SIVAKUMAR SELVARAJ

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Toronto, ON

Infrastructure Ops Specialist / DevOps Engineer

A hard, smart working and career oriented professional with 13 years of comprehensive experience in administration of IBM middleware products like IBM WAS, IBM Portal. Proficient in container Orchestration using Devops Technologies on Google Cloud Platform. Possess good communication skills with the ability to collaborate at all levels.

Professional Summary

IBM Websphere technology specialist efficient in Installing, configuring, troubleshooting, administering and documentation of IBM Websphere ND Application Server, IBM Websphere Portal server, Apache Tomcat and IBM HTTP Server, IIS (various versions), MQ, IIB (MB), IHS,Sunone Iplanet.

Develop CI / CD roadmaps using various tools Github, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins using middleware products.

Design and build Middleware environment on Google Cloud Platform for Development /Testing /QA / Production environments

Building and administering Kubernetes Cluster on Middleware environment

Expert in PKI and SSL Security Management (Self Signed, CA signed and Third Party CA signed certificates)

Experienced in TCP/IP, HTTP and SOAP protocols

Expertise in performance monitoring, response time, heap and garbage collection tools like IBM Thread dump analyser, IBM GC Analyser, Fiddler

Experience with ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence, Remedy, Peregrine,Proficient with SFTP Protocol utils like Putty, Winscp, Filezilla, APM, Dynatrace, BigFix.

Experience in variety of OS namely AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms

Knowledge in Physical architecture of servers like systems, networks, firewalls, reverse proxies, authentication services, LANS/WANS.

Proficient in working 24x7 Production support providing on call support

Expertise in troubleshooting issues and providing solutions within agreed SLAs adhering to ITIL guidelines.

Oversee Offshore projects on quality and productivity front, Knowledge Transition, Task & Schedule Monitoring, Team Setup & Connectivity, Resource management, Recruitment & Induction, Production Support

Technical Certifications

Certified professional in IBM Websphere Application Server v8.0 Network Deployment Core Administration

Certified professional in IBM Websphere Application Server v8.5.5 Network Deployment Core Administration

Certified professional in IBM Websphere Portal 8.0 Administration

Certified professional in IBM Connections 4.0 Administration

Career Precise

Infra Ops Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions One America Insurance / BlueShield of California / Staples

Retail, Chennai-India 2019– 2013

Install, configure and administer the IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0,8.5.5,IBM WebSphere Content Management 6.1.5.2/8.0.0.1, WebSphere Portal 6.1.5.2/8.0.0.1 and Lotus Connections 2.5/3.0, WAS 7.0,8.0 in Dev, QA and Production environments

Experienced in Syncing up Portal, WCM, OmniFind and Lotus Connections configurations between PROD environment and multiple DEV/QA/Content Authoring environments

Configuration Management using Ansible playbooks.

Build Docker containers from images based on the requirement and maintaining them on Docker Hub.

Performing and administering Docker Orchestration over Kubernetes.

Building and administering Kubernetes Cluster on Middleware environment.

Involved in Portal page / Portlet Security management

Involved in troubleshooting high priority incidents and get involved in Bridge calls to collaborate with application support teams to provide Hot fix for the issues identified.

Respond to all critical alerts and get it addressed. Fix all open vulnerability items which may potentially cause cyber threats.

Technical Leader

Inautix Technologies India Ltd Bank of New York & Mellon, Chennai-India 2013-2012

Subject matter expert for the IBM Websphere components (IBM WAS and IBM MQ) in production middleware support

Technical member of WebSphere Architecture providing support to Application teams, applying fix packs, feature packs and cumulative fixes in WAS and Portal environments

Proficiency in building Websphere Application Servers in clustered environments

Exposure to creation of PMR by coordinating with IBM team

Have diagnosed problems caused in the applications through the log files and rectification by analysing the root cause and provided permanent fixes.

System Administrator

IBM India Pvt. Limited Visteon Automobiles / Standard Insurance, Chennai- India 2012-2007

Performed Regular health check, APAR's, and fixes pack installation for WebSphere application servers and IHS servers

Deployed applications in Non-Production and Production environments and have provided 24/7 application support

Provided support for Disaster Recovery and Patching activities

Responsible for creating Unix bash scripts for log rotation, Server reboots and Server health checks

System Support Engineer

Altosys Software and Technologies Ltd. Apollo Hospitals Ltd, Chennai- India 2007-2006

Provided Computer/Technical Support to all clients and proactively solve issues in LINUX/ Windows environment

Involved in Linux based Proxy server implementation with Content filtering and Real time virus scanning by using Squid, Dansguardian and Clamav.

Maintained DAT and HP Ultrium Tape Library for Backup and Restore By using Netvault 7.1.3 Set up a CVS environment for increasing an efficiency of version Control in Linux Managing VOIP and IPLC (UK) lines

Offered optimal resolution for the product and production bugs

Trainings Undergone

Google Cloud Platform.

Ansible Devops Automation.

Tools Devops – Jenkins/Git, grafana, prometheus.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Engineering 2004

Bharathidasan University, TamilNadu, India

(Equivalent to Bachelor’s degree in Canada as assessed by World Education Services)

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