SUMMARY:

• Versatile and highly technical individual with Over 8+ Years of IT experience primarily focused on Business Intelligence and Splunk Development & Administration
• Worked on Cloud Splunk as well as On Premise Splunk configuration clustered infrastructure
• Acting lead on Salesforce to Splunk integration project
• Expertise in customizing Splunk for Monitoring, Application Management and Security as per customer requirements and industry best practice
• Experience in creating various types of charts, Alert Settings, Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions
• Extensive experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add - On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management, Visualizations, alerts, reports
• Field Extraction, Using Ifx, Rex Command and confident in using Regular Expression
• Extensively used various extract keyword, search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where, xyseries, table etc
• Troubleshooting multiple event types using workflow action
• SplunkUI experience and able to debug expensive search queries
• Experience creating dashboard from search, Scheduled searches, Inline search vs. scheduled search in a dashboard
• Extensive knowledge about Splunk architecture and its various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model
• Configuring Splunk enterprise instances so that each instance performs a specialized task over large scale distributed Splunk environment
• Creating and managing app, Creating user, role, Permissions to knowledge objects
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Migration, Trouble-Shooting and Maintenance of Splunk, Apache Web Server on different UNIX OS like Linux and Solaris
• Experience building security monitoring and incident management solutions using Splunk
• Using Splunk to drill into events to identify activity patterns leading to technical outages
• Expert in installing and using Splunk apps for Unix and Linux (Splunknix)
• Created and Managed Splunk Database connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls
• Expertise in using Splunk with shell script in creating scripts for various activities like Generating Server Status and Healthy reports
• Experience creating Time chart attributes such as span, bins, Tag, Event types, creating dashboards, reports using XML.
• Experienced in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering and documentation, use casing, functional specification, business case analysis, Data warehousing and data mining
• Experience using Tableau Server & Tableau Desktop ver 8.x, 9.x for effective data visualization
• Worked on Amazon AWS, configuring, launching linux and windows server instances for splunk deployment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Splunk: Splunk 5.x and 6.x, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk on Splunk, Splunk DB 2 Connect, Splunk Cloud, Hunk, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Web Framework

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Win 10, Windows Server, Unix/Linux (Red Hat), Free BSD

Data Analysis: Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, detail design, data flow diagrams, data definition table, Business Rules, data modeling, Data Warehousing, system integration

RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i, MS-SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Sybase, DB2 MS Access, Mysql

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, XML, XSL, XSLT, REST, SOAP

Web/App Servers: Apache Tomcat 6.0, web logic8.1/9.2, web sphere 6.0

Concepts: SDLC, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Assembly and System Level Testing, exposure in Agile.

Programming Language: C, C++, Java with Big Data, Python, UNIX shell scripts

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Splunk Developer / Admin

Confidential - Burnsville, MN

• Worked on Splunk Cloud and Splunk On Premise infrastructure with clustering
• Developed End to End reporting solutions for various business with the Coca Cola organization
• Lead team of 3 on Salesforce Chatter to Splunk integration project
• Creating custom Python script for scripted input from Salesforce API to Splunk
• Supporting migration from Splunk On Premise data center to Amazon AWS
• Launching, Configuring, Supporting large scale instances on AWS
• Capacity Planning meeting and input gathering and executing
• Meeting key stakeholders on regular basis for requirement gathering
• Building and presenting final reports to key stake holders
• Worked on Standardizing Splunk dashboard over the entire infrastructure from Staging, Development to Production in on premise and cloud infrastructure
• Involved in End-to-End integration of Mulesoft to Splunk, Wordpress to Splunk, Axway to Splunk, Salesforce Chatter to Splunk, Tibco to Splunk
• Building production quality dashboard with standardized views across all the splunk infrastructure within the organization
• Ingesting and working with various data types like CSV, JSON, XML, Raw Logs, Syslogs and parsing them with custom source types
• Automating data ingestion from salesforce data using custom python scripts
• Extensive use of JIRA for project management
• Writing and decoding custom SPL Queries and extensive usage of REX and Regex commands
• Daily interaction with Global Monitoring Manager to assist in ongoing project of migrating from On Premise to Cloud solution.
• Building Global Platform health availability dashboards like Mulesoft, Siteminder, Apigee, Axway, Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, WIKI, Tibco, Autosys

Splunk Developer / Admin

Confidential - Rochester, NY

Responsibilities:

• Splunk implementation, planning, customization, integration with Application servers, big data and statistical and analytical modeling.
• Worked on Splunk Enterprise version 5.x & 6.x with indexing rate of 150 GB/day.
• On boarded new data into a multi-tiered Splunk environment.
• Created Dashboards, Visualizations, Statistical reports, scheduled searches, alerts.
• Configuration and administration of Connection pools for JDBC connections
• Create data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization.
• Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments of Oracle, MySQL.
• Designed and maintained production quality Splunk dashboards.
• Worked on new indexers and search head in Cluster environment on Linux platform with Splunk 6.3 version.
• Used HUNK to pull the unstructured data from HDFS data into the Splunk environment.
• Administered / Installed / Maintained / Upgraded Splunk Enterprise on UNIX Free BSD Ver 9.3, 10.0 and Windows Servers 2012.
• Administered Splunk as well as create, test and deploying operational search strings.
• Involved as a Splunk Admin in capturing, analyzing and monitoring front end and middle ware applications.
• Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and windows platforms.
• Troubleshoot Splunk infrastructure components in highly available, distributed splunk deployment.
• Extensively used Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.
• Worked on log parsing, complex Splunk searches, including external table lookups
• Worked on new indexers and search head in Cluster environment on Linux platform with Splunk 6.3 version
• Used RegEx (regular expressions) for field extraction.
• Used various extract keyword, search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where
• Worked on Amazon AWS, configuring, launching linux and windows server instances for splunk deployment

Environment: Splunk 6.x, Splunk Enterprise and splunk modules, WebLogic server 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g, Tomcat 6.0, IBM HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS 7.0, Apache 2.x, Solaris10, Windows 2008, Oracle 11g/10g, Mercury 7, HP Site scope, web services, LDAP, Oracle Access Manager, JDK 1.7, SOA Suite 11g, Wily Introscope 8.x, JSP, EJBs, JMS, HTML, XML, JRUN, SSL, JDBC, JMS, JNDI

Splunk Developer

Confidential - Harrisburg, PA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed large datasets to identify metrics, drivers, performance gaps and opportunities for improvement
• Worked with administrators to ensure Splunk is actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.
• Splunk technical implementation, planning, customization, integration with big data.
• Analyzed large datasets to identify metrics, drivers, performance gaps and opportunities for improvement
• Performed Splunk administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and tuning.
• Providing end to end visibility operational insight to the cloud applications through Cloud Monitor Akamai.
• Worked on log parsing, complex Splunk searches, including external table lookups.
• Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards.
• Used various extract keyword, search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where
• Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.
• Installed and configured Splunk DB Connect in Single and distributed server environments.
• Achieved high availability ensured disaster recovery with data replication and multisite deployment.
• Defined Backup policy to suit business requirements, setting a retirement and archiving policy.

Environment: Splunk 5.x, Splunk DB Connect and other modules, Tomcat 5.x/6.x, Oracle 9i/10g, LINUX Free BSD, Apache 2.x, AWK, IIS, Netegrity Site Minder Policy Server 5.5/6.0, LDAP, Windows 2003/XP, Oracle 9i.