PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A responsible and experienced Administrator with teh great ability to support teh server 24*7 hours with teh full efficiency and dedication. Also great understanding of teh issues related to teh hardware and software with teh profound ability to resolve teh issues and problems.
• Have solid (UNIX LINUX WIDOWS)System Administration experience, Solaris, Hardware/Software Break - Fix, AIX, VERITAS, NetBack-Up, Cluster Servers, Patch Management, Performance Management, Excellent Technical and Interpersonal Skills.
• I is a highly talented Middleware, Systems, and Applications Administrator with a profound ability to support an enterprise environment.
• I have a comprehensive understanding of hardware, software, and networks with an uncanny ability to resolve potential issues expeditiously. I focus on automation techniques to effectively and efficiently manage complex infrastructures. I have a deep Unix, Linux, and Windows System Administration expertise. I also have an extensive middleware application support experience in design, development, testing, and production/application support.
• Over 10 years of experience in teh field of Information Technology which includes skills in teh UNIX/Linux system programming. 5 total years of experience in configuring, implementing and supporting Splunk Server Infrastructure across Windows, UNIX and Linux.
• Highly skilled in Splunk to build, configure and maintain different environments and in - depth noledge of log analysis generated by various operating systems.
• Installed and monitored Splunk Forwarders on Windows, UNIX and LINUX servers.
• Used XML, Advanced XML and Search Processing language (SPL) for creating Dashboards, views, alerts, reports and saved searches.
• Upgraded and Optimized Splunk setup with new discharges.
• Used various Splunk Apps such as Splunk on Splunk, Universal Field Extractor, Splunk App for UNIX/Linux, Splunk DB1 Connect.
• Created Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats through teh use of continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics.
• Configuration of SPLUNK data inputs by understanding various parsing parameters like Index, source, source typing, queue sizes, index sizes, index locations, read/write timeout values, line breaks, event breaks, time formats etc during index-time.
• Skilled in deploying, configuring and administering Splunk clusters.
• Experience with Linux and Windows specialists for Splunk organization with a strong comprehension of teh Splunk framework.
• Developed customized application configurations in SPLUNK to parse, index multiple types of log format across all application environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Mac OS, Windows 3.x, 9x, XP, Vista, 7, 8, Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008, VMware ESX and ESXi, Ubuntu, ESXI, Linux RedHat RHEL /Centos (5 &6XX servers), and Solaris.

Software: RedHat RHEL Satellite Network, Spacewalk, Munin, HP Service Manager, Subversion, Trac, Kickstart, Remedy, Github, Splunk, Veritas Cluster, Apache RPM Package Building Tools, Linux Clusters, Vagrant, Ansible, Puppet, Bash scripting, Putty and Open SSH protocols, VSFTP, vSphere, Cacti, Wireshark, VMware vCenter, Windows Server Update Service, Nagios, MySQL, Apache, Nginx, SFTP, OSSEC, DenyHosts, Symantec AV Server/Client, Veritas Backup Exec, Cisco VPN, WINSCP, DNS, DHCP. Experience with server virtualization, Load-balancing, High availability and Clustering technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Carrollton, MD

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test and implement security measures dat enhance data or operational capabilities of threat analysts
• Perform ongoing analysis of security tools and evaluate available technology capabilities against teh security needs of teh VA
• Provide daily data displaying teh overall security coverage for specific platforms (e.g., queries which show how many nodes are active, and up to date) which shall be reported in a Weekly Status Report.
• Provide network defense system implementation, installation, and configuration support by identifying, developing, and facilitating implementation of initiatives and programs designed to enhance teh security of teh organization s network and data
• Configuration and troubleshooting across a variety of platforms
• Expereinced with OS installation on new servers both physical and virtual machiens
• Created a step by step OS installation manual.
• Conducted multiple OS installation sessions for other system administrators

Confidential, VA

Splunk Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I helped to ensure teh data dat is in Splunk is correct and compliant with policies and standards to then be passed off from DEV to teh UAT environment and then on to teh PROD. Also, I work on teh issues and investigate problems within Splunk on teh frontend as well as teh backend and fixing them to make sure teh users dat are using it can use it effectively.
• Participated in daily meetings to report progress
• Edited configuration files utilizing subversion
• Experience in Configuring and Integrating teh Servers with different environments to automatically provisioning and creating new machines utilizing Ansible
• Day-to-day spent working on data field extractions, doing parsing, then taking out things dat are useful like metadata.
• Working with regular expressions to effectively extract key tokens of data into meaningful fields.
• Splunk querying experience
• Utilizing of teh Common Information Model and applying it directly to data feeds.
• Experience with Splunk Apps (both using and making).
• Understanding of teh data, deal with data owners, wat needs to be in Splunk, wat doesn't need to be there, create those queries, figure out which ones are null value.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for teh installation, maintenance, and tuning of UNIX hardware and software systems.
• Performed system-debugging tasks.
• Patching for unix, linux & windows
• Utilized management in Ansible Centralized Server and created playbooks to support various middleware application servers, and involved in configuring teh Ansible tower as a configuration management tool to automate repetitive tasks
• Developed and supported teh RHEL based infrastructure in teh cloud environment.
• Monitored Jenkins jobs and contacted team if progress is not evident on fixing stability issues.
• Supporting Local System Administrators to troubleshoot Configuration Management and Network issues.
• Standardized user management with groups for ease in administration Scripted semi-annual Kernel and monthly non-kernel patches for Linux using Satellite server
• Tracked incident, problem and change tickets in service now
• Supported weekend systems upgrades: provided technical support and noledge of system availability times; in need of back outs, would set up conference calls to engage technical resources to coordinate action plan
• Performed disaster recovery tests to ensure system availability and functionality
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 6.0.
• Provided 24x7 on call support in production environment on rotation basis.
• Excellent working noledge in configuring multiple Weblogic domains including machines, manage servers, node managers and cluster environments.
• Implemented IBM endpoint manager management for patching servers
• Managed Runbooks in production with job execution and troubleshooting
• Hyper V management
• Experience working with and supporting CA Technologies Workload Automation AE in with both UNIX and Windows environments.
• Extensive noledge of Job Information Language (JIL) and capabilities to recommend suggestions dat will comply with internal standards and CA best practices.
• Experience with technical support and administration of teh Drupal infrastructure
• Experience with developing and designing Web sites in Drupal
• Experience with technical support and Drupal infrastructure administration
• Strong experience creating, monitoring, and maintaining Autosys job schedules and processing across multiple platforms
• Knowledge of continuous integration, continuous deployment and test driven development practices
• Strong Redhat Satellite server
• Expertise in Job Scheduling environments CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys Edition), CA-7 Scheduler, UC11, JOBTRAC and CONTROL-M.
• Strong expertise in SQL
• Demonstrated experience in requirement study, new development, supporting existing applications and testing teh existing system.
• Cisco Switch management
• Managed logs on splunk application
• Lead Splunk project
• Apache installation and management
• Management of Netback tape servers
• Provide application support on teh UNIX systems.
• Work on a team on various system projects related to UNIX, Storage, and Application support.
• Directs and checks teh work of other Systems Administrators (SAs) and Operators and assists with scheduling and administration.
• Ensure all systems and infrastructure are running optimally and with high availability and quality.
• Provide hands-on system administration support, system maintenance and operations support.
• Recommend software and hardware enhancements.
• Built, configured, and troubleshot LAMP stack environment
• Provide support for on-boarding and off-boarding new and departing employees.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in daily meetings to report progress
• Installation and configuration of Apache on Solaris, Linux and Windows
• Working with regular expressions to effectively extract key tokens of data into meaningful fields.
• Maintained proper documentation of all teh activities carried out during teh project
• Utilizing of teh Common Information Model and applying it directly to data feeds.
• Proficient in System administration, System planning, co - ordination, commissioning, setting up security hierarchy and capacity planning.
• Understanding of teh data, deal with data owners, wat needs to be in Splunk, wat doesn't need to be there, create those queries and figure out which ones are null value.
• Defining teh strategy for enabling performance diagnostics and monitoring through teh use of an Application Performance Management (APM) tool, other monitoring tools, and diagnostic techniques
• Deployed web app and maintained IIS 5.0 and 7.0, apache on AWS
• Administration of APM tools: Administer, support and maintain APM tools including instrumentation, configuration, creation of dashboards and reports as well as provide deep-dive and root cause analysis on Performance issues

Confidential, Washington, DC

Splunk Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test and implement security measures dat enhance data or operational capabilities of threat analysts
• Perform ongoing analysis of security tools and evaluate available technology capabilities against teh security needs of teh VA
• Provide System Administrator level support of applications such as Oracle, MySQL, Apache
• Work with tenured System Administrators and other Infrastructure groups to design, implement and maintain Information Systems
• Provide system management involving account monitoring, security, Operating System installation, and other local area system administration related functions
• Work with vendors and datacenter technicians for installing/troubleshooting/replacing hardware as necessary
• Provide tuning, troubleshooting and analysis for improving environment performance
• Provide technical expertise to teh identification, design, modification and implementation of integrated services and technologies at teh Enterprise level
• Review test plans, results analysis, capacity planning guides, Innovate solutions to improve performance engineering effectiveness
• Provide daily data displaying teh overall security coverage for specific platforms (e.g., queries which show how many nodes are active, and up to date) which shall be reported in a Weekly Status Report.
• Working noledge of Autosys and CRON jobs
• Provide network defense system implementation, installation, and configuration support by identifying, developing, and facilitating the implementation of initiatives and programs designed to enhance teh security of teh organization’s network and data Configuration and troubleshooting across a variety of platforms
• Create and customize System & Splunk applications, search queries and dashboard Create Splunk reports, dashboards, forms, visualizations, alerts Assisting users to customize and configure Splunk to meet their requirements.

Confidential, Rosslyn, VA

Technical Architect/Splunk Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server system administration experience Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Puppet or Chef
• Knowledge of basic SQL
• Experience with VPN and 2 - Factor Authentication technologies
• Experience with x509, PKCS12, JKS digital formats and format conversions
• Experience in environments with FISMA-moderate classification
• Robust shell scripting abilities in bash
• JBoss / WildFly administration experience
• Apache web server experience
• Wrote Splunk pre-processor in Perl 5 which gathered Tidal job scheduling data from Oracle Wrote Splunk searches for 17 dashboard panels.
• Dashboard panels include searches using: charts, timecharts, tables, stats, rex, eval, macros, summary indexing, multiple indexing and teh various function libraries.
• Installed and used these Splunk apps: *Nix, Deployment Monitor, Sanity Check, Afterglow, Enterprise Batch Ops, Splunk on Splunk, Sideview and DB Connect.
• Worked at teh Advanced XML level when necessary.
• Configured Search Heads, Indexers and Universal Light Forwarders.
• Created Solaris Jumpstart and Linux Kickstart servers and processes to automate and standardize teh installation process, reducing installation time by 35% and post-installation errors by 50%.
• Developed and maintained teh Inventory and Service History System using Microsoft Access and ASP for real-time asset management. Reduced teh asset administration effort by 65%.
• Documented and implemented a disaster recovery plan dat included backup schedule policies

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Security Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• Created and configured management reports and dashboards.
• Developed, evaluated and documented specific metrics for management purpose.
• Trained Splunk security team members for complex search strings and ES modules.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.
• Managed and maintained use cases into correlation systems.
• Designed, developed and implemented system engineering plans and technical support services.
• Executed systems programming activities and supported data center activities.
• Acted as Senior Project Manager for data center migration, relocation and consolidation
• Reduced worldwide IT expenditure by approximately 10% through vendor agreement consolidation and coordinating technology deployments across multiple functional areas
• Managed various key vendor contracts and relationships spanning multiple IT areas
• Identified and distributed pertinent market trend data research to various IT managers
• Improved collaboration between teh engineering and various business support groups; frequently leveraged support groups to participate in engineering new technologies and methodologies, contributing to increased acceptance of teh standards proposed by teh central engineering team
• Managed various technology initiatives including teh consolidation and deployment of a centralized backup system for teh Windows/Unix server environment and teh deployment of various security tools across teh enterprise
• Architected and deployed perimeter security firewalls, Internet Web server topology, and strong user authentication tools (e.g. Kerberos, AFS, and secure administration tools)
• Developed global paging system supporting all regional providers and easily extensible to new protocols
• Coordinating and supporting AutoSys command language & Job Instruction Language (JIL) in a complex UNIX server environment
• Provided TCP/IP programming consultation to improve performance of teh custom market data distribution system
• Developed and customized teh global Unix management tools, including teh account and namespace
• Engaged with all levels of teh business including Project teams, Service Delivery, Infrastructure, Business Operations, Legal & Compliance, Facilities and Executives on potential impact of proposed projects.
• Advised key stakeholders on recommendations for achieving Information Security Best Practice.
• Development of SPLUNK Queries to generate teh Report
• Dashboard Creation in SPLUNK, running SPL Queries
• Writing Adhoc Unix Shell Scripts ( Korn Shell )
• Various Metrics Creation in SPLUNK
• Automation/Simplification of Digital Guarding Process through SPLUNK
• Review and analysis of activity logs to determine possibly data leakage. Develop & generate regular business reports. Assist in teh development, implementation and teh operationalization of new DLP policies
• Importing teh data in Splunk through inputs.conf, props.conf and transforms.conf
• Creating DLP(Data Leakage Prevention) Reports through SPLUNK
• Working as an Analyst and Module lead ( Automation Lead )
• Developing a SPLUNK Application
• Initial requirement analysis and Impact analysis.
• Mentored and acted as a key escalation point for other Log Analysts and System Analysts.
• Configuration noledge of Image servers, like jumpstart and OS packaging tools Knowledge of OS security tools/Application

Confidential, Reston Va

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed SA expertise in Red Hat Linux & Unix environments to monitor and tune system to achieve optimum performance
• Performed capacity planning for existing services and provided recommendations to application owners
• Supported existing server infrastructure in a 24 7 on - call capacity as part of a team rotation
• Recommend and implemented changes to existing hardware and OS (Solaris & Linux) infrastructure including patches, users, file systems, and kernel parameters
• Defined Tivoli Storage Manager Server pools, primary disk storage, sequential storage pool, tape and copy storage pool
• Defining schedules for automating backups of Oracle databases and logs at predefined intervals
• Installed and configured TDP for MS-SQL server and MS Exchange Server
• Implemented solutions to automated application and database expansion and performance
• Developed innovated solutions dat allowed teh team to be more efficient in all aspects of teh software development lifecycle
• Developed functional scripts in Unix Shell to support teh gap while migrating from staging server
• Installed, configured, and deployed applications to Jboss and Apache servers on Linux hardware
• Administered Sun Clustr 3.1 Server, SunOne Web server, Apache, and Volume Manager Systems
• Created servers for Disaster Recovery using Solaris 10 zones

Confidential, Reston Va

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for network architecture which included 30 Linux and Unix server
• Installed and configured Hadoop based monitoring tools
• Deployed, administered and managed Hadoop Software on large cluster implementations
• Installed and patched Red Hat Linux, Windows, and Solaris servers
• Analyzed network traffic using sniffers; optimized network performance and balance network load bandwidth
• Diagnosed and resolved high - priority issues with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS, and Apache
• Automated backups using Rsync scripts
• Installed and configured Nagios for monitoring production servers
• Installed, upgraded and managed packages via RPM and YUM package management
• Installed Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration