Praveen C

• Having 6.5 years of IT experience with various Middleware Technologies (WAS, WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat) with Architecture, administration and support.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring, Administering and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0/8.5 Network Deployment Manager Package on Linux.
• Manage Amazon Web Services - ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, CloudWatch
• Expertise in architecting secure VPC solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, security groups, public and private network configurations
• Configured WebSphere Global security settings to leverage Active Directory as the user registry
• Integrated IBM WebSphere with Active Directory to enable LDAP-based user authentication for access to the WebSphere admin Console
• Provide technical support by troubleshooting day-to-day issues with various Servers on different platforms
• Experience working on AWS Migration Project (Migration from On premises to AWS cloud) by preparing the Design Document by understanding the Application Architecture
• Experience in Installation of WebSphere Application Server in both Graphical and Silent Modes and involved in creating profiles to build an environment
• Experience in maintaining the CMDB info
• Experience in installing IBM HTTP Server and Plug-in to configure with WebSphere Application Server to achieve Load Balancing and Work Load Management.
• Experience integrating JBoss/ WebSphere Application Servers with webservers(Apache) and databases
• Experience writing SQL queries(Select, Insert, Update)
• Extensive experience in Installing Refresh packs and Fix packs.
• Worked with microservice architecture and deployed application on Open-liberty

• Certified AWS solution architect
• IBM WebSphere Network Deployment 8.5.5 Administration
• WebLogic 12c Administrator

Project Name : Lloyds Bank UK, 

Duration :  October 2024 to March 2025 (Present), 

Lead Administrator - L1 (WAS_Modernization-POC)

                                                    Roles & Responsibilities

• Modernizing an application to the OpenShift Container platform (OCP) using the Liberty runtime environment, Involving the legacy architecture to containerized.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to evaluate the existing application architectures, identify dependencies, and ensure seamless migration to the OpenShift
• Configured CI/CD pipelines using OpenShift pipelines and Jenkins, automating the build, test, and deployment process for containerized liberty application.
• Designed and implemented the containers by creating a custom docker images for the Liberty runtime.

Project Name : First Abu Dhabi Bank, (FAB Bank) UAE,

Duration          : November 2022 to September 2024 (Present), 

Senior System Administrator (Application Support), 

First Abu Dhabi Bank, is a UAE bank, The bank provides a range of financial products including travel money, insurance, credit cards, savings and loans., 

                                                         Roles & Responsibilities

• Installed and Configured WebSphere & JBoss server in different Linux and Windows servers on Dev, Stage and production Environments
• Responsible to address incidents
• Created and maintained user accounts, profiles, security rights, disk space and process monitoring
• Used JIRA to track issues and Change Management
• Create and maintain user's accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring
• Create snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances
• Experience fetching data from Oracle database using SQL queries
• Experience writing SQL Queries (Select, Insert, Update)
• Worked on AWS Migration project ( On prem to Cloud)
• Responsible to create multiple CR based on the operation requirement
• Application server performance Tuning
• Responsible to address the Jira & IRR items on timely manner
• Worked on RCSA and CMDB updates
• Creating Cells/Nodes/Application Servers, federating nodes and creating/configuring application server clusters

Project Name : Nectar Credit Card

client                : Sainsbury's Bank, UK

Duration           : Jan 2021 to October 2022

                                                    Roles & Responsibilities

• Installed and Configured JBoss in different Linux and Windows servers on Dev, Stage and production Environments
• Installed and configured the Apache Tomcat through Zip extraction
• Involved in the integrating part of Apache web server in front of Jboss Application Production support
• Setup of Highly available clustered JBoss environment using multiple Standalone instances

Project Name : Arbella Home insurance
Client               : Arabella Insurance Group, US

Duration          : Apr 2018 to Oct 2020

                                                  Roles & Responsibilities

• Installation, configuration and maintenance Apache web server
• Involved in integrating the Apache with JBoss and Tomcat server
• Deployment of EAR & WAR files on WebLogic Application Server
• Installed and Configured Tomcat Apache Server
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, Data sources and Connection pooling