Nikesh K
Middleware/Weblogic Admin
Email: ******.*****@*****.***
Ph #: +1-248-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
2+ years of extensive experience in supporting 3rd party applications including development, testing, UAT &Production/Sustain for customer client applications and 4+ Years of experience in SOA Middleware [BPEL/BAM/BPM/Webcenter] installation, configuration & administration.
Excellent knowledge and background in Linux, Unix such as Redhat Linux, SuSE Linux, HP-UX, IBM-AIX etc including proven expertise in shell scripting including korn, Bash etc.
Hands on experience on administrative tools like Administration Console, WLST and Command line interface.
Installed and configured external LDAP servers using Netscape and SunOne Directory Servers for user authentication.
Strong knowledge & experience of architecture of several 3rd party products such as Weblogic Server, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle RDBMS, Web Servers.
Experience in Deploying Oracle SOA Composites and Trouble Shooting Faulted Instances.
Experience in configuring Adapters inSOA.
Installed, configured OSB10g in a clustered high available environment.
Installed and configured Oracle SOA Suite, OSB, deployed composites.
Installed and configured of SOA, BPEL, OSB and OHS server.
Installed, configured and administered Web Servers like Apache 2.x HTTP Server,Apache Tomcat 6.x andSunOne 6.x Web Server for WebLogic plug-ins.
Configured Clusters for load balancing andfail over solutions.
Worked on SOA and OSBand understand BPEL
Experienced in installing and configuring Oracle Access Manager with Oracle Virtual Directory, Policy Manager.
Hands on experience and expertise of Silent installation of Weblogic & Domain configuration using silent xml & domain configuration scripts.
Experience with installing, configuring, administering, implementing and performance tuning clustered SOA environments (10g/11g).
Hands on experience over 3 years of configuring, adding clusters, managed serversetc using WLST.
Excellent knowledge and background in Linux, Unix such as Redhat Linux, SuSE Linux, HP-UX, IBM-AIX etc including proven expertise in shell scripting including korn, Bash etc.
Excellent knowledge and scripting background in Windows platforms such as Windows2003/2005/2007/2010 servers including batch job processing using Windows batch scheduler/Autosys.
Experience and Knowledge in SSH, telnet, rlogin SCP, RCP and SFTP.
Design of SSL communication, Third Party SSPIs, including Authentication /Authorization/ Adjudication providers, Integration with LDAP, Access Control (ACL), Role-mapping, User definitions on different versions of Weblogic Server & other 3rd party middleware.
Deployed EAR, JAR, WARandJ2EE applications on Managed Servers and Clustered Environments using Console and Auto Deploying Scripts.
Configured and managed secure environments like SSL and Digital Certificates including 1 & 2-way SSL.
Monitored performance and tuned JVM heap and garbage collector parameters.
Experience in handling & application of hot fixes, Support Packs & patches for Weblogic, Websphere MQ in Development, and UAT & production environment to several critical bugs.
Implemented Security Services under various Realms of WebLogic Server.
Configured various Subsystem Filters under Domain Log Filters.
Experience in maintenance of JBoss versions 5/6/7 and Apache servers.
Configured multiple WebLogic Domains which includes Node Managers and Managed Servers in multifarious environments.
2+ years’ experience of working in different editors such as VI, emacs, GVim, Notepad++, Textpad etc.
Created Shell Scripts for automation of administration tasks, startup and shutdown of the server.
Working experience on relational databases like Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS Access, MySQL, DB2.
Provided 24X7 production support with on call on rotation basis.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Highly motivated, detail oriented and organized with the ability to multi-task projects while maintaining a high degree of proficiency.
Technical Skills:
Middle Ware
OracleWebLogic Server 8.x/9.x/10/11i,12c SunOne6.0, 6.1, Apache Tomcat 6.0
Application/Web Servers
Web Logic, IBM Web-Sphere, JBoss, Tomcat, OSB
Programming & Scripting Languages
Java, C, C++, C#, SQL, PL/SQL, TSQL, MS SQL, PHP, Perl, Shell Scripting, WLST, Python
Operating Systems
UNIX: Solaris, Red Hat, SuSE, LINUX, HP-UX, IBM-AIX,
Windows : 98/2000/NT/XP/VISTA
Web Technologies
HTML, XML, DHTML, XSLT, CSS
IDE’s Tools
Net Beans 3.5, 3.6, 5.0, 6.0, My Eclipse, Putty, WebLogic workshop
Protocols
TCP/IP, Telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, SSL
Editing tools
Vi editor, GVim, Emacs, Notepad++, Textpad
Ticketing tools
TrackIT, HP ITSM, BMC Remedy
Monitoring Tools
Sitescope, BMC Patrol, HP-OM
Professional Experience:
Client: Guggenheim Investments, Rockville, MD, Feb 2016 to Present
Role: Weblogic Admin
Description: Working as Weblogic Administration in weblogic support team to provide enterprise wide services for applications running on UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms.
Responsibilities:
Weblogic Administration with expertise in Installation, Configuration, Tuning, and Deploying Applications.
Experience in Configuring weblogic runtime environment knowledge of various weblogic Concepts Domain Configuring, Clustering, Patch, management, Security, Performance Tuning, User management, Log monitoring, Node Manager, JDBC,JMS.
Install, configure and administered of BEA Web Logic Application Server, Web Logic Portal, Web Logic workshop in various environments.
Administration Oracle Service Bus/Aqualogic Service Bus(OSB/ALSB), Managing Proxy & Business Services, MQ ESB Integration, Oracle BAM, BPM,BPEL- Coherence 3.X versions, Working with MQ,DB,AQ Adapters configuration and tuning, Weblogic 10g, 11g Administration(Strong JMS, JDBC, JTA, Performance, Security, Clustering, Unicast, Multicast Concepts), Monitoring setup on BMC,OEM. Automation of processes using Shell scripts, WLST, ANT. Build and Deploying OSB apps, BPEL Composites, Weblogic Resource Creation (JMS, JDBC, WorkManagers) using Hudson Tool.
Installed and configured SOA Framework with Oracle Fusion Middleware Components like BPEL, OWSM.
Weblogic Administration with expertise in Installation, Configuration, Tuning, and Deploying Applications.
Experience in Configuring weblogic runtime environment knowledge of various weblogic Concepts Domain Configuring, Clustering, Patch, management, Security, Performance Tuning, User management, Log monitoring, Node Manager, JDBC,JMS.
Used config wizard extensively to create and manage WebLogic domains.
Deployed various Java (WAR, JAR and EAR) files in a clustered environment.
Experience in setting of High Availability and clustering for Oracle SOA suite.
Worked as a Middleware member for supporting SOA Team.
Deployments using weblogic console and em console and deploying composites in SOA and projects in OSB.
• Deployment using ant scripting and shell scripting and debugging issues if any.
Load Balancing / Clustering / High Availability / LDAP Replication.
Worked with Big IP F5 Load Balancer administration, shell scripting for alerting and alarming on applications.
Worked in Set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communication between web servers like Apache, IIS, and iPlanet and the Weblogic Application Servers.
Performance tuning for LDAP and siteminder for better response time and throughput.
Installed and configured Apache 2.2 as plug-in on UNIX environment and deployed applications.
Configured and deployed applications in various work environments like Development, QA, and Production.
Maintain application configuration in production and test environments (UAT/Staging/ORT/PreProd) with regular backups and for multiple release support.
Configure Clustering EJB objects, jdbc connections and JMS connection factories.
Used WLST to check the status of WLServers.
Configure Node manager for administer the Managed servers.
Experience in performance tuning of Oracle SOA suite.
Experience in setting of High Availability and clustering for Oracle SOA suite.
Implemented Policy Stores to utilize Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP) as the user and policy repository on Linux.
Installed and administrated SOA suite and installed, configured, administer and monitor BPEL, ESB.
Created and configured new users groups and Global Roles to authenticate.
Deployed applications like formats of WAR, JAR, EAR and Web-based/E-Commerce in Web Logic 8.1.
Created Web Logic Portal domain and created projects, application and portal application in Web Logic workshop.
Deployed applications on multiple Web Logic Server and maintained Load balancing, High Availability and Failover functionality.
Provided 24/7 Support and on call schedule for Production support.
Environment: Web Logic Server 8.3/9.x,10.x,11.g,12c, Oracle SOA suite 11g,OID 11.1.1.7,OAM 11.1.2.2.3, Solaris10, Oracle9i, Apache, Site scope, IBM Http Server, Remedy, Mercury7, IBM AIX Server, Web Services, LDAP, JDK 1.4.2,Windows Server v2000/v2003, Solaris v10. JSPs, EJBs and JMS.
Bluehorse Software, India, Jan 2013 – Dec 2013
Role: Weblogic/SOA Administrator
Responsibilities:
Involved in Migration from WebLogic 8.1 to WebLogic 9.0 and JDK update and service packs installation.
Worked in Oracle 11g SOA Suite including, OVD, OES, OSB, Oracle WebLogic Portal
Installed the Oracle SOA on top of Weblogic and having hands on experience on SOA BPEL deployment and troubleshooting the issues, Experience in setting High Availability and clustering for SOA suite.
Performed activities include doing Proof of Concepts and implementations, capacity planning of Oracle SOA 11g Products i.e. installing OSB, BPEL, BAM, Webcenter products on Linux and creating supporting schemas using Oracle Resource Creation Utility(RCU), applying OPatch, SSL, 3DNS/BIGIP configuration, SSO/Kerberos, SAML(Relying Party) Setup, AD/LDAP Authenticators-Providers, SOA EM, OSB and WLS Security management.
Administration and Configuration of WebLogic 8.1 in Testingand Production environments
Deployed WAR, JAR, EAR applications on servers in both Clustered and non-Clustered environments
Configuration and Clustering of Managed Servers
Troubleshooting WebLogic Application Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle 8i, DB2 databases.
Configured Web Logic 10.0 MP1 with extensive experience in configuring the web application for new version.
Configured JDBC Connection pools, data sources using DB2, Oracle, MySQL, and BEA Type 4 drivers. Configured JMS Servers, distributed destinations, queues and topics. Configured Security authenticators, managed security realms.
Configuring SOAcomposite application resources, Configuring JMS Server and its modules on SOAand OSB.
Managing and monitoring service engines, and updating the state of SOAcomposite applications.
Work with application development teams on troubleshooting Tomcat administration issues.
Install and configure assortment planning WL portal environment using WebLogic Portal 10.
Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of J2EE applications on WebLogic Application Server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
Involved in migration BEA WebLogic 8.1 version to 10.3, performing patch upgrades, SP (service pack) installations & SSL certificates renewal.
Experienced in analysis of thread dumps, core dumps, server hang and high CPU utilization conditions in WebLogic.
Involved in assisting QA team in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebLogic/ JBossApplication Servers.
Worked on Upgrading Wily Introscope 7.2.5 to Wily 8.2.3.
Worked in Oracle 11g SOA Suite including, OVD, OES, OSB, Oracle WebLogic Portal
Configured the WebLogic server with SunOne Web Server 6.1 through WebLogic’s proxy plug-in
Involvement with the deployment teams in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production on 24/7 schedule
Installed and configured Apache 1.3 as plug-in on UNIX environment and deployed applications.
Installed and configured IIS to act as a proxy server to serve various applications.
Problems by monitoring server availability and analyzing resources.
Installed and configured Apache Web server and integrated with Web Logic server.
Well versed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Creation of SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and implementation for the communication between Web server and the Application Server
Configured external LDAP server using SunOne Directory server for user authentication
Configured Node managers for administration of Managed servers
Performance tuning of JVMheap size, garbage collections, Java stack and Native thread and production performance
Configured JDBC connections pools for Oracle 8i, DB2
Environment:WebLogic Server 7.0, 8.1,9.0, SunOne 6.1, MySQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Windows XP/2003, J2EE, EJB, LDAP, JDBC, XML, Oracle8i, DB2
Education: Bachelors in Information Technology 2009 - 2013
Masters Of Science’s University Of New Haven, Ct 2014 - 2015