Analyst candidate in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Summary

Responsible to ensure the smooth transition of the codebase from Development to Production environment, Providing complete
support to project teams at all stages of Development and Conduct routine deployment activities on daily basis to test runway
environment with the latest code changes and deploying to QA environment prior to a monthly Prod release schedule.
Involved in Installation, configuration, upgradation, development, remote technical support, troubleshooting and system administration
of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker.
Provided support as Level 3 for both WebSphere application server and IBM HTTP server (IHS).
Involved in all the new code drops & vendor discussions for bank related applications.
Daily calls & working with Vendor for application and App team for automating Routing files.
Expert in migrating the existing administrative scripts (JACLs) from WAS 5.X to 6.X (Jython).
Fix pack install for WebSphere application server for Various versions 7.0.0.X, 8.0.0.X, 8.5.5.X, 9.0.0.X, 9.0.5.X on both AIX & Linux.
WebSphere application Server, IBM HTTP server, Jboss, WebSphere MQ, Unix shell Scripting (Re-engineering the existing script and
created new scripts where necessary) Unix Scripting.
Created images and copied to shared location and created images were used for WebSphere installs.
Scripting used JACL and Jythons.
Admin control, Admin config, Admin App, Admin task, Help with WSADMIN scripting.
Crontab for daily restart of instances.
Component Integration testing boxes, test runways, LAB Prod QA, and Prod environment and ensure readiness for testing after each
latest deployment and work on Out-of-Cycle deploys for various environments as an immediate fix to avoid impact for release testing
teams and regression testing teams.
Performed admin tasks which includes Installation, Configuration, Upgradation, Repair, Patch Management, Infrastructure
Architecture, Application Integration, Projects setup, Deploy, Security, User Access, Maintenance, Incident / Problem Resolution,
Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting, Monitoring, Capacity Management, Coordinate Backup / Restore and System recovery
activities, and 24x7 support.
Process Build share requests submitted by developers using IBM Eclipse/RTC and provide best possible solutions.
Involved in Migration of Websphere servers and components from 7.0 to 8.5 and on-Cloud.
Worked on Deployment and fix pack updates using IBM Urban Code Deploy.
Minimizing DB lookups, compute nodes, increasing the heap size of execution groups and load balancing by MQ.
IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1/6.0, WebSphere MQ 5.
Opened PMRs with IBM in case of Production and development issues.
Involved in interfacing WMQI with WMQ workflow and WAS.
Defining Access Control Lists (ACLs) for topic-based security Performance and Tuning.
Coordinating numerous tasks with L1/L2 on troubleshooting on daily basis, for resolution and documented.
Reviewing and certifying all upcoming CRQs from L3 stand-point.
Replying on technical queries, ad-hoc requests, regular customer meetings, technical discussions for several apps in bank.
Troubleshooting various issues like database issues, application related issues, JMS issue, loading jars, etc.
Performed Set-up of PING SSO and related documentation that are utilized used by the Team.
Troubleshooting critical Production issues and representing the L3 Team on bridge calls.
Creating and maintaining several delivery documents & instructions for L1/L2 Team as required.
Creation of input files and working with SITESCOPE team to set the alerts for WebSphere application server and IBM HTTP server which are monitored by team.
Coordinated with application team and performed deployment using automating tool: Ansible, chef, GitHub.
Created a wiki page for Heap & Core dump analysis which are being utilized by the Team.
Worked and fixed several past script templates that were being used by ET.Ex: updateContent.ksh, SSLCipher, etc.
Created document and provided transition to existing L1/L2 Team for any activities/tasks that could be handled by them.
Example PING SSO set-up, Plugin cfg.xml creation, Managing File system space, cronjob for WAS/IHS, etc.