Middleware Admin
Resume:
Nanda Kishore Yalapalli.
Email: *********@*****.*** Contact: +1-803-***-****
Career Objective
To obtain a challenging position in a reputed organization where my strengths are utilized for the growth and development of the organization and to keep abreast with the latest in Cloud Technologies.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
Having around 13 years of IT experience, Systems experience working in Development, Production Support, Application Deployment Teams, experience in supporting systems both Assembly and Production environments with many running Mission Critical Applications. I have an in-depth knowledge of IBM Web Sphere Application Server, IBM Web Sphere Portal Server, Oracle Web Logic Server, JBoss and its associated components and Strong Knowledge in managing applications in AWS. I am very successful in dealing with people, processes, and services.
CERTIFICATIONS:
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
AWS-Certified-Sys Ops-Administrator
IBM WAS Network Deployment V7.0, Core Administration
Oracle WebLogic Server 10g System Administration
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, SES)
Scripting Language: Shell, Yaml
Web/Application Servers: WAS 7/8/8.5, IHS 7/8.5, JBoss EAP 6, Tomcat, Apache
DevOps Tools: CI/CD, Configuration Management, Containerization & Orchestration
Messaging Servers: WebSphere MQ 7
Database: Oracle 11g
Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Grafana, ITRS Genos, Control-M
SDLC Methods: SCRUM, Agile
Reporting Tools: MicroStrategy, Informatica
Ticket Tools: Jira, BMC Remedy, Service Now
Automation of tasks using scripting language
Operating System: Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:
Server Administration and troubleshooting on Window,Unix/Linux based infrastructure.
Involved in Deployments, Patching & Releases in all Prod, and non-prod environments
Good knowledge of source control managements concepts such as branching, merging, Labelling/Tagging and Integration using Git
Experience in Analysis and Assisting clients on Design, Built and Co-ordinate an automated build & release CI/CD process using Git lab Jenkins on hybrid IT Infrastructure.
Experience in setup, Schedule, and develop scripts with Autosys jobs to automate daily health checks and manage disk cleanups
Good knowledge on Automating, Configuring, and deploying instances on AWS and Data centers, familiar with EC2, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation and managing Security groups on AWS.
Good knowledge on setup and Managing servers on Amazon using EC2, EBS, ELB, SSL Security Groups, RDS and IAM.
Experience in maintenance and Managing Docker orchestration and containerization using Kubernetes.
Perform end to end validations of enterprise level applications, Troubleshooting and Automation.
Good Knowledge on scheduling jobs using Control-M.
Experience in software Release management, Deployment and build management.
Well experienced in incident management and Change Management.
Manages the CAB, coordinates teams and stakeholders, makes final decisions to approve or reject proposed changes, and directs the implementation of approved changes.
Worked on Devops and SRE to improve the Availability of the Application.
Good understanding on ITIL concepts.
Experience in Installation, Configuration, Administration, Troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server, Web Logic Application Server, JBoss Application Server, Tomcat Server and having experience on installation and configuration on reporting tools like MicroStrategy and Informatica tools.
Experience in configuring cluster environments for high availability, load balancing and Failover.
Working knowledge in writing scripts to automate basic Infrastructure tasks that include Deployments, Configurations, Health check of Application and web servers.
Monitor Analyze and report performance health check reports to customers for On-Premises and Cloud based environments
Experience in providing 24/7 Middleware Support and coordinated with business, developers, management and end-users to resolve issues as per SLA.
Good and well experienced at communicating with Clients and resolving issues.
WORK SUMMARY:
PROJECT#1
Project Name
ERMS, Dallas
Client
System Soft Technologies (Client: Standard Chartered Bank)
Designation
Specialist Systems Reliability Engineering
Project Duration
March 2023 to Till Date
Team Size
15
Environment
Linux, Jboss Fuse, IBM Http Server, Apache, Tomcat, MicroStrategy Administration and Web Methods Administration and Informatica Grafana monitoring tool, Genos Monitoring tool, Big Bucket, Antifactory
Tasks experienced:
Playing a major role in handling the Implementation, reviewing the deployment plans and support for deploying the scripts in live environment with various applications in production and providing timely technical support during the production releases/issues
Involved in application related incidents/issue analysis, resolution and user queries
Attending pre and post review meetings for Deployment plans
Server Performance Tuning - Thread Dump Analysis, Core Dump Analysis when server crashed
Deployment and troubleshooting of JAR, WAR, and EAR files in domain and clustered environments
Performing deployment using DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Artifactory, Ansible, GIT, etc.,
Preparing and reviewing Ansible playbooks for production deployment
Preparing RCA for major incidents
Review and maintain logs of production failures and resolutions
Involved in changing the memory arguments
Involved in Trouble Shooting and JVM Performance Tuning
Supporting IAM applications hosted on AWS
Setting up monitoring dashboards in Splunk, Introscope and AppDynamics
Performing Annual DR for the application to ensure resiliency
Perform fix and application upgrades on the applications
Perform releases for On-boarding applications into IAM platform
Perform SSL and signing certificate renewals
Day to day Server Health Checks and Monitoring, Resolving Alerts
Providing 24/7 Support for all modules of the Application.
PROJECT#2
Project Name
IAM (Identity and Access Management), Chennai
Client
RBS UK
Designation
Associate Consultant
Project Duration
March 2022 to March 2023
Team Size
11
Environment
Linux, IBM WebSphere, WebLogic and Tomcat Application servers and IBM Http Server, Apache, Service now and Jira
Tasks experienced:
Playing a major role in handling the Implementation, reviewing the deployment plans and support for
deploying the scripts in live environment with various applications in production and providing timely
technical support during the production releases/issues
Involved in application related incidents/issue analysis, resolution and user queries
Attending pre and post review meetings for Deployment plans
Server Performance Tuning - Thread Dump Analysis, Core Dump Analysis when server crashed
Deployment and troubleshooting of JAR, WAR, and EAR files in domain and clustered environments
Performing deployment using DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Artifactory, Ansible, GIT, etc.,
Preparing and reviewing Ansible playbooks for production deployment
Preparing RCA for major incidents
Review and maintain logs of production failures and resolutions
Involved in changing the memory arguments
•Involved in Trouble Shooting and JVM Performance Tuning
Supporting IAM applications hosted on AWS
Setting up monitoring dashboards in Splunk, Introscope and AppDynamics
Performing Annual DR for the application to ensure resiliency
Perform fix and application upgrades on the applications
Perform releases for On-boarding applications into IAM platform
Perform SSL and signing certificate renewals
Day to day Server Health Checks and Monitoring, Resolving Alerts
Providing 24/7 Support for all modules of the Application
PROJECT#3
Project Name
Work Bench, Chennai
Client
Standard chartered Bank
Designation
Lead Consultant-Technology
Project Duration
June 2019 to March 2022
Team Size
6
Environment
Linux,
JBoss Fuse, JBoss Application Server, ACE Load Balancer, and Nagios Monitoring tool, Grafana monitoring tool.
IBM Http Server, Apache, Tomcat, MicroStrategy Administration and Webmethods Administration.
Tasks experienced:
Installation, Configuring, Upgrading and troubleshooting the JBoss Fuse and Tomcat, MicroStrategy and Web methods Components
Deployment of EAR & WAR files on JBoss Application Servers. JBoss fuse for Container specification to integrate with tomcats, Web Methods & Reporting Components like MicroStrategy.
Installed Apache HTTP Server on different nodes and configured.
Web methods for service configurations like NORKOM, ICDMS.
Extensive knowledge on Apache web-server, Apache Tomcat
Worked with Jenkins, run Deck for deployments, environment setup, MV Refresh
Configured Web Methods Application Server with Oracle data base.
Configured Web Methods resources like JDBC providers, data sources and connection pooling.
Flexibility to cover various work schedules, for Ex 24x7 supports.
Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files.
Performing Deployments using MSTR Developer tools and configuring JDBC and JNDI and Creation of Users and migration activities
PROJECT#4
Project Name
CMIPS II Environment Support, India
Client
California Health Insurance dxc
Designation
Technology Consultant III-b
Project Duration
Oct 2018 to May 2019
Team Size
6
Environment
AIX, Linux,
IBM Web Sphere Application Server, Tomcat & Apache web server, IBM Http Server, Apache.
Tasks experienced:
Installation, configuration and maintenance of IBM Web Sphere Application Server, Tomcat& Apache on Red hat Linux.
Installation, configuration and maintenance Apache web server.
Creation and maintenance of application servers with optimal configurations and data sources.
Setup the Clustered environment for applications.
Providing continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, historical and real time performance monitoring of the Application servers.
Deployment of JAR, WAR, and EAR files in domain and clustered environments.
Involving in 24 x 7 Global and Production support activities (generating thread dump, heap dump, analyzing logs).
Responsible for the applying different patches, fix packs for several servers.
Performed deployments in Non-Prod and Prod Environments. Daily health checks are done.
Participated in configuration changes, worked on tickets with priority.
Documentation.
PROJECT#5
Project Name
Telstra, Bangalore
Client
Australian Telecom
Designation
Technology Consultant III-b
Project Duration
Aug 2017 to Oct 2018
Team Size
6
Environment
AIX, Linux,
IBM Web Sphere Application, IBM BPM Server, IBM Http Server.
Tasks experienced:
Involved in the build and support of DEV, SIT, QA and UAT BPM & WAS 8.5 environment
Was involved in setting up a Web Sphere MQ Clustered Environment and also setting up Multi Instance Queue Manager (new feature with MQ v8.5).
Responsible for integrating various applications and customizing them as per requirement with WAS.
Part of automation project to automate build of WAS and deployment of applications using Python &wsadmin scripts.
Part of performance tuning team to improve throughput of applications and optimize the system for better performance.
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.
Troubleshooting problems related to WAS and WebSphere BPM8.5.
Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve various issue related to the environment. Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM after running the must gather scripts and enabling various traces and taking thread dumps.
Creating and Maintaining L2/L3 Documentation for Build and Configuration also documenting various day to day maintenance activities. These documents would in turn be referred by company responsible for Production Support.
Worked for migration of business-critical application, mainly involved in environment setup for BPM 8.5 from BPM 7.5
PROJECT#6
Project Name
PTM, Bangalore
Client
ANZ
Designation
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Project Duration
Oct 2016 to Aug 2017
Team Size
6
Environment
AIX, Linux, Solaris & windows
IBM Web Sphere Application, IBM Http Server.
Tasks experienced:
Provided Proof of Concepts to client for end-to-end Administration activities on Web Sphere Application Server v8.0. Applied Fix-packs to Web Sphere Application Server V8.0.
Move code to Test, development, IT environments to test code. Once it tests then move to production.
Give complete environment level support to test, development, IT &Production environments.
Looking for client questions/requests in tickets and ensure they get followed up on promptly.
Run shakeout for IT & Test environments.
Enabling SSL Security in Web Environments for IBM HTTP Server.
Continue to look for client requests and ensure they are getting technically rich responses.
Ensuring that warnings generated by monitoring are responded to in a timely manner.
Ensuring that any inventory repository is up to date for all supported components.
Installation, Configuring, Upgrading and troubleshooting the WebSphere Application Server.
Installed IBM HTTP Server on different nodes and configured them by generating the plug-in.
Responsible for deploying, monitoring application, log files and provided information to the developers.
Configured and Enabled the Global Security System for WAS Administration for Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
Configured WebSphere Application Server in conjunction with DB2.
Federated multiple nodes to a Deployment manager.
Deployment of EAR & WAR files on WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment Manger.
PROJECT#7
Project Name
COMET, Pune
Client
AT&T
Designation
Sr. Software Engineer
Project Duration
Feb 2011 to Aug 2016
Team Size
6
Environment
AIX, Linux,
Oracle WebLogic Server.
Tasks experienced:
Installed, configured and administered of WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x in various environments.
Deployed the applications, formats of WAR and EAR File in WebLogic Server in various environments.
Deployed the applications in WebLogic application Server on Linux.
Configure and administered of JDBC, JMS, JNDI in WebLogic Server
Configured Node Manager and managed the server lifecycles remotely.
Install, configure and administered Apache web servers.
Configure and administered Connection pools, multi connection pools and Data Source for JDBC connections.
Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
Configure and administered Connection pools, multi connection pools and Data Source for JDBC connections.
Troubleshooting and fixing of problems on WebLogic Application Server and Web server.
EDUCATION:
BE with specialization in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University affiliated college
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