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Kailashnadha Reddy Saripiralla

Summary

Working as "Infrastructure Specialist" for IBM/Kyndryl from April - 2008 to till date. Over 15 years of professional experience and over 8 years of experience on F5 LTM, F5 GTM,

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Infrastructure Support Specialist

IBM/Kyndryl
10.2012 - Current

Administering, building and configuring F5 load balancers.
Extensively worked on F5 LTM, GTM upgrades and hot fixes.
Configuration and troubleshooting F5 LTM and providing level 2 and level 3 support for the customers.
Licensing and provisioning of F5 modules such as LTM, GTM, VCMP.
Creation and modification of Pools, Nodes, and VIPs
Renewal of SSL certificates on F5.
Extensive knowledge and experience with hosting SSL certificates on F5 platforms.
Creating custom profiles, health monitors, and also configuring SNAT pools, syslog and SNMP.
Implementation of major application services with the iApps templates.
Engineering and configuring Virtual Servers, Pools, iRules, Profiles, and monitors on F5 LTM
Managing F5 Big-IQ
Fixing security vulnerabilities issues on F5.
GTM Wide IP configuration between data centers.
I have strong understanding of the Global Traffic Manager and Iquery functionality between LTM& GTM for a HA design.
I have a strong understanding of Web traffic load balancing function and manipulationprocedures along with sizing and capacity planning based on a high availability or DR design.
Knowledge of designing, coding, and troubleshooting iRules and iControls.
I have a overall network background with an understanding of routing & switching protocols, application layer protocols.
Responsible for Incident Management, Problem management Tickets.
Responsible for installation, administration and monitoring the DataPower Appliances XI50 and XI52
Responsible for the planning and execution of all infrastructure activities required to support the DataPower environment.
Creating network routes and configuring Ethernet interfaces on the data power devices
Creating Crypto profiles, SSL proxy profiles as part of SSL implementation
Configuring and administration of Bluecoat devices
Configuring redirection request on bluecoats
Configuring and administration of Edge Load Balancers(elb)

System Management Specialist

IBM
08.2011 - 09.2012
  • Installed, configured and administration of IBM HTTP Server V7
  • Federated stand-alone nodes to CELL of Deployment Manager
  • Created multiple Profiles on Web Sphere Application server V7
  • Migrated WebSphere from V6 to V7
  • Configuring WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling for Workload Management
  • Deployed J2EE Enterprise applications on WebSphere 6.0 that involves EAR, JAR, and WAR files
  • Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server´s, Cluster's, Virtual Hosts, Data Source, and generating and propagating plug-in
  • Enabled security for the admin Console and application components
  • Deployed Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment with fail over support
  • Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems
  • Configured the Web Server plug-in to connect to WebSphere Application Server.

Web Hosting Transition Engineer

IBM
08.2009 - 07.2011
  • Installation, configuration and administration of WebSphere Application Server V6.0 on Linux and Windows
  • Setting up of environment for the deployment of j2ee applications in WebSphere Application Server
  • Installing IBM Http Server and WebSphere Plug-in and configuring the same with WebSphere Application Server
  • Creating Deployment Manager and Application Server profiles
  • Creating Horizontal and Vertical clusters
  • Upgraded WebSphere environment with latest fix packs
  • Shared libraries of applications being deployed on WebSphere Application Servers
  • Creating various resources like data source and JMS resources at Cell Node and Server levels
  • Creating virtual hosts and generating and propagating plug-in
  • Enabling global security on WebSphere environment using LOCAL OS
  • Troubleshooting various WebSphere related issues by analyzing JVM logs.

Web Admin

IBM
04.2008 - 04.2010
  • Deploying the Applications
  • Administrating, maintaining and configuration of the App
  • Server and web servers
  • Fine Tuning of Web Sphere applications
  • Monitoring the Web Sphere / Web Servers Logs file System
  • Installed SSL certificates for Web Server & Application Servers
  • Working with ticketing tools like Maximo, Manage Now
  • Troubleshooting various problems in different stages by using logs files
  • Provided 24x7 support on a shift rotation basis.

Education

B. Tech - Computer Science

JNTU

Skills

  • F5 BIG-IP LTM
  • F5 BIG-IP GTM
  • F5 BIG-IQ
  • IBM DataPower
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • IBM WebSphere Process server
  • Blue Coat Proxy: SGOS - 9000 series
  • IBM HTTP Server
  • IBM Edge Load Balancer
  • Linux

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the above details are true to the best of my knowledge & belief.

Timeline

Infrastructure Support Specialist

IBM/Kyndryl
10.2012 - Current

System Management Specialist

IBM
08.2011 - 09.2012

Web Hosting Transition Engineer

IBM
08.2009 - 07.2011

Web Admin

IBM
04.2008 - 04.2010

B. Tech - Computer Science

JNTU
Kailashnadha Reddy Saripiralla