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VENKATESWARA RAO PEMMASANI CHOWDARY

Irving,TX

Summary

Around 14 years of experience in Building/Provisioning the Infrastructure, Supporting the Infrastructure and Maintain the Infrastructure, and 9+ years of Middleware/Linux Engineer and administrator. experienced in WebSphere, WebSphere Liberty, WebLogic, Tomcat, Jboss,Jboss-Wildfly and Apache,IIS,Linux providing support for development, testing, Staging and production environments. Experienced and expertise knowledge in Banking/Insurance/Federal domains. Support life cycle environments SDLC/agile/CICD including development, QA, staging and Production. AWS Certified and Expertise in AWS, implementing new AWS Cloud platform and its services: EC2,Elastic Container Service, EKS(Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service), Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, S3,Glacier, RDS, EBS, VPC, ELB, Route 53, AWS Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Security Groups, Simple Notification Service, PostgreSQL, Simple Queue Service and IAM. Experienced in Scrum and agile framework. Deployed Kafka-based application process with data streams, this could involved writing Kafka producers and consumers, configuring data processing logic, and integrating with other systems or services. Experienced Monitor, tuning and troubleshooting DataPower issues. Experienced configure nginx as load balancer to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers, and it helps to ensure that no single server is overloaded and that requests are handled quickly and efficiently. Experienced and responsible for troubleshooting and resolving issues related to Splunk deployments, including performance issues, data ingestion issues, and data quality issues Experienced and monitoring the performance of applications and infrastructure using Dynatrace and identifying and diagnosing any issues that arise. Experienced DNS-related issues, such as server failures, connectivity problems, and DNS cache poisoning attacks. VXLAN identifying and resolving network issues, such as connectivity problems, performance degradation, and security breaches Analyzing data and creating Actimize reports to identify potential fraud or financial crime activity. Expertise in designing build process, Software Product Development, Process Automation, Build & Release Management with Continuous Integration (CI) Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CD), Source Code repository(Github) & Environment management, Change/Incident Management and Cloud Management. Configured JDBC connections, JMS server, JTA, JNDI, SNMP and Node Manager to administer the Managed Servers in WebLogic, WebSphere. Jboss and apache Tomcat Application Servers. Experienced in Setting up High availability clusters for WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker servers using HACMP, VERITAS and MSCS Experienced participate in the movement of the workload off legacy systems and onto Sterling File Gateway. Experience in writing Bash Shell Scripts, Crontab Scripting for automated recycle of WebSphere MQ and Broker servers and day to day tasks. Support life cycle environments including development, QA, staging and production. Very good knowledge of SQL and experience with writing complex SQL on PostgreSQL Experience working on DevOps tools Jenkins, OpenShift and Git. Experienced using Udeploy for deploying the application/adding the new application on Dev/Uat/Prod environments. Experience in installing Web Agent Option for SAML application servers and Web Agent for configuring the Federated Security Services and Web services for Assertion generation and user identity between the partner sites Building and maintaining systems in Windows Azure for development and production systems. This applies to standard VMs as well as other Azure services. Good knowledge of Nginx, bird, network interfaces Experience working with log monitoring tools syslog and ELK Stack (Elastic search, Logstash, Kibana), also used Cloud Watch, Nagios and Splunk for monitoring. Experienced Configuring Nodes, Users and Proxies, translation tables in Connect Direct for Windows, UNIX, and Mainframes Experience in engineering and supporting large scale shared applications server farms. Experienced in Disaster Recovery exercise (DR test) and Data center Migration Handled and leading Migration Projects form Solaris, AIX to Redhat Linux. Scripting done in administrative and management tasks using shell, Bash, Python for automated administrative jobs and experience on Bourne, Ruby, Perl and C-shell. JMS Configurations– JMS Server, Connection Factory, Foreign JMS server, Message Bridge, Topic/Queue, Distributed destinations. Experienced with IBM ODM, ILOG JRules or any other Rule Engine preferred. Experience with SiteScope, AppDynamics,Dynatrace,Datadog, OEM, Geneos and Splunk tools to monitor applications, logs and FS calls. Experienced of IBM mainframe Operating systems z/OS, OS/400 with configuration of Websphere, WebSphere Liberty application servers. Experienced WebSphere Application Server z/OS Installation, Configuration, Support and Troubleshooting. Hands on experience on Ticketing tools ServiceNow, IBM ClearQuest, HP Service Desk, HP Service Manager 7, HP Service Center and HP Prisma Experienced integrating IAM components with directory services including OUD, MS Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Ping Federate and Tivoli. Experienced Secure File transfer(FTP) setup in Windows and used tools SmartFTP, WinScp,CuteFTP. Coordination of all system management activities including software upgrades, capacity planning, and performance monitoring and tuning. Networking communication skills and protocols such as TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, LDAP, DHCP, FTP,NTP and SMTP. Proficient in Shell scripting and performance tuning of UNIX systems. Involved in writing shell scripts, Perl, JACL, Jython and ANT for automating monitoring process. Provided Autosys/Control-M and batch scheduling job automation expertise.

Professional and prepared Application Support Specialist with strong focus on delivering effective solutions and ensuring optimal system performance. Experienced in troubleshooting, system administration, and user support. Known for fostering team collaboration and adapting to evolving needs. Reliable and results-driven with expertise in technical problem-solving and customer service.

Experienced with troubleshooting software issues and ensuring optimal system performance. Utilizes technical skills to provide efficient and effective support. Knowledge of collaborating with teams to achieve seamless application functionality and user satisfaction.

Application support professional with strong foundation in technical troubleshooting and system optimization. Known for delivering high-quality support and resolving complex software issues efficiently. Collaborative team player with keen focus on achieving results and adapting to changing requirements. Skilled in problem-solving and effective communication.

Strategic Application Support Engineer with [Number] years troubleshooting and resolving application issues and performance deficiencies. Skillful at supporting wide-ranging spectrum of desktop and mobile applications. Keen to educate customers on proper app usage and correct problematic behaviors in assigned software titles.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Middleware/Application Support Engineer

Citibank
07.2023 - Current
  • Installation, configuration, migration, patching, upgrades, Security, and administration of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Liberty, JBOSS EAP, Apache Tomcat, IBM DataPower, IBM ODM, IBM MQ, Windows on Platforms of Red hat Linux, IBM AIX, Windows OS and Deployment of Web and Enterprise applications onto JVMs.
  • Amazon Web Services infrastructure resources management of IAM, VPC, Computes, CloudFront, S3 buckets, Storage, Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, App Integration services.
  • Configured various performance metrics using AWS Cloud watch & Cloud Trial
  • Building docker images using Docker file, hosting web servers on containers.
  • Created Azure PowerShell script for APIM backup and restore operations.
  • Install, configure and administration of IBM HTTP Server, Apache HTTP Server, IIS Servers.
  • Design and document Automation strategies. Develop and test modules using automation development tools like Puppet using puppet development Kit, Ansible Playbooks, Ansible Tower to create workflows to provision. Flagstar infrastructure components on demand and requirement.
  • Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
  • Experience in POCs, building & deploying applications on infrastructures of Apache, Websphere, WebSphere Liberty & JBOSS.
  • Configuring and customizing Actimize solutions
  • Worked closely with network teams, security teams to ensure that DNS is integrated with other systems and services.
  • Experienced with Splunk queries that allow users to analyze large datasets and generate actionable insights.
  • Implementing and supporting Middleware systems enhancements and Application Code Release Changes, package management, Troubleshooting and Analysis.
  • Managing IBM DataPower for Webservices, Transformation, Security Policies, Multi-Protocol Gateway, XML Firewall.
  • Prepared the documentation related to the Dynatrace system, including system configuration, troubleshooting procedures, and best practices.
  • Implemented XA on MQ queue manager configured MB to use external databases like Oracle and DB2.
  • Monitoring WebSphere Logs, Server Performance, configuring resources, clustering, Security management. & OS level Repositories and Custom registry.
  • Environment:- IBM Websphere, IBM MQ, IBM DataPower, Weblogic, Tomcat, Jboss, Redhat Linux 6.x/7.x, IBM AIX, Solaris Udeploy, AppDynamis, Splunk, nginx, Dynatrace, kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, Jira, GIT, Rundek, Ansible, puppet, nginx, Peoplesoft, Cognos, LAN, VXLAN, Actimize

Sr. Middleware/Application Support Engineer

Huntington
10.2020 - 06.2023
  • Installation, configuration, migration, patching, upgrades, Security, and administration of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Liberty, JBOSS EAP, Apache Tomcat, IBM DataPower, IBM ODM, Windows on Platforms of Red hat Linux, IBM AIX, Z/OS (Mainframe Systems), Windows OS and Deployment of Web and Enterprise applications onto JVMs.
  • Maintained the Openshift/Kubernetes Cluster,Nodes,Namespaces,Deployments and PODS.
  • Maintained the replicas in POD.
  • Supporting to Devops and Application and Platform Teams.
  • Maintaining the Images of Middleware infrastructure.
  • Configure AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Auditing) in DataPower
  • Supporting 24X7 environment and Paricipated Oncall rotation.
  • Configured JMS applications to connect to MQ by creating bindings files
  • Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
  • Configured as Nginx as a reverse proxy, forwarding requests from clients to backend servers. This can help to protect the backend servers from direct access and provide an extra layer of security.
  • Setup MQ and Message Broker Pub/Sub environments
  • Worked with OpenShift platform in managing Docker containers and Kubernetes Clusters.
  • Implemented cloud services IAAS, PAAS , and SaaS which include Openstack , Docker and Openshift Familiar with all major PaaS platforms such as Google App Engine, OpenShift, Cloud foundry, CloudBees, etc.
  • Involved working with a PaaS solution such as RedHat Openshift.
  • Streamlined installation of OpenShift on partner cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Azure.
  • Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker-registries and Kubernetes.
  • Conducting regular audits of the Actimize system to ensure that it is functioning correctly and efficiently.
  • Expirenced configure Kafka based on the requirements of application. This includes setting up topics to store data streams, configuring security settings, and tuning performance settings.
  • Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm, and Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes deployment and service files and managed releases of Helm packages.
  • Developed shell scripts to automate day to day activities.
  • Responsible for installing WebSphere,Jboss fix packs and WebLogic 11g and 12c quarterly patches.
  • Creating CSR, Installation of SSL certificates on Tomcat and Apache Web Servers
  • Responsible for designing architecture diagrams for any new WAS / Weblogic and Tomcat environments
  • Implementing SSL between Apache and Tomcat.
  • SSL/TLS security certificates – Self signed and CA signed, Authentication procedures in Connect Direct.
  • Integrating Apache with Tomcat using mod_jk and mod_cluster
  • Integrated WebSphere Application Server with WMQ
  • Integrated to IBM ODM/WODM/ILOG/JRules table.
  • Creating pools in BigIP, enabling / disabling pools / servers
  • Configuring Clusters, Servers, Resources and Deploying Applications through scripts
  • Enabling Global Security
  • Responsible for handling critical Incidents, requests, implementing changes, solving problems, and providing RCA’s in case required.
  • Setup remote administration of all the MQ Queue managers.
  • Knowledge of application servers such as nginx, Apache and/or Apache Tomcat configuration and troubleshooting.
  • Responsible for Apache Webserver installation, reverse proxy, Load balancer configuration and integration with Tomcat using mod_jk and mod_cluster plugin modules
  • Environment:- AWS,Azure,Nexus,UCD,Splunk,Dynatrace,ServiceNow,C#Jira-Confluence,Tomcat,IBM Websphere, Jboss,IBM MQ,IBM IIB,IBM Cloud,IBM ODM, Jboss,RunDek,Kafka,RedHat Linux, MacOS,Nginx,Bamboo, Actimize Rundek,Venafi,Git, Jenkins,IBM Openshift,Kubernetes,Docker,Helm, nginx,Peoplesoft, Cognos, LAN,VXLAN

Sr. Middleware/Application Support Engineer

Wells Fargo
07.2019 - 09.2020
  • Installed, configured, and administered WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Jboss,IIS and Apache instances using BladeLogic automation tool on-prem and AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Developed shell scripts to automate day to day activitie.
  • Experience in Cloud Governance,provision and auditing of cloud infrastructure.
  • Provided 24
  • 7 middleware support to applications in the organization, worked on shifts.
  • Troubleshooting DataPower issues and providing solution to customer .
  • Experience Infrastructure support in Windows/Linux environments
  • Supported brownfield migration which was carried throughout the infrastructure to migrate the on-prem VMs to AWS datacenter.
  • AWS Certified and Expertise in AWS, implementing new AWS Cloud platform and its services: EC2,Elastic Container Service, EKS(Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service), Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, S3,Glacier, RDS, EBS, VPC, ELB, Route 53, AWS Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Security Groups, Simple Notification Service, Simple Queue Service and IAM.
  • Create Puppet manifests and modules to automate system operations. Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using cloud watch.
  • Working with Actimize requires a deep understanding of financial crime prevention and a high level of technical expertise to effectively analyze data and use the tools provided by Actimize.
  • Managed docker pods on OpenShift platform.
  • Supported of Applications running in Weblogic, JBOSS and Tomcat and Participated in the on-call rotation for 24x7 production support.
  • Install Kafka on your deployment environment, and involves installing the Kafka broker, which manages data streams, as well as the Kafka producer and consumer libraries.
  • Experienced with IBM ODM 8.X version with WebSphere Application Server.
  • Experience in relational database (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle).
  • Used GIT and Jenkins to automate deployments for continuous integration to deploy the applications on the application servers.
  • Experience in FTP/SFTP protocols.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus and Jenkins Pipeline (Groovy).
  • Developed with Ansible playbooks for monthly patching activities.
  • Responsible for installing WebSphere,Jboss fix packs and WebLogic 11g and 12c quarterly patches.
  • Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing an automation solution. Used Jenkins for automating Builds and Automating Deployments.
  • Environment:- Weblogic 11g,12c, WebSphere Application Server 8.x, Tomcat 8.x, Webseal,Apache 2.4.x, BladeLogic, AWS, Openshift OCP, Jenkins, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Liberty,GIT, Github,TAM, Sun JDK, IBM DataPower, WLST, F5, CA Wily Interscope,Linux, SQL,IBM ODM,Jboss,Nginx, Dynatrace, Windows,Splunk,Jira/confluence, Actimize, Geneos,Kafka,AppDynamics, AIX,Perl, LDAP, Nagios,IBM Connect Direct, Solaris 10/11, Anthill, J2EE, XML, Oracle 12c, PostgreSQL, Terraform,.Net,ServiceNow, Shell scripting.

Sr. Middleware / Application Support Engineer

Fannie Mae
07.2017 - 06.2019
  • Experience and Performed Disaster Recovery exercise and collected the information from application stakeholders, and documentation for each task, and Schedule the applications based on priority, worked with networking team to setup LTM/GTM traffic on F5 Load balancer level.
  • Performed Datacenter Migration Reston to Uraban,MD to in Single Family,Multifamily, Capital Market applications.
  • Experience in Cloud Governance,provision and auditing of cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience Infrastructure support in Windows/Linux environments
  • Experience PostgreSQL on multiple Linux distributions (e.g. Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS)
  • In depth knowledge of PostgreSQL internals.
  • Experienced integrating and onboarding applications (Oracle WebLogic, SOA/BPM, Custom Java/.Net Applications, etc.) with OIAM Suite
  • Skilled in monitoring servers using Nagios, Cloud watch and using ELK Stack Elasticsearc Fluent Kibana.
  • Expertise in configuring the monitoring and alerting tools according to the requirement like AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Dynatrace, Nagios, Splunk Enterprise, SNMP monitoring for the VPN connections.
  • Responsible for installation, configuration, and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server V 8.0/8.5 Network Deployment,Jboss, WebLogic 12c and Tomcat 8.x.x, Apache 2.x.x .
  • Deployed applications in WAR, JAR and EAR formats in Domain and Clustered environments of WebSphere Application Server.
  • Experienced participate in the movement of the workload off legacy systems and onto Sterling File Gateway.
  • Scheduled and automating Connect Direct transfers.
  • Scheduled the Linux Cron jobs and Jenkins jobs for build automation. Developed Perl and shell scripts for automation of the build and release process.
  • Analyzing ServiceNow/Jira incidents and problem tickets, preparing RCA and providing recommendations
  • Created JMS, JNDI, and JDBC Configuration for WebSphere Commerce Application servers, build and deployments of applications.
  • Design and develop rules and event solutions using IBM ODM (Operational Decision Management), iLog, JRules, BRMS.
  • Encryption/Decryption of FTP files.
  • Created and executed database queries (SQL) and support to be provided on AWS systems.
  • Configured WebSphere MQ to communicate with WebSphere, WebLogic Servers using MQSC scripts to create Queues, Topics, Queue Managers, and other objects for MQ
  • Monitoring application log files, Server Performance, and tuning for DB Pool connections.
  • Provided 24x7 on-call support for production environments.
  • Writing various posting scripts for log rotation, log analysis.
  • Involved in performance tuning of JVM and used Garbage Collection Algorithms for better performance.
  • Created cron jobs and shell scripts to take regular thread dumps and log rotations.
  • Deployed the applications on multiple WebSphere Server, WebSphere Liberty and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
  • Worked on Tuning the Application Server, Applications and WebServers by changing the Heap Size parameters and tuning JVM’s Garbage Collector.
  • Setup API’s for the applications to talk to MQ
  • Handled Server Hang, Deadlock, Application-level lock, Database level lock by taking thread dump and analyze to get the root cause for the hang.
  • Significant Knowledge of F5 Load Balancer with Web servers to provide scalability and reliability.
  • Worked Load Balancers team to configure BIG IP F5 Load Balancers, VIP and integrated with Apache web server.
  • Created SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and implementation for the communication between web server and the Application Server.
  • Provided active support for Load/Stress Testing, Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning.
  • Writing UNIX shell scripts (start & stop) for web application server administration.
  • Scheduled CronTab scripts for timely running jobs and provide server status.
  • Responsible for day-to-day user support of applications, trouble ticket resolution, system maintenance, monitoring, and scheduling of batch jobs in AutoSys/Control-M and uc4.
  • Worked with AIX,Linux, Unix, and Windows Autosys/Control-M and uc4 environments.
  • Created users, roles and assigned them to appropriate groups.
  • Performed Disaster Recovery by replicating server components from Prod to DR container and brought applications from DR Container.
  • Environment:- Weblogic 11g,12c, WebSphere Application Server 8.x, Tomcat 8.x, Webseal,Apache 2.4.x, BladeLogic, AWS, Openshift OCP, Jenkins, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Liberty,GIT, Github,TAM, Sun JDK, IBM DataPower, WLST, F5, CA Wily Interscope,Linux, SQL,IBM ODM,Jboss,Nginx, Dynatrace, Windows,Splunk,Jira/confluence, Actimize, Geneos,Kafka,AppDynamics, AIX,Perl, LDAP, Nagios,IBM Connect Direct, Solaris 10/11, Anthill, J2EE, XML, Oracle 12c, PostgreSQL, Terraform,.Net,ServiceNow, Shell scripting.

Middleware/Prod Support Engineer

Cigna Health
08.2014 - 06.2017
  • Websphere, Weblogic server 12c, 11g, Tomcat 8.x,administration for the environment like DEV, UAT, PRE PROD and PROD.
  • Configure and build new environment.
  • Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 6.0/6.1 and configured two-way ssl between IHS and WAS.
  • Applied Fix packs, IFixes and Refresh Packs as needed for BPM and WebLogic Application Server.
  • Deployed applications and configured various settings like mapping of modules to targets, mapping of NT groups to security roles, JDBC/EJB resource references and shared libraries etc.
  • Configured various JVM settings like heap size, nursery size, JVM arguments, custom properties, verbosegc, monitoring policy etc.
  • Configured autostop/autostart of all middleware services/processes when machines are rebooted following patching.
  • Maintained build related scripts developed Maven builds by shell. Created/modified build configuration files including POM.xml.
  • Experience in SQL, able to write SQL queries, Joins / Views.
  • Install and set up MQ environment including creating and clustering Queue Managers, Queues, and MQ Channels on Windows, AIX/UNIX platforms
  • Experienced the successful technical operations of the enterprise Managed File Transfer platforms – notably leading level one and level two production support efforts
  • Configure and build new environment for AIM setup, pushing the perl and bash scripts to target server.
  • Created and Configured Data Sources for database connectivity and JMS.
  • Worked on the HP Service Manager ticketing tool for the P1/P2 issues.
  • Involved in Upgrade and configuration of Fusion middleware product SOA.
  • Developed and modified the Shell, Power shell and Perl scripts to automate the application deployment on the target servers.
  • Performed the Scripts deployment on the several environments like Dev, QA, UAT, PROD and DR.
  • Performed the automated application deployment using the AIM tool.
  • Worked on the version controllers like SVN.
  • Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing an automation solution.
  • Used Jenkins for automating Builds and Automating Deployments.
  • Created various number of jobs to start, stop, restart and to automate the application deployment on the target server.
  • Scheduling batch Jobs in AutoSys and UC4 as per the request.
  • Created the jobs to see the health check of a server without logging on to the server remotely.
  • Deployed the J2EE application in the form of ear, war, jar etc. when required.
  • Performance tuning of JVM heap size, garbage collections and production performance.
  • Performed the patch updates for Scripts.
  • Environment:- IBM Websphere, Weblogic 11g,12c, Oracle AIM tool,tomcat,jboss, IBM DataPower, WebSphere Commerce,ARM tool,Websphere8.5,Tomcat,IIS HPUX/Linux/Solaris, Windows,Splunk, .Net, Java, JSP,EJB 2.0,SQL, Javascript,Windows, Nagios, Servlets, Shell scripting, perl script, Python, powershell

Middleware/Infrastructure support

UST Global
09.2010 - 07.2014
  • Installed and configure Weblogic,WebSphere, and Apache Tomcat,Jboss, Apache, IIS and other J2EE software products and fixes on Linux/Windows/Unix platforms.
  • Managing and Monitoring the JVM Performance by adjusting Weblogic heap size and garbage collection parameters.
  • Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Service Integration Bus Configuration, Message Activations, Destinations, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management, clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration, Network Deployment.
  • Configuration in WebSphere6.1 and WebSphere7.x on Sun Solaris, Windows and Linux Server environments.
  • Used Work Managers to dispatch policy for EJB and web applications.
  • Installed, configured, and propagated IBM HTTP server and its Plugins for managed and unmanaged nodes.
  • Fine Tuned the JDBC Connection Pools Initial and Maximum Capacity to the same value in production systems to avoid creating new connections on the fly during load spikes.
  • Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
  • Well experienced in creating and renewing SSL Certificates using Open SSL and Java keytool.
  • Monitor the WebLogic Execute Queues, JMS Queues.
  • Configured SM Web agents for the Oracle LDAP Policy Server.
  • Used Wily Introscope monitoring application tool to detect and respond to problems before an end user is even aware that a problem exists.
  • Well experienced in creating and renewing SSL Certificates using openSSL and Java keytool.
  • Created cron jobs and shell scripts to take regular thread dumps and log rotations.
  • Involved with troubleshooting the Applications to detect and eliminate the Memory Leaks.
  • Writing UNIX shell scripts (start & stop) for web application server administration.
  • Synchronized the nodes whenever there are configuration miss matches.
  • Worked with Application teams in changing the Connection pool settings.
  • Conducting Pre & Post checks of the applications involved in patching.
  • Creating new file system, permitting user to mount file system, monitoring free space, disk usage, locating files, checking & clearing log files, administration, and monitoring of disk-based file system.
  • Provided 24x7 on-call support for production/non-production environments.
  • Environment:- Weblogic 10, WebSphere 6.x/7.x,IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0, WLST, F5, IBM DataPower, Wily Introscope 7.x, ANT, Perl, Solaris 10, Nagios, Linux, Windows 2008, Apache 2.2, J2EE, XML,SQL,Oracle 10g/11g, Shell scripting.

System administrator

IBM India Private Ltd
09.2009 - 09.2010
  • Involved with troubleshooting the Applications to detect and eliminate the Memory Leaks.
  • Writing UNIX shell scripts (start & stop) for web application server administration.
  • Conducting Pre & Post checks of the applications involved in patching.
  • Creating new file system, permitting user to mount file system, monitoring free space, disk usage, locating files, checking & clearing log files, administration, and monitoring of disk-based file system.
  • Provided on-call support for production/non-production environments.
  • Good working experience with Redhat Satellite Server for upgrading and patching Linux Servers.
  • Installation, configuration24x7, and administration of Red Hat Linux servers and support for servers.
  • Planned and performed the upgrades to Linux (Rhel 4x, 5x, use 10, 11, centos) operating systems and hardware maintenance like changing memory modules, replacing disk drives.
  • Provided the support of building the server, patching, user administration tasks, deployment, software installation, performance tuning, and troubleshooting and KVM.
  • Monitoring Cpu, memory, physical disk, hardware and software raid, multipath, file systems, networks.
  • Performing failover and integrity tests on new servers before rolling out to Production.
  • Assist in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2003 server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.
  • Deployment and configuration of application server Tomcat deploying java and web application.
  • Writing Shell Scripts for automation of daily tasks, documenting the changes that happen in the environment, and each server, analyzing the error logs, analyzing the user logs, analyzing the /var/log/messages.
  • Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite DNS, IP, ARP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, FTP, and TFTP.
  • Knowledge of Routers and Switches, Subnet, VLAN, TCP/IP, Ethernet, VPN, OSI model, Cisco Firewall.
  • Performed server updates, patching, upgrade, and package installations using RPM.
  • Environment:- Unix.Linux,Vmware, Hyper-V,Weblogic,Tomcat,apache,Windows

Education

Master of Computer application - M.C.A.

01.2003

Skills

  • Operating Systems RedHat Linux 5x/6x/7x, Solaris 9/10/11, AIX 53, Windows XP/2003/2008/2012
  • Scripting WLST, Jython, Python, Shell Scripting
  • Databases Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g, UCM 11g, MySql 5x, SQL Server 2005/2008
  • WEB/APP Servers WebLogic 11g and 12c, IBM WebSphere MQ 70, Webseal 70, Apache Webserver 24x, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Liberty, IBM WebSphere Application Server 5x/6x/70/80/90, Tomcat 7x/8x5x,Nginx, Jboss,IBM HTTP Server 1328/13262, IBM DataPower,IBM ODM,Tomcat 8x, IIS75, IIS7, IIS6
  • Monitoring tools Dynatrace,Nagios, ITCAM, Splunk, AppDynamics
  • Network and Storage Protocols/Services TCP/IP, FTP,UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, NIS, NIS, NFS, DNS, and DHCP, SAN, NAS, NFS, RHCE, LAN,VXLAN,CCNA, GIAC IBM Connect Direct
  • DevOps Tools Jenkins, GITHUB,Maven, Nexus,Remedy, Putty, FileZilla, Winscp, MS Office Suite, One Note, Text Pad, SVN, Vmware, ServiceNow
  • Cloud Tools AWS,EC2,Elastic Container Service, EKS(Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service), S3,Glacier, RDS, EBS, VPC, ELB, Route 53, AWS Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, , Security Groups, Simple Notification Service, Simple Queue Service and IAM
  • Root cause identification
  • Incident management
  • User support
  • Performance evaluation
  • Server maintenance
  • Performance analysis
  • System performance
  • API integration
  • ITIL framework
  • Scripting languages
  • Disaster recovery
  • System administration
  • Performance tuning
  • Process automation
  • Continuous integration
  • Application monitoring
  • Application process improvement
  • Application flow processes
  • Training and mentoring
  • Strong analytical mind
  • Team building
  • Agile project management
  • Application design
  • DevOps proficiency
  • Version control systems
  • Time management
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Microsoft windows and office
  • Multitasking
  • Excellent communication
  • Organizational skills
  • Team collaboration
  • Network support
  • Active listening
  • Remote technical support
  • Friendly and patient
  • Self motivation
  • Highly professional

Accomplishments

  • Achieved [Result] by completing [Task] with accuracy and efficiency.
  • Documented and resolved [Issue] which led to [Results].
  • Achieved [Result] through effectively helping with [Task].
  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.

Certification

AWS Certified Solution architect

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

Sr. Middleware/Application Support Engineer

Citibank
07.2023 - Current

Sr. Middleware/Application Support Engineer

Huntington
10.2020 - 06.2023

Sr. Middleware/Application Support Engineer

Wells Fargo
07.2019 - 09.2020

Sr. Middleware / Application Support Engineer

Fannie Mae
07.2017 - 06.2019

Middleware/Prod Support Engineer

Cigna Health
08.2014 - 06.2017

Middleware/Infrastructure support

UST Global
09.2010 - 07.2014

System administrator

IBM India Private Ltd
09.2009 - 09.2010

Master of Computer application - M.C.A.

VENKATESWARA RAO PEMMASANI CHOWDARY