Vikrant Vasant Raut
Pune
Summary
- Assistant Vice President at Citibank with 14+ years in Unix/Linux middleware administration, specializing in Unix , WebLogic, WebSphere, IBM MQ, and OpenShift. Proven track record in managing enterprise applications, infrastructure operations, and production releases. Expertise in incident management, disaster recovery activities, and driving automation and operational excellence.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Vice President - Middleware specialist
CITIBANK
Pune
11.2021 - Current
- Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for UNIX/Linux, WebSphere, OpenShift, and enterprise middleware platforms, supporting high availability and performance optimization.
- Leading application systems analysis and infrastructure engineering activities for critical enterprise banking applications across Production and DR environments.
- Partnering with cross-functional teams including Development, Middleware, Architecture, SA, and Production Support teams to deliver infrastructure enhancements and operational stability initiatives.
- Performing in-depth analysis of complex infrastructure and application issues, driving root cause identification, risk assessment, and resolution within SLA timelines.
- Coordinated infrastructure changes, deployments, maintenance activities, and production releases, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and controls to support operational integrity.
- Led triage calls and managed stakeholder communication during critical production outages, facilitating timely escalation and minimising business impact.
- Mentored junior engineers and support analysts, providing technical guidance and operational training to improve team efficiency and delivery quality.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
Senior Specialist-Systems
MasterCard
Pune
04.2018 - 11.2021
- Built and implemented middleware components including WebLogic JBoss, Tomcat, F5 (BIG-IP), Apache, enhancing infrastructure for web-based applications.
- Implemented complex security integration using MSSL, mutual authentication, hardware certificates, software certificates, and dynamic endpoints, strengthening overall system security.
- Collaborated with development teams to resolve application and usability issues, facilitating engagement with Technology Engineer for new requirements outside standard architecture design.
- Executed project handover to the Web operations team, providing detailed documentation from a Web infrastructure perspective.
- Document installation and configuration procedures to allow maintenance and repetition as well as maintaining this documentation.
- Participated in the project's environment shakedown testing and troubleshooting efforts.
- The Web Platform Engineering team is responsible for the automation, build and configuration of mission critical middleware infrastructure for all web-based applications and services at MasterCard.
Specialist-Systems
FIS (SunGard)
Pune
09.2012 - 04.2018
- Managing the installation and configuration of WebLogic 11g, 12c on UNIX platforms; deploying & troubleshooting JAR, WAR and EAR files in domain & clustered environments using Jenkins Build Tool.
- Troubleshooting and executing WebLogic domains clustering and applications deployment via Jenkins, performance tuning and maintenance.
- Performing the configuration of Development/Test/Production Environments; server performance tuning including Thread Dump Analysis, Heap Dump Analysis and Core Dump Analysis when server crashes.
- Administered JMS configurations including JMS Server, Connection Factory, Foreign JMS Server, Message Bridge, Topic/Queue, and Distributed Destinations.
- Configuring Node Manager - remote managed server start and stop SSL communication between admin server and Node Manager.
- Creating & modifying new build jobs and deployment jobs for any new application.
- Coordinated configuration management, software deployment, change management, incident management, performance monitoring, and application maintenance activities.
- Automated server restarts and application status notifications to streamline daily tasks.
- Resolved application-related issues through effective communication with vendors and developers.
- Deploying back-end code COBOL, JCL via Shell Scripts.
- Mentoring other team members to ensure compliance with established processes and SLAs.
Sun Support Engineer
Softener India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
01.2010 - 09.2012
- Supported Oracle project by managing systems administration, call logging, hardware issue resolution, and ensuring compliance with ITIL standards.
- Received Client Appreciation Award for effective installation of new storage box, enhancing client satisfaction.
- Achieved Best Performance Award for outstanding contributions to team objectives in 2012.
Education
B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunications
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
Aurangabad01-2009
Skills
- Red Hat OpenShift
- AWS solutions architecture
- Docker and Kubernetes
- DevOps CI/CD practices
- Middleware administration
- F5 LTM management
- Oracle database management
- Unix systems expertise
- Storage area network (SAN) knowledge
- Infrastructure engineering principles
- Disaster recovery planning
- Team leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Client interaction skills
Certification
- Oracle Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 OS, SUN680227
- ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management, GR750348498VR
- Red Hat OpenShift Certifed 240-046-169
Languages
Marathi
Hindi
English
Training
- Red hat Open Shift
- AWS -Associate solution architect
- Sun Solaris 10 and 11
- IBM MQ 8
- WebLogic 12c
- Jenkins
- Oracle 11G
- ITIL Foundation
- Experience in Onshore Product Training for building new process for team in India
Personal Information
- Location Preference: Pune
- Passport Number: K6295880
Timeline
Assistant Vice President - Middleware specialist
CITIBANK
11.2021 - Current
Senior Specialist-Systems
MasterCard
04.2018 - 11.2021
Specialist-Systems
FIS (SunGard)
09.2012 - 04.2018
Sun Support Engineer
Softener India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2010 - 09.2012
B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunications
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University