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Technical Analyst with 15.5 years plus of Experience in Application Support/Production Support/Implementation Consultant/DevOps/Cloud in UNIX/Linux flavors, Oracle/Sybase/Mongo DB Databases, Python, AWS Cloud Solution Architect, GCP Cloud , Docker, K...
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- Hands on experience in AWS with provisioning & resource management and setting up Enterprise infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience working on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
- Implementing and setting up Route 53 for AWS Web Instances, ELB & Cloud Front on AWS Environment.
- Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI, IAM roles through AWS Console.
- Utilizing Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, and S3 etc.
- Bouncing EC2 servers as per Client request.
- Configured security groups, Network Access Control List and Routing Tables.
- Arranging access for various teams and help them get restricted/appropriate access to different environment components, applications and AWS services.
- Creation of Ansible-Playbook for the automation purpose.
- · Modification of Ansible-Playbook as per new Requirements.
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- Creating new Python CSDs for integrating with WallStreet Suite APIs for making new Activites and testing them .
- Creating Shell Scripts to copy Log files , zip them and attach them to the Jira issues for analysis
- Profiling of Python Scripts for optimization and increase efficiency of Python Programs .
- Created Python Scripts for triggering Alerts if certain processes in OS crosses Threshold .
- Collecting Data in Excel , read them and send emails to respective Business users through Python pandas , openpyxl and xlrd modules .
- Worked with many Python Libraries like psutil,os,shutil ,cProfile .
- Have knowledge about Python Libraries like beautifulsoup, Pandas, Matplotlib, request, boto3 Library.
- Created Web Applications using Python Flask . Good understanding of Flask templates,routing,Http Methods , URL building , Cookies , Sessions.
Description
Project #1 : Wachovia Digital Security.
Duration : 12 months
Team Size : 8
Technology : Thor APIs
Tool Used : Oracle Identity Manager
Role : Programmer Analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
a) To configure the Email related components
b) Project Design by using Microsoft Visio
c) Writing Unit Test Cases
d) Configure Different Workflows according to some specific Requirements
e) Bug Fixes by deploying EAR, WAR Files in JBOSS Application Server.
f) Testing the application against Test Cases
g) Using XML DOM Parser to Parse XML Documents.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This Project was based on OIM (Oracle Identity Manager). There were Requirements from the Clients Perspective and we fulfilled the Requirements with the help of OIM. This was a tool from Oracle and its own APIs named Thor. All the User Interface screens were from OIM and we changed according to the Requirements of the Client by changing the JSP pages. The App Server used was JBOSS.JavaScript was added for Form field validations. There were different Categories of users and they had different sorts of Access and Privileges’ which was achieved through OIM.My work was mainly related to the mail configurations from the tool and
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Creating Runbooks for Deployments. Implemented CICD pipelines involving Jenkins, Docker and AWS. Analysis and RCAs of Alerts triggered from AppDynamics and New Relic . Configuring Database Agents and Collectors for Clients in AppDynamics. Creating Splunk Queries and Creating Dashboards in Splunk. Installation of Java Agents and Jobs through Ansible AWX UI . Creating Dashboards and Custom charts in Dynatrace. Mentoring of Junior Teammates in the Team and helping them to achieve Certification. Worked on Cloud Automation and writing Shell Scripts to reduce time of Runbooks and maintenance tasks. Creation of Ansible Playbooks through YAML Files . Creation of Lambda Function in Terraform and send S3 logs to Splunk 12.Creation of CloudWatch and DynamoDB alarm. Troubleshooting Kubernetes Clusters. Management of SSL certs on webservers / app servers.
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Handling Day to Day User Queries from various Clients across the Globe, sometimes prioritize them accordingly for other Team mates. Provide escalated ticket/incident management supported applications as well as will participate in defect management, issue tracking/trending. Investigating RCAs for High Severity Critical Issues coordinating with Research & Development Team. Troubleshooting of memory management and optimization, identifying OOM Errors and Memory Leaks. Generating Thread Dumps, Core Dumps, Heap Dumps to analyze problems related to any Process abnormal termination or Application slowness behavior. Doing Releases for upcoming hot fixes in the in-house CS Environments coordinating with RnD team for status update and analyzing Log Files for any Error Warnings. Generate AWR, ASH, and ADDM Reports for analyzing Application/Database Performance. Coordinate with DBAs, RnDs to increase SGA Size of Oracle Database for Performance Tuning related Activities. Written regular expressions to extract values from FIN Message Action editor in TEST Env. Optimizing and troubleshooting the performance of various Application Components & Supporting the recovery of Application as a whole. Training Team Members to organize Knowledge related Sessions and keeping everyone in Sync. Setting up Objectives for Team members and doing their Annual Reviews. Creation of Ansible-Playbook for the automation purpose Modification of Ansible-Playbook as per new Requirements. Profiling of Python Scripts for optimization and increase efficiency of Python Programs. Created Shell Scripts to copy Log files, zip them and attach them to the Jira issues for analysis. Organize monthly Meetings with US team, Europe team and India to discuss ongoing issues and announce new updates. Participate in Client calls, Stakeholders to discuss Statistics of the issues, feedbacks and discuss various ongoing issues.
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Hands on experience in AWS with provisioning & resource management and setting up Enterprise infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Experience working on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems. Implementing and setting up Route 53 for AWS Web Instances, ELB & Cloud Front on AWS Environment. Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto- Scaling, AMI, IAM roles through AWS Console. Utilizing Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, and S3 etc. Configured security groups, Network Access Control List and Routing Tables. Arranging access for various teams and help to get restricted/appropriate access to different environment components, applications and AWS services.
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Involved in resolving JIRA Issues from Clients. Involving in various Jira Issues like Problem Reports (Productive), PS & CS tasks. PS tasks are kind of issues where Resolution is not depended on immediate fix but can go into Releases. CS task is a kind of Issue which is a kind of enhancing an in built feature into the System. Responsible for Project Transition and being the first member of the team involved in recruitment of new team members. Received the Reval fairy award for showing quick progression & termed as the most Politest person in Reval Small Trips to Standard Chartered Bank Chennai for coordinating and implementing the release of new version of the System. Involved in Score Card Calls Quarterly with Clients, Stakeholders regarding SEV1 & SEV2 Production Issues. Participation in Weekly Open Jira Calls to discuss ongoing Issues. Training team Members in Project with new Modules after knowledge transition from Graz. Coordination with Developers to raise Analysis Jira and in further meetings to raise SWAT Jira. Giving the ITS Jira numbers to Client Which Problem Report goes into Releases. Liaise with Developers to find out the Root Cause RCAs of major & critical incidents. Recruitment of New Members in the Team for different Clients. Involved in Deployment of the Application in Test Systems and troubleshooting Errors along with Client. Went to USA Los Angeles California for couple of Weeks to attend the first phase of the Project and then transitioned the training in Bangalore to QA team of Capgemini. Have given trainings to new team members on Application behavior both Functional & Technical. Involved in Deployment of the Application in Tomcat Web Server by extracting the tar files in UNIX and installing the ear/war files for next version upgrade. The Deployment relates to various Application formats like Web, B2C and Classic. Assisting the UNIX team to generate Java thread & heap Dumps for Process analysis and sending to Development Team. Team Management and Monthly roasters for handling night shifts. Have done F2F meetings with team members for yearly appraisals and sending feedback to managers. Report Performance of Candidates monthly to Head of the Department about their stats, trainings needed and Improvement Scope.
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Maintenance of the Blackrock Accounts and iShares Web Sites on a day to day basis depending on alerts from HP-BAC and SiteScope tool. Flipping of the Sites from F5 to secondary Servers when encountering high CPU Utilization, Full GC or any Error caught in Logs, and restarting of the Primary Servers taking backup of Server Logs. Checking Splunk Logs and BAC Tool for any Outage recorded. Sending Escalation Emails to Business and respective recipients regarding the issue encountered and the way it was handled. Resolving JIRA tickets raised by Business Users on a regular Basis. Check data loading is successful for Various Blackrock Applications From third Party Systems. Involved in Major Data Releases during Weekend. Maintaining a Checklist of the Files received, data loaded, running clean up Scripts on a Weekly and daily basis. Work closely with Developers, QAs, prior to production release to ensure smooth transition of Blackrock Application like BMACS into production. Action on Stellent Alerts like Content Deleting, new revision Push on Stellent Prod Servers.
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Respond to the Business Users regarding their Queries about the Events and Notifications (Business Functionality of the Application) Coordinating with the Development Team to discuss Bugs and Level 3 Issues. Transitioning the Application from ABN-AMRO to RBS with enhanced features. Doing ONCALL at night to check whether Autosys Jobs are running. Training other Members of the Team regarding Application functionality. Raising Incidents in case of any discrepancy and informing to Business, Dev. Team. Coordinating with the Release Management Team during Major releases. Check for EOD Completion and sending Status Report of the EOD Processes runtime along with Price feeds. Check that Trades have started flowing into the Application from different Sources. Monitor the processes which are involved in Trade processing throughout the day. Starting of processes in the Application which gets stopped because of Increasing Trades (Backlogs) in the Middleware. Inform the Netting Team that all yesterday trades have entered into the System and inform Business Once Netting is completed. Responding to Users with all their Queries. (Mostly Reports which gets derived from SQL Queries) Attending calls from TOC and provide ONCALL Support in case of Autosys Job Failures. Raising Weekly CRs for Data Correction and Instrument loading purposes for Static Team. Interacting with various Teams to make the Complete Trade Life Cycle. 1. Fidessa and One World Team: - Trade Source. 2. Middleware Team: - Trade is entering RIMS. 3. Trade Bridge Team: - To Validate Trades. 4. Netting Team: - To go ahead for Netting Confirmation. 5. Static Team: - For Trade Enrichment. 6. Accounting Team: - Posting Journals. 7. Various Settlement Team: - For Trade Settlement.
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Expertise lies in IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) domain especially Release Management, Incident Management and Change Management process. Deploying codes to different environments such as UAT, Dev. and Prod as a part of Release & Deploy Management. Using versioning tool such as Clearcase, CVS and checking out the codes written by developers. Maintaining baseline for each deployment so that if a roll back of the previous version is needed, we can roll back the code. Performing different kinds of deployment such as Sybase, UNIX, Informatica, Web Logic etc. Deployment to be done in Production for the particular day and sending a Reminder to the Developer.
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Responsible for solving user queries. Responsible for Monitoring interface files and alert log, table and schema growth. Exporting dump data and refreshing different schemas with the dump. Developed some procedures to make support work easier. Handling Incident Management as well as Change Management. Handling release management and applying new patches and DB scripts in UAT and Production. Coordinate with Trade Finance Business People across Business, Operations and with Vendors for status updates, Problem Tickets. Keeping a track of as to which Procedures corresponds to which functionality and executing them from Toad to manage a set of activities. Generating and providing Adhoc reports from backend as required by user. Maintaining daily, weekly and monthly checklists to make the system work without any interruption. Handling Escalated calls from different Bank Users across India from ING. Checking and Verifying the Asset Liability Management File every day and Mailing it to the respective Bank Users. Give functional training to and KT regarding Trade Finance to all Cognizant and Non Cognizant Associates.
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To configure the Email related components Project Design by using Microsoft Visio Writing Unit Test Cases Configure Different Workflows according to some specific Requirements Bug Fixes by deploying EAR, WAR Files in JBOSS Application Server. Testing the application against Test Cases Using XML DOM Parser to Parse XML Documents.
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