Ajay Kumar B

Client: Kaiser Permanente Health care (KPHC - US)

• Administering OpenShift clusters and ArgoCD to guarantee efficient and reliable containerization.
• Developing and sustaining CI/CD pipelines for core applications on OpenShift, optimizing development and deployment operations.
• Orchestrating deployment of software stacks and administration of web stacks with Ansible & UCD.
• Implemented configuration of identity providers for OpenShift user accounts with secure key management.
• Implemented and organized cluster, project, and group permissions for efficient OpenShift administration.
• Configured resource allocation for project based on specified needs.
• Engineered scaling and autoscaling of applications aligned with workload demands and requirements.
• Implement application and its dependencies utilizing Helm chart
• Develop and enforce network policy for projects.
• Generate and secure Persistent Volume (PV) / Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) nfs-storageclass aligned with project requirements.
• Configure and launch cronjob for OpenShift applications.
• Designed RAPS script optimizing automation for application services uptime
• Assemble Mustgather resources for support cases that involve coordination with IBM/Redhat support team

Client: Kaiser Permanente Health care (KPHC - US)

• Managed installation, configuration, and troubleshooting tasks for IBM Websphere Application Server V8.5.x & V9.0.x
• Deployed HTTP servers 9.0 including IHS and integrated with WAS for load-balancing and failover utilizing generated plug-in.
• Engineered NDM profiles, coordinating profiles and federation of various nodes to deployment manager for WAS.
• Expertise in deploying Upgrade Fix Packs and ifixes, ensuring migration to latest versions aligns with established Change Management processes on WebSphere Product.
• Installed and renewed SSL certificates in WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server. Communicated product issues through Problem Management Records with IBM for timely resolution.
• Specialized in deploying J2EE applications (WAR & EAR) and executing static file transfers across diverse environments such as Development, QA, UAT, BCP, and Production using Websphere on various OS platforms through administrative console and Linux hosts.
• Experience in managing WebSphere Liberty Service start/stop operations, property file updates, and Liberty .ear deployments for projects.

Client: Lloyds Banking Group (LBG - UK)

• Led project planning and tracking initiatives to fulfill deadlines. Formulated effort estimates for comprehensive resource management. Upheld software quality process compliance consistently across projects.
• Conducted weekly status updates via calls to maintain project visibility. Compiled monthly summary reports to provide comprehensive project insights.
• Project execution across offshore and onsite locations, reviews with executive management.
• Monthly revenue recognition tasks alongside Finance team.
• Conducted periodic team reviews to assess performance and identify improvement areas. Prepared weekly and monthly status reports for higher management, ensuring transparency and informed decision-making.
• Effort estimation and reviews per necessity for new initiatives.

• Perform daily AD Health Checklist through AD replication processes, Network Diagnostics, DC diagnostics, and Repadmin
• Diagnosed and rectified applications-related concerns in compliance with committed SLA standards.
• Evaluate VM server performance daily, confirming successful backup operations and system health.
• Conduct L2 troubleshooting for AD issues and perform daily health checks on all critical servers.
• Regularly monitoring FSMO roles and assessing impact on roles to transfer operation master roles to other DC.
• Executed system state backups for ADS, ensuring application servers are secured on daily, weekly, and monthly schedules based on business requirements.
• Weekly and monthly onsite and offsite data archiving activities.

• Planning, Installing, and Administrating Windows XP, 2000, Windows Server 2003.
• Planning, Implementing, Designing and maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure.
• Creating, Configuring and Managing Group Policy object (GPOs) Implementing Domain Controller Security Policies.
• Software deployment through group policy.