Websphere Administrator
Resume:
Rahul
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Over 8+ years of extensive experience in Planning, Design, Installing, Migrating, Configuring, Administering, Patching, Tuning, Troubleshooting, Monitoring, Production Support, Maintenance and Integrating IBM Web Sphere Application Server(WAS), Web Sphere Portal Server, IIB, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Apache Http Server, IHS & Sun One Web server’s on Distributed OS platforms (Unix and Windows)
Experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning and Troubleshooting of Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Rules Engines (BRE) applications using Pega Systems Pega Rules Process Commander (PRPC).
Proficient in Pega PRPC Implementation cycle including installation, development, testing and deployment.
Have worked on several high profile Pega projects through the full Agile life-cycle since process
Certified IBM Web Sphere V8.0 core Admin associate.
Strong understanding of IBM Web Sphere Application Server family and architecture basis.
Well versed in installing, configuring, administrating and troubleshooting IBM Web Sphere Application Server ND v8.5.x/v8.x/v7.0.0.x/6.1.0.x/
Expertise in installation, configuration, clustering and administration of Web Sphere Application Server and Web Logic server on various platforms like Linux (Red Hat) and Windows.
Troubleshooting and fixing of problems on all the different versions of Application Servers like Web Sphere.
Good Knowledge in Creating Horizontal and Vertical Clustering in Web Sphere Application servers for execution environment and long-running applications
Experience in designing and administering highly available clustered environments for WMQ series.
Creating, configuring and administrating Broker runtime components and ensuring efficient operation on Broker.
Sizing and capacity planning using Web Sphere Business Monitor and Candle Monitoring plugin nodes.
Administering local and remote IIB V9/WMB and WMQ objects like starting stopping IIB V9 Nodes/Brokers and queue managers.
Performing administration tasks using script (MQSC) commands to create, update, alter and delete MQ objects like queue managers, queues, clusters, channels, listeners, etc.
Performing administration tasks using Web Sphere MQ Administration Interface (MQAI) and using Web Sphere MQ explorer.
Performing administration tasks using MQSI commands and broker explorer for broker environment.
Experience in installation and configuration of Apache HTTP Server, IBM HTTP Server and Microsoft IIS and also involved in configuration of Virtual Hosts for IBM HTTP Server.
Highly skilled in creating SSL using iKEYMAN, Console and command line tools like gsk7cmd and key tool.
Experienced in Workload Management (WLM), WSADMIN scripting JACL JYTHON and troubleshooting the middleware product related issues on different UNIX flavours (Solaris, AIX, and Linux).
Worked on SOA Migration Plans, Migration Tracking and Migration testing
Vast experience on Installing, configuring and troubleshooting of IBM Web Sphere Application Server 8.0/7.0/6.x, Web Servers (IHS 6.0/6.1, Apache 2.0) on Linux, AIX, and Windows platforms.
Strong experience in Administration and Maintenance of JBoss, Tomcat and WAS ND clusters (vertical, horizontal) and deployment of applications in highly availability, load balanced production environments
Experience in applying plug-ins and tuning for WAS with IBM HTTP Server and Apache Web Server.
Experience in creating resources, modify properties, view runtime attributes, commit modifications and securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, User Credentials and Web Sphere Resources.
Successful implementations of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including horizontal and vertical clustering for achieving High- availability, scalability and failover.
Configuring and managing Domain name service (DNS)
Hands on experience in configuring and deploying J2EE applications on Web Sphere Application Servers and Web Logic servers.
Experience in 24x7 on-call production support and trouble-shooting problems related to WAS, Web Servers, MQ Series and Database, Managing security, organization and remote computing issues.
Expert in supporting Enterprise based Applications in a distributed environment, over a wide range of operating environments across several web farms on a 24/7 rotation basis for high volume, secure transactions and Web services.
Expertise in configuring RDBMS products such as IBM DB2UDB 9.x/8.x, Oracle 11.x/10.x/9.x/8.x and Microsoft SQL server 2005 in UNIX, Linux and Windows environments.
Well experienced in configuring various LDAP user registries for authentication and authorization and implemented SSO (Single Sign On)
Expertise in working with various logs, trace and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer.
Expertise in using and modifying wsadmin scripts and Shell scripts to administer and automate batch job scheduling including backup and recovery processes and rotating logs.
Experienced in working with change management tools like Remedy and Infrastructure Work request, HP Service Manager ticketing tools.
Highly motivated to learn new developments in technology with strong analytical problem solving skills and a flair for creativity. Worked closely with Project manager, development, testing and production team to align project deliverables, dates and report issues/concerns.
Excellent communication, analytical skills and highly flexible to learn new technologies in the IT industry and work towards company’s success.
SKILL SET
Application/Web Servers
IBM Web Sphere Application Server(WAS) 8.x/7.0/6.x, IBM Http Server(IHS) 6.x/7.x/8.x, JBoss 6.x, Apache Web Server 2.0/2.2/2.4, IBM Web Sphere MQ /7.x/8.x, Apache Tomcat 7.0, mod_jk
Operating Systems:
LINUX (REDHAT 6), IBM AIX, ZOS, Windows NT/2000 server.
Development Tools
IBM RAD 6.0/7.0, Putty, Ssh Client, FileZilla, WinScp, SVN, Jenkins
Databases & Tools:
DB2, Oracle 11g, Sybase, SQL Server and MS Access, Excel, PostgreSql, QMF, Toad, PgAdmin, SQL, PL/SQL.
Protocols
TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SSL, LDAP, ICMP, DNS, FTP, SFTP, SOAP, POP and HTTP.
CERTIFICATION:
IBM Web Sphere Application Server Network Deployment V8.0, Core Administration.
AIG, Houston, TX Dec 2015 – Till Date
Sr WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:
Installed, configured Web Sphere Application Server 7.x/8.x/8.5 and IBM HTTP Server 7.x/8.5 on multiple platforms like AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows
Installed, Configured site minder web agent on Linux servers.
Installed, configured JBOSS on Linux servers.
Experienced in installation of MQ V8.
Experienced in applying fix packs and installing JAVA V7,V8.
Experienced in migrating 50+ different PEGA, WEB and SERVICE applications from WAS V7.x to WAS V8.5
Actively involved in migration of pega applications from Pega Cloud to AWS Cloud.
Install and configure new IBM Web Sphere 8.5 ND instance in LINUX box for the migration process.
Create new app servers and configure/ and tune them as per application requirements.
Configure new horizontal Cluster for the new env setup under different nodes.
Maintained Web Sphere Application Server on Linux/ZOS platforms, development, testing and staging environments for on-going application development.
Implement fix pack in existing production, QA and Development env in Web Sphere 7.0 to 7.0.0.29 to resolve JDBC connection issue.
Data source (JNDI) configuration and JMS queue and queue factory creation for native MQ to support application requirements.
Create new IBM Http server install plug-in and Configuring SSL. Finally configure plugin-cfg.xml file with cluster with proper load balancer.
Maintain Dmgr Cell security, also check & update SSL certificates for all running application in Production and non-production environments.
Configured security setup for each QM objects for user security and enabled application security at server level for each of the broker servers.
Installed and configured XI52.
Created QMs, Queues, Listeners, Channels and Servers on each of the servers.
Installed iFix to resolve MQ connections on Linux servers.
Configured clustered environment for each of the environment to achieve high availability and fail over scenarios.
Demonstrated the load balancing mechanism over the clustered environment to ensure the load is distributed as per the algorithm.
Good Understating in Business process management tools
Played a key role in migrating PRPC V5.4/V5.5sp1, project to higher version PRPC V6.1/V6.2sp2,V6.3sp1 and V7.1.6
Deployed Pega SMA on separate node and integrated all other pega application node to it in various environments(preprod and prod)
Worked on Migrating Pega Rules 5.5 to 7.5 and associated applications.
Configured disaster recovery scenarios within NJ and FL data centers..
Involved in Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Web Sphere Application and Web Logic servers.
Installing, Configuring, troubleshooting Web Sphere Application server and installation of fix packs.
Supporting, monitoring all Applications at Development, Testing and Production environments.
Deploying application in WAS using admin Console and also through scripts.
Configured web servers ports and virtual host based on network load balanced URL’s.
Configured Web Sphere global security with LDAP registry. Created users with various roles to access the Web Sphere admin console, users and groups in LDAP and added them as Web Sphere Console Groups.
Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL), PKI and Trusted CA for Encryption and Decryption of data using cryptography and Users Authentication.
Installed and maintained multiple Apache Tomcat server instances.
Upgraded Applications with various patch files (JSP's, Class files, changing various properties and property files).
Troubleshooting various problems in different stages of development using log files and with coordination from Development teams.
Fully automated the build process using ws admin (Jython).
Developed Automation scripts using Jython and Shell Scripts for performing system administration tasks, migration, develop clusters and build the Web Sphere Profiles.
Monitoring WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuning the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
Troubleshooting on various infrastructure issues, memory leaks, garbage collections, JVM heap allocations, Hung Threads and Session Timeout.
Wrote Shell and XML build scripts for various automations and reports, etc.
Diagnosis and repair of the Web Sphere environment.
Assisted developers with the diagnosis and repair of Web Sphere Applications.
Involved in MULE SOFT poc meetings.
On-call Production Support monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development and Test and Production Environments.
Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server ND 8.5.x,8.x,7.x,6.1.x/6.0.x, PRPC V 7.x/5.4/5.5/6.1/6.1sp2, IBMIHS 8.5.x/8.x/7.x, WMQ 8.x/7.x, IIB, XI52, Unix, Linux, AIX, Oracle 12C, DB2, Web Logic server, Willy Intro scope, Team Site, G3, Jenkins, WPS, ESB, Windows 2003/2008 Server R2, IBM Data Power, REDHAT 6 Linux, Centos, Sun One Web Server, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat 6.x.
Redwood Trust, CO Sept 2014 – Nov 2015
WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:
Installed, configured, and maintained IBM Web Sphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server on Sun Solaris, LINUX, AIX and Windows platform.
Upgraded Web Sphere ND with refresh packs and fix packs. Implemented the Vertical and Horizontal clustering that meets High Availability and Failover requirement for performance and functionality.
Integrated and deployed Enterprise J2EE applications on Web Sphere ND 6.1/6.0 that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using Application Assembly Tool.
Installed and Configured Web Sphere MQ 7.0/8.0
Developing MQ infrastructure in enterprise level with Distributed queuing and clustering.
Installed vulnerability fixes for Web Sphere Application Server.
Managed Security and Performance optimizations for IBM Web Sphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache Web Server.
Troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions and session replication, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with NDM.
Configured SIB and Enterprise Service Bus on Web Sphere Application Server ND 6.0.
Configured Web Sphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
Enabled Global Security feature by configuring LDAP as user registry and LTPA for authentication and authorization privileges.
Upgrade, Configuration, Setting Channels, creation of Queues, Change Queue Properties, Monitor Queues, Administration, Support MQ client.
Install, configure, and administer IBM Web Sphere and JBOSS 6.0 in clustered and non-clustered environment
Deployed the applications on multiple Web Logic Server and maintained Load balancing.
Created and configured Web Sphere Application server instances for QA, Development and Production
Installed and Configured Tivoli Access Manager e-business for Securing Applications
Configuring and managing Domain name service (DNS)
Extensive hands on using UNIX shell scripts and Jython automated scripts for administration.
Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer and other IBM tools.
Handled everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system clean-up, rotating logs, creating system alerts and other everyday system tasks.
Enabled Performance Monitoring services through admin console then monitored and analyzed the performance data using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
Configured global security on Web Sphere using IBM Directory Server and secure the admin console.
Troubleshoot problem-tickets, worked with developers to identify the root cause and resolve the issue or propose a potential work around and successfully resolved LDAP, Site Minder, WAS, MQ, code, and data issues.
Implemented authentication and authorization permissions to web resources and Installed SSL certificates on the web servers using iKEYMAN.
Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM Web Sphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.
Provided solutions for clustering at Web Server and Web Sphere areas. Worked on Horizontal and Vertical clustering methods providing fail over, effective load balance scenarios and efficient utilization of system resources.
Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server ND V7.x/6.x, Pega Rules/PRPC 5.x, Web Logic server, IBMIHS, Oracle 10g, IBM DB2, Tivoli Performance Viewer, UNIX, RHEL, AIX, DB2, Oracle 11g, DNS, F5, Cisco, security firewall, Web Sphere MQ 7.0/8.0, Wily Intro scope, RHEL, PHMS, SHP, HPOV.
Hitachi, CA Jan 2012 – Aug 2014
WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:
Installed and Configured IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.x/7.x on UNIX and windows platforms.
Data source (JNDI) configuration and JMS queue and queue factory creation for native MQ to support application requirements.
Create new IBM Http server install plug-in and Configuring SSL. Finally configure plugin-cfg.xml file with cluster with proper load balancer.
Maintain Dmgr Cell security, also check & update SSL certificates for all running application in Production and non-production environments.
Configured security setup for each QM objects for user security and enabled application security at server level for each of the broker servers.
Configured IBM HTTP Web server and generated Plug-ins.
Created, Configured and Administered Profiles, Clusters, Nodes and Node Groups for Web Sphere Application Server.
Migrating IBM Web Sphere Application Server from 6.0 to 6.1.0.31and to 7.x.
Configured clustering through deployment manager for Load Balancing and Failover functions in Web Sphere Application Server ND.
Updated Fix-pack for WAS in UNIX.
Involved in configuration of Web Sphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the DB2, Oracle.
Involved in implementing JACL scripts for automating EAR files.
Troubleshooting errors both Application & JVM logs and traces.
Opened IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report Web Sphere Application Server problems.
Analyzing java cores and heap dumps with thread and heap analyzer.
Monitored metrics and performance with Tivoli monitoring tool.
Worked on Deployment Suite of scripts for the installations and configurations of Web Sphere
Deployed the application in production, staging for following change management practices.
Used Oracle and DB2 for the configuration of JDBC resources.
Enabling Global security at the Application Server level and monitoring Operating System level security for Web Sphere Application Server.
Environment: Web Sphere Application Server 6.0/7.0/8.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.0/7.x/8.x, UNIX, Windows, Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6, LDAP.
Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA Oct 2010 – Dec 2011
WebSphere Administrator
Description: The project included Installation, configuring and administration of IBM Web Sphere Application Server through creation, configuration and administration of profiles. Updating latest Fix-pack for WAS and configuring resources also included. Troubleshooting and performance monitoring are included in day-today activities.
Responsibilities:
Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.x/7.x on UNIX and windows platforms.
Configured IBM HTTP Web server and generated Plug-ins.
Created, Configured and Administered Profiles, Clusters, Nodes and Node Groups for Web Sphere Application Server.
Migrating IBM Web Sphere Application Server from 6.0 to 6.1.0.31and to 7.x.
Configured clustering through deployment manager for Load Balancing and Failover functions in Web Sphere Application Server ND.
Updated Latest Fix-pack for WAS in UNIX and windows platforms.
Involved in configuration of Web Sphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the DB2, Oracle.
Involved in implementing JACL scripts for automating EAR files.
Troubleshooting errors both Application & JVM logs and traces.
Opened IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report Web Sphere Application Server problems.
Resolving IMR’s and attending CMR’s.
Monitored metrics and performance with Tivoli monitoring tool.
Worked on Deployment Suite of scripts for the installations and configurations of Web Sphere.
Analyzing java cores and heap dumps with thread and heap analyzer.
Deployed the application in production, staging for following change management practices.
Used Oracle and DB2 for the configuration of JDBC resources.
Enabling Global security at the Application Server level and monitoring Operating System level security for Web Sphere Application Server.
Environment: Web Sphere Application Server 6.0/7.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.1 and 6.0, UNIX, Windows, Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6, LDAP.
Info Systems, Hyderabad, India April 2009 – Sept 2010
WebSphere Consultant
Description: The project included configuring, updating and monitoring the IBM Web Sphere Application Server and also developing WASADMIN scripts in automating the day-to-day activities. It also included administering and maintaining production, test and development environment.
Installed Web Sphere Application Server using the silent, GUI and console modes.
Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 2.0.13.x, 2.0.42.x and 2.0.47.x on UNIX and Windows platforms.
Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of Web Sphere Application Server (WAS) for workload managed cluster.
Configured and maintained Deployment Manager and Application Server Profiles of the installation.
Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN.
Migrated applications from development environments to staging, QA and Production environment.
Administered and maintained production, test and development environment.
Automated various administrative tasks for Web Sphere Application server by developing WSADMIN scripts.
Kept the track of the latest release of fixes and Installed fix packs up to date.
Implemented the skills of Load balancing for edge components.
Problem Determination through the log files (JVM Logs) and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
Configured HACMP cluster to keep applications running, restrain it on a backup server.
Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in Web Sphere Application server.
Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
Provided support for System Integration and application flow in a production environment.
Environment: Web Sphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.13.x, 2.0.42.x and 2.0.47.x, Sun Solaris, Windows 2003.
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