Balamurugan Muthuswamy

Professional Summary

About 14 years of IT experience on Middleware Wesbsphere, MQ and Openshift Administration.

Expertise in Installation, Configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance of IBM WebSphere, Jboss, WebLogic, Tomcat and Apache Webserver on different UNIX flavours and environments.

Installation, Configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance of IBM MQ and WMB, Weblogic on Linux, AIX and Solaris and environments.

Good Experience in Administration of Websphere Application Server including installation, configuration, troubleshooting and tuning.

Experience in Administration, installation, configuration and tuning for jboss application server.

Extensive experience in finding memory leaks and adjusting JVM heap sizes.

Experience in setting up multiple Domains, Including Machines, Managed Servers, Node managers across clustered webspehere environments.

Deployed various WAR, Jar, EAR and RAR applications in clustered environment using Admin console, Shell Scripts and wsadmin scripts for WebSphere application server.

Monitored server resources using splunk, datadog, Appdynamics, Grafana, Kibana, Elk monitoring tools.

Good understanding and working experience on architecture of LTM, and GTM load balancers.

Design and implement scalable enterprise monitoring systems by applying continuous integration. Perform maintenance and troubleshooting of our enterprise Redhat Openshift systems. Work to continuously improve speed, efficiency and scalability of Openshift systems.

Automation of Openshift operations using Jenkins as orchestration tool.

Creating Jenkins jobs for automation of Devops tools.

Good experience in creating dashboards and alerts to monitor the server logs on Splunk tool.

Complete documentations on activities performed or issues resolved for future references.

Proven technical skills in troubleshooting Performance Tuning and performance monitoring on wesbsphere and weblogic servers.

Provided on call support for development and production teams.

Extensive usage of verbose GC for jvm monitoring in performance tuning.

Having good understanding on Garbage Collection and performance tuning.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Oxford Engineering College, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India, Year of Passing – 2003.

Technical Skills:

Application Server: IBM WAS 7x,8x, Jboss 6x 7x, Weblogic 9.x, IBM Websphere MQ 6.x/7.1, IBM Websphere Message Broker 7.x/8.x, Jboss, Openshift 4.8, 4.11

Web Servers: IBM http Server, Apache.

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Solaris, Aix

Tools: Splunk, Kibana, Elk, Datadog, F5 load balancer, Splunk, Devops, Appdynamics

Devops Tools: Jenkins, Openshift

Scripting Languages: Bash/Shell Scripting

Career Profile

Since August 2010 - Present Tata Consultancy Services

Title System Administrator at UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

Period since Aug 2010

Client Name UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)

Position System Administrator

Responsibilities

To maintain the entire applications of United Services Automobile Association (USAA) hosted using WebSphere located in the Availability Command Centre (ACC)

Project

Administration and maintenance support primarily for WebSphere application server and related products in a fast-paced production environment.

Provide L3 support and implement WAS/MQ/jboss Solution/Openshift break fix to production issues and ensure quicker Return to Service (RTS).

Implement IT Infrastructure with high availability.

Participate in all major incident calls and production/test issues representing WAPS team.

Monitoring, tracking, analysing and tuning of the WebSphere environment.

Supporting and performing uninterrupted WAS upgrades including version upgrades and fix pack installations as required.

Supporting and Troubleshooting WAS 7 and WAS 8 along with MQ across production environment along with jboss .

Work with established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to Web App Platform Services.

Identifying and Providing WAS/MQ High Availability, end to end redundancy and load balancing thus providing maximum system availability and uptime for our WebSphere environments.

Design and implement scalable enterprise monitoring systems by applying continuous integration. Perform maintenance and troubleshooting of our enterprise Redhat Openshift systems. Work to continuously improve speed, efficiency and scalability of Openshift systems.

Automation of Openshift operations using Jenkins as orchestration tool.

Work on Horizontal and Vertical clustering methods providing fail over, effective load balancing and efficiently utilize system resources.

Created automated scritps and Debug enable disable, health status of the cluster members o websphere application server using wsadmin

Configuring resources like JDBC provider, JNDI configuration and configuring session management

Troubleshooting applied by setting logging and tracing using log detail level

Complete support for teams live release.

Openshift Coordination with teams for patching and upgrade activities

Creating namespace or openshift projects

Providing required access to users for projects

Worked on creating OpenShift templates for automating the build and deploy process

Deploy applications using deployment configs and deployments on openshift pods

Assisting dev teams for fixing day to day problems of applications on 24/7 schedule.

Environment

Hardware HPBL460CG6 / HPBL460CG7

Operating System UNIX (Sun Solaris/IBM-AIX), Linux, Windows XP

Languages JACL, JYTHON, Java, Shell scripting

Special Software GOMEZ, SPLUNK, PUTTY, JIRA, DB2UDB, DB2 Mainframe, Kibana, ELk

San Antonio Texas, USA

2008 to 2010 TCS through Six Sigma Consultancy

Title WebSphere Administrator and Weblogic deployer

Period Oct 2008 –Aug 2010

Client Name USAA

Position Software Engineer

Responsibilities Websphere Administrator, Weblogic Deployer

Project Proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of WebSphere applications and performing Weblogic deployments after ensuring the correctness of data.

Carried out the following activities:

Providing Release and Deployment Management (RDM) services. Releases are deployed into production and other environments and establish effective use of the release contents in order to deliver value to the customer and be able to handover to service operations

Modify the scripts for ASD scripting and double check for corrections in ASDMap and deploy files ensuring successful deployment.

Hardware HPBL460CG6 / HPBL460CG7

Operating System Windows, AIX,Linux,solaris

Languages Java/J2EE

Special Software Starteam, Automated Software Deployment Tool.

Chennai, India

2007-08 Wipro technologies Through Synergy

Title Server Administration

Period Feb 2007 - Sep 2008

Client Name Hrweb - Wipro

Position Associate Software Engineer

Responsibilities Monitoring the performance of servers

The work involved:

Running daily health scripts across multiple environments Take ownership for the monitoring and communicate to relevant stakeholders on server performance to pre-empt failure and ensure immediate action.

Discuss and analyze requirements, do impact analysis where required,

2003 -07 Iwave Embedding Systems

Period Dec 2003 - Feb 2007

Client Name Iwave

Position Associate software Engineer

Responsibilities Monitoring the performance of servers

System administration and server admin for Linux and Solaris platform.DNS, and Network support.

Training Conducted

Year

Title

Presented to

Location

Organised by

2018

2011

WAPS Transition

ACC Monitoring

Nearshore Team

Team members

Mexico

Chennai

TCS

TCS

2012

Websphere MQ

Team members

Chennai

TCS

Training Attended

Year

Title

Location

Organised by

2012

Websphere Message Broker

Chennai

Tata Consultancy Services

2010

2011

ITIL

Service Manager

Chennai

Chennai

Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services

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