PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of IT experience and 5+ years of experience as Splunk Admin/Developer and Oracle PL/SQL Developer on varied projects which involves Design and Development of client/server. In platform consisting of Red Hat Linux, Windows, and Sun Solaris operating systems.
• Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Expertise in creating accurate reports, Dashboards, Visualizations and Pivot tables for the business users.
• Extensive experience in Installation, Configuration, and Migration, Trouble - Shooting and Maintenance of Splunk, Apache Web Server on different UNIX flavors like Linux.
• Experience in installing and using Splunk apps for UNIX and Linux (Splunknix) .
• Having experience in understanding of splunk 5.x and 6.x product, distributed splunk architecture and components including installation of Search Heads, Indexers, Forwarders, Deployment Server, License Model and Heavy/Universal Forwarder.
• Created Reports, Alerts and Dashboards by Splunk query language. Experienced in creating and running Cron Jobs for scheduled tasks.
• Proficient in Parsing, Indexing, Searching Concepts like Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• Have Knowledge in various search commands like Stats, Chart, Time Chart, Transaction, strptime, strftime, Eval, where, xy series, Table and difference between Event Stats and Stats.
• Used Time chart attributes such as Span, Bins, Tag, and Event Types. Created and configured management reports and dashboards.
• Creating dashboards with Scheduled Searches or Inline Search vs Scheduled Search in a Dashboard.
• Field Extraction, Using IFX, Rex Command and RegEx in configuration files.
• Create and managing the applications, creating users/roles and granting permissions to the respective users on Knowledge Objects.
• Using techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search Time vs Index Time field extraction and understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
• Experience in developing Splunk Queries and Dashboards targeted at understanding application performance and capacity analysis. Proficient in PL/SQL programming - Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages, SQL tuning, and creation of Oracle Objects - Tables, Views, Materialized Views, Triggers, Sequences, Synonyms, Database Links, and User Defined Data Types. Experience using SQL, PL/SQL Procedures, Functions, Triggers and Packages.
• Expertise in advance features of Oracle 11g for PL/SQL programming like Using Records and Collections, Ref. Cursors, Nested tables and Dynamic SQL and Exception Handling.
• Proficient in Performance Tuning and Query Optimization using various types of Hints, Partitioning, Bulking techniques and Indexes. Profound experience in Tuning SQL queries using utilities like EXPLAIN PLAN, SQL Trace, and TKPROF to improve performance.
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which includes analysis, specification, development, testing, maintenance and documentation.
• Worked on log parsing, complex Splunk searches, including external table lookups.
• Having excellent logical, analytical & debugging skills posses high work qualities with good interpersonal skills, highly motivated, fast learner, good team player and very proactive in problem solving with providing best solution.
• Configured and administered JDBC, JMS, JNDI, and SNMP on Web Logic Server 10mp1.
• Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards.
• Monitored Database Connection Health by using Splunk DB connects health dashboards, JBoss and Apache Tomcat.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirement Management: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Visio

Languages: C, C++, Java, XML, Unix Shell Scripting, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, Pearl, Python.

Web/Application servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Sun ONE

Web technologies: servlets, JSP, HTML, XML

Databases: Oracle11g/10g, MYSQL SERVER, DB2, MS Access, SQL Databases.

Database Utilities: SQL* Plus, SQL* Loader, TOAD, SQL Developer

Tools: Splunk 6.x,Oracle Forms … TOAD, Chef, Puppet

Network Protocols : TCP/IP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP.

Operating Systems : Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux, Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8, UNIX, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Splunk Admin/ Developer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Performed Splunk administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and tuning.
• Generated and enhanced Splunk Dashboards, Reports, and Alerts.
• Created Dashboards, Visualizations, Statistical reports, scheduled searches, alerts and also worked on creating different other knowledge objects.
• 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.
• Involved in helping the UNIX and Splunk administrators to deploy Splunk across the UNIX and windows environment.
• Worked on installing Universal Forwarders and Heavy Forwarders to bring any kind of data fields into Splunk.
• Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards.
• Worked on log parsing, complex Splunk searches, including external table lookups.
• Configured and administered Tomcat JDBC, JMS and JNDI services.
• Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Splunk search construction with ability to create well-structured search queries that minimize performance impact.
• Involved in handling various Incident and request related to the application.
• Installed Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments.
• Monitored the database (data tables and error tables), WebLogic error log files and application error log files to track and fix bugs.
• Support and execute arrangements considering a full information lifecycle (Search & Investigate, Add Knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze). Followed agile and scrum process for the whole implementation process.
• Ensuring that the application website is up and available to the users.
• Continuous monitoring of the alerts received through mails to check if all the application servers and web servers are up.
• Created Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards
• Worked on various defects analysis and fixed them.
• Problem record analysis and solution providing.
• Field Extraction, Using Ifx, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files.
• Created and Managed Splunk DB connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.
• Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs. Index time field extraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
• Integrated Service Now with Splunk to generate the Incidents from Splunk.
• Worked on DB Connect configuration for Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL.
• Monitored Database Connection Health by using Splunk DB connects health dashboards.
• Involved in monitoring the ticketing tool and taking the ownership of the tickets.
• Created Crontab scripts for timely running jobs.
• Developed build scripts, UNIX shell scripts and auto deployment processes.
• Provided 24/7 on-call Production Support.

Environment:: Splunk 6.x, JBoss 7.x, Tomcat 7.x, BIGIP Load Balancers, SAML, Wily Introscope 6.0, Configured plug-ins for Apache HTTP server 2.4, RedHat Linux 6.x, LDAP, JDBC, JDK1.7, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JMS, XML, Oracle 11g, Solaris 10, SVN, CVS.

Confidential, WI

Splunk Developer / Admin

Responsibilities:

• Created static and real-time Dashboards, reports, scheduled searches and alerts.
• Installed and configured Splunk receivers and Universal forwarders on Windows, Linux and Unix OS.
• Involved in admin activities and worked on inputs.conf, index.conf, props.conf and transform.conf to set up time zone and time stamp extractions, complex event transformations and whether any event breaking.
• Installed and configured Splunk apps like SOS, DB Connect, and App for UNIX and Deployment Monitor.
• Involved with architecture team for installing and configuring High Availability for Splunk application.
• Creating new customize index in Indexer to collect and classify the data.
• Able to manage and reindex the data using fish bucket policy.
• Identify the storage requirements for incoming data and able to formulate rules for creating index buckets.
• Able to manage the index from cluster by maintaining the configuration bundle.
• Implemented Single site clustering across the Splunk deployment to ensure data fidelity and availability.
• Basic understanding in deploying multisite cluster to ensure data resilience across various geographic locations.
• Provide Regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution.
• Created Time wrap Command to compare results week-over-week or any given day.
• Efficiently handled Work Load Management for load balancing and failover, improving performance, reliability and scalability.
• Gathering different wellsprings of syslog and XML information from different gadgets, applications, and information bases.
• Expertise in Splunk dashboards to capture the user session and user navigation in an application.
• Created Splunk Alerts if any custom condition exceeded the defined threshold
• Good understanding in Splunk knowledge objects like lookups, fields and tags
• Created and configured management reports and dashboards in Splunk for application log monitoring.
• Support and execute arrangements considering a full information lifecycle (Search & Investigate, Add Knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze). Followed agile and scrum process for the whole implementation process.
• Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports.
• Field Extraction, Using Ifx, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files.
• Created Splunk Alerts to notify service outage and application outage.
• Good knowledge in Splunk simple XML and able to manage Splunk dashboard panels.
• Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs. Index time field extraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
• Created dashboard from search, scheduled searches Inline search vs. scheduled search in a dashboard.
• Various types of charts Alert Settings Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions.
• Developed shell scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, log rotation etc.
• Installed Splunk DB connect app to feed database logs to Splunk Performed Splunk Up gradation activity across all components

Environment: Splunk Enterprise Server, Splunk Forwarder, Shell Script, RedHat Linux, Java Script, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2.

Confidential, CA

Splunk Developer / Admin

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Spunk universal forwarder across various applications to collect the data.
• Created syslog and snmp receiver architecture to collect data from network devices.
• Responsible to filter the unwanted data in heavy forwarder level thereby reducing the license cost.
• Implemented various parsing steps to route data to desired index at the HF level
• Analyzing in forwarder level to mask the customer sensitive data able to manage distributed search across set of indexers.
• Optimized Splunk for peak performance by splitting Splunk indexing and search activities across different machines.
• Extracted complex Fields from different types of Log files using Regular Expressions.
• Able to create fields through IFX, Splunk Web and via Splunk configurations.
• Expertise to analyze and correlate the events through Spunk grouping commands such as transaction, join and append.
• Created HTML dashboards with java scripts and CSS to create customized visualizations.
• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings. Created and configured management reports and dashboards.
• Implemented Google map identifiers in Splunk dashboards using geo lookup commands.
• Involved prediction in application events using Splunk Algorithms.
• Good knowledge in building Splunk Apps for custom application requirement.
• Provide inputs for identifying best fit architectural solutions - deployment for Splunk project.
• Created Dashboards to monitor CPU Performance Peak, Memory Leakage.
• Monitor and track Splunk performance problems, administrations and open tickets with Splunk if there is need.
• Responsible for Scheduling and Automating Database tasks - Jobs, Alerts, Emails, Notification.
• Maintained and managed the application errors during production.
• Created Splunk Dashboards to capture the Authentication breaches across application.
• Expertise in Splunk Dashboards to track the Application usage in peak times.
• Scheduled Reports to find the login defaulters across organization/application.
• Created EVAL Functions where necessary to create new field during search run time.
• Worked on the Windows Servers and RHEL Linux OS deployments. Worked on VM creation, templates, clones and snapshots.
• Managed VMs specification, upgrade of VM Tools and VM hardware.

Environment: Splunk Enterprise Server, Splunk Forwarder, Shell, PowerShell, RedHat Linux, Java Script, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Splunk Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in accessing and normalizing data from multiple sources to Splunk indexer.
• Gathering various sources of syslog and XML data from devices, applications, and data bases .
• Perform daily health checks and maintain integrity of production environment by proactively resolving services impacting incidents.
• Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application tiers introduced into environment and existing application.
• Work closely with Application Teams to create new Splunk dashboards for Operation teams.
• Identify pattern and trends that are indicators of routine problems.
• Troubleshooting and resolve the Splunk - performance, log monitoring issues; role mapping, dashboard creation etc.
• Optimized Splunk for peak performance by splitting Splunk indexing and search activities across different machines.
• Using Search Processing Language (SPL) created Visualizations to get the value out of data.
• Managed Indexer Clusters including security, hot and cold bucket management and retention policies.
• Created EVAL Functions where necessary to create new field during search run time.
• Used Ifx, Rex and Regex commands for field extraction.
• Configured Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Regex, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Involved in writing complex IFX, rex and Multikv command to extracts the fields from the log files.
• Created Dashboard, Reports and Alerts for events and configure alert mail.

Environment:: Splunk 6.0.1, Linux, UNIX, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL, XML, Java Script, MS Excel, MS Power Point.

Confidential

Java/J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in end-to-end development of SDLC using Waterfall methodology.
• Collaborated with the business and technical teams to discuss about the issues.
• Developed user interface using JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Tag libraries, JQuery and AJAX.
• Used Core Java concepts like Collections, Exception Handlings, Serialization, Multi-Threading, Concurrency, Latest java features.
• Used Struts framework to define Controller, action mappings, forms and View pages.
• Integrated the application with Validation Framework.
• Used Core Java & J2EE design patterns like Singleton, Factory, Business Delegate, Adapter, MVC, DAO, VO, DTO, Service Locator etc.
• Used WSDL, SOAP, AXIS and JAX-WS technologies to create web services, generate stubs and consuming the existing services.
• Developed Restful web services using JERSEY tool.
• Developed EJBs - Session beans for Business logic & Entity Beans for Persistence.
• Used JNDI to do connection pooling.
• Written SQL Queries and PL/SQL - stored procedures, functions, indexes, triggers and sequences to interact with the database.
• Used JMS to pass messages as payload to track different statuses, milestones and states in the workflows.
• Developed and documented Test cases, Test scenarios & Test scripts for Unit testing and Black box testing and after all wrote show case documents for showing to the users &otherteams.

Environment: Java 1.5, J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, DB2- SQL, PL/SQL, EJB- Session beans, Entity Beans, RAD, CVS, Log4j, JUnit, Maven, IBM Optim, WSDL, SOAP, AXIS, JERSEY, Ant, Rally, Validation Framework.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Individually involved in the project from requirement analysis to production.
• Developed the UI using JSP and JavaScript.
• Business Services using the Servlets and Java.
• Developed and modified Servlets to accept and process request from the clients.
• Developed various objects using java and HTML and DHTML to maintain well-structured GUI and to interact with Controllers to get data from Oracle database.
• Unit Testing and Regression Testing of Web Application.
• Fixing Cross Browser/Environmental issues.
• Updated pages using HTML, CSS in Angular.js framework.
• Performance tuning in Presentation Layer and Backend.
• Developed clickable prototypes in HTML, DHTML, Photoshop, CSS and JavaScript.
• Tested web sites and fixed any existing bugs using Firebug.
• Provide maintenance to several websites.
• Responsible for code optimization and test the website across different browsers.
• Wrote complex SQL statements to retrieve data from the DB2 database.
• Developed Ant builds script and ant task classes to clean, compile, copy, run, and deploy, jar, war and earfiles, and develop web service Used JDBC API to access database .

Environment: HTML5, Oracle, Java, JavaScript, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, DHTML, MS Office, Firefox, Windows XP.

Confidential

SQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering required data, data analysis and documentation of the plan.
• Involved in Optimization and normalization of database and tables.
• Developed data model, SQL Queries, SQL Query tuning process and Schemas.
• Created Database objects - Tables, Views, and Functions and developing procedures for implementing application functionality at the database side for performance improvement.
• Performed query plans and making sure each and every query is using appropriate useful Indexes.
• Wrote various kinds of SQL queries involving correlated Sub queries, UNION, Inner and Outer Joins.
• Defined the search criteria and pulled out the record of the customer from the database. Make the required changes and save the updated record back to the database.
• Created and Modified T-SQL Stored Procedures/Triggers for validating the integrity.
• Experience in providing Logging, Error handling by using Event Handler, and Custom Logging for SSIS Packages.
• Excellent report creation skills using Microsoft Reporting Services (SSRS) with proficiency in using Report Designer as well as Report Builder.
• Extensive experience in multidimensional data modeling, such as star schemas, snowflakes, de-normalized models, handling slow-changing dimensions/attributes.
• Analyzed and created Multidimensional Cubes in Facts and Dimension Tables using SSAS Scheduled Backups and performed Restore operations for system test data.

Environment: MS SQL Server Management Studio 2005, T-SQL, MS SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), MSSQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), MS SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)