Senior IBM WebSphere Administrator & DevOps Engineer
Resume:
Veera Brahmendra Reddy Lakku
******@*****.***
Authorized to work for any US Employee (US Citizen)
I worked for the Texas state government for 10 years as a contractor, starting from 2008 to 2017 with different vendors: IBM, Xerox, Atos
(I supported Txdot and TX DMV, HHSC,TCEQ,TEA,TPWD…)
AWS Certified, DevOps Certified, Java certified
* Over twenty years of IT experience in UNIX System / Network Administration. Includes 10+ years of strong experience in IBM Middleware & information management technologies, namely WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Tivoli, DB2 UDB, IBM-HTTP Server, IBM Rational suite of development tools,Red Hat (Open shift) and IBM Collaborative technologies (IBM Lotus Products) in a multiplatform environment.
* 14+ years of experience in setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x / 6.0 / 6.1 / 7.0 / 8.0 / 8.5 / 9.0 / 9.0.5, Network Deployment.
* Over 6+ years of WebSphere Portal Server V6.0 / 8.5.5 Administration.
* Day to day administration of the Development environment and Production and Test environment systems.
* Having great exposure with WebSphere Application Server v7.0,v8.0,v8.5.5,v9.0 in installation, configuration, troubleshooting, building a cell environment with the advanced features.
* Migrated J2EE applications from WebSphere 5.1 / 6.x to v7.0,v8.0,v8.5.5,v9.0 by documenting a detailed approach per environment.
* Experience in Installation and activation of portlets and portlet applications. Administer portal resources using XML Access and other command line tools and managed Portal clusters.
* Experience in integration of search, personalization and collaborative components with WebSphere Portal Server.
* Expertise in configuration of WPS 5.x / 6.x to utilize LDAP, DB2 as user registries and portal data storages.
* Experienced in configuring Service Integration Buses in WebSphere Application Server 6.0 / 6.1 / 7.0
* Experience in enterprise software monitoring tools like IBM ITCAM, BMC Patrol, Nagios, Wily IntroScope, Hobbit / Xymon and SevOne.
* Expertise in Administering IBM WAS 4.0.x / 5.x / 6.0 / 6.1 / 7.0 / 8.0 / 8.5.5 / 9.0 on various Operation Systems like AIX 5.x, RedHat Linux 2.x / 3.x / 4.x, Sun Solaris 7 / 8 / 9 Windows 2000 / 2003 Server.
* Extensive experience in optimizing performance of WebSphere Application server 5.0 / 5.1 / 6.0 using Workload Management..
* Configuration of Network Deployment for Centralized Management of Applications.
* Adept in configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, LDAP.
* Expertise in administering and maintaining both production and development environment.
* Experienced in administering IIS 5.x / 6.x WebServer on Windows 2000 / 2003 servers.
* Configured IIS with WebSphere Application Server 5.x / 6.x.
* Experience in Implementation of Security using Role based Administration (Monitor, Operator, Configurator and Administrator).
* Good experience in dealing with various Databases like DB2, Oracle, MySQL.
* Experienced in Performance tuning using the Resource Analyzer and Tivoli performance viewer.
* Expertise in Installing Upgrade Fix Packs and Migrating to newer versions.
* Good at troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer.
* Experience in Installing, Configuring and Administering Web Servers like IBM-HTTP Server1.3.2 / 6.0, Sun One Web Server, Apache, IIS.
* Working on various components of WebSphere such as Workload Management (WLM), WebSphere Administration, Configuration, Tuning, Clustering and troubleshooting WebSphere related problems.
* Problem Determination through the log files and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
* Experienced in creating IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report WebSphere Application Server problems.
* Possess excellent communication, analytical, and presentation skills with a strong aptitude towards learning new technologies.
* Expertise in trouble shooting involving Level I, Level II support roles and performing analysis using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
* Experience in problem tracing and websphere log file managements and implementing the workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering.
* Experienced in deploying J2EE components on IBM WebSphere application server 5.0 using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), Apache ANT.
* Migrated the existing applications from WebSphere 5.0 using waspreupgrade and waspostupgrade tools.
* Configured and Secured Web server interface, Session management, WebSphere resources, J2C resources, connection factories and JMS resources in IBM WebSphere 5.0.
* Experience in WebSphere cluster management including horizontal clusters, vertical clusters and creation of nodes.
* Build and Deployment, Environment Setup, Release, and ALM. Analyzes internal application build requirements, procedures, and problems for application system automation. Reviews existing application system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling and makes improvements based upon analysis of business or user requirements, procedures, business processes problems. Writes standard operating procedures. Assigns and/or coordinates tasks for quality assurance, application, infrastructure individuals/teams daily. Works under minimal supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
* Troubleshoot and resolve system incidents
* Provide hands-on support for Microsoft Windows server operating systems including scripting
* Lead the development, review and approval of standards and procedures, both operational and
functional related to middleware environments
* Excellent problem resolution and communication skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role. Knowledge in Administrator experienced with the administration of Jama Connect (Jama), Atlassian Jira (Jira), Tasktop
* Adaptive to team environment and has the capability of completing complex tasks independently
Work Experience
Sr. WebSphere Midrange Administrator with Dev-Ops
PNC Bank- PA December 2018 to December 2023
Responsibilities in PNC Bank:
* Supporting e-Business websites and providing the Development, Testing, Staging and Production environments to the new application development and implementation on IBM WAS Servers.
* Installed, configured, administrating and supporting WebSphere Application 9.0.5 / 9.0 / 8.5 / 7.0. IBM Liberty Profile.
* Supporting WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
* Tested and deployed portal applications on WebSphere Portal Server using portal toolkit.
* Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
* Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
* Install and configure SSL certificates of VeriSign / entrust for IBM-HTTP Server servers.
* Install and configure Jboss. Installing fix packs
* Creating Data Sources for different Databases like DB2, Oracle, SQL Server.
* Worked closely with Oracle / DB2 DBA to set up Databases for Process Server and
* Configuring HTTP Server Plugins and generating HTTP Plugins.
* IBM Redhat (open shift) and Docker technologies.
* Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using PMI (Performance Monitor & Infrastructure), TPV (Tivoli Performance Viewer) and log analyzer.
* Analyzing Java core, Heap dumps, native_stderror using IBM Support Assistant 4.1 tools IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for JAVA - Garbage Collection and Memory Visualizer, Memory Analyzer & Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for JAVA.
* Used Ansible, Python, Jython, UrbanCode and Shell for automation efforts.
* Building / Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, GitLab / GitHub, BitBucket (Git), Docker,
Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI / CD system to build, test deploy.
* Developed microservice on boarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services.
* Manage release, deployment and environment provisioning activities and in a continuous integration & delivery pipeline environment.
Create build and deployment plans. Creates builds for all environments. Coordinates and directs developers for build and release duties. Reports schedule and status to management.
Build and maintain a comprehensive plan to manage multiple threads of releases and deployment activities. Advanced verbal and written communication skills required daily to effectively work with variety of teams.
Troubleshoots and resolves complex software integration issues.
Develop tools and processes to improve and automate workflow.
Enhance and maintain automation tools. Use shell scripting ANT, MAVN, Perl, Python, JAVA and others to accomplish goals. Automates build processes where possible.
Administrator duties with coordinating activities in JIRA, Jira Service Management (Jira Service Desk),Confluence, Fisheye, Bamboo, and Jama.
Deploy WARs/EARs (backend) through Tomcat Application Server console.
Experience writing Shell scripts to automate the deployments
* Installed, configured, administrating and supporting Jboss 5.1 / 4.2.3, Tomcat 9.0 / 10.
Technologies:
Web Sphere Application server 9.0.5 / 9.0 / 8.5 / 7.0 / 6.1 / 5.1, WebSphere Portal Server 8.0, 7.0, IBM-HTTP Server / 8.0 / 8.5.5 / 9 / 0, Windows 2003 and UNIX (AIX / Solaris / Linux).Jboss 6.0,5.1,4.2, Tomcat 9.0 / 10.
WebSphere Midrange Administrator
Northwest Mutual -WI April 2018 to Dec 2018
Responsibilities in NW Mutual:
* Engineer middleware systems including IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DataPower, IBM WebSphere MQ, MuleSoft, Apache Web Servers and F5 load balancers.
* Investigate, identify and remediate bugs and issues with complex systems built on these platforms.
* Design highly available, scalable, and resilient solutions to meet business requirements.
* Develop processes to proactively monitor the performance of middleware environment.
* Identify gaps in monitoring coverage, determine how to remediate these gaps, and implement remediation plans.
* Develop and implement processes to optimize performance.
* Use ELK, Dynatrace for monitoring. And UrbanCode for Deployment.
* Play a key role in planning for future infrastructure, proposing new directions and technologies.
* Implemented and managed Dynatrace on business social critical desktop and mobile applications.
Technologies:
Web Sphere Application server 9.0 / 8.5 / 7.0 / 6.1 / 5.1, WebSphere Portal Server 8.0, 7.0, IBM-HTTP Server, Windows 2003 and UNIX (AIX / Solaris / Linux).Jboss 6.0,5.1,4.2
I worked for Texas state government for 10 years as a contractor from 2008 to 2017 with different vendors(IBM,Xerox,Atos, (Team for Texas)
WebSphere Midrange Administrator Jan 2008 to Oct 2017
Responsibilities in Atos:
* Supporting e-Business websites and provided the Development, Testing, Staging and Production environments to the new application development and implementation on IBM AIX Servers.
* Installed, configured, administrating and supporting WebSphere Application 9.0 / 8.5 / 7.0.
* Supporting WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
* Tested and deployed portal applications on WebSphere Portal Server using portal toolkit.
* Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
* Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
* Install and configure SSL certificates of VeriSign / entrust for IBM-HTTP Server servers.
* Install and configure Jboss. Installing fix packs
* Creating Data Sources for different Databases like DB2, Oracle, Sql Server.
* Worked closely with Oracle / DB2 DBA to set up Databases for Process Server and iLOG.
* Configuring HTTP Server Plugins and generating HTTP Plugins.
* Installing fix packs for IBM InfoSphere Analyser for Data Stage products.
* Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using PMI (Performance Monitor & Infrastructure), TPV (Tivoli Performance Viewer and log analyzer.
* Analyzing Java core, Heap dumps, native_stderror using IBM Support Assistant 4.1 tools IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for JAVA - Garbage Collection and Memory Visualizer, Memory Analyzer & Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for JAVA.
* Installed, configured, administrating and supporting Jboss 5.1 / 4.2.3
Technologies:
Web Sphere Application server 8.5 / 7.0 / 6.1 / 5.1, WebSphere Process Server 7.0 / 6.2 / 6.0, WebSphere Service Registry 7.0 / 6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 8.0, 7.0, iLOG 7.0 / 6.1, IBM-HTTP Server, Windows 2003 and UNIX (AIX / Solaris / Linux).Jboss 6.0,5.1,4.2
WebSphere / System Administrator
Cardinal Health - Chicago, IL December 2006 to December 2007
Responsibilities in Cardinal Health:
* Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines on Sun Solaris and Windows and also created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
* Installed and configured WebSphere Portal 5.0 / 5.1 in both full installation and custom installation modes (for 5.1)
* Involved in troubleshooting a memory leak in WebSphere Portal 5.1 due to the underlying WAS 5.1.1.3 and upgraded it to WAS 5.1.1.9.
* Upgraded WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.1 to WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.3
* Involved in providing on call support and Help Desk Services (Level I and Level II) in resolving outages for high availability applications.
* Worked on oracle packages, functions, and procedure
* Monitored, maintained and customized existing MQSeries objects such as Queue Mangers, Queues (local, remote, alias, and model), process definitions, channels, and listeners.
* Responsible for updating patches and installation of JDBC drivers and Servlet engines on Sun Solaris environment.
* Worked on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management (WLM), Servlet Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool (thin client).
* Developed many WebSphere Control Program (WSCP) scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
* Administration of active applications, application performance monitoring - recycling the application server including installation of plug-ins for IBM-HTTP and iPlanet Webserver.
* Worked on IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
* Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for Web and Application Servers.
* Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and JavaMail sessions.
Environment:
WebSphere 6.x, IHS Web Server, IBM Directory Server, Linux, Microsoft Outlook, WSAM, WSAD5.0, J2EE1.3,1.4, JSP1.2, Java 2.0, Oracle 10g, EJB2.0, UDB DB2 7.x and 8.x, JDBC 2.0, Putty, Remote Desktop, Tivoli, Load Director, JProbe, Clear case, and XMLSpy
WebSphere Administrator
American Express - Phoenix, AZ Jan 2005 to November 2006
Responsibilities in AMEX:
* Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 / 6.0, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines on Sun Solaris and AIX and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
* Involved in providing migration and integration support for J2EE applications in a high availability multi clustered environments (Development, Staging, QA, Production).
* Involved in providing on call support and Help Desk Services (Level I and Level II) in resolving outages for high availability applications.
* Performed Windows NT and UNIX Network System Administration, including adding NT and NIS domains, creating new users and groups with multi-levels of security, creating assign file attributes & permissions, defining network protocols, insuring TCP / IP and router connectivity.
* Used Tivoli Workload scheduler for Management Framework services, backing upon Tivoli environment.
* Involved in developing complex scripts to automate batch jobs including backup and disaster recovery operations using Korn, Bourne and C shells.
* Provided system administration and operational support for Sun Solaris and Linux systems.
* Responsible for updating patches and installation of JDBC drivers and Servlet engines on Sun Solaris environment.
* Worked on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management (WLM), Servlet Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool (thin client).
* Developed many WebSphere Control Program (WSCP) scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
* Configured the extranet Web Servers and intranet application servers using the firewalls between the Web Servers and application servers (DMZ model).
* Involved in assisting QA team in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server.
* Administration of active applications, application performance monitoring, and recycling the application server including installation of plug-ins for IBM-HTTP Server.
* Setup and configure network TCP / IP on UNIX (AIX, Linux, Solaris), including RPC connectivity for NFS.
* Created mount points for NFS Server shared file systems and mounted these directories on AIX Servers.
* Created and set up HACMP environment utilizing IP aliasing on multihomed UNIX (AIX) system insuring fail-over server capability for the mount points and file systems.
* Worked on IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
* Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for Web and Application Servers.
* Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and JavaMail sessions.
* Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called "Cloning of multiple JVMs" with independent JVMs (Java Virtual Machines), for each clone.
* Configuration of Disaster Recovery setup with Sun Server physically located in different buildings with FDDI link.
WebSphere Administrator
FedEx - Memphis, TN
January 2003 to December 2004
Trade Networks
Responsibilities in FedEx:
* Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 3.5 / 4.0 / 5.0and HTTP Web Server 1.3.12 server on Sun Solaris, Aix and Linux.
* Configured OSE and Thin Servlets Redirector for WebSphere.
* Log file was managed for troubleshooting and probable errors.
* Wrote Korn Shell scripts for the User account Management across the enterprise.
* Supported WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
* Used WebSphere Control Program (WSCP) to define, configure and manage database objects.
* Involved in configuration and setup of WebSphere Application Server security using LTPA and LDAP.
* Involved in packaging and deploying applications using WebSphere Application Assembly Tool (AAT), implementing and maintenance of Workload Management (WLM) using clustering / cloning.
* Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
* Configured iPlanet Webserver to work with WebSphere, deployed Servlet and JSP, EJB.
* Data Warehousing and System Backup using tar, cpio for local systems and Veritas NetBackup for enterprise wide backup and recovery and to centrally manage storage resources through a single console.
* Installation / administration of AIX, Linux, Solaris, and NT / 2000 Servers on a LAN, setting up optimal RAID levels (fault tolerance) for protected data storage in NAS environments. Install and configure DHCP, DNS (BIND, MS), web (Apache, IIS), mail (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), and file servers.
* Setup network printers and installed client / server applications. Define / setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services (NIS).
* Performing upgrades of OS and applications.
* Korn & C shell scripting, mainly for scheduling jobs (CRONTAB)
* Inventory management for Software and Hardware.
* Extensive configuration and integration experience including responsibilities like building the application, generating XML schemas, building & deploying EJBs.
* Provided On-call support and Pager support (24 / 7, 365 days) during off-hours on a rotation basis.
* Installed and configured IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing. Developed WebSphere backup scripts using WSCP and TCL.
* Implemented security using LTPA for Netscape LDAP Server.
* Configured Workload Management (WLM) using horizontal and vertical cloning.
System Administrator
General Electricals (GE), Cincinnati, OH June 2000 to December 2002
Responsibilities in General Electrics:
* Installing and configuring IBM Web Sphere, iPlanet, IBM-HTTP Servers on UNIX & Windows NT machines*
* Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts for WebSphere.
* Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
* Provided Level 2 support for System Integration and application flow in a production environment.
* Configured Veritas High Availability (HA) for monitoring applications to ensure high availability and for automatic failover capability.
* Created Volumes and File Systems with different layouts on Sparc Storage Arrays with Veritas Volume Manager.
* Configured and provided troubleshooting assistance for MQ Series middleware interfacing with the Legacy applications.
* Managed DNS and sent mail servers across the enterprise.
* Wrote Korn Shell scripts for the User Account Management across the enterprise.
* Worked with Helpdesk and Site techs in resolving critical issues.
* Managed PDC & BDC servers on the NT Domains and performed user administration.
* Involved in monitoring performance and tuning on application servers using various tools and utilities provided by the Application Server Vendors.
* Developed scripts to check system resources and monitor performance.
Programmer Integrated Data Systems LTD April 1998 to May1999
Responsibilities in Integrated Data Systems LTD:
* Designed and developed various JSP / Servlets based on reusable libraries for the presentation, business, and integration tiers using VisualAge for Java and the bundled WebSphere test environment.
* Best practices used in conjunction with J2EE patterns. Designed error-handling system. Also designed and wrote J2EE based application using Oracle and VisualAge for Java to quickly index, search, and generate reports on source code.
* Used JNDI to look up the Beans
* Implemented a 3-tier architecture with EJB Business Objects in the middle tier, interfacing their outside partners with JSP and converting their application servlet to JSP.
* Debugged WebSphere Application Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle.
* Analyzed and solved WebSphere Application Server defects.
* Performed analysis on customer's network environment to solve WebSphere performance problems.
Environment:
VisualAge for Java, EJB, JNDI, JDK 1.2, Servlets, JDBC, J2EE, Java Beans, JSP, XML, Oracle 8, IBM WebSphere App Server and Windows 2000
Education:
Bs in Electronics and communications (Computers) From Andhra University.
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