Devops platforms.
• Self-motivator with strong interpersonal, problem solving and communication skills combined with the ability to maintain excellent relationship with developers and clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware Technologies: AWS, Jboss Application Server, Weblogic Application Server, Confidential HTTP Server, Websphere Application Server, Unix, Linux, Servicenow, AdobeCQ, Shellscripting, Blade Logic Tool, HCCP Ticketing Tool, Hands on Knowledge on Endeca, Apache Tomcat, Hybris Application Server, Confidential MQ, Confidential HTTP Server, LDAP, F5 LTM Load Balancer, Ansible, Docker, Confidential Integration Bus, Confidential Datapower, MQFTE.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Middleware Cloud Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience in AWS CloudFormation, AWS EC2, VPC, S3 and similar technologies.
• Communication skills in a DevOps environment with team, managers, business units and stakeholders.
• Experience with Continuous Delivery of Applications to App Servers like JBOSS, WebLogic, WebSphere Applications.
• Managed the AWS cost cutting by writing the Ansible playbook for auto start/stop of AWS resources Confidential a particular time of the day by triggering it from Jenkins.
• Experience in using Git, GitHub, and Subversion.
• Provided POC's to provision the AWS infrastructure using Ansible playbooks which includes checking the health status, monitoring and gathering facts about the ec2-instances, elastic load balancers, auto scaling groups and other AWS resources.
• Working in implementation team to build and engineer servers for Redhat Linux & AIX operating systems.
• Have a good knowledge Nagios and experience in monitoring tool like Splunk, AppDynamics.
• Leveraged cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, SES and SNS services in AWS cloud.
• Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMI s for mission critical production servers for backup.
• Experience in migrating physical Linux/Windows servers to cloud (AWS).
• Executed QA services for enhancing efficiency of technologies and related updates for cloud storage applications.
• Involved in AWS architectural design to provision the AWS resources.
• Working with Change Order with current release and implement them in the Production.
• Created Branches, Tags for each release and particular environments.
• Using Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plug-in to deploy to AWS.
• Gather Monitoring requirements from application owners.
• Configuration and setup of virtual and cloud development environments using Vagrant /AWS/Azure.

Devops Engineer Onsite Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience in AWS CloudFormation, AWS EC2, VPC, S3 and similar technologies.
• Communication skills in a DevOps environment with team, managers, business units and stakeholders.
• Experience with Continuous Delivery of Applications to App Servers like JBOSS, WebLogic, WebSphere Applications.
• Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Experience in using Git, GitHub, and Subversion.
• Configuring, Automating and Deploying Ansible and Salt for configuration management to existing Infrastructure.
• Working in implementation team to build and engineer servers for Redhat Linux & AIX operating systems.
• Have a good knowledge Nagios and experience in monitoring tool like Splunk, AppDynamics.
• Ability to work closely with teams, to ensure high quality and timely delivery of build and release.
• Monitored Database Connection Health by using SplunkDBconnects health dashboards.
• Maintained Defect Fix Deployments and documented the deployed files in the appropriate Environment Migration log.
• Working with Change Order with current release and implement them in the Production.
• Created Branches, Tags for each release and particular environments.
• Merged the branches after the Code Freeze.
• Gather Monitoring requirements from application owners.
• Handle issues with AppDynamics controller, agents or configurations.
• Provided application support by reviewing the tickets and troubleshooting the issues.

EAI Lead & Senior Devops Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed WebLogic Server administration tasks such as installation, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Configuring Smart Monitoring/Custom Application Alerts/Flow Metrics.
• Deployment strategies, Mule Clustering, Load Balancing, MUnit& MuleSoft MMC.
• Hands on Experience troubleshooting/Managing Runtime Servers.
• Created and installed SSL s in Prod environments i.e. self-signed and VeriSign respectively using Keytool and Openssl.
• Giving L2 troubleshooting support for Production environment. Attending crisis call during production issues and providing root cause analysis to customer.
• Extensively worked on administration of Confidential WebLogic 10.X /12c Application Server and OHS .
• Installed and configured multiple domains and completely created new Development, test, SIT and production environments.
• Installed, configured and administered and integrated Apache Web Server with the WebLogic Application Server for load balancing.
• Authentication and Authorization using LDAP.
• Monitored and maintained MQ Objects in DEVELOPMENT, TEST and PRODUCTION Environments. using MQ Explorer and Confidential Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
• Monitored log files of Clusters, Queues and Queue Managers.
• Configured Publish/subscribe models.
• Problem determination using Queue Manager Error logs.
• Import / Export s on both MQ and IIB servers for both One way and two way SSL.
• Used web server to store, process and deliver web pages to clients.
• Responsible to maintain different middleware environments by developing processes to keep them up to date as per security & vendor recommended patches.
• Works with senior staff and management to develop a patching policy for different middleware environments.
• Works closely with senior staff members and other groups across organization to address any concerns and act as subject matter expert across organization for the middleware area.
• Investigates and proposes solutions for development and customer needs to improve reliability, continuity, and maintainability for middleware layer.
• Continuously evaluates new features available in middleware areas and works closely for their implementation.
• Provides on call rotational support for middleware environments; Works on problems resolution across middleware area.
• Creates and responds to Service Management requests (e.g. incidents, change, work orders, etc.), may provide critical incident coordination and management.
• Works on problems across different environments and implements strategies to pro-actively avoid those issues in the future.

Senior Middleware/Devops Administra

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with application developers and troubleshoot issues Confidential the middleware layer.
• Collaborate with team members to implement strategies to streamline current system processes.
• Responsible for installing, configuring, performance tuning, debugging issues and providing day to day operational support for following.
• Professional experience with Redhat Linux.
• Experience Scripting in Bash, Linux Unix Shell, or Perl.
• Working knowledge of Confidential HTTP Server, Apache HTTP Server, Confidential Webserver, MQ, OPENLDAP.
• Experience with SSL Management.
• Demonstrable knowledge of formal Change, Incident & Problem Management methods.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Performance & Capacity Management methods.
• Experience supporting 24x7 business operations including some on-call rotation and weekend hours.
• Updated JDK’s and installed service packs and patches for Application Server.
• Set up ILA for monitoring, notification, root cause analysis and data reporting.
• Also, responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test products such as Apache Server.
• Working knowledge in WebSphere MQ.
• Involved in performing stress testing to test for workload balancing and memory leaks, connection pooling issues in WAS/WPS and tuning.
• Hands on experience in tools such as Wily Introscope, Tivoli Performance viewer, Thread dump analyzer, performance tuning toolkit and Heap dump analyser.
• Excellent working knowledge in configuring resources, application servers, horizontal and vertical clustering, virtual hosts, Web and EJB applications.
• Hands on experience for application and WebSphere application server migration from older version WAS V6.1 to WAS V8.0 and WAS 8.5.

Middleware Administrative Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed WebLogic Server administration tasks such as installation, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Worked on installation, server configuration, deployment, upgrading, migration performance tuning including maintenance of WebLogic server.
• Configured Node Managers to remotely administer Managed Servers.
• Installation Configuration & Administration of Clustered Weblogic Server 8.1/10.3 on Production Environment.
• Used config wizard and config builder extensively to create and manage WebLogic domains.
• Migration of WebLogic Server from Windows to Linux Environment.
• Deployed the EAR, JAR, WAR applications on multiple Weblogic Servers Instances and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Experienced in Configuring JMS resources Queues, Topics, Distributed destinations, message bridges and JDBC connection pools, data sources.
• Developed scripts to monitor JDBC connection pool status, JVM Heap size, and JMS messages in the destination queues in the production environment.
• Experienced in configuring Horizontal and Vertical Clusters.
• Created Domain Templates to replicate the environment on new Weblogic servers.
• Worked with WLST scripts and Shell Scripts to automate frequently done tasks like deployments.
• Hosted web Application on multiple IIS servers under a load balancer.
• Used IIS as a web server to respond to the requests from the browser.
• Used mvsmon.exe for remote IIS debugging.
• Used WWW, FTP, SMTP and NNTP services under IIS services.
• Invoked WLST scripting and created JDBC connection pools and enrolled the node manager using WLST command line.
• Experienced in analysis of thread dumps, core dumps, server hang and high CPU utilization conditions.
• Configured SSL and created Digital s for secured communication between applications.
• Installed, configured and administered Apache 2.2 and Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Linux.

Junior Ecommerce Middleware Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in analysis of thread dumps, core dumps, server hang and high CPU utilization conditions.
• On call pager issues 24x7 per schedule.
• Installed, configured and maintain of JBoss EAP 4.x/5.x/6.x, JBoss EWS software on Sun Solaris and Redhat Linux.
• Installed, configured and maintain of JBoss Operations Network (JON).
• Installed, configured and maintain of Apache web server.
• Tune JBoss parameters for optimal system performance.
• Create and maintain application servers with optimal configurations and data source.
• Knowledge about Confidential database systems as backend to web applications.
• Aid developers in detecting performance problems including analysis of traffic patterns, scalability, load testing and redundancy.
• Provide continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, historical and real time performance monitoring of the Jboss server environments.
• Participate in “On Call” weekly shift supporting off hours and weekend activity. This is rotating assignment shared with other members of the team as necessary.
• Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining new application patches.
• Developed and maintained Unix scripts supporting the web administration function.
• Followed ITIL process in the system administration, maintaining up-to-date documentation.