IBM WebSphere and MQ administrator

• Strong 7yrs of experience in IT Middleware Infrastructure & Application support for DEV, QA, UAT and PRODUCTION environments.
• Experience of working in Singapore/London/India mainly in the Retail & Investment Banking domain.
• Experience of working in 24/7 operational mode & providing the weekend on-call support.
• Hands-on experience in IBM WebSphere Application server administration tasks.
• Experience of carrying out the Application release management tasks across the landscape Pre-prod & production.
• Good experience of working with the Change/Problem/Incident Management teams.
• Involved in raising the incidents of different priorities based on the business impact & sending out a global communication to the impacted business users.
• Performing the root cause analysis (RCA) for the repeatable issues though Problem Management for both infrastructure (WebSphere) and applications as well.
• Writing the detailed Incident report & building a Known Error Database (KEDB) on wiki pages for the middleware infrastructure.
• Good experience of carrying out the regular infrastructure DR operations of fail-over & switchback for the middleware based applications.
• Expertise in setting up & deploying JAVA/ J2EE applications deployments in IBM WebSphere Application Server & CI tool Jenkins (Hudson) in the Apache Tomcat v6.0
• Experience in setting up the Continuous Integration tool JENKINS (HUDSON) at an enterprise level and integrating it with the code coverage tool – SONAR.
• Implementation of the best practices through automation of build & deployment processes.
• Hands-on experience of using the CA Service Delivery Manager, Service Now, BMC Remedy & HP Service Center ticketing tools.
• Hands-on experience with the product - SPLUNK to search, monitor and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface for the Cloud based applications.

Understand the cloud technologies of TOSCA blueprints implementation with Cloudify Orchestration tool for deploying the multi-tier enterprise applications in Openstack IAAS based private cloud.