SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of comprehensive Information Technology experience in both analytical and technical capacities during complete SDLC in analytics/monitoring of infrastructure and security.
• 4 years of experience in Splunk solution design, architect, deployment and configuration of Splunk components (Forwarders, Indexers, Search heads etc.).
• About 2 years of experience as a Linux administrator
• Experience in development of dashboards/reports, alerts and Splunk integration
• Developed and showed POC for customers in Splunk.
• Experience in using Splunk DB Connect to index the data from various database types.
• Upgraded to Splunk6.X version in the environment.
• Installing theSplunk Light Weight Forwarders, Forwarders, Indexers, Search Heads after configuring the files like Output.conf, input. conf etc.
• Managing of Splunklicenses based on the requirement
• Knowledge of Extract keyword, sed, Knowledge objects, Knowledge of various search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where, xyseries, table etc.
• Experience in customizing Splunk for monitoring in Application Management.
• Extensive knowledge on Splunk knowledge objects, Data inputs and Distributed environment.
• Experience in Indexer Clustering and Search Head Clustering architecture in Splunk.
• Good understanding in AWS
• Experience with creating and executing complex SQL queries.
• Expertise in the implementation of Core concepts of Java, J2EE Technologies
• Proficient in implementation of frameworks like Struts, Spring and ORM frameworks like Hibernate
• Proven experience in writing Queries, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursors, Functions and Packages using TOAD
• Excellent experience with major relational databases - Oracle, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , DB2, My SQL
• Expert level skills on jQuery, JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS
• Proficient in working on UNIX and Linux platforms. Experienced in automation using Shell Scripting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Splunk/Java: Splunk6,Splunk Cloud, SplunkEnterprise,Splunk modules, SplunkDB Connect, SplunkWeb FrameworkSplunk, Splunk Hunk, Splunk on Splunk HDFS, Java, J2EE, Eclipse, Windows NT 4.0, UNIX, My Eclipse IDE, JSP/Servlets, Design patterns, Struts, Spring, MVC framework, Hibernate, JDBC, XSD, SAX, JAXP, Oracle8, UNIX, SplunkIT Service Intelligence

Big data Analytics: Datameer 2.0.5, Splunk, Tableau

Familiar reporting tools: Cognos, Crystal reports, SSRS

Build/automation tools: Puppet, chef, ant, maven

Databases: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, MySQL, DB2, MS-SQL Server

Web Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat

Web Technologies: JQuery, Java Script, HTML, XML, AJAX, SOAP, WSDL

Cloud platforms: Amazon AWS, cloud stack, open stack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Maplewood, MN

Splunk Administrator\developer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded the development environment to 6.x version
• Installed and configured Splunk Universal Forwarders on both UNIX (Linux, Solaris, and AIX) and Windows Servers.
• Done POC for Splunk Apps for LDAP, NMON, and Splunk app for Windows Infrastructure.
• Hands on experience in customizing Splunk dashboards, visualizations, configurations using customized Splunk queries.
• Involved in troubleshooting of Clustering and optimizing performance.
• Upgraded the Splunk DB connect to 3.x version.
• Monitored license usage, indexing metrics, Index Performance, Forwarder performance, death testing.
• Onboarding the data into Splunk from various databases using Splunk DB Connect plugin.
• Involved in generating AWR reports from database using TOAD and scheduled report in Splunk.
• Created tags, Event types, field lookups, using regular expressions, aliases etc. for search-time outputs and visualizations.
• Created the reports and saved searches for the development environment.
• Developed various dashboards, reports for IT Infrastructure, IT Security, Leadership and other relevant stakeholders.
• Dealt with Splunk Utilities (bucket rolling, User index creation and management, Sourcetype, forwarder log monitoring input and output configuration).
• Created custom app configurations (deployment-apps) within SPLUNK to parse, index multiple types of log format.
• Built dashboards, views, alerts, reports, saved searches using XML, Advanced XML and Search Processing language (SPL) as and when required.
• Created Splunk Apps using XML and Web Components. Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions.
• Performed Field Extractions and Field Transformations using the Regular Expressions in Splunk.
• User/Group Administration - Splunk authentication with LDAP for user accounts/groups creation and bindings of LDAP groups to Splunk.
• Performed troubleshooting and configuration changes to resolve Splunk configuration issues.

Environment: Splunk 6.6.2, Appdynamics, NewRelic, Linux, Bash, Perl, Sed, rex, erex, Splunk Knowledge Objects, Python, XML, splunk DB connect, use of regular expressions, splunk universal forwarders.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Splunk engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise with Splunk 6.2.3, Involved in the Splunk Upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2
• Created EVAL Functions where necessary to create new field during search run time.
• Coordinating with the business analysts and developers, and discussed issues in interpreting the requirements.
• Installed Forwarders for MDT and involved in data grooming to check that data is arriving clean in Splunk.
• SetupSplunk Forwarders for new application tiers introduced into environment and existing application.
• Involved in data migration for the VCloud setup.
• Active monitoring of Jobs through alert tools and responding with certain action to logs analyses the logs and escalate to high level teams on critical issues.
• Integrated Splunk with Active directory and LDAP authentication.
• Actively involved in trouble shooting issues.
• Trained Splunk security team members for complex search strings and ES modules.
• Conducted and automatedSplunkconfiguration files such as Props.conf, transforms. Conf, inputs. Conf, outputs. conf setting, Props file management for event breaking and time stamp matching.
• Extensive experience on setting up theSplunkto monitor the customer volume and track the customer activity.
• Managed the 15indexers clusters.
• Configured Nagios and integrated Splunk with Incident management tool.
• Used Splunk Deployment server.
• Have involved as aSplunkAdmin in capturing, analyzing and monitoring front end and middle ware applications.
• Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data and brought insight of the data for the users.
• Involved in trouble shooting issues
• Installed Splunk on nix and Splunk SOS for monitoring the health of the clusters.
• Created set of user roles to in LDAP and single sign on implementation.
• Very good understanding of software development life-cycle (SDLC) process, Followed Agile scrum and story maps for dev tracking.

Environment: Splunk 6.X, Datameer, Linux, Bash, Perl, Hbase, Hive, Pig, Sed, rex, erex, Splunk Knowledge Objects, Python, SDLC, SPL, index clustering, search clustering, forwarders, use of regular expressions

Confidential, Grand rapids, MI

Splunk Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Analysis, Design, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance.
• Getting data and ManagingSplunkapps
• Splunk and Python Script is used to show how these logs can be analyzed for certain Events / Patterns and deduce information which can in turn be used to Self-learn and Self-Heal when these events re-occur on a regular basis.
• Used Splunkfor Application Log, Security Log and Performance monitoring.
• Experience in Operational Intelligence using Splunk.
• Troubleshoot Splunkindexers, search heads and forwarder problems.
• Analyzed FACETS for Group Information, Enrolling Subscribers, adding members, Related Entities, Class/Plan definition and Premium Rate Tables.
• Set up of Splunkdashboards for continuous monitoring for production support.
• Configured Splunkmultisite indexer cluster for data replication.
• Worked on log parsing, complexSplunksearches, including external table lookups.
• Created SplunkSearch Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards
• Create rolled based AD access for Splunk.
• Active monitoring of Jobs through alert tools and responding with certain action w.r.t to logs, analyses the logs and escalate to high level teams on critical issues.
• Developed Splunk infrastructure and related solutions as per automation tool sets.
• Provide regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution with the objective of ensuring best fit and high quality for Application teams.
• Knowledge of security threats and vulnerabilities and how to detect and mitigate them, experience in building security monitoring and incident management solutions using Splunk.

Environment: Splunk 6.x, Datameer, Linux, Bash, Perl, Hbase, Hive, Pig, Sed, rex, erex, Splunk Knowledge Objects, Python, SDLC, SPL.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed ANT scripts to build and deploy the application in the JBOSS Application Server.
• Developed web presentation layer using, HTML, CSS and JavaScript according to internal standards and guidelines.
• Developed the Action Classes, Action Form Classes, created JSPs using Struts tag libraries and configured in Struts-config.xml, Web.xml files.
• Involved in detail design developing use cases, use case diagrams, class diagrams, sequence diagrams and high level activity diagrams using UML from the requirements.
• Developed web project by using SPRING Framework.
• Developed and Implemented Web Services and used Spring Framework. Expertise in developing enterprise applications using Struts Frameworks
• Contributed to organization of testing and quality improvement process (JIRA, Confluence)
• Performed J2EE application deployment using JBoss application server on Windows and Linux.
• Developed Hibernate as an ORM Tool.
• Responsible for the design, development, unit testing, deployment.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JSP, Spring, Hibernate, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SOAP Web Services, Apache Axis 2, JSON, EJB, SQL, JUnit, JSF, JDBC (Oracle DB), JDK

Confidential

Linux Systems Administrator/system engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed day-to-day administration tasks like User Management, Space Monitoring, Performance Monitoring and Tuning, alert log monitoring and backup monitoring.
• Experienced in dealing with LVM.
• Deploy, maintain configure, troubleshooting logs and providing application support for the in-house applications such as Intelliconnect and SAAS on Red Hat Linux boxes.
• Worked with VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Cluster Server in all environments. As a member of the team, monitored the VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1 in SAN Environment.
• Involved in Planning, building and Administration of various High Availability clusters and heart beat checking on Sun Solaris using VCS in heterogeneous SAN environment.
• Involved in development, user acceptance, and performance testing, production & disaster recovery server.
• Administering Network File System using Automounter and administering user and OS data files in NIS, and NFS environment on Redhat Linux.
• Responsible for User and Group account management including their permissions.
• Responsible on handling Cacti and Nagios tools for monitoring.
• Worked with other IT teams including Database and Network Teams, customers (users), and other managers in helping build and implement systems and standards.
• System performance tuning, User maintenance and security.
• Interaction with vendors for Hardware and software supports.
• Regular disk management like adding / replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
• Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers and the installed applications and patches.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.x, 5.x, IBM X 3650, X3850, Netra T1, HP Proliant DL 380, LDOMS 1.2, ISS system Scanner, Teamquest, VMWare, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server 4.0, LVM.