SUMMARY

• Successful AWS & Splunk Monitoring Engineer with around 6 years ofprofessionalExperience dedicated to Security and Infrastructure Visibility.
• Understands and manages the space between operations and development.
• Has experience with the Monitoring, as well as Cloud automation development for Linux and Windows systems.
• Seeking a position in Monitoring/ AWS to contribute my technical knowledge.
• Administration and Design of public and private cloud platforms (AWS).
• Experience working on Splunk 5.x, 6.x, Splunk DB Connect 1.x, 2.x on distributed Splunk Environments and Clustered Splunk Environments on Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Used full monitoring software stack tools (AppDynamics, SPLUNK, Dynatrace Keynote, and Sumologic) to monitor, alert and report the health of system and software components for both local and cloud data center.
• Designed, configured and deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a multitude of applications utilizing the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, SQS, IAM), focusing on high - availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Proficient in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, CloudFormation AWS Config, Autoscalling, CloudFront, IAM, S3, and R53.
• Worked on Splunk Enterprise Security 6.x. Worked on the Security Implementation.
• Expert in Installation, Configuration & administer Splunk Enterprise Server and Splunk Universal Forwarder, Splunk Heavy Weight Forwarder in large distributed environment.
• Worked on Design, support and maintain the Splunk infrastructure in Windows and Linux environments. Installation of Splunk Enterprise, Apps in multiple servers with automation.
• Experience in Installing AppDynamics Application and Machine agents for monitoring both Application and Server.
• Experience in monitoring System/Application Logs of server using Splunk to detect Prod issues.
• Good Experience in creating the Splunk app for Enterprise Security to Identify and Address emerging security Threats using continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics.
• Experience with Splunk ITSI configuration as well as dashboards/alerts configuration/maintenance for end-to-end application performance monitoring.
• ITSI Modules process data Collected using Splunk Add-ons and Created Multiple KPIs dashboards.
• Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Created Reports, Alerts and Dashboards by using Splunk query language. Experienced in creating and running Cron Jobs for scheduled tasks.
• Strong experience on Troubleshooting Splunk search head, Indexer and forwarder issues and documenting them.
• Implemented Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs), and security groups.
• Set-up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.
• Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
• Worked with IAM service creating new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and Identity providers.
• Utilized AWS Cloud watch to monitor environment for operational & performance metrics during load testing.
• Implemented Docker based Continues Integration and Deployment framework.
• Experience in SOAP, REST API, web-based technologies and Scripting Languages including Perl, python and shell Scripting XML, HTML.
• Broad experience in Bash, Perl, Python scripting on Linux. Strong knowledge on Linux internals.
• Experience with Bug tracking tool like JIRA, Rally and Remedy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AWS Services: EC2, ELB, VPC, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, S3, CloudWatch, Cloud trial, SNS, SQS, EBS, Amazon Direct Connect, DMS, Redshift, Amazon Glacier,, and AWS Lambda.

IAAS: EC2, ELB, RDS, EBS, Auto Scaling, S3, OpenStack, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace

PAAS: Elastic Beanstalk, IAM

SAAS: AppDynamics, Splunk Cloud, SumoLogic, Dynatrace, Cloudability.

Log management: Splunk Cloud, SumoLogic, ELK

Databases: MySQL, Oracle 12c, 11g, MS SQL Server 2008r2, 2012, Amazon Aurora

Application/Web Server: Oracle, Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server, WebSphere Nginx.

SDLC: Agile, Scrum methodologies.

Scripting Languages: UNIX Shell scripting, Perl scripting, XML, JAVA, PHP, POWERSHELL, Python.

Languages: C, C++, java, Python.

Operating Systems: Red Hat, UNIX, Linux, WINDOWS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Monitoring/ Splunk Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setting up a highly flexible monitoring for some major applications through involved SDLCs such as web logic, web sphere, Tomcat, Apache, database, Ping servers.
• Upgraded Splunk Enterprise from v 6.3 to v 6.6.3 in clustered and non-clustered environments.
• Configured Universal Forwarders to connect to Deployment Server which act as Deployment Clients and managed these configurations form a central place.
• Created Alerts (Warning/Critical) using Splunk SPL based on the thresholds values and alert the support personnel on unusual activities or when critical events occurred.
• Created web-based dashboards in Splunk, and live integration progress and metrics tools for real time monitoring of data flow.
• Created and configured KPI's in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), Worked on Splunk ITSI glass tables, deep dives, ITSI modules.
• Experience in Splunk GUI development creating Splunk apps, searches, Data models, dashboards and Reports using the Splunk query language.
• Created Reports to show an aggregated metric against a range, track a metric when it approaches a specific time range.
• Deployed Monitoring agents into applications based upon their requirements, used AppDynamics for monitoring Applications health.
• Created Shell Scripts to install Splunk Forwarders on all servers and configure with common configuration files such as Outputs.conf and Inputs.conf files.
• Proficient on AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53, Auto scaling groups, Cloud watch, Cloud Front, IAM for installing configuring and troubleshooting on various Amazon images.
• Involved in Design, install, automate, administer, and optimize AWS solutions and components to ensure business continuity.
• Installed and configured Splunk DB Connect in Single and distributed server environments.
• Successfully moved Splunk DB from local to NAS using custom scripts in clustered environment.
• Deployed/configured Splunk on various platforms with cross search functionality (On-prem and AWS).
• Implemented POC for using and integrating CloudWatch logs with Splunk App for AWS
• Standardized Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms
• Implementing and Configuring AppDynamics APM tool for various .Net and Java applications.
• Experience in Installing AppDynamics Event Services, machine agents, database agents, App agents.
• Designing and implementing Splunk-based best practice solutions.
• Provided regular support guidance to SPLUNK project teams on complex solution and issue resolution and assisted Administrators to ensure whether SPLUNK is actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.

Environment: Splunk 6.x, Splunk Enterprise and Splunk modules, Splunk DB connect, AWS EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail, IAM, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation, AWS CLI, AWS Auto Scaling, AppDynamics, Web Logic server 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g, Tomcat 6.x, Apache 2.x, Unix/Linux, Shell scripting.

Confidential, Danbury, CT

Monitoring Engineer/ AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed a scalable Monitoring Framework to ensure proper monitoring of all production servers, applications, network devices, databases and connections.
• Upgraded Splunk Enterprise from v 6.2 to v 6.5.2 in clustered environments and non-clustered environments.
• Monitored Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, system health, availability, and optimization.
• Create and Enhance Dashboards, Visualizations, Statistical reports, scheduled searches, alerts, summary indexes and knowledge objects
• Configured Splunk App for AWS and created a VPC Topology view, created alerts on Security insights within AWS Infrastructure, shown a metric overview for Usage of EC2, ELB, EBS, RDS.
• Created new inputs for AWS CloudWatch Logs, Config Rules, and Billing in Splunk Add On for AWS.
• Expertise with SIEM (security information and event management). Manage Splunk user accounts (create, delete, modify, etc.) Scripted SQL Queries in accordance with the Splunk.
• Installed AppDynamics Application agent for monitoring java application running on Docker Container and also deployed Machine Agents for monitoring Docker containers and its services.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Configured and maintained an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, NACL's, Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancer, Security Groups and EC2 instances.
• Used monitoring tools (AppDynamics, SPLUNK, Dynatrace Keynote) to monitor, alert and report the health of system and software components for both local and cloud data center.
• Provisioned AWS S3 buckets for backup of the application and sync this content with remaining S3 backups, by creating an entry for AWS S3 SYNC in Cron tab.
• Requirement gathering and analysis. Interacted with team members and users during the design and development of the applications and Splunk Objects.
• Receiving promptly, handling, gathering requirements through Jira tickets and resolving at on time.
• Communicating and collaborating with customers, Splunk users.
• Used Amazon IAM to grant fine access of AWS resources to users. Also managed roles and permissions of users to AWS account through IAM.
• Created Cost and utilization reports in Cloudability for our multiple cloud providers AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Used Cloudability Rest API’s to pull all our Public cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP) providers data and dump into a MS SQL DB, used Power BI in creating dashboards for cost and utilizations.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for production, Good exposure in troubleshooting and debugging on Splunk and very proactive in problem solving with providing best solutions.
• Grasp the Technical aspects from High level to create Deployment plans, and which direction to go if they hit a snag.

Environment: Splunk 6.x, Splunk Enterprise and Splunk modules, Splunk DB connect, AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail, IAM, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation), AWS CLI, AWS Auto Scaling, Docker, AppDynamics, JSON, Web Logic server 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g, Tomcat 6.x, Apache 2.x, Unix/Linux, Shell scripting.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Splunk / AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design/support Monitoring solutions and utilize these services to validate all expected KPIs, events, alerts, action and document them.
• Responsible for initiating, planning, executing, configuring, and deploying the latest version of Splunk on a Windows or Linux environment
• Worked on Multiple Production Roles and Created Alerts with Using of Splunk, Also Created Multiple dashboards and Alerts at a time.
• Hands on development experience in customizing, visualizations, configurations, reports and search capabilities using customized Splunk queries.
• Using Splunk and ELK for Business Logic Errors and Exceptions and Good Experience on ELK for Log Search Tool, Log stash and Data Visualization Tool.
• Drive complex deployments of Splunk dashboards and reports while working side by side with technical teams to solve their integration issues
• Expertise in creating and customizing Splunk applications, searches and dashboards as desired by IT teams and business.
• Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes. Managing indexes and cluster indexes, Splunk web framework, data model and pivot tables.
• Performed troubleshooting and/or configuration changes to resolve Splunk integration issues.
• Managed Indexer Clusters including security, hot and cold bucket management and retention policies.
• Perform the role of Splunk admin/developer as the situation demands.
• Collaborated with database administration teams and cloud team to provide self-service management process to automate (Oracle, SQL server, Maria dB) database provisioning RDS in AWS public cloud using AWS CloudFormation.
• Designed AWSCloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Performed Data Migration using AWS DMS from On Premises Databases (Oracle and MySQL) and AWS EC2 to AWS RDS.
• Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route53, SES and SNS services in the AWScloud.
• Created read replicas of AWS-RDS-MySQL DB in various regions and AZs using backups and snapshots and scale out AWS-RDS-MySQL instance to additional AZs and regions based on requirements using DB snapshots.
• Managed multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPC's for both production and non-prod where primary objectives included automation, build out, integration and cost control.
• Created alarms and trigger points in Cloudwatch based on thresholds and monitored the server's performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage.
• Configured auto scaling policies to scale up/down, EC2 instances based on ELB health checks and created CloudWatch alarms to be used in auto scaling decision making policies.
• Responsible for Developing and implementing new “best practices” for ensuring continued availability and security of the infrastructure while providing a clear audit trail.
• Provided regular support guidance to SPLUNK project teams on complex solution and issue resolution and assisted Administrators to ensure whether SPLUNK is actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation
• Provided 24 x7 on-call supports in debugging and fixing issues related to Linux in Cloud Environment using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Environment: Splunk Forwarders, Splunk Enterprise and Splunk modules, Splunk DB connect AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail, IAM, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation), JSON, AWS CLI, AWS Auto Scaling, Unix/Linux, Shell scripting.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Splunk Admin/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created Dashboards, Visualizations, Statistical reports, scheduled searches, Alerts and also worked on creating different other knowledge objects.
• Experience about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server)
• Worked on installing Universal and Heavy forwarder to bring any kind of data fields in to Splunk.
• Provide Regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution.
• Helping application teams in on-boarding Splunk and creating dashboards/alerts/reports etc.
• Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.
• Involved in admin activities and worked on inputs.conf, outputs.conf, props.conf and transform.conf to set up time zone and time stamp extractions, complex event transformations and whether any event breaking.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards.
• Create Dashboard, Reports and Alerts for events and configure alert mail.
• Worked on DB Connect configuration for Oracle and MySQL
• Developing Scheduling Alerts, Experience with Deployment Server & Advanced XML.
• Created Dashboards for various types of business users in organization and worked on creating different Splunk Knowledge objects like Macros, IFX, Calculated fields, Tags, Event Types and Look ups.
• Field Extraction, Using IFX, Rex Command and Reg Ex in configuration files.
• Scripting and development skills (Perl, Python) with strong knowledge of regular expressions.
• Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time field extractions. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
• Various types of charts Alert Settings Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions. Creating and managing app, Create user, role, Permissions to knowledge objects.
• Playing a key role in identifying and driving process changes within the team.

Environment: SPLUNK 5.0, Linux, UNIX, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL, XML, Reg Ex, Unix/Linux, Shell scripting.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built Dell servers out of the box installed and configured Windows and Linux operating systems.
• LAN/WAN Design & Implementation (Routing, Switching, Load Balancing, etc.).
• Network Security (Firewall and VPN) supported Black Berry units and troubleshoot issues with GroupWise and Black Berry connections.
• Created and configured VMWare ESX servers.
• Provided day to day Network support for problems with connections Workstations, Printers, Phones etc.
• Researched the market to gain information on the latest updates available and recommended accordingly.
• Package management like Install, remove and update and querying packages using RPM tool.
• Maintained Load balancing, High availability, Failover functionality and Disaster recovery included changing IP address of the web and app server machines, which caused change in the virtual host and http transport configurations.
• Monitored the performance of the system to check the CPU utilization, bottlenecks of I/O devices, Memory usage and Network traffic.

Environment: Linux, UNIX, RHEL 4.x/5.x, Solaris, Oracle 10g, MySQL.