PROFILE:

8 + years of hands on experience in IBM Middleware Administration with specialties in IBM WebSphere application server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 , IBM WebSphere DataPower XI50/52, IBM WebSphere MQ7.0, IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.0/7.0, IBM WebSphere Portal7.0, Apache HTTP server 2.X, Sun One Web servers, on various operating systems like Red Hat Enterprises Linux/AIX/Solaris.

SUMMARY:

Senior Middleware infrastructure engineer with over eight years of experience, specializing in engineering, build, automation and multi tier support of web technologies and SOA environment. Outstanding ability to plan, design, implements disaster recovery, data center consolidation

SKILL:

IBM WebSphere application server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 , IBM WebSphere DataPower XI50/52, SOA, IBM WebSphere MQ7.0, Apache HTTP server 2.X, Sun One Web servers, RedHat Entreprise Linux/AIX/Solaris. IBM HTTP server, Apache Tomcat, PEGA PRPC 6.2, Dynatrace 4.0/5.0/5.6, JACL scripting, ANT Scripting, UNIX Shell Scripting, CA Harvest Software Change Manager Workbench12.5.X, Microsoft Word/Visio/PowerPoint 2007/2010, SOAP UI4.5, Software Requirements Analysis, Object Oriented Design and development, Quality Software Project Management, Software Quality Assurance, MS SQL 2005/201X, ORACLE 10.X/11.X, DB2. Citrix, Software design patterns, software modeling through model based verifications, Quality software process, AADL, Mongo DB, Puppet, Open Shift, XML, WSDL,XSLT, JAVA, WebSphere JMS 1.2.3, Open LDAP, Sun Access Manager/IAM, JASYPT 1.9.2, SAML2.0.

EXPERIENCE:

Technology Specialist

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Identifying and recommending the appropriate WebSphere Application Server topology to various project teams (flexi management, mixed platform topology, network deployment cell).
• Designing and implementing appropriate design considerations when architecting topologies to achieve stability, redundancy, and fault tolerance.
• Performing installation of WebSphere components(IBM HTTP Server (IHS), Sun One Web Server, Apache Tomcat Web Server, WebSphere Application Server, Fix Packs) using the IBM Installation Manager (IIM).
• Performing silent installation process for WebSphere Application Server software and Fix Pack Installations.
• Create and manage nodes in a Web Sphere topology. (Flexi management and network deployment), manipulate profiles using profile management tool and manage profile command.
• Perform pre - installation verification and troubleshoot the installation (identify and analyze log, files, installation verification tool (IVT).
• Configuring and managing Web Sphere nodes using Centralized installation Manager (CIM), performing timely Backup and restore Web Sphere Application Server profiles configurations.
• Deploying enterprise application to a Web Sphere Application server environment, automate deployment tasks with scripting.
• Configure, managing WebSphere Messaging and application resources ( MQ Connection Channels, MQ Queues, Data Source, JNDI, class Path, J2C Providers) as required by an enterprise application.
• Performing standard set of administrative tasks (wsadmin, profile management, plug-in generation etc.,) and configure a WebSphere runtime using properties files.
• Configure SSL for clients and servers (create s, populate trust stores, and modify expiration).
• Enabling security auditing and examine audit data output, configure and manage user repositories (federated, standalone LDAP, local OS), implement multiple security domains, administrative security roles.
• Identifying and applying appropriate application and resource security settings (Java 2 Security).
• Configuring single sign on in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, configuring LTPA trust between cells.
• Configuring and managing clusters in a workload management topology, configuring and managing a WebSphere Application Server Plug-in.
• Troubleshooting issues related to performance within WebSphere using Tivoli performance Viewer (TPV) / CA Dynatrace and monitor WebSphere runtime.
• Identifying and implementing the configuration settings (JVM Settings, connection pools, thread pools) that affect WebSphere application server performance.
• Configure, review and analyze logs (First Failure Detection (FFDC), System logs, native logs) via CLI, enabling diagnostic tracing of WebSphere runtime components to identify and troubleshoot issues.
• Performing troubleshooting by gathering heapdumps, javacore dumps, and verbose Garbage Collection (GC).
• Analysis, design and development of ESB architecture on Data Power XI 50/52 to integrate existing, and new applications and web services for transformation, routing, mediation and conversion.
• Performing initial network setup and enablement of the administrative interface create and administer users and roles on the Appliance.
• Implement configuration management, High Availability, including Application optimization, and disaster recovery solution as they apply to WebSphere Data Power SOAP appliance.
• Interact day to day with administrative interface (CLI, Web GUI, and XML Management), configure and manage secure backup, restore, Manage s and keys, configure the use of a security server such as TAM, SAML, and LDAP.
• Configure a Service to use WS- Security, Front Side Protocol Handler and Service backend URL, configure a service for mediation between protocols.
• Configuring a service for integration with messaging system such as WebSphere MQ /IIB/WMBJMS.
• Configuring a service to perform XML and Non-XML message transformation using the Transformation actions, configure service that support portability between environments.
• Configure Message Monitors and Service Level Monitoring (SLM) statements on a service to enforce granular service level, resolve network connectivity problems, perform and analyze packet captures.
• Configure log targets for analysis and alerting, event triggering, analyze and interpret System logs, Debug message flows using the probe.
• Configure a service to use SSL, XML Threat Protection, and to enforce authentication and authorization.
• Configure various actions while defining, rules and policies like transformation action, AAA Action, Matching rules, Encryption, Decryption, filter action, validate, Route and enforce policies.
• Configuring policies, requests,/response/error rules, and actions using Web GUI, integrating Data Power and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR).
• Configuring and maintain high availability design implementations.
• Configure and Maintain Multi-protocol gateway for HTTP/HTTPS, MQ protocol bridging, while performing transformation of messages from SOAP to XML vice versa.
• Configuring reusable policies and rules in DataPower Multi Protocol Gateway (MPGW), XML Firewall and constantly monitored Web Service Proxy using default Service Level Monitoring (SLM).
• Performing XML data validation using customized and available XSD validation frameworks, identifying the issues related to backend connection failures, service authorization failures, MQ back end call failures, WMB/IIB connection failures etc.,
• Configuring Various Service Domain within the Data Power appliance and setting various access levels for different application user groups within enterprise.
• Performing yearly Data Power appliance life cycles and installing firmware upgrades.
• Facilitating necessary information required to Network/ Firewall team to configure Network Switches to communicate with DataPower Appliances and setting up VPN Tunnel Communication with External Vendor exposed Web Services.
• Configuring internal rerouting to various services domains to maintain Web Service Migration without impacting end user business needs.

Sr. Middleware Engineer

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in planning, designing, implementation and troubleshooting by identifying the relationship between IBM WebSphere Application server, Network Deployment, V6.0/6.1/7.0 and the application components (e.g., browser, HTTP Server, proxy server, plug-in, firewall, database servers, WebSphere MQ, Web Sphere WMB, load balancing, ip spraying, and Tivoli Performance viewer. ) in the IT Enterprise network.
• Actively involved in planning, designing, implementing workload management and failover strategies using IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 6.0/6.1/V7.0.
• Designed and implemented network deployment (ND) cell model with flexi management model.
• Installation, configuration using CIM, management, troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server ND V7.0
• Create and manage Various Profiles (App Server, Deployment Manager, Cell, Node, Admin Agent, Job Manager etc.,
• Configuring, managing, troubleshooting JDBC connection parameters for applications. (Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, Third party etc.)
• Configuring, managing and troubleshooting WebSphere Messaging (e.g., MQ Queue Managers, Queues, Destinations. etc.,)
• Configuring Web Server instances and propagating Web Server Plug-in configuration file. Configuring Application Class loader parameters.
• Configuring and implementing security policies (e.g., authentication and authorization (using different security registries), global security, etc.,). Protect Web Sphere Application server Network Deployment V7.0 resources (e.g. Java 2 security, Java EE security roles)
• Define and implement administrative security roles, configure SSL clients and servers, implement federation repositories, configure auditing.
• Federate nodes (Application server Profiles, Deployment Manager, Adminagent, Job Manager etc.,), configure and manage Clusters and Cluster members. Manage Web Servers in unmanaged nodes.
• Manage WebSphere Messaging in a clustered environment; configure workload management via Web Server Plug-in.
• Perform WebSphere Application Server ND 7.0 backup, restore and configuration tasks, tune performance of Web Sphere Application Server ND 7.0 (e.g., JDBC data source, configure caching, queuing, thread pooling parameters, tune JVM heap size. Etc.,)
• Use CA Wily or Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV) / Request metrics to gather information about resources and analyze results.
• Develop and implement a maintenance application strategy using Update Installer and /or Centralized Installation Manager (CIM) (e.g., Fix Packs, Cumulative Fixes and interim Fixes).
• Configure, review and analyze logs (e.g., Web Server, Application Server, Deployment Manager, and First Failure Data Capture (FFDC)), use traces facility to troubleshoot application runtime issues (e.g., enabling selecting components and log configuration).
• Analyze the content of JNDI namespace using dumpNamespace, perform JVM troubleshooting tasks (e.g., thread dump, JVM core dump, and heap dump, Verbose Garbage Collection (GC)).
• Configure manage and troubleshoot Sun One Web Server Instance on Various OS (e.g., Solaris, AIX, RHEL etc.,), support SOAP Web Services deployments by Migrating Service profiles from DEV to QA to PROD Datapower Appliances XI 50.
• Configure, Manage, troubleshoot various Web Services Profiles on IBM XI50 Datapower Appliance, provide necessary analysis, and reviews on the technical performance test data collected by various testing tools like CA Wily/ TVP.
• Provide 24X7 on call support for various Production releases.

Middleware Specialist

Confidential, Agoura Hills, California

Responsibilities:

• Implement new and existing projects based on Plan, Build and Run Organizational process topology for Confidential (BOFA).
• Performing requirements elicitation for new WebSphere Application and Application Server Environment configuration for Development/ Quality Assurance and Production Environments.
• Maintaining existing WebSphere Applications and Application Server infrastructural components on daily basis for BOFA and any other external vendor COTS products.
• Performing Environment Capacity planning, Sizing, estimating licensing cost, labor Cost for WebSphere Application Server VM Servers on Red hat Blade Servers.
• Documenting Architectural Diagrams for IBM WebSphere middleware environment for BOFA environment.
• Planning, troubleshooting and implementing interim fix pack and patch installations for existing WebSphere Application Server environments.
• Coordinating 3rd level PRODUCTION support for all middleware infrastructural problem determination and solution identification & implementation.
• Performing WebSphere Application Server 6.0/7.0 Core Binaries installation, Configuring Cell Profile, Deployment Manager Profiles, Application Server Profiles, WebSphere Application Server Security for Global Security. Federating Application Server Profiles and Deployment Manager Profile as a Managed node.
• Configuring new Sun One or Oracle iPlanet Webserver instances to facilitate new Application deployments in the middleware infrastructure.
• Performing software and hardware lifecycle acitvities for WebSpeher Application Servers and IBM Data Power Appliances.
• Configuring Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and performing tuning, Capacity planning for the same.
• Planning, troubleshooting and implementing Migration activities for existing shared WAS 6 Solaris Applications and WebServices to WAS 7Solaris and WAS 7 Red Hat Linux.
• Deploying java applications (war/ear) on IBM WebSphere 6.x/7.x.
• Enforcing BOFA Security policies for Common Web Services by Configuring AAA policies and s for IBM DataPower Appliance XI50/XI52 and ensure that incoming user are authorized to access requested services by properly authenticating and validating the user credentials again LDAP. configuring and troubleshooting access manager policy for not enforced list of
• Configuring and maintaining Realms, Rules, Responses and Policies in XI50/XI52 Data Power Appliances in DEVELOPMENT /QUALITY ASSURANCE domains.
• Install, configure apache and customize mod proxies as per the need.
• Generating self signed certs and adding them to servers for secured communication.
• Work closely with app development team and BOFA Web infrastructure operation team to resolve the issues in Development/quality assurance/System integration and production environments on 24x7 on demand support.
• Troubleshooting, performance tuning using Monitoring tool.
• Assign and work on IM tickets on a daily basis.