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
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Certification
16
16
years of professional experience
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