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Nageswara Ravilla

Alpharetta,GA

Summary

Over 15+ years of experience in IT industry and inclusive experience with strong expertise in Middleware infrastructure, DevOps & Cloud. Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Testing, Change Management, Configuration management, Cloud Management, Deploy and DevSecOps Build/Release Management. Experience in administering and maintaining various DevSecOps related tools such as Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, Jfrog, Xray, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Docker, Kubernetes, Black duck, UCD, Selenium. Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) like VPCs, CloudTrail, Config, Systems Center, IAM, EB, EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, S3, Route 53, NAT Gateways, CloudWatch, Lambda. Experience in Oracle cloud infrastructure (OCI) like VCN, Compute, Networking, Storage, IAM, Monitoring and Database. Experience architecting applications for High Availability, Scale-out/Scale-up. Auto scaling, minimize/eliminate single points of failure(s), Service SLA Management etc. Developed an Azure-based high-performance compute environment to support the massive computational requirements of client congressional redistricting Azure application. Good understanding of the principle and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in agile, scrum and Waterfall methodologies. Used Kubernetes to provide a platform for automating deployment, scaling and operational containers across clusters of hosts and managed containerized applications using its nodes, config maps, selectors, and services. Experience in developing CI/CD system with Jenkins. Integrating different types of Tools like DATADOG, AppDynamics and Splunk for monitoring for AWS infrastructure. IBM Infosphere Master Data Management Installed and configuration on AIX and Linux environment. IBM WebSphere Suite administration (WAS, MQ, Liberty) experience in installation & configuration on multiple platforms, packaging & deployment of applications, migration, cluster management, Performance tuning, troubleshooting, security management, workload management and WSadmin scripting. Experience in IBM BPM v8.5/8.6 to BAW upgrade/Migration. IBM Infosphere Information server installation, configuration, administration and support. Automated tasks for WebSphere installations, upgrades, deployments, server restarts, configuration changes. Expertise in recommending/Providing Architectural solutions in defining/on-boarding new applications onto WebSphere Application Server, WebLogic Application Server & Web servers environments. Experience in Information development and Administration with On-prime data center and cloud. Experience in Oracle DBA for Application and User support with Oracle 12c, 19c and OCI Autonomous oracle database. Knowledge on Docker components like Docker Engine, Docker-Hub, Docker-Compose, Docker Registry, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. Experience in application Oracle DBA, troubleshooting SQL query optimization, DB restores, deployments. CI/CD for Oracle deployments, Data base schema setup for environments. Resourceful specialist offering expertise in problem solving, data analysis and customer service. Adept at quickly learning new technologies and processes for driving success. Proven track record of successfully managing multiple projects and developing innovative solutions.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

ITI Specialist (Solution Architect)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
09.2020 - 12.2022
  • Perform various development activities for DevOps practices for the project, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous testing, and continuous monitoring
  • Developing and promoting standard operating procedures and creating processes and tooling for operation efficiency
  • Integrate with IDCS, design and implement Oracle Cloud Infrastructure network using Internet gateway, DRG and fast connect and VPN)
  • Discovery & analysis, Assessment & target cloud readiness design, cloud migration planning and migration execution, manage services and CI/CD pipeline planning and execution
  • Provide technical support to databases, including system management, backup/recovery, account management, configuration management, and trouble calls
  • CI/CD pipeline setup for Oracle deployments and application deployments
  • Setup/Managing Linux Servers on Amazon (EC2, EBS, ELB, SSL, Security Groups, RDS and IAM)
  • Setup/Managing OCI Infrastructure and Planning & analysis Oracle database migration to OCI Autonomous oracle database.

Middleware Admin / Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Mercedes Benz, NJ/GA
05.2015 - 09.2020
  • Responsible for middleware servers Data center migrations plan, lift & shift and news server build
  • CI/CD pipeline design, plan, implementation, and support
  • Experience with automation technologies like Cloud Formation, Jenkins, ansible and Chef
  • Perform various development activities for DevOps practices for the project, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous testing, and continuous monitoring
  • Design continuous integration best practices for the development team using IBM Urban code deploy, Ansible, shell scripting, Jfrog, sonar, Checkmarks, Jira and Jenkins
  • Leverage Ansible playbook design for continuous new server procurement, Middleware and DevOps tools security patch automation and continuous delivery and maintain responsibility for configuration management for infrastructure as code
  • End-to-end WebSphere Application Server V8/7/6.1, IBM BPM v8.5/8.6 and BAW v19/20 installation/ Configurations/Deployments/Administration
  • IBM BPM to IBM BAW migrations
  • IBM Infosphere MDM v11.5/11.6 installation/configuration/Deployments and Administration
  • IBM Infosphere Information server (Engine-tier/service-tier/DataStage) v11.3/11.5/11.7 installation, configuration, upgrades, and Administration
  • On Premises Data Center migration (Lift and shift, new data center builds and migrating application to new data centers)
  • Integrated SSO/Security, Directory Server, various backend systems for the end-to-end transaction management with WebSphere Application server, WebSphere Process Server & Portal environments and delivered in on-time schedule
  • Co-ordinated various activities such as Firewall configurations with N/W team, Load-Balancing activities with Server Management team (F5), timely status meetings with Management & other teams in providing the regular status, Developer Teams in Portal build Management, DB activities with DBA team
  • Created WebSphere cells, Horizontal and Vertical clusters, and added new cluster members
  • Created JDBC Providers, Data sources, and JAAS authentication aliases to provide connectivity to Oracle, DB2 (UDB) databases
  • Migrated existing applications from WebSphere Application Server 6.x to 7.0/8.0 using WASPreUpgrade and WASPostUpgrade tools
  • IBM Liberty Application server installation, implementation and support
  • Responsible for middleware reports like servers inventory, patch status, OS version, install software's, applications, etc..

Sr. Consultant

Direct Line Group UK, (Capgemini India PVT LTD)
03.2014 - 04.2015
  • WebSphere & WebLogic end-to-end support, development, QA, and Pre-Production environments and deploy applications to Dev, QA, and Pre-Production
  • Informatica power center v9 installation, configuration, and administration
  • Provides technical assistance and mentoring to staff for developing conceptual and logical database design and the physical database
  • Perform administration of the Informatica Platform, including incident management and resolution and 24x7 on-call rotation
  • Establish best practices, processes and focus on continuous improvement
  • Innovative and creative person who has developed new approaches to developing infrastructure solutions
  • Performs Informatica capacity planning and management
  • SAS products installation, configuration on Middleware environment like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft IIS
  • Implemented Clustering, Performance tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • Configured and Enabled the Global Security System for WAS Administration for Console users and Console
  • Involved in Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server's, Clusters and deployed Multiple J2EE Applications.

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

TATA AIG, India
03.2010 - 03.2014
  • Involved in a migration project involving migration of WebSphere application server migrated some instances of WebSphere Application server 5.1 to 6.0.1 & 7.0
  • Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0 with JDBC drivers on AIX, Linux and Solaris and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP authentication
  • WAS-ND and verified installation, Profile creation, node federation, application installation and execution
  • Worked on WebSphere components such as Workload Management (WLM), Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool (thin client)
  • IBM BPM installation, configuration, and support
  • SAP Business Objects server installation, configuration, and Administration
  • Developed many shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere Environment and deployment of custom applications
  • Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources 4 and 5, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions
  • Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as 'Clustering of Multiple JVMs' with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs.

Middleware Administrator

Bajaj Finance Ltd, India
08.2007 - 09.2009
  • Performance Estimation and Tuning for the WebSphere Application Server system
  • Worked in building, configuring, and setting up Testing and Production Environments, tested, and supported the project according to Business Rules and specifications
  • 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
  • Involved in Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server's, Cluster's, and Deployed Multiple J2EE Applications
  • Administered, configured, tuned and Troubleshot WebSphere in a clustered environment on Aix
  • Interacted and Co-ordinate with different Application Groups for Hot Deployment and Dynamic Reloading of the Applications
  • Involved in Troubleshooting and resolving problems encountered when implementing models
  • Provided technical and production support for both online and batch environments of existing systems
  • Design, Develop and Test ETL Mappings, Mapplets, Workflows, Worklets using Informatica PowerCenter 9.x
  • Work in a fast-paced environment, under minimal supervision providing technical guidance to the team members
  • Working closely with Onshore and offshore application development leads
  • ETL Mappings, Mapplets, Workflows, Worklets using Informatica PowerCenter 9.x
  • Identify efficiencies and ways to improve design and development processes
  • Identify ways to increase efficiency of production support - Find solutions that allow operations to better do their job without involving development resource time.

System Engineer

CityOnlines Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India
08.2005 - 08.2007
  • Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting of Networking Equipment: Routers and Switches
  • Well understanding of Bridging and switching concepts and LAN technologies
  • Perform Troubleshooting end-to-end between the two sites
  • Provide training to staff at the customer location
  • Maintain documents of work perform during the day
  • Configure Terminal Servers for out-of-band management
  • Installation of WebSphere Application Server, IBM-HTTP server, IBM-Web sphere
  • Ear' file deployed on Web-Sphere Application Server
  • Maintenance for Middleware Applications
  • Health Check / Monitoring for Applications
  • Resolving daily routine calls.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Bharathidasan University
Tiruchurapalli
06.2003

Skills

  • Scripting: Python, Unix Shell scripting, Groovy, Ansible
  • Cloud services: AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloud Formation
  • Monitoring Tools: Nagios, CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Splunk
  • CI/CD Tools: GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, Jfrog, SonarQube, UCD
  • Management Tools: JIRA, Remedy, Service Now, Confluence, SharePoint
  • Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Liberty, Joss, Tomcat, WebLogic
  • Database: DB2, Oracle 12c,19c, MSSQL, MySQL, AWS Aurora
  • Log Analytics: Splunk, Grafana, Elastic Search, Prometheus
  • Webservers: IBM Http Servers, Apache Web Server, IIS, Nginx
  • ETLBI: Informatica Power Center, IBM Infosphere DataStage, IBM Infosphere Master data management, IBM PBM/BAW

Certification

• Certified for IBM Web Sphere Application Server V7.0-ND Administration.
• Certified AWS solution architect – Associate level
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Architect Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Cloud Operations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Database Migration and Integration 2021 Certified Specialist

• Microsoft Azure Administrator- AZ104

Timeline

ITI Specialist (Solution Architect)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
09.2020 - 12.2022

Middleware Admin / Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Mercedes Benz, NJ/GA
05.2015 - 09.2020

Sr. Consultant

Direct Line Group UK, (Capgemini India PVT LTD)
03.2014 - 04.2015

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

TATA AIG, India
03.2010 - 03.2014

Middleware Administrator

Bajaj Finance Ltd, India
08.2007 - 09.2009

System Engineer

CityOnlines Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India
08.2005 - 08.2007

Master of Science - Information Technology

Bharathidasan University

• Certified for IBM Web Sphere Application Server V7.0-ND Administration.
• Certified AWS solution architect – Associate level
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Architect Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Cloud Operations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Database Migration and Integration 2021 Certified Specialist

• Microsoft Azure Administrator- AZ104

Nageswara Ravilla