Manoj Thirumani

• Evaluated vendor proposals to identify the most cost-effective options while maintaining high-quality standards for materials and services.
• Analyzed data from completed projects to inform future decision-making strategies in design, planning, or process improvements efforts.
• Maintain, Managed and Supported new Customer Implementations
  Axway Developer managing the file transfers for internal and external systems throughout the company.
• Gather Requirements from Client and Vendors
• Update status to customer and seniors periodically if Ticket is owned by us.
• CA, SSL certs renewals. Auto-push/pull set-up failure.
• During Auto-push setup perform troubleshooting for firewall opened to vendor servers.
• Work with the vendor for major issues.
• Analyzing logs and troubleshooting - SSL handshake error/Big-IP level error and providing solution.
• Primary and secondary node synchronization issues.
• Develop Scripts for file transfer automation.
• Develop Connect Direct scripts (Windows/Unix) for end-end file transfer.
• Create Business Process Modules using both GPM and BPML and Wrapper that Utilize the Sterling Integrator adapters, Properties file and protocols to conduct file transfer between External and Internal Trading Partners.
• Configure PGP (Encryption and Decryption) for data security.
• Implementation and Configuration of a SI two node cluster as an Active/Active Pair, including configuring and conducting sI failover and failback recovery to a Disaster Recovery site.
• Configuring the different types of Sl server adapters and Connect Direct server adapter with Secure+ O Configure communication processes like FTP, FTPS, SFTP, AS2, HTTP, HTTPS, File System, MQ processes, services/adapters using Axway Secure Transport and Axway Edge Servers.
• On-boarding new trading partner and Implement PGP Encryption and Decryption for Data Security.
  • Axway SecureTransport (Window/Unix) installation and Configuration.
• Apply Patch and maintenance of Axway SecureTransport and Edge Servers.
• Monitor Business Process, Services and adapters, Perimeter servers in alerting systems and Mailing systems of Failures.
• Monitor File Transfer and reprocess failed file transfers.
• Configure HTTPS connection between Axway ST webclient and axway Control Center.

• Maintain, Managed and Supported new Customer Implementations
• Axway Developer managing the file transfers for internal and external systems throughout the company
• As Developer creating new accounts, transfer sites, users, passwords, credentials, certificates, file tracking, metrics
• Solving technical problems with in the application, troubleshooting the users/vendor accounts, rules, Perl scripts, AR's, transfer sites, Internal and External connections
• Migrated Application from On-Premises to Cloud environment Axway Secure Transport from 5.3.6 to ST 5.5
• Migrated all existing accounts, configuration, setup advance routing transfer in Non-Prod and then migrated the Prod environment
• Axway API managed skills on pulling the data from the datebase to API config
• Advanced Routing (Create Multiple transformation execution, renaming, deleting, routing to transfer sites & accounts, File Tracking integration, Email notifications, Post routing, post transformation, and post-processing actions, file encryption & encoding, compression & decompression) Created Proactive Monitoring and dash boarding to provide Business teams visibility of the logs and Transfer Details of the files from Internal and external on the Axway Sentinel
• Created failure files alerting into all data flows, file transfers, B2B transactions, SLAs, regulatory compliance, web services and APIs
• Completed new on-prem and Cloud Secure Transport deployments as well as major and minor upgrades to the ST environments
• Collaborating with business analysts and product owners to ensure understanding of business priorities
• Conducts knowledge transfer to other IT and business personnel
• Troubleshoots problems identified by users.
• Optimized system performance by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
• Established maintenance schedules for regular system checkups, enhancing overall stability and reliability.

• Plans, managed, implemented, and supported technical projects for on-premises and Cloud platform overall; ensures deliverables are committed, communicated clearly, and delivered on time
• Troubleshoot with customer to validate if there is any issue with authentication, end to end secure automated file transfer process using FTP, SFTP, Ftps between Windows,UNIX, Linux, and Mainframe servers, and provided production application support
• Collaborates with business analysts and product owners to ensure understanding of business priorities
• Ensured 100% of all project documentation was created and updated, including design, development, and deployment documentation
• Proactively monitors industry trends and identifies opportunities to implement new technologies
• Creates and executes required test scenarios/plans to ensure complete testing on all new and changed components in Non-Prod and implemented in Production
• Conducts knowledge transfer to other IT business personnel, Created Many Run books and provided training to the Operations team and transition the Level 1 and Level 2 tasks
• Troubleshoots problems identified by users
• Setup SMB, interface, and orchestrate new MFT setup where DevOps applications are heavily involved
• FTP/S, SSH public keys, PGP keys are used for authentication, encryption
• Management of end-to-end support processes and support governance of managed IT services
• Assist in performing monitoring, intervention, escalation, and communication of any issues having impact on any aspect of production environment
• Provide ongoing Prod support for Axway ST & CFT, advance routing, Axway Sentinel, and data monitoring
• Movement from AWS
• Adapting in agile methodologies and well-versed in applying DevOps/MLOps methods to the construction of ML and data science pipelines.

• Monitoring and Administration of VMware environment ESXi hosts running many VMs.
• Proactively Monitoring the VMware environment and Fixing issues by using Virtual Center alerts
• ESX/ESXi Patch Management by using VMware Update Manager.
• Virtual Machine Instance Creation and Deletion, Virtual Machine Resources Enhancement (CPU, RAM, Hard disk, NIC), Taking VM Snapshots and clones.
• Migrating VMs from one Data Store to another due to space issues.
• Installing and managing the ESX Server (ESXi4.X, ESXi5.X).
• Virtual machines operations- DRS, HA, Clone, Migrate, Snapshots.
• Experience in on boarding and Decommissioning of Servers, Creating & Configuring Virtual Machines according to Service Request.
• Middleware file transfer using: ETL, Message Broker, Gateway Interfacing, Axway ST 5.3, CFT, MFT, Oracle, Oracle Fusion, ESB, MySQL etc
• Worked on the error based on Axway Visibility/Sentinel Monitoring to resolve the issue
• New package installed, update and upgrade Axway product E.g
• Axway Tumbleweed Secure Transport or UAT/Prod data transfer
• Update, modify Autosys jobs as per business requirements
• Certificates renewed, keys generated and provided to customer as per requirements
• Created operational reporting, ad-hoc query and Data analysis, exploration, visualization, dashboards, and related middleware
• Scheduling Database Dumps and backups which run through automated scripts
• Work with firewalls, network support teams to resolve file transfer, Prod ticketing issue
• Worked with Axway APIs to integrate data movement, mapping, adding security policy, and integrate with other services
• Register, publish, establish other security APIs rules for external customer exposed by API gateway
• Monitoring application logs and WebSphere system logs
• Communicate effectively with all levels of management and business.

● System analysis, monitoring, and performance tuning for Windows 2008/2012R2 Servers, and creating Service Accounts to have Log on as a Batch and Service Jobs, Create and Link Exception policy to windows Application Servers

● Performed backup and restore operations of VMware host configuration, Virtual Machines backup, snapshots.

● Administering production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2008 R2/2012R2

● Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.

● Assisted with software and Hardware based Firewalls, Allow/Block ports, inbound/outbound TCP/UDP traffic, NAT, Remote Access VPN and site-to-site VPN, and configurations of Syslog.

● Installed Windows 2003, 2008, RHEL 5 and ESXi servers on UCS hardware.

● Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters, configuring FT for important VM's.

● Involved in troubleshooting the DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory as needed.

● Managed Active Directory and Operating System account management With NTFS permissions

● Upgrading of Windows server's service pack and security patch as per schedule

Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy.