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Columbus, OH
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February 17, 2019

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Ashwin Reddy

Phone No: 804-***-****

E-mail: ac8ite@r.postjobfree.com

9+ years of overall professional experience in Enterprise Application Integration using IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker (IIB), WAS & other middleware products and in the areas of service & support, well experienced in Design, Implementation, Administration, troubleshooting across various platforms (UNIX, Linux, Windows & Mainframes).

Expertise in version control system tools like GIT. Utilized configuration & automation tools such as Chef. Experience with Jenkins deployment and build management system. Hands on experience in development of utilities using Shell & Ruby scripting to automate processes. Expert level knowledge of Amazon EC2, S3, Simple DB, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, SQS, and other services in the AWS cloud infrastructure such as IAAS, PAAS and SAAS.

Professional Experience

• Installing & configuring IBM MQ Series on various environments like Windows & Linux, AIX & zLinux.

• Installation, Configuration, administration and troubleshooting issues with WebSphere Application Server 5.x & 6.x, 7.x & 8.5.5.2.

• Experience in WebSphere Middleware Administration using WebSphere MQ Series v6.0, v7.0 & v8.0 & WebSphere Broker v6.0, v7.0, IIB9, IIB10.

• Worked on creating and configuring Local Queue mangers and Remote Queue Managers

• Implementing Distribution Communication and Clustering Communication over different platforms (UNIX, Linux, Windows & Mainframes).

• Experience in configuring and monitoring MQ Listeners, Command Servers, Channel initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files & Dead Letter Queues

• Expertise in installing and setting up MQ monitoring tools such as IBM TIVOLI, BMC & WILY.

• Having experience in performing the backup strategies and in performing the recovery scenarios

• Product & Fix pack installations and version upgrades of WebSphere MQ

• IBM MQ Series related troubleshooting and Bug Fixing

• Resolved SSL Issue, OAM Issues, Channel Issues and Cluster Issues. Diagnosed the problems from various logs

• Handling disk space issues on MQ file systems, MQ Error Logs and Active logs (Log Manager)

• Developing scripts using MQSC scripting to create the Middleware architecture

• Designed, configured and managed public/private cloud infrastructures utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Cloud Front.

• Built servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, Elastic load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection (VPC)

• Architected, Designed and Developed the Backup and Archiving, Disaster Recovery in middleware estate and also in AWS Cloud.

• Implemented Continuous Integration (CI) using Jenkins for continuous deployment.

• Worked on automation using Jenkins and version control mechanisms to support multiple and parallel development using Multi-branch plugins.

• Have experience in tools like GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins – used as part of CHEF cookbook consumption and modifications.

• Strong experience using various bug tracking tools like JIRA, ServiceNow, Service First to track issues and incident/change management.

• Willingness/flexibility to work in different shift timing to support customers in different parts of the world. Worked with 24x7 Production control support and on-call support

• Have the knowledge and capabilities to produce and provide documentation and skills transfer to existing staff

• Highly motivated individual with proven ability to learn fast and work well under pressure

• Certificates management across all middleware components (MQ, IIB, CD & WAS)

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills with excellent understanding of system development methodologies, techniques and tools.

• Providing support to applications in production by tracking production problems and troubleshooting them to sustain application in production.

• Strong experience in product migration strategies.

Experience Details

Nationwide JUNE 2018 – Till date

Designation – Middleware Engineer

Job Profile

• Install, configure, and maintain IBM MQ V8.0, V9.0 and IBM IIBV9.0 & V10.

• Involved in migrating the existing applications from older version to newer version of both MQ & IIB.

• Installed and configured Infrared 360 monitoring tool to run in Docker Container to monitor MQ queue managers and MQ objects.

• Involved in various meetings with IR360 product sales & support team for the integration of the tool within the Middleware MQ estate.

• Configured thresholds to generate email alerts to the middleware team.

• Implemented Organization level LDAP authentication to allow users to access IR360 console.

• Configured SSL based security for both MQ & IIB using Self signed & CA signed certificates.

• Working on POC of Kafka to migrate few of the inhouse applications from MQ to Kafka.

Atlanticus FEB 2018 – JUNE 2018

Designation – Senior Middleware Specialist

Job Profile

• Installation, configuration & maintenance of WMQ & WebSphere Application Server.

• Monitor MQ & WAS and resolved the issues been raised within the production environment.

• Involved in critical production issues like SSL and Security related.

• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files, involved in trouble shooting WebSphere environment problems, enabling Global Security and LDAP

• Raised and follow-up IBM PMRs to address critical Production issues.

• Expertise in Incident, Change and Problem management using ServiceNow and Service First.

• Expertise in Proactive Monitoring the Middleware estate using Wily monitoring tool.

• Participate in project planning sessions with team members.

• Involved in 24*7 production support calls.

Barclays JAN 2013 – JAN 2018

Designation – IT Infrastructure Lead

Job Profile

Part of Middleware Products Team (2017-2018) – AWS configurations, CHEF installations, support & testing activities across Linux platforms (RHEL6 & 7) for MQ & IIB

• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer.

• Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.

• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.

• Involved in migrating the existing MQ & Broker infrastructure builds through CHEF.

• Product vulnerabilities or fix patch updates to be deployed through the cookbooks.

• To amend the cookbooks to push the Barclays Tier4 standards and enforcements.

• Utilized all components of cookbooks like recipes, resources, templates, attributes and libraries.

• Experience with knife command line utility, berkshelf dependency manager and test kitchen to validate my cookbooks.

• Tested various cookbooks in kitchen testing and on virtual servers.

• Amended the MQ cookbook to support VCS builds.

• Added Wily monitoring tool functionality into MQ/IIB Cookbook to configure via CHEF

• Created CHEF recipe for MQ Client installation to make available for application teams as self-serve.

• Supported the product installations consumed via CHEF cookbook consumption model

• Designed, built, and coordinated an automated build and release [CI/CD pipeline] process using Chef, GitHub & Jenkins

• Designed, configured and deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a multitude of applications utilizing the Amazon Web Services focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling.

• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.

• Installed the application on AWS EC2 instances and configured the storage on S3 buckets.

• Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Groups and Users for improved login authentication.

• Involved in Integrating Active MQ with AWS for application teams as self-serve.

Part of Core Engineering Team (2016-2017) – was involved in product management & migration activities for both MQ and IIB.

• Cluster migration – Migrated non-prod and prod related MQ clusters across the estate.

• SSL migration – Involved in certificate migration activities from SSlv3 to TLS1.0 & TLS1.2 for both MQ & Broker.

• Gateway server migration activities.

• Involved in SSL related trouble shooting issues for both MQ & IIB and also in the migration activity from SSL to TLS

• Involved in MQ migrations activities from MQ7.0 to MQ7.1 to MQ7.5 to MQ 8.0

• Involved in Broker migration activities from WMB6/WMB7 to IIB9 and later to IIB10.

Designation – IT Infrastructure Analyst

Part of MQ/IIB Change & Support team (2013-2016) -

• Worked with the application teams to gather the requirements to build the interfaces for MQ & Message broker and designing the diagrams in MS Visio.

• Setup naming standards for the Queue managers, Queues and Channels

• Install, configure, and maintain WebSphere Message Broker V6.1, V7.0, IIBV9 & IIBV10

• Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration

• Creation of Broker and Configuration Manager Components on UNIX & Linux environments

• Plan, install, and verify new MQ Series software versions and service packs on Windows, UNIX, Linux & zLinux environments

• Provided full administrative support for both Development and Test MQSeries V5.3, 6.0 and V7.0 & V8.0 environment projects included object setup, testing, problem determination, and HA configuration testing using Veritas

• Configured MQ Objects across all the application platforms which include UNIX, Linux, Windows, zLinux & Mainframes as well.

• Creating Execution groups, DSN and Broker Topologies

• Creating JDBC Configurable services for Oracle, DB2 & Teradata Databases

• Experience in enabling different types of traces in both MQ (service) & Broker (SSL, User trace, Service trace)

• Deployed Bar Files and involved in trouble shooting the Broker issues. Involved in stopping and starting of Message Flows and execution groups

• Experience in designing message flows with MQ, file, construction category nodes

• Extensive experience in using SOAP and REST-UIs for web services testing

• Hands-on experience in development of Queries and Stored Procedures on various Databases including DB2, ORACLE and MYSQL

• Developed Consumer and Provider flows by making use of SOAP and HTTP nodes along with the implementation of SSL on the transport layer for the Provider flow

• Developed Shell Scripts to housekeep Broker environments

• Created MQ Queues and Channels required for the Application

• Designed and built END-END system architecture for different projects using MQ/WMB

• Configure SSL Security for MQ Client /Server and Server-Server.

• Configure CCDT files for MQ Client connectivity.

• Configure CTX (Context Security) on channels

• Created Topics and configured and enabled Publish/Subscribe messaging

• Created queue clusters and stopping and starting the queue managers and Qmgr Services

• Developed shell scripts to kick in adapters to read or write to Queue from or to a file for some of the interfaces

• Install fix packs for MQ and Message Broker.

• Setup High Availability & VCS for MQ servers

• Created and administered JNDI files for the JMS applications to use with WAS

• Involved in MQ & MB & Cluster full repository Migrations

• Was also part of Data center migration from MQ perspective

• Build the security infrastructure for MQ using OAM

• Tuned up the performance of the MQ and the applications

• Setup disaster recovery procedures

• Setup Application and Channel Triggering

• Scheduled periodic backup and automated daily tasks by creating scripts

• Setup Tivoli monitoring tool for the OS and MQ series objects

• Installation and configuration of Omegamon XE & WILY for messaging agents to monitor the MQ and Broker components in Dev, Staging and Production environments

• Involved in migrating the Tivoli monitoring environment to Wily

• Configured Wily across the application queue managers and message brokers

• Provided installation and configuration documentation

• Mentored other members in the team

• Provided 24/7 production support for the MQ and the application issues

• Troubleshoot problems and errors in WebSphere Message Broker software and applications

• Error handling routines.

Northern Trust L2 MAY 2010 - DEC 2012

Designation – Middleware Administrator

Job Profile

• Creation of execution groups and access control for deployment

• WebSphere MQ setup and configuration, WebSphere MQ object creation and modification

• Monitor MQ and resolved the issues raised by client and Dev / QA team.

• Installation, configuration & maintenance of WMQ

• Having experience on Clustering of Queue Managers and worked in the cluster environment

• Problem determination and troubleshooting

• Experienced in Monitoring tools like MQMON

• Monitoring, Logging & recovery

• Support pack configuration & implementation

• Involved in 24*7 production support calls

• Enabled Triggering on the Queues for monitoring and automation

• Pro-actively monitor the middleware and Perform daily on call tasks (checking error logs, Fail over queues, System Logs) to maintain a healthy system

• Performed Various Work Orders to have QM creation and necessary objects and also implemented the Queue Manager Alias for the Request and Reply scenarios

Northern Trust L1 MAR 2009 - APR 2010

Job Profile

• Installed and Configured WMQ on UNIX and Windows systems

• Created MQ Series objects on local and remote Machines

• Installed the MQ Series fix packs and support packs on Windows boxes

• Configuration of WMQ, setting up of Queues, Queue managers and Channels

• Monitored and maintained MQ Series objects such as Queue Managers, Queues, channels and listeners

• Enabled WebSphere MQ Triggering on the Queues for monitoring and automation

• Have done Clustering of Queue Managers

• Used MQSC Commands to perform administration tasks

• Deployment of message flows and message sets using message broker tool Kit

• Worked on Clustering of Queue Managers

• Monitoring of Queues and messages

• Involved in MQ Backup & Recovery process

• IBM MQ Series related troubleshooting and Bug Fixing

• Root cause analysis of issues.

Certifications / Trainings Undergone

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

• Certified ITIL V3 Foundation Professional

• IMS ITIL Problem and Change Management

• IMS ITIL Release and Configuration Management

• IMS ITIL Service Desk and Incident Management

• Attended IBM MQ and WMB training

• Attended IBM IIB9 training

• Attended WAS training

• Attended CHEF training

• Attended AWS training

Education

• Bachelors of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2006

Jawaharlal Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.



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