PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in IT industry and proficient expertise in Splunk Development/Admin, Windows/Linux, configuration, customization, management and Technical Support.
• Experience in integrating non - standard logs and sources into Splunk including SQL queries, scripted inputs and custom parsers.
• Extensive knowledge of a tier Splunk installation, Indexer, Intermediate, Heavy forwarder, Search heads, UFs and apps.
• Splunk Application support to onboard various applications to the Splunk Command Center.
• Responsible for the design, developing, testing and deploying of Splunk solutions and dashboards running on Big Data technologies such as Hadoop.
• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting, deploying and maintaining Splunk solutions, reporting, alerting and dashboards.
• Configured and created Roles, Groups, Users and Group Members in the organization for various business groups and well versed with Splunk access roles.
• Experience on Splunk search construction with ability to create well-structured search queries that minimize performance impact.
• Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On’s, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Good experience in creating custom Reports using various Report Types like Line, List, Bar, Pie on tables Incident, Tasks, Problems, Change Request and exported reports to Excel, CSV.
• Create data retention policies, perform index administration, maintenance and optimization for Splunk.
• Experience with Splunk DB Connect application and Splunk forwarder deployment.
• Strong knowledge of Web Security tools - LDAP Server, SSL.
• Drive complex deployments of Splunk dashboards and reports while working side by side with technical teams to solve their integration issues.
• Aggregated Reports such as Report Acceleration, Datamodel and Summary Indexing.
• Configure and customize existing and new systems and applications on Splunk cloud.
• Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards and created event type definitions.
• Designed core scripts to automate Splunk maintenance and alerting tasks.
• Integrate new log sources and data correlation rules into the Splunk.
• As primary for Splunk support, supported more than 10000 forwarders across different OS including Linux, Solaris and windows.
• Managing indexes and cluster indexes, Splunk web framework, data model and pivot tables.
• Hands on experience in customizing Splunk Apps and dashboards, built advanced visualizations, configurations, Reports and search capabilities.
• Knowledge on Splunk ITSI glasstables, deep dives, KPI’s, ITSI modules.
• Created IT Service Intelligence glass table dashboards.
• Experience with administration, architecture, configuration and upgrades for distributed Splunk environments on Linux / Windows systems.
• Created new Remedy Email monitoring integrations to create incidents for the existing Splunk alerts.
• Thorough knowledge in Understanding the usage of network, servers, Mobile devices, and Security equipment and common deployment models for each.
• Experience developing enterprise strategic implementation of Splunk deployments.
• Configured Splunk multisite indexer cluster such as Golden Gate for data replication.
• Responsible for translating business case analysis into functional requirements
• Understands Splunk configuration and able to debug Splunk related issues.
• Worked on several styling and text customizations for different components of the Splunk platform using JavaScript and CSS.
• Troubleshooting performance issues of Splunk searches.
• Worked on Splunk DB Connect to import and index the data from database.
• Experience developing Splunk queries and dashboards targeted at understanding application performance and capacity analysis.
• Hands on experience in profiling tools like AppDynamics
• Integration on Netcool with multiple monitoring tools such as Splunk, Wily and Dynatrace.
• Deployed Search Head Clusters in different environments including migration of existing Search Head pooling (simultaneously cut over from current search head’s instead of creating from scratch).
• Standardized Splunk agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Provided 24/7on-call support for production, strong team player, good analytical skills.
• Expert in Business/Technical document preparation with MS-Office, Visio, MS-Project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Splunk Modules: Splunk 5.x/6.x, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Machine Learning Toolkit, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk Cloud, Splunk on Splunk, Splunk Web Framework.

Web/Application Servers: Web Logic 10/11g, REST, Apache Tomcat.

Operating Systems: Red Hat LINUX, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Windows 98/2000

ITIL: ITSM 5.5/6.0/7.x, ITIL, ServiceNow and LDAP

Programming Languages: C, C++, Jelly Script and Java.

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, Shell Script, Python

Databases: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, MySQL, SQL Server 2012/2008/2005

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, JQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap

Tools: /IDE Eclipse3.0, Sublime, Textpad

App Monitoring Tools: Splunk, CA Wily, Netcool, Dynatrace, Hubble

Version Control Tools: Confidential, SVN, GitHub

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SRE lead /Splunk Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an SRE lead for multiple journeys
• Become familiar with new infrastructure, worked with various application leads to understand the topology of Confidential infrastructure.
• My Day 2 Day responsibilities which includes work with business, partnered with multiple teams to understand infrastructure, Business requirements and how to report metrics for the same.
• Worked with business teams such on tools such as Mpulse, Confidential, Web analytics
• Closely worked with business product owners to understand monitoring needs, for business-criticaloperations.
• Collaborated with owners of monitoring tools to create robust dashboards to provide instant and actionable KPI data.
• Became completely immersed in multiple project life cycle.
• Identified gaps in current logging, to development teams which resulted in new enhanced logging procedures.
• Created advanced Dashboards, alerts, reports, advanced splunk searches and visualization in Splunk Enterprise.
• Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards.
• Monitoring Splunk dashboards, Splunk Alerts and configure scheduled alerts based on the internal customer requirement.

Environment: Splunk 6.5.2/6.3, Machine Learning Tool Kit, Splunk ITSI, CSS, JavaScript, Python scripting, Netcool, CA Wily, DynaTrace, Mpulse, ServiceNow, LDAP, Splunk DB Connect, Hubble, Shell, SharePoint Site.

Splunk Engineer

Confidential, Bloomington, IL.

Responsibilities:

• Created advanced Dashboards, alerts, reports, advanced splunk searches and visualization in Splunk Enterprise.
• Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On’s, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Splunk Application support to onboard various applications to the Command Center.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Migration, Trouble-Shooting and Maintenance of Splunk, WebLogic Server 7.0/8.1/9.x/10.x, Apache Web Server on different UNIX, Linux.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• Expert in using IFX, EREX and Regex in configuration files to extract fields.
• Experience on Splunk search construction with ability to create well-structured search queries that minimize performance impact.
• Used Hubble for spread sheet management .
• Designed reports by using Hubble.
• Monitored Database Connection Health by using Splunk DB connect health dashboards.
• Monitoring Splunk dashboards, Splunk Alerts and configure scheduled alerts based on the internal customer requirement.
• Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.
• Working on Splunk ITSI glasstables, deep dives, ITSI modules.
• Managing indexes and cluster indexes, Splunk web framework, data model and pivot tables.
• Hands on experience in installing and using Splunk apps for UNIX, Linux and windows.
• Troubleshooting Splunk server and forwarder issues.
• Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards.
• Monitoring Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, system health, availability, and optimization.
• Involved in installation, Administration and configuration of Splunk enterprise and integration with local legacy systems.
• Experience with Splunk architecture and best practices.
• Assist with design of core scripts to automate SPLUNK maintenance and alerting tasks.
• Coordinating with application and system owners to onboard applications in Splunk and ensure logging capabilities are functional.
• Worked on Wily, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk and Netcool.
• Used Splunk Enterprise REST API that uses HTTP requests to configure and manage Splunk instance, create and run searches.
• Configuring Splunk and AppDynamics for application login and application monitoring.
• Good understanding on Python scripting language.
• Drive complex deployments of Splunk dashboards and reports while working side by side with technical teams to solve their integration issues.
• Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
• Created many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners which are used to monitor application and server health.
• Help to document best practices in developing and using the Splunk run book documentation.
• Gathering requirements from client creating catalogs items like questionnaires excel documents and uploading them on SharePoint site.
• Created macros using Rest API’s for various saved searches in our environment.
• Troubleshoot splunk alerts and dashboards for multi-applications.
• Ability to develop complex Splunk dashboards and visualizations using queries and simple XML .
• Created and configured various instances of sandbox's.
• Deployed complex Splunk security app for security group to manage and monitor infrastructure.
• Responsible for providing analysis of problems and resolutions or fixes for the production issues related to Splunk platform within the Service Level Agreement.
• Experience with administration, architecture and upgrades for distributed Splunk environments on Linux / Windows systems.
• Integrated alerts and escalated ticketing systems such as Page Out, React or HP Service Center from Netcool .
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for production as a part of monitoring team.
• Built Datamodels using knowledge object types such as Lookups, transactions, search-time field extractions and calculated fields.
• Integration on Netcool with multiple monitoring tools such as Splunk, Wily and Dynatrace.
• Ingestion of data from thousands of devices totaling terabytes of daily ingestion.
• Strong Knowledge of SQL, MySQL and Oracle databases for data enrichments and lookups.
• Input various data feeds to Splunk using command line. Strengthening the production release process.
• Defined Confidential, Glass tables, KPI Alerts and KPI base searches for splunk IT Service Intelligence.
• Created and Managed Splunk DB connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.
• Worked in Agile development environment with each sprint for two weeks.

Environment: Splunk 6.5.2/6.3, Machine Learning Tool Kit, Splunk ITSI, CSS, JavaScript, Python scripting, Netcool, CA Wily, DynaTrace, ServiceNow, LDAP, Splunk DB Connect, Hubble, Shell, SharePoint Site, MyAppProfile.

Splunk Consultant

Confidential, California.

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and implemented data visualization functionality for Splunk to be used in conjunction with machine data.
• Expertise in Aggregated Reports such as Report Acceleration, Datamodel and Summary Indexing.
• Deep Analysis on data from multiple applications and multiple hosts.
• Design and maintain Splunk Datamodels which drives the Pivot Tool and Knowledge on the format and semantics of their indexed data.
• Worked on Datamodel acceleration to speed up generation of pivot tables and charts for long running queries.
• Set up Dashboards for senior management and production support which required to use Splunk.
• Good Understanding of configuration files, precedence and daily work exposure to Props.conf, transforms.conf, inputs.conf, outputs.conf and Setting up a forwarder information based on requirement .
• Used techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time Vs Index time field extraction.
• Scheduled Reports to send emails to different department heads/users on weekly and daily basis.
• Installed Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments to configure database queries and lookups via Splunk Web interface.
• Used Splunk DB Connect to import and index the data already stored in database to gain more insight to enrich the event data.
• Involved in load balancing and participated in capacity planning.
• Experienced in building web pages and developed using JavaScript, shell script.
• Worked on several styling and text customizations for different components of the Splunk platform using JavaScript and CSS.
• Using CSS styling, have enhanced the appearance of the results tables by applying color to the cell background and cell highlighting the active rows of the tables.
• Worked on SplunkWeb for specific actions on user action, such as click, change, or mouse-over event to override the default behavior, replacing the default action with our custom handler using JavaScript.
• Having experience in development of enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, spring and web services (SOAP and REST based).
• Created and Managed Splunk DB connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.
• Built Custom Visualizations to analyze and represent unique data sets in developing Views and Apps for Splunk Web.
• Integrated ServiceNow with Splunk to generate Incidents from Splunk Administered Apache HTTP Server 2.0.
• Configured Splunk multisite indexer cluster such as Golden Gate for data replication.
• Used KV Store to perform Create-Read-Update-Delete (CRUD) operations on individual records using Splunk REST API access and lookups to the data collection using the Splunk search language.
• Experience in Shell scripting and extensively used Regular expressions in search string and data anonymization.
• Created and escalated incident tickets through BMC Remedy .
• Worked on client side scripting and transitions to server side scripting in System Definitions.
• Worked with Splunk GUI, command line interface and directly with configuration files.
• Used JavaScript to define business rules in the Workflows and Approvals.
• Worked on Field Extraction using IFX, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files.
• Configured alert to alert and notify users in the System Policy using Email Alerts and Notifications.
• Understood WebLogic services and their functionality to provide dashboards for senior management.
• Administered and configured Users, Roles, Groups and Group Members for the application.
• Integrated Database through Splunk DB connect app, Access control management (providing access to Splunk).
• Sound knowledge with messaging such as JMS, JMX and Event based architectures.

Environment: Splunk 6.x, Splunk DB connect and other modules, Agile, Selenium Grid,TestNG, Eclipse IDE, Maven, Jenkins,Log4j, Oracle, MSWord, MS Excel, Windows, JIRA, GIT, SOAPUI, Cucumber.

Splunk Consultant

Confidential, California.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in working with Splunk authentication and permissions and having significant experience in supporting large scale Splunk deployments.
• Designed, developed, and implemented data visualization functionality for Splunk to be used in conjunction with machine data.
• Installed Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments.
• Worked on Splunk UI, able to write Splunk searches, debug search queries and have scripting experience.
• Worked on Hubble for live data reporting and to design reports.
• Set indexing property configurations, including timezone offset, custom source type rules . Configure regex transformations to perform on data inputs. Use in tandem with props.conf.
• Deployed complex Splunksecurity app for security group to manage and monitor infrastructure.
• Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On’s, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Created Dashboards for the Performance Analytics users for presenting any visualization, such as charts, Lists, dials and scorecards.
• Configure and customize existing and new systems and applications on Splunkcloud.
• Experience in Data Ingestion and Data enhancement in Splunk.
• Configured and administered J2EE services including JDBC, JMS, and JNDI in Weblogic Server 9.x/10.x
• Monitor the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, scalability, and optimization.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
• Responsible for providing analysis of problems and resolutions or fixes for the production issues related to Splunk platform within the Service Level Agreement.
• Excellent problem-solving, design, development, and debugging skills.
• Having experience in development of enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, Spring and web services (SOAP and REST based).
• Experience with Splunk software and SDK and data analysis concepts.
• Administered and configured Users, Roles, Groups and GroupMembers for the application.
• Integrated ServiceNow with Splunk to generate the Incidents from Splunk Administered Apache HTTP Server 2.0, Apache Tomcat 6.0.
• Serve as a Tools Management Team member, responsible for the design, implementation, and support of Splunk.
• Created and configured various instances of sandbox's for DEV, QA, UAT and PROD.
• Experienced in major changes in a Splunk sandbox environment before moving them to your production system.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• Worked on Field Extraction using IFX, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files.
• Input various data feeds to Splunk using command line tools
• Configured alert to alert and notify users in the System Policy using Email Alerts and Notifications.
• Expertise in creating and customizing Splunkapplications, searches and dashboards.
• Worked on client side scripting and transitions to server side scripting in System Definitions.
• Experience with SplunkUI/GUI development and operations roles.
• Worked in Agile development environment with each sprint for two weeks.
• Experience with Splunkarchitecture and best practices.
• Worked on Awk&Sed to parse and format log files in efficient manner.
• Have Knowledge in various search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where, xyseries, table and difference between event stats and stats.
• Experience on use and understand of complex RegEx (regular expressions).
• Remedy administration, support and development with ITSM 7.x.
• Extensive knowledge of a tier Splunk installation, Indexer, intermediate, heavy forwarder, search heads, UFs and apps.

Environment: Splunk 6.2,6.3, Hubble,TestNG,Java, Eclipse,GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Windows, MS office 2007, Agile, Rally, SoapUI, GitHub, Oracle, Cucumber (Gherkin).

Java developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and analyzing the basic requirements.
• By using Servlets and JSP implemented server side programs.
• Involved in design, development and validation of User Interface by using HTML, Java Script.
• Used Hibernate framework to persist the data into the database.
• Installed and configured spring tool suite IDE and apache tomcat 6.0.
• Used back-end database like oracle 11g.
• Used Spring MVC and Hibernate in integrating different layers within the application.
• Worked on developing Web Services using SOAP and XML.
• Completed the initial version of BIB (Business in a Box) claims module single handedly and gave various demo of the application to executives within the organization.
• Developed UI part of the application applications using JSP's, JavaScript and CSS, HTML 5, JQuery.
• Developed few stored procedures, triggers and sequences on Oracle 10g.
• Developed XSLT files for transforming the XML response from the web service into HTML as per the business requirements

Environment: Java 1.6/1.7, Jsp, HTML, Ajax, JQuery, Javascript, Spring MVC, D3,Hibernate, Oracle 10g, XML, Xpath, XSLT, IBM websphere 6.0,Eclipse,Unix,Clearcase.

Linux/Unix Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supporting around 500 servers (Solaris& AIX)
• Managed Latest fixes and updates using SUN Connection Update Manager
• Performed Solaris upgradation activities
• Good exposure on VMware upgrades, implementations, automated tools and configurations.
• Confidential Volume Manager and Confidential File System troubleshooting and Administration
• Multi-tier application environment with Weblogic, Websphere
• Mission Critical 24x7 Servers support, ITIL process foundation
• Proficient with TCP/IP. Installed Sun connection update on client servers and maintained.
• Analyze and suggest corrective methods on performance issues
• Adding additional and extension of existing File systems using VxVm and Vxfs
• Working with Application and Database team to get new LUN allocated from Storage
• Configuration, maintenance, deployments, supporting Fed wire and swift of banking applications.
• Upgrading the App as per Application team requirements. Performance analysis, tuning and management.

Environment: E10K, E25K domain servers, SunFire V440, VxVm, Vxfs& Sun Cluster, Linux, IBM MQ series, WebLogic, WebSphere MQ, Tivoli Storage Manager Backups, Fedwire, Swift, Citrix, Shell