Sahana Reddy

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Technical Summary:

IBM Certified Specialist in WebSphere MQ Administration with over 11 years of IT industry experience in IBM WebSphere suite of products MQ, IIB application software design, integration, administration and testing using WebSphere MQ v7.x/8.x/9.x and MQ FTE v8.x/9.x

Developed a detailed understanding of WebSphere MQ Clustering for High Availability

Expertise in Installing, Configuring, monitoring and Administering Websphere Application server, Web sphere MQ, Confidential Integration Bus and Websphere Message Broker on Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms.

Expertise in deployment, Administering, Troubleshooting and Performance tuning of Applications on WebSphere Application server.

Programmed and documented system utilities with Bash/Korn Shell and Java programming languages

Provided cause analysis and fix for infrastructure issues to prevent their recurrence and thereby potential business impact

Monitoring, tracking, trending, analysis and tuning of our WebSphere MQ, WebSphere MB and DataPower Systems

Validating backup techniques to ensure ease of system recoverability

Management of assigned enterprise services projects or components of projects from Application Services

Responsible for Kafka tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery, replication, and troubleshooting.

Implementing Kafka security, limiting bandwidth usage, enforcing client quotas, backup, and restoration.

Maintaining the system integrity and security by following the published Configuration Standards and Best Practices.

Proficient in UNIX Shell scripting, Job automation and scheduling on AIX, Linux and Solaris

Timely security patching and applying recommended maintenance fixes as required.

Support and implementation of the Security policies and Controls as defined and developed by the Information Security team

Timely and accurate completion of other tasks as defined by the Manager of Enterprise Services – WebSphere Systems.

Hands-on-experience in developing software using Agile and waterfall methodologies.

Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills.

Excellent Technical, analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, written and communication skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role in a team and individually.

Experienced in implementing Full life cycle of software development process with proper documentation

Technical Skills:

Software

Websphere MQ (MQ Series) v7, 7.5, 8 and 9.x, Websphere Message Broker v8/9, IIB V10,ACE, Kafka

Datapower

XS45/XI50/XB52

Hardware / OS

Unix, IBM AIX, Linux, Windows 95/98, NT/200X

Networking/Protocol

TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL, SSH

Languages

JAVA, C, C++, COBOL, PL/SQL, CICS, JCL, XML, HTML

Tools

Tivoli, VISIO, Lotus Notes, Remedy, Service Now, TSRM

Professional Experience:

Sr MQ Admin Apr 2017 – Current

HBS, Fort Mill, SC

Responsibilities (MQ/IIB/Kafka):

Working as a Lead Middleware Administrator, Job profile entailed working with development and cross-functional teams to build WebSphere MQ, IIB Infra entities based on project requirements.

Tasks included building MQ, Clusters, MQHA and establishing connections between MQ, IIB, WAS and DB and other applications.

Worked on setting up HA cluster and RDQM.

A seasoned MQ and Apache Kafka Administrator with experience in designing, configuring, and maintaining Kafka clusters to support real-time data streaming and event-driven architecture. Proven ability to ensure high availability, scalability, and data integrity in Kafka-based environments.

Responsibilities included Installation, Configuration, Integration and Maintenance, Production Support in WebSphere MQ and IIB, Apache Kafka.

Installed the MQ version 9.x and fix packs for the distributed and z/os platforms

Migrated the MQ from MQ version 7.x and 8.x to 9.x

Created Multi-instance Queue managers and IIB nodes to achieve high availability Installed MQ V7 & V8, BrokerV7, IIB 10 on various UNIX based Servers.

Created disaster recovery RDQM

Identified out of support versions on servers and upgraded to latest version of MQ/IIB.

Created MQ Clusters to achieve high-availability and load balancing. Secured MQ environment using OAM and message channel and MQI channel using SSL.

Automated manual processes using scripts like IIB broker restart, MQ queue alerts, Kafka topic. Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Local Queues, Alias Queues, Remote queues, Transmission Queues, Dead Letter Queues, Clustered Queues, Channels, Listeners, Clusters, Triggers, Processes and Namelists in DEVELOPMENT, TEST and PRODUCTION Environments.

Converted an existing network of Queue Managers into a Cluster environment.

Built DEV Environments from scratch and followed through to TEST and Successful PRODUCTION Deployment until Go-Live Monitored MQ Objects using Splunk, Tivoli, setup proactive monitoring on Splunk to capture issues before the business impact.

Problem determination using Queue Manager Error logs, FDCs, broker SYSLOGS. Set Authorities on Queue Managers, Channels, and Queues from MQ explorer and MQ scripts Involved in developing backup and recovery procedures, Built DR environment, DR planning and DR tests exercise on quarterly basis.

Designed and implemented by configuring Topics in new Kafka cluster in all environment.

Implemented Kafka Security Features using SSL and without Kerberos. Further with more grain-fines Security I set up Kerberos to have users and groups this will enable more advanced security features.

Installed Kerberos secured kafka cluster with no encryption on Dev and Prod. Also set up Kafka ACL's into it

Implemented to reprocess the failure messages in Kafka using offset id.

Implemented Kafka producer and consumer applications on Kafka cluster setup with help of Zookeeper.

Read/Browsed Messages to verify proper/complete message transmission using RFUtility. Performance Tuning on Queue Managers and Channels.

Worked on DevOps tools like Jenkins/ Ansible to automated deployments.

Worked on Installation and configurations of Jenkins.

Configured the cloud DB for the IIB and supported the applications in Dev, UAT and Prod

Installed IIB v10.0.0.5 and also applied fixpack in later times for all the environments

Helped the application teams by giving access to the IIB resources, access to the Web UI, disabel/enable users, deploying the bar files, changing the configuration for the broker artifacts

Worked on broker admin part and well versed with all the mqsi commands to start/stop/config the http/ssl etc

Worked on traces, PMRs, health checks, server configurations, cloud infra for the IIB

Good knowledge with IBM ACE and planning for migration from IIB to ACE v11.0.0.7

Trained Team members on IBM MQ/IIB Product support.

Working as a Project lead and handling customers escalations, daily client interaction to discuss continuous process improvement, project progress, enhancements, migrations, and patching

MQ Series/WMB Administrator Jun 2014 - Jan 2017

NRC/NASCO, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

Lead the middleware team to architect, administer and maintain the WMQ solutions

Delivered a major MQSeries Infrastructure document addressing the issues of MQSeries security, Queue Manager topology, application architecture, and backup and recovery. This served as a blueprint for the actual implementation.

Involved in migration from IIB v10 to ACE.

Installed and configured MQ and IIB on various platforms

Created and configured queue managers, pagesets, BSDS and MQ objects in mainframe

Worked with MAKEDEF to backup the queue managers during upgrades and patching

Used Master and CHIN logs for MQ troubleshooting during oncall issues.

Provided technical administration and managed WebSphere MQ configurations

Uphold standards, guidelines, and best practices for implementations on multiple platforms across multiple environments

Troubleshoot complex problems, providing root cause analysis and remediation to mitigate future risk with appropriate Technical and Operational staff to resolve connectivity issues

Work with application staff to resolve messaging issues and be able to trace messages from origin to destination

Identify various MQ Objects and set up MQ monitoring

Responsible for enterprise wide WebSphere MQ messaging infrastructure across distributed platforms including; UNIX, WINDOWS and z/OS

Participated in MQ upgrades for both distributed and Mainframe operating systems.

Work w/application development teams providing support of middleware components like MQI/JMS incl. application development cycles to implement, configure debug app. problems as they relate to messaging.

Provide "customer focused" administrative support of middleware production, QA and development environments.

Evaluate and applies software upgrades and support packs as required to solve production problems and/or ensure compliance and system integrity.

Utilize industry standard technologies methods to insure the integrity recoverability of MQ based applications incl. but not limited to; backup recovery, clustering, security, patch management, enterprise monitoring performance tuning.

Performs strategic analysis and design of MQ infrastructure and makes recommendations on improvements and/or new systems required to meet business needs and future capacity.

Serve as technical resource to business analysts, solutions development and other groups responsible for application development standards, system design and integration.

Performs software installations and upgrades to WebSphere MQ servers and clients as well as maintains existing systems in accordance with established policies, procedures and service level agreements.

Performs engineering tasks related to managing WebSphere MQ solutions for corporate and remote systems in a large scale environment Maintains professional knowledge of WebSphere MQ hosted on AIX, Linux, Windows as required for the administration and support of a medium scale distributed environment

Participate in document and lessons learned discussions from previous implementations and update implementation plans to address documented issues.

Assist in preparing and maintaining professional documentation of server(s) / application(s) / network configuration(s) as they relate to middleware components and infrastructure.

Ensure systems remain at operational excellence during infrastructure improvements (hardware/software upgrades, server migrations/consolidations, application deployment, etc).

Solutions will be manageable, scalable and security conscience.

Participates in regular on call rotation, providing 24*7 support meeting business SLA's.

Upgrading Message broker v7.

Installed IIB v10 and applied fixpacks on various Operating systems.

Developed scripts for automatic deployments.

Deployed the bar files and created broker objects like Broker (Integration Nodes) and Execution groups.

Ran the traces and worked with IBM support for PMRs for MQ and IIB.

Daily administration of broker components for the performance monitoring such as recycling the broker, execution groups and analyzing the logs for the application performance and troubleshooting.

Websphere Administrator Dec 2010- May 2014

Charters, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities (MQ)

Installing, configuring and administer Webshpere MQ on Windows, AIX, Linux, HP-UX and Sun Solaris.

Applied MQ fix packs 7.0.1.3 on UNIX.

Migrated MB from V6.1.0.5 to 7.0 and applied MB fix pack 7.0.0.2 on all servers.

Lead the middleware team to architect, administer and maintain the WMQ solutions

Organizing the meetings to manage the middleware developers and application teams

Experience in dealing with external customers and overseas implementers

Participates with the Project Director in proposal preparation, budgeting, scheduling, and labor projection

Troubleshoot and Manage MQSeries queues, channels, listeners and triggering.

Develop MQ infrastructure in enterprise level with distributed queuing and clustering.

Configure, manage and as well as automate WebSphere MQ channels

Add and modify WebSphere MQ resource definitions.

Define channels using SSL certificates

WebSphere MQ Administration experience for versions 6.2 and above on distributed and Mainframe servers

Excellent working knowledge and understanding of Unix and Windows Operating Systems

Install and verify the WMQ Fixpacks and version upgrades of WebSphere MQ

Expert in administering the WMQ product using the command line

Proficient in problem determination, troubleshooting, backup recovery

Working knowledge in using MQSC commands, Distributed Queue Management, MQ channel configuration using different transmission protocols

Working knowledge with MQ Clustering, using the MQ monitoring tools and MQ tracing

Able to manage, configure and monitor MQ Listeners, Command Servers, Channel initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files Dead Letter Queues

Familiar with MQ Client applications MQ client configuration

Able to setup security for WebSphere MQ queues other objects for data access and for administration using role-based security

Developed applications with combined experience in MQI / JMS and Java/C programming languages.

Supported the WMQ on 7x24 rotating on-call support basis

Education

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, JNTU, Hyderabad.

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