SUMMARY

• Over 3years of experience in IT with Splunk Admin, Configuration Management, Change Management.
• Experience with Splunk availability, performance, support and deployment of multiple Splunk environments.
• Involved in all aspects of a Splunk environment including: sizing,setup, troubleshooting and tuning performance, upgrades, collaborating on deliverables with other teams,
• Splunk app development, standardization, designing and employing a six sigma project to achieve a faster
• Strong experience with Unix and shell scripting.Experience with Pearl and Python.
• Experience with Chef and Puppet for distributed systems
• ROI and growing capacities by mentoring other users. Gather requirements and make sure that the Splunk environments supply useful information to tech support agents, L2 & L3 teams as well as IT managers, directors
• Experience as a developer gathering requirements and processes. Programmingand improving multiuser applications using Visual Basic and SQL with MS Access.
• Designing new forms that streamline processes and reports that extract value from the underlying data.
• Experience with networking and SAN in large scale enterprise
• Experience as a RHEL and CentOS Linux systems Administrator. Installing, configuring, remotely monitoring performance and stability, script creation and troubleshooting web and network services.
• Experience with implementing REST API Interface for Splunk searches.
• Administered Version Control systems like Perforce, Subversion to create daily backups and checkpoint files.
• Proposed Branching strategies for implementing the Parallel development and suits the agile methodology for different Version control systems.
• Extensive experience in setting up baselines, branching, merging and automation processes using shell, Perl, python, and batch scripts
• Extensively experienced in defining the branching and merging strategies, creating baselines and releasing the code
• Worked with different version management tools like CVS, Subversion and Clear Case
• Profound experience on Build Automation and Continuous Integration concepts by using tools like ANT, Maven, Hudson, and CruiseControl
• Good experience in installing and configuring Websphere application server 5.x/6.x,Websphere Message Queuing series and IBM HTTP server
• Profound in Creation of Clusters, Cluster members and configuring them with messaging engines
• Knowledge in Java/J2ee concepts like struts, Hibernate,Jsp and servlets.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications like JDBC, JMS, JNDI on Web Sphere 6.1 that involves EAR(Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Involved in enabling security for users, groups administration and daily backup and restore operations
• Knowledge in Java/J2ee concepts like struts, Hibernate,Jsp and servlets.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications like JDBC, JMS, JNDI on Web Sphere 6.1 that involves EAR(Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Worked on Automation by writing Wsadmin scripts (jacl/jython), ANT and shell wrappers.
• Experienced in migration version tools such as CVS, Subversion, TFS, Base ClearCase and UCM ClearCase
• Excellent work experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project Management, Project, Release and Configuration Management Plans.
• Strong knowledge skills in various scripting languages such as ANT, Perl and Shell (Korn, Bourne, C)
• Good understanding of build and deployment of JAVA/J2EE applications in WebLogic and WebSphere Application Servers.
• Strong experience in Building Object Oriented Applications using Java, writing Shell scripts on UNIX.
• Experience in base lining, merging, branching, restoring back - ups and troubleshooting code deployments for multiple applications within 64 different environments
• Good Experience on 24*7 Production Support and working with critical service level agreements.
• Worked on Release schedules, planned for Release status, created Rollout Plans, tracked the Project Milestones, prepared the reports and acted as a Implementer for the Release calls and worked for a successful Release.
• Created SCM Process, policies and procedures to follow Development and QA teams to Release or Deploy highest quality product for the enterprise
• Highly experienced in deploying applications in application servers like Websphere application server, JBoss and web logic
• Good analytical, problem solving, communication skills both oral and written and have the ability to work either independently with little or no supervision or as a member of a team.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Source Control Tool: GIT, CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Puppet, Jenkins, Jira, Microsoft VSS and Clear Case

Build Management: Gradle, ANT, MAVEN, Perl, MS Build, NANT and MakeFile

Continuous Integration: BAMBOO, TFS and Jenkins/HudsonApplication Servers JBoss 5 and Websphere, IIS, WEBLOGIC, TOMCAT

Operating System: CentOS, Redhat Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Unix, DOS, Windows Server 2003, 2008

IDE Tools: Eclipse, Netbeans, Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/2005, Visual Basic 6.0

Architecture: Relational DBMS, Client-Server Architecture, OLAP, OLTP

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Champaign, IL

Splunk Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Setting up Splunk environment for Online applications
• Onboarding Kiosk and other channel applications into Splunk environment
• Creating operations dashboard for production support teams
• Develop performance troubleshooting oriented app to be shared on Splunk base.
• Develop predictive analytics monitoring capabilities.
• Build searches, reports and APP's that work towards taking full advantage of Splunk's capabilities.
• Responsible for Splunk availability, performance, support and deployment of multiple Splunk environments.
• Involved in all aspects of a Splunk environment including: sizing,setup, troubleshooting and tuning performance, upgrades, collaborating on deliverables with other teams
• Summary indexes to accelerate the dashboard performance
• Setting up alerts on critical conditions for monitoring teams for proactive monitoring
• Error aggregation dashboard across all applications using Side view Utils
• Planned, scheduled and documented releases at Code Freeze Periods.
• Created and Managed AWS EC2 Virtual Machine instances running RHEL
• Developed Bash and Ruby Scripts for the purpose of manual deployment of the code to different dev environments and to send out notifications to the team to announce deployments
• Coordinated with different teams before and after the production deployments

TECHNOLOGIES: Java/J2EE, RHEL, Fedora, Unix, Linux, Virtual Box, Splunk, Oracle11g/10g/9i/8i, Solaris10, PL/SQL, AIXV6.1,Shell, Pearl, TOAD, Bash, Ruby, Tomcat, GIT, Puppet, Chef, Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, RHEL, AWS, Apache HTTP, Atlassian Suite (Stash, Jira, Confluence), Rundeck, Webmin

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Splunk Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided CM and Build support for more than 5 different applications, built and deployed to the production and lower environment
• Administration of Harvest code and document repository
• Plan, size and deploy new Splunk environments. Assure high availability & performance trough horizontal scaling and load balanced components.
• Build searches, reports and APP's that work towards taking full advantage of Splunk's capabilities.
• Advocate and implement solutions with a full data lifecycle in mind (Search & Investigate, Add Knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze).
• Develop a six sigma project to validate well performing Splunk environments and help identify and troubleshoot underperformance.
• Work towards achieving a faster ROI and maintaining stakeholders convinced of the value and untapped opportunities in Splunk.
• Lengthy experience troubleshooting performance issues, errors, warnings, blocked queues, the data pipeline and its processors. Streamline troubleshooting by documenting common use cases and designing apps and dashboards around them.
• Completed Splunk Architect boot camp training and scheduled certification.
• Develop performance troubleshooting oriented app to be shared on Splunk base.
• Develop predictive analytics monitoring capabilities.

TECHNOLOGIES: Splunk 5.0s, Side View Utils 2.4.10, Unix, Linux, SAN, Shell, Oracle11g/10g,TOAD, RMAN, TK Prof, DB2, Teradata, Grid Control, Java/J2EE, Weblogic, ANT, Shell, Subversion, Jenkins, Maven