SUMMARY

• 5+ years of experience in Server configuration management via Puppet, Openstack and Chef
• Working knowledge of solution development on Devops and PaaS
• 7+ Years of extensive experience in the IT industry with focus on WebLogic Administration, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Maintenance on WebLogic Servers.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Trouble - Shooting and Maintenance of BEA WebLogic Server 7.0/8.1/9.x/10.x/11g/12c, JBOSS 4.x/5/6.x/7.x, iplanet Web Server, Apache Web Server on different UNIX flavors and environments.
• Experience with Apache Webserver 2.0/2.2 and 2.3 and Tomcat 6.0.
• Excellent understanding of installation, application deployment, monitoring and maintenance of Apache Webserver 2.0/2.2 and 2.3 and Tomcat 6.0 and Tomcat 6.0 on Linux environments.
• Excellent understanding of SDLC Methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, RAD and Devops processes.
• Experience in Maintaining BEA WebLogic Server on different UNIX platforms and setting up the Development, Testing and Production environments.
• Deploying J2EE Application archives (JAR, WAR, EAR and RAR) and Web-Based/E-Commerce on Web Logic Application Server and JBOSS 4.x/5/6.x/7.x.
• Configured and administered JDBC connection pools.
• Varied experience in Clustering (both horizontal and vertical), Workload management, creation and maintenance of Domains, Nodes and Managed Servers instances in a BEA Weblogic environment.
• Installed and configured sunONE and Apache Web Servers in various environments.
• Deployed applications on multiple Weblogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, High Availability and Fail over functionality.
• Knowledge of Designing Chef automation solutions for middleware servers
• Created cron jobs for timely running of jobs.
• Hand full of Experience in Jenkins NANT, TFS, PowerShell, VMware
• Experienced in applying patches and plug-ins for Weblogic Application Server.
• Extensive experience in finding the Memory Leaks and adjusting the JVM Heap Sizes, using the Optimize IT and JProbe.
• Working knowledge of JBOSS 4.x/5 and exposure to distributed queuing architectures.
• Extensive experience in configuring and managing secured environments using SSL and digital certificates.
• Experienced in J2EE (JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMS), java2.0, JDBC, Java Beans, RMI, JavaScript, XML, IODC, HTML, SQL.
• Working knowledge of IBM MQ Series, Siteminder.
• Good working experience in server side java programming using J2EE technologies - Servlets, Applets, JSP 1.x, JDBC, RMI, JNDI, EJB.
• Good working knowledge on Oracle Enterprise Linux OS environments.
• Experience in ticketing tools like HP PPMC and Production monitoring tools like HP M360, Oracle EM and http analyzer tools.
• Good understanding of load balancing using F5, Site minder and DNS.
• Good business understanding, Networking skills and Application work flows.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent tasks and projects
• Ability to focus on complex tasks and to understand interaction of this technology area with parts of the infrastructure

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Solaris, Red Hat LINUX, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP.

Programming Languages: C, C++, JAVA/J2EE, Visual Basic, SQL, PL-SQL

Application Server: BEA WebLogic 6.1 (sp3, sp6), 7 (sp4 - sp6), 8.1 (sp3 - sp6), 9.2MP2 & 10.0/10.3, Apache Tomcat 6.x, JBOSS 4.x/5/6.x/7.x.

Web Server: Apache 2.x, Sun ONE 6.x, IBM-HTTP Server.

J2EE Technologies: Servlets, JSP, JDBC, RMI, JMS, JTA, JNDI, JMX, EJB, Applets and swing components, AWT.

Web Technologies: JDK 1.6, HTML, XML, DHTML, MSXML, ASPX.

Scripting Languages: WLST, UNIX Shell Scripting (Bourne, Korn, C and Bash), Perl Scripting

Monitoring Tools: Wily Introscope, JMeter, Mercury Load Runner, Grinder, Samurai, AppDynamics, Splunk, Zabbix.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, 11g, MS SQL Server 7.x/2000, Sybase, Pointbase, My SQL, MS Access and DB2.

Networking & Protocols: TCP/IP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Weblogic/JBOSS Administrator/Dev Ops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design Chef automation solutions application server middleware tier
• Installation and configuration of technologies such as Openstack, Puppet, Chef and other automation technologies relating to DevOps and PaaS solution development
• Installed and configured WebLogic Application server 11x/12c using graphic and silent mode and configured Weblogic domain
• Determined and suggested hardware and software specific to the System and customized as per the requirements.
• Configured Node Manager for running managed servers
• Installed and configured Apache HTTP Server 2.0, Tomcat 6.0, IIS 6 and Sun One Web Servers in various environments.
• Installed and configured plug-ins for Apache HTTP server and Sun One Web server to proxy the request for WebLogic server.
• Experience in analyzing the proxy server log in comparison with WebLogic logs to narrow down the malformed request.
• Performed migration and upgraded WebLogic server 9.x to WebLogic 10.x/11x and to the recent version12c.
• Updated JDK’s and installed service packs and patches for WebLogic Server.
• Worked on Oracle Fusion 11g architecture making most of the investment in applications.
• Also installed, configured and administered JBOSS 6.0 server in various environments.
• Used Devops, Ansible Puppet and Gerrit
• Used centralized configuration for multiple servers in JBOSS domain mode.
• Using Python Scripting in DevOps users to model and manage the entire application from load balancers to database.
• Experience in Batch-Scripting for automating and reducing the time taken for everyday tasks.
• Deployed web and enterprise applications on JBoss application server.
• Developed processes, tools, automation for Jenkins and DevOps based software for build system and delivering SW Builds.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Used Nagios to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems in various components including applications, services, servers and network protocols.
• Deployed various J2EE and enterprise applications (WAR, JAR, RAR, EAR) on managed servers and cluster environment, maintained Load Balancing, High Availability and Failover.
• Created bash and ksh scripts to monitor domains, recycle clusters, monitor disk space, number of Apache connections, and ran them as cronjobs for timely running programs.
• Configured JNDI as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBCdata source, JMS connection factories, queues and topics.
• Configured and administered JDBC Connection pools/multi pools/ data sources on WebLogic server.
• Also responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test products such as Apache Server.
• Worked with Atlassian tools like Bamboo & Jira.
• Automated the Build Process using Jenkins.
• Installing of HTTP plugins for Apache, iPlanet and Microsoft IIS.
• Used ANT, Puppet/ Chef Scripts with Ivy to build the application and deploy.
• Involved in monitoring error logs, troubleshooting and fixing the problems.
• Handled Memory issues, such as application leak, WebLogic leak and sun java bug by tuning and profiling memory with third party tools.
• Implemented security by configuring Secured Socket Layer (SSL) for client authentication and data encryption
• Configured LDAP server using Sun One Directory server for user authentication
• Configure Siteminder with Web servers.
• Configure F5load balancer with Web servers. Used F5 to capacity, performance and reliability of the applications
• Used OIM for access management, directory services, decision making and strengthening security
• Develop and run UNIX shell scripts and implemented auto deployment process.
• Solved server hang issues such as Deadlock, Application and Database level lock by taking thread dump and analyzed to get the root cause of the hang
• Set up Wily for monitoring, notification, root cause analysis and data reporting
• Performance monitoring and JVM Heap size and EJB monitoring using Wily Introscope and Load testing using Mercury Load Runner and Jmeter with Thread and Heap analysis Using Samuraithread dump
• Used Subversion (SVN) to maintain present and historical source code versions and documentation.
• Used Build Forge and Jenkins for enterprise scale infrastructure configuration and application deployments.
• Used HP OpenView for managing applications, network conditions and status across the platform
• Implemented standard backup procedures for both application and WebLogic server.
• Involved in assisting QA team in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebLogic Server and resolved complex issues
• Involved in a team to design a strategy and well organized planning in data center migration using TDS

Environment: Oracle WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x, JDK 1.3/1.4/1.5, JRockit 8.1, Apache 2.x, Tomcat 6.0/6.1, Sun One/ iPlanet, IIS 6, DevOps, Solaris 8,9, Red Hat LINUX, Windows 2003, F5 Load balancer, Siteminder, Nagios, JMX, Oracle 8i/9i, JDBC, LDAP, subversion, EJB, JSP, Servlets, XML,MS Office, OpenSSL, Secure SSH.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

JBOSS/Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Server configuration management via Puppet, Openstack and Chef on Devops and PaaS
• Provided monitoring, configuration, testing, maintenance and production support of various applications and servers.
• As JBoss Administrator, perform, monitor and manage upgrades, deployments and other changes to the servers and applications.
• Configured the HC Scripts, Monitored and Provided 24/7 support for 25+ servers during the SOCHI Olympics 2014.
• Participated in Migration undergoing from JBoss 4 to Weblogic or JBoss 4 to JBoss 6 and its respective POC.
• Troubleshooting and fixing defects found during Application upgrades and Server Migration. Troubleshoot issues with JBoss related servers and applications as part of infrastructure team.
• Used Hudson/Jenkins for automating Builds and Automating Deployments DevOps.
• Installed and configured JBoss 6.2 in local machine during JBoss 4.3 to JBoss 6.2 application server migration.
• Involved in various critical outages and team meetings to solve various issues and discuss future plans and steps.
• Worked with team members to create ISR/ASR/RFC requests to schedule production application deployment and maintenance activities.
• Installed, Configured and utilized AppDynamics (Tremendous Performance Management Tool) and Splunk in the whole JBoss Environment. Troubleshooted issues occurring during installation.
• Created and Analyzed Performance Test Reports using Test Scripts.
• Build proper SOP/Checklist Documents for number of important Processes (Installation/Decommission/Migration/Report Generation and more).
• Managed daily JBoss Outage Tracker.
• Developed build scripts using ANT and MAVEN as the build tools for the creation of build artifacts like war or ear files.
• Attend conference calls and meetings with the other teams to plan for product upgrades, capacity planning and performance issues. Co-ordinate with team to achieve team goals.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofJBoss 5.0/5.1/5.5 & JBoss 6.2 versions on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) environment.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Tomcat 6.0 and Apache 2.0/2.2 and 2.3 versions on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) environment.
• Understanding the requirements, building functional reports and documents, planning and estimating tasks and implementation of the same.
• Coordination and implementation of production releases.
• Liaison to Infra teams like OS, Network, Build, Server Ops, VM Ware, Onsite/Offshore support teams etc. for incident resolutions.
• Managing several Projects, Events and Incidents simultaneously.
• Apache web plugin configuration management.
• Monitor Control M and Cron jobs and coordinate with Production control teams to resolve the alerts.
• Followed Quick escalation procedure per application as mentioned in the Runbooks and SOP.
• Configured Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption, client authentication on Apache Servers.
• Performed Performance tuning of JVM heap size, GC, Java stack trace analysis.
• Leaded the team of 8 and provided 24/7 on call support in both testing and production environments.

Environment: J2EE, LDAP, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, Apache, Oracle 10g/11g, Weblogic Server 8.1, JBoss 4.x/5.1, SSO (Siteminder 6.x), PHP 5, Tomcat, Windows 9(x), 2k/2003/XP, Solaris and Linux.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Weblogic Administrator/Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained various middleware J2EE engines, Weblogic 11g on Solaris 10, Linux servers and test external and internal web hosting environments.
• Installed, configured and maintained Oracle Weblogic suite 11g as part of Oracle fusion technologies.
• Used Korn Shell. Scripting was used to monitor the system environment.
• Involved in various Weblogic upgrades and migrations, Weblogic 8.1x to 10.x within the enterprise.
• Set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communication between web servers Apache Tomcat and WebLogic Application Server.
• Administered Apache Tomcat 5.5 and WebLogic server involving 20+ Java Applications
• Worked closely to configure the Big IP F5 Load Balancer
• Worked closely with multiple support teams such as the QA testing team for performance/ load/ stress testing of applications and monitoring/tuning the application parameters and acted as a single point of contact with third party vendors for errors and bug fixes within the product.
• Automated the Deployment process of various WAR, JAR, and EAR applications in clustered environment using ANT scripts.
• Used WLST to get run-time parameters. Generated and analyzed Heap dump and Thread dump. Monitored WebLogic performance using Wiley Interscope.
• Troubleshoot production environment problems and participate in the team’s 24/7 on call support rotation. Expert in solving environment problems which includes Network issues, Database issues, application code, etc.
• Monitoring of WebLogic resources (WAR, EAR, JMS, JDBC) using tools such as wily introscope and JProbe.
• Good experience with Change Control processes to make updates in prod/DR environments.
• TOAD was used for viewing the Oracle Dictionary, tables, indexes and stored procedures.
• Installed BEA patches using SmartUpdate tool, and troubleshooting application and post-installation issues.
• Installed and Configured apache, iPlanet and IIS Plug-ins for WebLogic.
• Design, Configuration and Testing of IBM MQ 6.0 Series as a foreign JMS with WebLogic Server.
• Dealt with troubleshooting of issues like Out of Memory (OOM), High CPU Utilization and Server Hang.

Environment: Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Windows 2003, Solaris 10, Apache 2.x, JDK 1.4/1.6, IIS 6.0, TOAD, J2EE, LDAP, JDBC, JMS, XML, iPlanet 7, SiteMinder 6.0, OpenSSL, Eclipse, Wily introscope, JProbe and CVS

Confidential, Irvine, CA

WebLogic/System Admin & Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered Oracle/BEA WebLogic Server 8.1/10.0/10.3 in various environments like Development, QA, and Production on Solaris, Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Installed and Configured JBoss Application Server 4.3 GA on Red Hat Linux 5.5.
• InstallingApache Http Server, configuring apache plug in for Weblogic and hosting application using virtual host features in apache.
• Responsible for creating Weblogic domains in Development, QA, Production from scratch.
• Performed process automation via scripting (Perl, shell scripts)
• Involved in migrating the setup from WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x.
• Deployed different types of applications like WAR, JAR and EAR files in Weblogic 8.x/10.x and JBoss 4.3.
• Configured Node manager to administer the Managed servers.
• Setting up the cluster environment for WebLogic Server integrated with multiple workflows.
• Configured and administered JDBC Connection Pools/Multi Pools/Data Sources on WebLogic Server 8.x/10.x.
• Created and ConfiguredWebLogicJMSServers,JMSModules andBridgeto provide interoperability betweenWebLogic JMSandIBM MQSeries.
• Configured and administeredWeblogic serverwithOracle10g/Oracle RAC database.
• Developed Startup, Shutdown and Bounce scripts using WLST.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts that automate the WebLogic Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc.)
• Developed scripts to monitor JVM Heap Size, JMS Messages in the Destination queues in the production environment.
• Dealt with troubleshooting issues like Server hang, Application Deadlock, Out of Memory Issue, High memory usage and High CPU.
• Provided support for production environments in activities such as load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Configured and managed secured environments usingSSLandDigital certificates.
• Installed and Configured Ldap Server and integrated with Weblogic Application Server.
• Worked on Configuring channel secure CA/Netegrity Siteminder with webservers and Weblogic Applications.
• Upgraded all Production and Non Production systems to WebLogic 10.3.3(11g) from WebLogic 8.1 SP2 successfully and installed DST patches.
• Developed Crontab scripts for timely running jobs and provide server status.
• Configured BIG IP F5 Load balancer to provide high scalability, availability and reliability.
• Administrative documentation for Installation/Configuration Procedures for future use.
• Log files analysis such as WebLogic server logs, node manager logs, Plug-in logs, thread dumps, verbosegc logs for troubleshooting and Problem determination to resolve issues.
• Maintained documentation of systems configuration, procedures and practices.
• Using Remedy as the trouble ticket and change management tool.
• Worked on coordinating teamwork with the offshore application teams and Operation teams.
• Worked as a Level2/Leve3 Escalation point for any issues regarding with Weblogic for a Very High Visibility Project.
• Co-ordinate with Oracle Support team to solve the issues on time.
• Provided 24/7 on call Production Support.

Environment: Solaris 9/10, RHEL 4.6/5.2, Windows Server 2003/2008, WebLogic Server 7.x/8.1 SP2/SP6/10.0.0, MP1/11g, Apache 2.0/2.2, Bluestreak, JBoss 4.x, Apache Tomcat 5.x, iPlanet/SunOne 4.x/6.x, IIS, JDK 1.4/1.5/1.6, JSP, Servlet, EJB, LDAP, JDBC, JMS, IBM MQ Series, HP Site Scope, BMC Remedy, Ant 1.5.1, SQL, XML, BIG IP F5 Load Balancer, Luna, Oracle coherence.

Confidential

Application Development/Support

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Requirements analysis, design and development.
• Worked on preparing the detailed design document.
• Developed the User Interface using Java Server Pages (JSP), Servlets and Front Controller.
• Database design and connectivity done by using JDBC Bridge
• Wrote SQL Queries and PL/SQL procedures for the application.
• Used Eclipse for the development purpose.
• Building and Deployment of WAR, JAR files on test, stage and production servers.
• Involved in tracking and resolving Production issues.
• Configured and maintained WebLogic server with JDBC Connection Pool, JMS, JNDI, SNMP and J2EE Services.
• Installed and configured Apache Tomcat and Sun ONE (iPlanet) Web Server.
• Troubleshooting, Load balancing, Testing and Code Profiling to measure the performance of the various applications deployed in WebLogic Server.
• Developed many shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebLogic and recover the backed up WebLogic configuration.

ENVIRONMENT: Java 1.4, WebLogic Server 8.1, Apache Tomcat, Sun One, J2EE, Web Services, LDAP, XML, Windows, SQL Server