Srinivas Pisipati

Summary

Email: ad4apu@r.postjobfree.com

Ph: 704-***-****

Over 15 years of IT Experience with 8 years of imperative concentration on Cloud Computing (AWS, DevOps, DevSecOps) and in automating, building, and deploying code on servers. Extensive experience includes Build/Release Management tools like GIT, SVN, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Nagios, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, Open Stack etc. and Linux/Unix system administration on RedHat, Cent OS.

8 years of experience in setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x

Expertise in using Amazon Web Services like EC2, VPC, ECS, ELB, EBS, AMI, S3, Route 53, Cloud watch, Cloud Front, Cloud trail, Cloud formation, Internet Gateway, API Gateway, Security Groups, RDS, Dynamo DB.

Strong experience with AWS IAM service in creating IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and Identity providers. And used them to restrict access to certain buckets from certain persons.

Created alarms and trigger points in CloudWatch based on thresholds and monitored the server's performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage.

Worked with Terraform key features such as Infrastructure as a code, Execution plans, Resource Graphs, Change Automation and extensively used Auto scaling launch configuration templates for launching Amazon EC2 instances while deploying Microservices.

Managed servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform using chef configuration management tools and Created instances in AWS as well as migrated data to AWS from data Center.

Created Puppet manifests and modules to automate system operations.

Experience in Puppet as Configuration management tool, to automate the repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and enthusiastically managed the changes.

Experience in using Tomcat Apache servers and Docker containers for deployment.

AWS Cloud infrastructure working experience and working experience and aws plural site certified.

Working knowledge in AWS VPC, ec2, auto scaling, route53, ELB, failover design, CloudFormation and lambda function, CloudTrail, CloudWatch,flow logs, EBS and s3.

Working knowledge of Configuration tool Ansible, container service docker and Kubernetes

Managed and designed all the lower environment and production as lead for the datacenter and cloud infrastructure

Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers.

Experience in branching, staging, and maintaining the version across the environments working on Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools like Subversion (SVN) and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab).

Good experience using Maven/Gradle for building java-based web applications

Implementing CI CD process. Good in implementing pipeline as a code in Jenkins.

Configuring jobs, master slaves and managing using Jenkins.

Used Terraform in managing resource scheduling, disposable environments and multitier applications.

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.

Change and service management and tracking for the scheduled and planned changes for the different product.

Weekly change meeting and communication to all team and impact analysis.

Leading the severity one issue for all the different product and tracking the resolution and root cause.

Instrumental in working with all the product and taking the requirement and implementing end to end solution.

Linux and windows patching contact for the project and coordination and validation post patching.

Lifecycle management for the Linux and windows server and planning and execution of the project.

Ability to work independently, and with minimum supervision.

Leading the team and delivering the project with timely manner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platform AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, OpenStack

Configuration Management Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Infrastructure as Code Terraform, Cloud Formation.

Containerization &Orchestration Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes

Virtualization Tools VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Vagrant

Version Control Tools Git, GitHub, Bit Bucket, SVN, TFS

Continuous Integration Tools Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, VSTS

Repositories Artifactory, Nexus

Build Tools ANT, Maven, Gradle, MSBuild

Monitoring Tools Nagios, ELK, Splunk

Application Servers

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x, 9.x(ND) Apache Tomcat

5.x/6.x,

JBoss Application Server 5.x/6.x, IIS and WebLogic.

Languages

C, C++, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJBs, Angular JS, HTML, XML

Operating Systems

IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, SUN Solaris 8/9, HP-UX, LINUX (REDHAT),

Windows

NT/2000 server, Windows XP/98/95

Scripting

JACL, Python, Perl, AJAX, Java scripts, Python, UNIX shell Scripts

Databases

Oracle8i/9i/10g

(RAC),DB28.x/9.x,SQLServer2000/2005,MSAccess2003

Education: MBA (IT) Schiller International University, Largo, FL

Work Experience

(01/22 – Current) AWS & DevOps Engineer . Novartis, Chicago IL

Involved in supporting cloud instances running Linux and Windows on AWS, experience with Elastic IP, Security Groups and Virtual Private Cloud in AWS.

Worked on Nginx configurations and deployed through Jenkins to all the environments.

Build and performed Jenkins jobs for deploying using ansible playbook and bitbucket.

Experience with deploying applications with upgraded versions.

Develop and maintain DevSecOps architectural standards and best practices

Evaluate, select, and implement DevSecOps tools and technologies that align with organizational goals

Optimize existing toolchains for improved efficiency and security

Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Splunk for monitoring network services and host resources.

Experience in orchestrating IaaS service EC2 and PaaS AWS services for different teams.

Monitored servers in Cloud watch during deployment and handled troubleshooting steps.

Experience using databases like MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle.

Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and converted VM based application to microservices and deployed as a container managed by Kubernetes

Expertise in building CI/CD on AWS environment using AWS Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy and Code Pipeline and experience in using AWS Cloud Formation, API Gateway, and AWS Lambda in automation and securing the infrastructure on AWS.

Involved in creating the company's DevOps strategy in a mixed environment of Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL) servers.

Extensively worked with version control systems like GIT, CVS, Perforce version, Subversion control systems.

Developed Python career path through professional development while working on Python projects.

Completely responsible for automated infrastructure provisioning (Windows and Linux) using Chef Scripts.

Create Run Deck jobs to integrate with our Jenkins CI process and call Chef on the deployment servers.

Worked on Configuration management tool Chef, Team city and Docker for continuous delivery.

Rewritten recipes for new environments.

Extensive experience with Linux environments like centos, RHEL, Ubuntu.

Designed and implemented Chef, including the internal best practices, cookbooks, automated cookbook CI and CD system.

Migrated application specific Parameter into AWS Parameter Store which provides highly secures hierarchical storage for configuration data management and secrets management.

Created spec tests to test the Ansible code and to test all the parts of the code is working as expected.

Experience with Ansible Tower to manage Multiple Nodes and Manage Inventory for different Environments. And also used Ansible to orchestrate software updates and verify functionality.

Hand-on experience creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka cluster brokers, broker sizing,topic sizing h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access Management (ACL).

Worked on installing new relic Kafka plugin implementation for monitoring of Kafka cluster.

Experience in Open-Source Kafka, Zookeepers, Kafka connects.

Reviewed Kafka cluster configurations and provided best practices to get peak performance.

Upgraded multiple Kafka clusters across multiple environments from 0.10.0.1 to 0.11.0.2 and then again to the latest 1.1.1 version without any data loss and zero downtime.

Experience in architecting Azure IaaS, Azure Hybrid Identity, Azure Governance, Azure web jobs, Azure search.

Made use of Jenkins for Chef CI, Thor for versioning, Berkshelf for dependency management, and Test-Kitchen for testing and development.

Configured and monitored multiple servers using Team city and Chef.

Installed uDeploy, deploy server agents and doing deployments in various environments.

Created a Python process hosted on Elastic Beanstalk to load the Redshift database daily from several source systems, including FTP and SFTP servers and an Oracle database.

Environment: ANT, Maven, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, SonarQube, Nexus, Jenkins, Azure, AWS (EC2, Route 53, S3, IAM, RDS) Artifactory, Python, GIT, SVN, Shell Scripts, Chef, Linux.

(05/19 – 12/21) IBM WebSphere/Middleware Engineer . AbbVie Inc, Vernon Hills, IL

Provided extensive support in code deploy, change management, and application level troubleshooting for the Dev, Test, Pre-Prod & Production environment

Instrumental in the implementation of ModelN program on AWS cloud.

Installed, configured & upgraded WAS for all Dev, Test, Pre-Prod & Production environments.

Worked closely with development, messaging, network support teams, as the application was integrated with other products.E

Knowledge on WebSphere suite of products ( WAS, BPM, IBM MQ, IIB).

Worked as an IBM MQ/IIB Administrator for Installation, Configuration, Integration and maintenance of IBM MQ and IIB.

Involved in testing of the web URLs and software installed and versions migrated.

Involved in integrating and testing the third party applications

Configured JDBC connections, JMS servers and security settings for WAS.

Involved extensively in trouble shooting the issues and finding out root cause analysis.

Worked closely with vendors during trouble tickets and also in coming to a solution.

Worked with the team for writing and deploying shell scripts to automate various tasks like start and stop scripts, log rotation, working with Jacl files.

Worked in container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift. Point team player on OpenShift for creating new Projects, Services for load balancing and adding them to Routes to be accessible from outside, troubleshooting pods through SSH and logs, modification of Build configs, templates, Image streams, etc.

Handling SNOW Change tickets for the application deployment and AWS Cloud Services

Managing the OpenShift cluster that includes scaling up and down the AWS app nodes.

Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and converted VM based application to microservices and deployed as a container managed by Kubernetes

Expertise in building CI/CD on AWS environment using AWS Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy and Code Pipeline and experience in using AWS CloudFormation, API Gateway, and AWS Lambda in automation and securing the infrastructure on AWS.

Involved in creating the company's DevOps strategy in a mixed environment of Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL) servers.

Good at troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer.

Problem Determination through the log files and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.

Working on various components of WebSphere such as Workload Management (WLM), WebSphere Administration, Configuration, Tuning, Clustering and troubleshooting WebSphere related problems.

Worked on Serverless services, created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with application insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the applications using the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) also called as Azure DevOps Services.

ENVIRONMENT: WebSphere Application Server 8.5, 9.0, Amazon Web Services, Chef 13.x/12.x, Ansible 2.4, Docker 1.13.1/1.12.6, Kubernetes 1.8/1.7, OpenShift, Tibco 5/6, Windows, AIX, Linux, RHEL, AWS, Azure, LDAP.

(08/17 – 04/19) Sr. AWS/CLOUD/DEVOPS Engineer. Guardian Life, Bethlehem, PA

AWS Cloud infrastructure knowledge and working experience and AWS plural site certified.

Working knowledge in AWS VPC, eC2, auto scaling, route53, ELB, failover design, CloudFormation and lambda function, CloudTrail, EBS and s3.

Migrated existing Java applications and outgoing proxy servers from on-prem/ VM based to micro services applications in GCP.

Implemented and designed AWS virtual servers by Ansible roles to ensure deployment of web applications.

Used the AWS-CLI to suspend an AWS Lambda function processing an amazon kinesis stream, then to resume it again.

Used Ansible to Setup/teardown of ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and troubleshoot the build issues with ELK and worked towards the solution.

Created and Configured the continuous delivery pipelines for deploying microservices and lambda functions using Jenkins CI server through groovy scripts.

Created and troubleshooted Ansible scripts and Kubernetes and YAML files to deploy CI/CD applications automatically and Idempotently to reduce time costs.

Understanding of secure-cloud configuration, (CloudTrail, AWS Config), cloud-security technologies (VPC, Security Groups, NACL) and cloud-permission systems (IAM).

Worked on monitoring on GCP using compute, app engine, storage, Cloud SQL, Big Query, network ( VPC, Subnets, firewall rules), DNS, IAM, security key management, auto-scaling using Kubernetes and Docker and other GCP services.

Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools like Ansible. Designing cloud-hosted solutions, specific AWS product suite experience.

for Branching purpose and deployed using Elastic Beanstalk.

Developed Web applications using Ruby, Python, MongoDB, Cassandra.

Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes.

Developed Dev, Test and Prod environments of different applications on AWS by provisioning Kubernetes clusters on EC2 instances using Docker, Ansible.

Virtualized the servers on AWS using the Docker, created the Docker files and maintained docker registry.

Created Clusters using Kubernetes and worked on creating many pods, replication controllers, services, deployments, labels, health checks and ingress by writing YAML files.

Migrated on-premise CI/CD environment to GCP-based deployment.

Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes.

Implemented Docker -maven-plug-in and maven pom to build Docker images for all micro services and later used Docker file to build the Docker images from the java jar files.

Created and maintained the Python deployment scripts for Web Sphere web application server.

Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies. Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery.

Administered Repetitive Jobs with Cron scheduling and using bash Scripts to complete the task on multiple servers. Performance tuning of Virtual Memory, CPU, system usage in Linux and HP-UX servers.

Installed, configured and administered Jenkins Continuous Integration tool on Linux machines along with adding/updating plugins such as SVN, GIT, Maven etc.

Environment: Linux, Maven, Chef, Jenkins, Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, Nagios, Artifactory, GIT,AWS Cloud Formation, RDS, Red hat, Linux/Unix, Redshift, RDS, EC-2,AMI,Route 53, S3, VPC, Ruby, Shell Scripts, ELK, Lambda and Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, Python, Groovy,RHEL

(06/14 – 07/17) Application/Cloud Engineer. Allianz Life, Minneapolis, MN

Management and creation of Maven poms and Ant tasks.

Maintained release plans, managed release contents, communicated release status and analysed functional and technical dependencies among projects.

Experience in migrating data/repos from SVN to GIT.

Integrated Build Process through Jenkins to various SCM tools like GitHub, SVN.

Building DevOps delivery pipeline with infrastructure and environment provisioning, deploying and monitoring tools that supported, enhanced and grew the DevOps model.

Designed and developed re-usable components and strategies in cloud infrastructure to support scalability, high-availability and monitoring, back-up and restore.

Troubleshooting errors both Application & JVM also analysed heap/core plus error logs - configured tuned JVM for optimum performance.

Created and maintained the Shell/Perl deployment scripts for Web Logic web application servers.

Worked on Git/GitHub with best practiced strategies.

Used Jenkins to automate the whole pipeline, with email notifications enabled for each success and failure of build or the process.

Designed and implemented the backup strategy for all the critical systems such as build machines, bug tracking tools, central repositories etc.

Used tools like knife to enhance the functionality and usability of the cookbooks.

Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with Maven to schedule the builds.

Scripted internal automation via various scripting languages like Shell and Perl.

Continuous delivery (CD) with Jenkins and Kubernetes, running a continuous deployment pipeline with Jenkins and Jenkins Workflow on Kubernetes.

Worked on Nexus repository to maintain artifacts and used as a local repository, maintained Nexus administration tasks.

Experience in Creating and managing virtual development environments Virtual Box using Vagrant.

Implementing a Continuous Delivery (CD) framework using Jenkins, Chef, and Maven & Nexus in Linux environment.

Good command in writing ANT scripts for making all the files local to the server.

Wrote ANT Scripts to automate the build process.

Developed Maven build scripts for packaging and deploying services.

Used and spring boot to collecting the data from users and packaged the data as JSON distributed to 43 applications.

Managing Daily Builds, Weekly Builds, Nightly Builds and Builds on fortnight basis.

Hands on experience in installing and administrating CI tools like Jenkins.

Integrated Jenkins with Docker, Gradle for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment of applications in various server.

Manage source code, software builds, software versioning and defect tracking on all software maintenance tasks and projects.

Management and creation of Maven poms and Ant tasks.

Gained experience to work with build tool Ant.

Identified and generated new methods of business problem resolution through continuous evaluation of new technologies, design patterns and development models.

Environment: Chef, Maven, Nagios, Subversion, AWS, Power Shell, Shell/Perl, SCM, SVN, Jenkins, Tomcat.

(09/12 – 06/14) JBoss, Tomcat and WebSphere Administrator, Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC

Installing, Configuring and Administrating JBOSS 6.X, Apache Tomcat 6.x, IBM WebSphere servers and Web Servers such as Apache2.x and IBM HTTP Server.

Deployed applications like WAR, JAR, and EAR on multiple clustered JBoss Servers.

Responsible for deploying the code in various environments from development, staging and Production servers.

Assisted customers medium to large scale environments in diagnose, troubleshoot, debug and resolve multiple versions of BMA and BRPM issues on various operating systems.

Involved in Migrating existing Applications to new Datacenter with all new infrastructure by determining the needs of our large web environment for migrating from WebLogic to JBoss and Tomcat. Standardized installation procedures for J2EE application servers (namely JBoss, Tomcat and WebLogic).

Performed Production releases of application packages, server and application configuration changes and patches to the middleware components.

Involved in System Integration, Quality Assurance, application Load Testing and performance monitoring.

Provided 24x7 production support for applications on systems running the fore mentioned middleware products on Linux and Solaris OS.

Interacted with development teams and third party support personnel for quick and effective issue/case resolution and patch implementations.

ODM experience authoring action rules, decision table rules, and orchestrating rules flow within the tool.

Creation of SSL and Digital Certificates which include requesting, generating and implementation for the communication between Web server and the Application Server.

Monitoring and Managing the JVM performance by JBoss and Tomcat Heap size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools and taking Heap and Thread dumps analyzing to find the problems in application.

Performance tuning of JVM heap size, garbage collections, Java stack and Native thread and production performance.

Configure Clustering EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.

Monitoring the error logs, server logs and fixing the problems and Performance tuning of JBoss and Tomcat servers.

Created Cron Tab Scripts for timely running jobs.

Developed ANT build scripts, UNIX shell scripts, Perl scripts, SQL/PLSQL and auto deployment process.

Collaborating with other teams to get a full picture of the application environment and any bottlenecks or issues in that environment, including networking (firewalls, load balancers, routers), storage (NAS and SAN), VM administrators and systems administrators.

ENVIRONMENT: WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7/8, JBoss 6.x/7.1 Tomcat 6.0, Apache 2.x, IHS 7.0, SUN Solaris 8/9/10, RedHat Linux 4.0/5.0/6.x, Sun JDK, SiteMinder, F5 Load Balancers,, BladeLogic Middleware Automation (BMA) tool, SQL Server, SQL, Shell scripting, WebLogic Application Server ND /Base Versions V7 & 8.5, Perl scripting.

(08/11- 08/12) WebSphere Administrator, FNBO, Omaha, NE

Installed WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0 ND and created DMGR, Application server profiles on UNIX, Linux and windows.

Maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX (AIX and SOLARIS), Windows and LINUX platforms and setting up the development, testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.

Migrated applications from WAS 5.x to 7.0 and 6.x to 8.x.

Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 7.0/8.0, Apache Tomcat and Sun One Web Server.

Responsible for updating refresh packs, fix packs and interim fix packs to WebSphere.

Achieved Work Load Management by creating Clusters in WAS 8.X.

Involved in monitoring, shutdown and boot up net work support and trouble shooting.

Handled Staging and production environments as part of the application deployment.

Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and wsadmin scripts.

Enabled global security for the Admin Console and application components.

Utilized skills in Shell, Perl and Wsadmin/JACL scripting to automate deploying, updating applications, migrating data and automating batch jobs.

Managed the security and performance optimization for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM IHS web server.

Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer, Thread Analyzers and log Analyzer.

Worked closely with developers to define and configured application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines-as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere.

Created users and groups in LDAP Servers and mapping them to the enterprise applications running on WebSphere Application Server.

Used LTPA for authentication for enable the global security.

Wrote scripts for accessing remote Admin Servers, cleaning up logs during back-ups.

Provided Naming Standards, Backup & Recovery and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.

Assembled and deployed the applications in staging, in productions, following change management practices.

Supported production tier1 and tier2 for 24/7 and also worked in shifts.

Troubleshot Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, and class path issues by checking the JVM logs, plug-in logs and the Web server logs.

Involved in the migration of Web-Tier from Two-Tier to Three-Tier architecture and Created new Web Servers to use VeriSign certificates.

Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization.

Environment: : IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.3, JBoss Application server 6.x/7.1 SUSE LINUX 10, 11, UNIX, AIX, IBM Data Power, Apache Tomcat.

(01/10 – 07/11) WebSphere Administrator, Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia, PA

Installing WebSphere Application server 7.0 on AIX 6.2 and Windows XP Professional

Managing and implementing SSL certificate for WAS 7.0

Involved in Configuration and installation of RAD 7.5.5 and WebSphere Application Server 7 on AIX 6.2.

Upgrading Enterprise application, implementing new JRE and JDK to suite WebSphere 7 environment.

Evaluated, installed and migrated IBM WebSphere MQ series versions.

Installing MQSeries / WBIMB/ WTX/ DB2 on Windows Servers and coordinating with the UNIX Team to get it installed on Solaris, Designed and Coded message flows, involving Compute node, Database node and Filter node using ESQL, and deployed message flow to broker

Applied CSDs, hot fixes, PTFs, Upgrading MQ versions by manual process or automated process writing scripts.

Integrated WebSphere applications with WebSphere MQ Series using JMS Admin

Modifying and replacing jar’s with new suitable jar for the struts and spring framework

Creating Python, Python and Perl scripts for the new application architecture

Creating security roles for EJB containers, Web-Application and Application Server level

Deploying applications for the staging, Live environment using AMP(Application Management Platform, an internally developed tool )

Creating database connections and providing security roles for the JDBC connections

Developing Technical documents for support, training and internal use for RAD 7.5 and AMP tool

Environment: IBM RAD 7.5.5, PVCS, WebSphere Application Server 7.0, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0, WebSphere Message Broker 6.1/7.x, IBM WebSphere ESB, IBM WTX 8.x,, AMP (Application Management Platform), AIX 6.2, JDK 1.6

(09/09 – 12/10) WebSphere Administrator, Thomson, Indianapolis, IN

Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1(ND, XD) on AIX, SUN Solaris operating platform for development and production environments

Worked with MQ development team, creating queue managers, defining queues, channels, listeners and adding queue managers to clusters

Worked on Administrative Tasks like Configuration, Deployment, Trouble shooting and Scripting, of WebSphere Application Server 5/6

Actively involved in Creation of Node groups, clusters and deploying application, monitoring environment using WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and 6.0

Experienced in implementing and managing server clustering and maintenance of connections pools and EJBs

Involved in creation of shell scripts for managing servers

Involved in creating a High Availability clustered Environment and working with management of applications using Deployment Manager for load balancing and failover functions.

Expertise in working and configurations of Webservers – IHS (IBM HTTP Server), IIS and Apache Web servers

Configured Portal Cluster with Process Server and transferred portal content to backend DB2 database

Applying patches and plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server 6.0/ 6.1

Expertise in deploying various types of application packages including WAR and EAR files.

Assisted the production and development teams throughout life cycle on engineering application architectures and standards as well as interacting and assisting through application changes/deployments.

Created and maintained technical documentation for the IBM WebSphere environment, including network diagrams, installation and configuration procedures, troubleshooting guidelines, and operational procedures.

Implemented SSL Certificates both internal and external for secure iPlanet instances and IBM Web server (IHS/Apache).

Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to methodically identify research and resolve complex issues in the web environment.

Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck

Responsible for 24/7 on call and Production Support on rotation basis.

Worked on problem tickets (PMRs) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0 and 6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0, IBM WebSphere Process Server, IBM WebSphere ESB, AIX, Sun Solaris 9, SiteMinder, J2EE (JSP, Servlets, JDBC 2.0, JMS, EJB 1.1), IBM HTTP Server 6.1, JBOSS, DB2 and Windows 2000/2003 server.

(11/08 – 08/09) Web Sphere System Administrator, Amarex CRO, Germantown, MD

Worked on installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting the IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0, 6.0 (ND) on Solaris 10, RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux).

Involved in day-to-day administration tasks including deployments, monitoring of systems and troubleshooting the issues.

Responsible for performance tuning of IBM HTTP server (IHS) 6.1, Application server, Web Container, EJB Container, and database Connection Pool.

Worked closely with Network, security, operations, database and developer team to troubleshoot and resolve the issue related to application and application

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