Kashif Siddiqui, Middleware and Application Support Specialist

Kashif Siddiqui

Middleware and Application Support Specialist

Gulf International Bank

Location
Bahrain - Manama
Education
Master's degree, Computer Applications
Experience
19 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 4 Months

Middleware and Application Support Specialist at Gulf International Bank
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • My current job since April 2014

As a part of Infra support team, I am involved in supporting various banking applications running on Weblogic 12c/11g and JBOSS EAP 7.
• Installation, deployment, configuration, start/stop of services, troubleshooting support to Weblogic, Retail Banking application (Flexcube), OBIEE 11g, Apache, Cortex/IST card management system, Global Transaction Banking Application, Financial Crime and Compliance Management system.
• Configured External LDAP ( Active Directory) for OBIEE application for report access.
• Deployment of reports, catalogs, scheduling of reports, datasource creation through OBIEE analytics console, role creation and mapping through Enterprise Manager.
• Regular data purging for SCHEDULER table of OBIEE PLATFORM schema.
• JBOSS EAP domain configuration with horizontal clustering.
• Configured JBOSS as service on Linux system for auto start after host reboot.
• Used Jboss CLI (Command Line Interface) for various configurations.
• Used Jboss Vault feature to encrypt the password for database schema used for JBDC connection.
• Deployment of new version of application, fixes provided by application team and vendor in Test, UAT, Pre-production and Production environments.
• Implemented wallet for encrypted password file to be used by JDBC connection pool in Weblogic.
• Prepared action plan and successfully migrated the applications from Solaris SPARC machines to Oracle Supercluster M7 machine.
• Used IP Security and IB (Infiniband) connectivity features of Oracle SuperCluster M7 machine for extremely fast JDBC Datasource connections.
• Built the Disaster Recovery (DR) environment and got involved in DR drill activities.
• Worked with F5 Load balancer team to setup the high availability configuration for Weblogic clustered environment running banking applications.
• Applied latest PSU ( Patch set Updates) for Weblogic through Smart Update and opatch utility.
• Created crontab jobs for log file housekeeping in Production env.
• Oracle EM 12c/13c for monitoring of Weblogic domains in various environments.
• Working closely with other infrastructure and vendor teams to resolve environment issues including stability and performance issues.
• Ensuring optimum performance and stability of the applications, including providing workarounds and identifying areas for improvement or solutions to permanently address the issue.
• Coordinating with Global Oracle Support team for Weblogic/OBIEE issues.
• Weekend, late night and after business hours support for urgent and critical issues and for bulk production deployment, environment migration and upgrade.

Senior Technical Analyst at Oracle India Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Delhi
  • My current job since March 2010

Infra/L3 Support \[fusion middleware products\] ( at Oracle On Demand)

Provisioning and Maintenance of client environment which has various Fusion Middleware Technologies like WebCenter Suite, SOA Suite, Enterprise Content Management, and Identity Management 11g.

Senior Engineer at Wipro Technologies
  • India
  • August 2006 to March 2010

Senior System Administrator for Weblogic Server

Member Technical Staff at HCL Technologies Ltd
  • India
  • January 2005 to August 2006

Worked as a Developer Relation Engineer. Handled various problems pertaining to Weblogic including sub systems like Clustering, Security, JSPs, EJBs, Servlets, performance tuning, deployment issues, jdbc etc. for Weblogic.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Applications
  • at UP Technical University
  • June 2004

♦ MCA from UP Technical University in 2004 with 77.2% marks, Lucknow (U.P.)

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Chemistry
  • at Ewing Christian College, Allahabad University
  • June 2000

♦ B.Sc (Mathematics, Chemistry) from Ewing Christian College, Allahabad University in 2000 with 62.8% marks.

High school or equivalent, Mathematics and Science
  • at Air Force School
  • May 1997

♦ Intermediate (Science) from C.B.S.E. Board in 1997 with 75% marks

High school or equivalent, marks
  • at Air Force School
  • January 1995

♦ High school (Science) from C.B.S.E. Board IN 1995 with 71% marks.

Specialties & Skills

Oracle Database
Weblogic
Shell Scripting
Weblogic Administrator
OBIEE 11g
Disaster Recovery Implementation
Apache Admin
Solaris
JBOSS EAP

Languages

English
Intermediate