Ranjith Kumar

Having 14+ years of IT experience, including 8+ years in workload automation, job scheduling, and enterprise batch processing across Linux/Unix and Windows environments. Specialized in SAP Redwood RunMyJobs (CPS/SAAS), BMC Control-M and GoAnywhere MFT, supporting 24/7 production environments. Extensive experience with SAP Redwood Batch Scheduling (CPS / RunMyJobs) and enterprise workload automation tools such as Control-M and AutoSys.

Designed and managed Redwood job definitions and job chains (parallel and sequential) using Submit Frames and Time Windows. Strong expertise in designing, creating, and managing Redwood Job Definitions and Job Chains with hands-on experience in file-based, event-based, and recurring job scheduling. Extensive experience in migration of Redwood objects across multiple environments and implementation of Redwood RunMyJobs (RMJ) end-to-end.

Strong expertise in SAP component installations, upgrades, configurations, post-implementation activities, go-live support, and performance tuning. Proficient in Incident, Change, and Problem Management processes.

Redwood Consultant - Bright House Financial Services - Charlotte, NC, United States

(2023-10)

Project: SAP S/4 HANA /SLT/BW/CPI/HANA/BODS/ORACLE/MSSQL/Axway/Jira

• Collaborated with Redwood Support to resolve production-critical alerts, performing detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for job failures and triggering issues.
• Lead migration and promotion of Redwood objects across development, QA, and production environments following release standards.
• Automated maintenance activities by developing scripts to hold and release jobs before and after SAP maintenance windows.
• Designed, configured, and managed critical and non-critical Redwood alerts, providing 24x7 production support in line with business SLAs.
• Implemented complex global scheduling frameworks based on regional holiday calendars, fiscal periods, earnings cycles, and country-specific business requirements.
• Oversaw job promotion activities from lower environments to production within Redwood CPS/RMJ.
• Authored and maintained training manuals, operational runbooks, and technical documentation for Redwood production support teams.
• Monitored SAP CPI interface health, analyzed failures, and coordinated with integration teams to resolve issues.
• Integrated Redwood monitoring with third-party applications, handling queue and connectivity issues for message processing.
• Prepared and distributed daily and weekly production status reports, including defect, incident, and SLA tracking.
• Coordinated RCA calls with cross-functional teams, ensuring timely resolution and preventive actions.
• Worked closely with offshore support teams, assigning tasks and tracking progress to closure.
• Raised and tracked JIRA defects for functional and technical message failures through resolution.

Sr Analyst - Duke Energy - Charlotte, NC, United States

(2022-02 - 2023-09)

Project: SAP S/4 HANA /SLT/BW/PI/HANA/BODS/ORACLE/MSSQL/AWS

• Designed and maintained Submit Frames and Time Windows for Redwood job definitions and job chains.
• Scheduled and triggered jobs in SAP CPS (Redwood) based on functional and business requirements using optimized scheduling windows.
• Developed scripts to automate Redwood agent maintenance, including alert handling and job hold/release during SAP maintenance windows.
• Collaborated closely with Redwood Support on CPS patching, upgrades, and RunMyJobs (RMJ) cloud migrations.
• Created and maintained Rev-Trac users based on role and access requirements.
• Managed pre- and post-system refresh and client copy activities.
• Administered release activities, including holding and releasing jobs at job definition, job chain, and queue levels.
• Authored and maintained training manuals and operational documentation for Redwood job scheduling and production support.
• Migrated and consolidated SAP jobs from legacy schedulers and other Redwood CPS systems, implementing complex scheduling logic and dependencies.

SAP Redwood Admin - Deloitte SWIFT USA

(2017-11 - 2022-01)

Project: SAP ECC/ S4/SLT/BW/HANA/ORACLE/BODS

• Designed, created, and managed thousands of Redwood job definitions, including complex submission and resubmission logic.
• Imported and automated existing SAP jobs into Redwood CPS and RMJ environments.
• Installed and configured Redwood scheduling agents at the OS level and implemented OS service monitoring.
• Created and managed Redwood queues, process servers, job chains, alerts, and alert groups.
• Designed complex alerting frameworks using logic-based escalation to notify appropriate stakeholders based on failure severity.
• Implemented and maintained global scheduling solutions using regional holiday calendars, fiscal periods, and business-critical dates.
• Automated maintenance activities by scripting job hold and release before and after SAP maintenance windows.
• Implemented new Redwood CPS systems, performed RMJ migrations, and executed patching and upgrades over multiple release cycles.
• Supported global payroll and mission-critical workloads across multiple geographies.
• Developed Python scripts and Cron jobs to automate file transfers and operational tasks.
• Monitored system load, user activity, transaction volumes, disk utilization, and OS-level performance.
• Provided advanced troubleshooting across ABAP, Java, database, and OS layers.
• Configured and managed SAP operation modes to align system resources with business workloads.
• Performed full client administration including client creation, deletion, export/import, and local/remote client copies.
• Managed user master export/import and post-refresh validation activities.
• Imported transports across systems and supported release cycles.
• Participated in client copy, system refresh, and post-refresh validation activities.
• Attended customer calls to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and ensure timely delivery.
• Provided 24x7 production support, resolving critical and non-critical issues per SLA.
• Worked on SAP modules including BW, XI/PI, Portal, SCM/APO, SRM, and FICO.
• Delivered day-to-day BASIS support including user administration, role management, background jobs, and spool issues.

Consultant - Autodesk

(2015-09 - 2017-10)

Project: SAP ECC/BW/ BPC/Oracle/MSSQL/Control M

• Monitored and managed SAP background jobs and spool administration to ensure smooth batch operations.
• Performed daily system health checks, analyzing and resolving SAP application and system-level errors.
• Monitor system logs (SM21), short dumps (ST22), update errors (SM13), and application logs (SLG1).
• Monitor work processes (SM50/SM66) and identify blocking.

MCA - Master of Computer Application - Osmania University (2011)

BSC - Computer science - Osmania University (2008)