SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in IT industry inclusive of 5+ years of experience in Middleware Administrator using Systems Administration and Software Configuration Management (SCM) . Extensive experience includes SCM, Build/Release Management, and Change/Incident Management.
• Implementing Software Configuration Management processes on projects including setting up and supporting our Continuous Integration. Build environment by automating Software builds, release and configuration processes.
• Expertise with UNIX and Windows environments including shell and Python scripts, perforce, SVN (Subversion), Perforce, GIT, Build forge and TFS.
• Involved in several projects setting up builds using Ansible, Puppet and Chef.
• Expertise includes bash, python and GoLang scripting with focus on DevOps tools, CI/CD Architecture and hands - on Engineering.
• Experience on .NET and build automation and unit testing scripting and maintaining code repository and create, document and manage our branching and merging patterns.
• Experience on Oracle Application dealing with Patches and dealing with concurrent systems.
• Expertise in using build tools like MAVEN and ANT for the building of deployable Artifacts such as War & Ear from Source Code
• Experience with build tools Ant, Maven and Gradle for writing build.xmls, pom.xmls and build. gradles respectively.
• Written manifests/Recipes and Ruby scripts to customize the Puppet/Chef as per our environment.
• Good experience to setup, configure continuous build processes using Buildforge/Cruise Control/Hudson, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Nant, MSbuild, Subversion and ClearCase, Perl.
• Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like Experience in using Nexus and Artifactory repository Managers for java builds.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins, Buildforge and AnthillPro for continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments
• Knowledge on creation of Puppet manifests files.
• Build and Deploy Oracle Financials Enterprise Business Suite Applications.
• Experience in and demonstrated understanding of source control management concepts such as Branching, Merging, Labeling/Tagging and Integration.
• Experienced in Debugging, Optimizing and Performance Tuning of Oracle BI (Siebel Analytical) Dashboards / Reports to improve performance Confidential Database.
• Involved in the functional usage and Deployment of Applications in Web Logic, Web Sphere and Apache Tomcat Server.
• Good experience in writing UNIX scripts, Perl script, Maven and Ant.
• Work under SLA (Service Level Agreement) &Incident Management (Remedy) with increase Productivity, Scalability & Performance of application.
• Efficient in tracing complex Build problems, Release issues and Environment issues in a Multi Component Environment.
• Worked with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Rally, Remedy, HP Quality Center, and Fisheye.
• Exposed to all aspects of software development life cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing, Testing and Implementing and Post-production analysis of the projects.
• Experience on Hudson/Jenkins and Bamboo for continuous integration and for the end to end Automation for all the builds and deployments.
• Managed environments DEV, SIT, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies.
• Worked in managing VMs using AWS EC2.
• Build infrastructure design, SCM, GIT, perforce, SVN, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Preflight builds, Configuration Management, Release Automation, Installers, Packaging, Build languages, Scripting, Python, Ruby, Shell, Ant, Maven, Chef, Mobile, Windows, Linux, Virtual Machines, Apache testing, Sonatype Nexus, Apache tomcat and Weblogic, Static analysis tools Sonar.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Middleware: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x, 7.x/6.x/5.x, JBoss 4.x/6.4.x, Apache Tomcat.

Languages: Shell, Python, Java, JSP, GoLang.

Web Servers: Apache/IBM HTTP Server

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere 5.x, 6.x. 7.x, 8.x, JBoss 4.x/6.4.x, Tomcat

Operating Systems: AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

Monitoring Tools: Tivoli Performance viewer, Wily Introscope

Utility Tools: IBM Web-based System Manager, Ant, PuTTY

Scripting: Jython and Shell

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and maintained monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers such as EC2 and storage such as S3 buckets using AWS Cloud Watch
• Used Cloud Front to deliver content from AWS edge locations to users, allowing for further reduction of load on front-end serve
• Experience in automated deployment of EC2 instances in data centers and availability zones
• Used security groups to develop a logical firewall to ensure high security for control applications
• Used Amazon IAM to grant fine access of AWS resources to users. Also managed roles and permissions of users to AWS account through IAM
• Enabling customers to better manage software development, deployments and infrastructure with tools such as Chef, Jenkins and GitHub
• Defined dependencies and plugins in Maven pom.xml for various activities and integrated Maven with GIT to manage and deploy project related tags.
• Configured local Maven repositories and multi-component Ant projects with Nexus repositories and scheduled projects in Jenkins for continuous integration.
• Integrated Subversion (SVN) into Hudson / Jenkins to automate the code check-out process
• Experience in working with Selenium IDE and Selenium Web Driver using testing
• Software Build and Deployment: Performed regular software release build and deployment based on defined process and procedure, including J2EE, UNIX Scripts, Oracle PL/SQL build and deployment. Managed, maintained and deployed to test, acceptance and PROD environments.
• Automating the Build process using Subversion (SVN), and ANT
• Designed highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances
• Using Docker in Environment variables, Configuration files, Option types and Strings & integers
• Developed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB, Security Groups
• Developed and scheduled bash shell scripts for various activities (deployed environment verification, running database scripts, file manipulations, Subversion (SVN) etc.,)
• Backed up and restored configurations and data of various tools (Subversion (SVN), Jenkins, WAS), databases (oracle, db2) and servers (windows, RHEL) as required.
• Written wrapper scripts to automate deployment of cookbooks on nodes and running the chef client on them in a Chef-Solo environment
• Converting production support scripts to chef
• Testing of cookbooks with chef-spec
• Performed DevOps for Linux, Mac and Windows platforms
• Design, develop and implement an automated Linux (Centos, Amazon) infrastructure using Collective and AWS and move existing applications off windows seamlessly to it while aggressively growing.
• Created the Clustering Topology in WebSphere Application Server ND V6.x to achieve Work Load Management (WLM), High availability, Load Balancing and Hardware fail over.
• Configuration of Hudson along with Ant and Jython Scripts for Automated build and deployment Process
• Involved in deploying the content Cloud platform on Amazon AWS using EC2, S3, and EBS. Evaluate Chef and Puppet framework and tools to automate the Cloud deployment and operations.
• Worked on build tasks using Maven, Ant, Gradle and GNU Make files and worked with development team to migrate Ant scripts to Maven.
• Extensively used Perforce as a Configuration Management tool to manage source code
• Integrated Build dependencies and dependency blocking strategy in Bamboo
• Developed Puppet Modules for installation & Auto healing of various tools like Jenkins, Nolio agents, MSSQL, Nexus etc. these modules are designed to work on both windows and Linux platforms.
• Expert in installing and configuring Continuous Integration tools such as Bamboo, Build Forge, AnthillPro, Cruise Control and Hudson for build and deployment automation.
• Troubleshoot build issues, MS Build and TFS Build. Proj file changes, issues related to TFS application SharePoint, Reports, TFSv by Permission, and Build server etc.
• Environment: SVN (Subversion), Anthill Pro, ANT, NAnt, and Maven, Chef, Puppet, Devops, TFS, Jenkins, Clear case, MS Build, Unix, Linux, Perl, Bash, Jython, Python, Ruby, Cruise control, AWS, MongoDB, Chef, Sonar, SharePoint, Bamboo, Hudson, Git, JIRA, Shell Script, Terraform, WebSphere, Selenium.
• Working experience with Containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker

Confidential, Seattle, WA

WebSphere Application Server Administrator

• Installed, Configured and Administered IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5 and Websphere MQ on, IBM AIX 6.1.
• MaintainedWebSphereApplicationServer6.0 and HTTP WebServer server on AIX and Solaris
• Created and managed data source and database connection pools Managed performance tuning of WebServer, Web Container, EJB Container and database connection pool.
• Experience working with Tomcat Application server.
• Extensively worked on subversion SVN
• Configured the JDBC drivers and Data sources for application servers to test the application against various databases. Responsible for upgrading the JDBC drivers
• Configured IBM HTTP Server for SSL
• Implementing and maintenance of Workload Management (WLM) using clustering/cloning.
• Java files developed by the Development Team were packaged as JAR, WAR and EAR files, and deployed them to Test and Production environments.
• Implemented and administered Server Clusters on multiple Nodes for workload and fail over management.
• Involved in configuring the Web Directory access protocols like LDAP for different levels of access Confidential the site
• Have experience working with Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and Log analyzer.
• Worked with Queue Managers(Websphere MQ)
• Deployed and configured both Horizontal and Vertical Messaging Queues.
• Handled user accounts and groups accounts, disks and file management system
• Responsible for 24/7 maintenance of J2EEapplicationonWebSphereApplicationServersin development, test and production environments
• Installed JDBC drivers and created the data sources and configured the parameters of the connection pool
• Installation and Configuration of IBMWebSpherePortalServer5.1/6.x Developed logical security application architecture integrating WebSphere Application Server, Sun ONE WebServer, Netegrity Site minder and implemented Single Sign-On security.
• Wrote shell scripts for automation and scheduling tasks.

Environment: IBMWebSphereApplicationServer8.5,WebSphere Portal 5.1/6.x,IBM DB2 9.7, AIX, Solaris IBM HTTP server6.1, Tivoli, Sun ONE webserver8.5

Confidential, Newark, DE

WebSphere Application Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of IBMWebSphereApplicationServer7.0 on Linux 8.0/Windows 2003 Platform and migration to WAS 7.0
• Involved in complete infrastructure setup and configuration which included WebSphere ND 7.0, WebSphere MQ 5.1/6.x and SiteMinder 6.0 Install Configuring WebSphere Plugins, Apache Webserver and IBM HttpServer 2.0 in the Linux8.0 and windows 2003 Environment
• Worked on administering IBM Websphere Data Power appliance
• Configured Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources and JDBC drivers
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling
• Configured Clusters and Instances for improved availability and fail over capability
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security for admin console and application components
• Involved in setting up SSL
• Involved in working with Pure Applications
• Trouble shooting various issues during mixed cell stress testing
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LDAP and LTPA from admin console and application components on both Distributed platforms
• Prepared documentation to describe support infrastructure build and operations procedure
• Created IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report WebSphere Application Server problems
• Analyzed log files to solve problems using debugging tools like Log Analyzer, First Failure Data Capture Tool and Collector Tool.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Wily Introscope
• Involved in developing complex scripts to automate batch jobs
• Involved in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server for distributed platforms
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for load balancing and fail over functions.
• Configured the web-server interfaces (plug-in file), session management, virtual hosts, sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server
• Configured WebSphere Application server security through Custom Registry and LDAP
• Installing, Configuring and maintenance of MQSeries applications versions 5.x, Applying the CSD patches, Integrating with WebSphere, Creating Q managers, local queues, Configuring the clustering of Q managers, Channels, Troubleshooting.
• Sound knowledge in configuring JMS Provides using WebSphere MQ Well versed with Shell Scripts for Unix System backups monthly, yearly and annual.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for both applications DB and WAS Administration DB.
• Involved in working with Pure Applications
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Assembled and Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support.
• Used SCM tools Clear Case for software versioning and deployments.
• Written some shell/Jacl /Jython scripts to automate the process like node federation for distributed platforms