SUMMARY

• Around 6+ years of experience in IT industry in various fields as Data Analytics, Data Management, Data Integration, Implementation and Maintenance of Business Intelligence and the related Database Platforms, system Integration, QA, and Production environments under cross platform consisting of Red Hat Linux.
• Total 3 years of experience as Splunk Developer and created various Splunk based Dashboards, Reports and Alerts
• Total 2 years of Splunk Administrator and managing Splunk based environment
• Developed Splunk Dashboards using Simple XML with customizations
• Developed Splunk Forms with various inputs options in Simple XML.
• Experience in creating different visualizations using Bar, Line and Pie chart, Background Maps, Box plots, Scatter plots, Gantt charts, Bubble charts, Histograms, Trend lines & statistics, Bullets, Heat maps and Highlight tables.
• Scheduled Splunk based Reports and Alerts to monitor the system health performance and breaches.
• Experienced in calculating storage space and predict the Indexer Hardware requirements
• Experienced in calculating the Bucket - based parameters for index
• Implemented Splunk based cluster architecture at Indexer and Search heads level
• Creating accurate Visualizations and Pivot tables for the business users.
• Created Splunk automatic lookups and workflows.
• Worked on Security solutions (SIEM) that enable organizations to detect, respond and prevent these threats by providing valuable contextand visual insights to help you make faster and smarter security decisions.
• Proficient in configuring/administering of Splunk with forwarder configuration, deployment, search heads, indexing and data source configurations.
• Expertise in building Standalone Splunk architecture with two indexers in a load-balanced group with a Search head with a capacity to collect data from 300+ forwarders
• Expertise in designed and implementing a large distributed architecture with Deployment Server, Heavy forwarder and Clusters
• Good experience in log management solutions like monitoring log health and providing health updates to management.
• Expertise in Splunk based SPL language for writing queries to build analytics
• Experienced in creating and running Cron Jobs for scheduled tasks.
• Expertise in Log Analysis and creation of Splunk knowledge objects.
• Knowledge in configuring Splunk components with respective configurations.
• Knowledge in troubleshooting Splunk based forwarding issues / design issues, configuration issues.
• Knowledge in Splunk Field Extraction and regular expression-based extractions.
• Knowledge in creation of Event types, Tags and Field Aliases.
• Supporting and maintaining a Splunk cluster infrastructure in AWS cloud environment by using AWS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Splunk Module: Splunk 5x/6x Is 5.1 .5.3 6.1.3 , 6.2.3, 6.3, 6.6.2, 6.6.3, Splunk DB Connect 1.x,2.x, Splunk on Splunk, Splunk App for VM ware, OracleTOAD, SQL Loader, VMware, Splunk Web Framework, Splunk IT Service Intelligence.

Database: Oracle 10g/9i, MySQL, DB2, MS-SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

Web Server: Oracle Http Server, Apache Tomcat, Sun ONE 6.x, MS IIS server 5.1/6.0, IBM-HTTP.

Operating System: Red Hat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x, Windows 2000/2003/XP.

Languages: C, LINUX Shell scripts, JAVA, Python, SQL

Tools: used: Splunk 5x/6x Is 5.1 .5.3 6.1.3 , 6.2.3, 6.3 Oracle Forms 10g, 9i, 6i. TOAD, SQL*Loader, TOAD 10.6.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving Texas

Splunk Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Splunk product in different environments.
• Configured Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards.
• Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration management.
• Involved in Installation, Administration and Configuration of Splunk Enterprise and integration with local legacy systems.
• Used Splunk DB Connect Addon to integrate Splunk with Database like SQL
• Expertise in creating and customizing Splunk applications, searches and dashboards as desired by IT teams and business.
• Drive complex deployments of Splunk dashboards and reports while working side by side with technical teams to solve their integration issues.
• Experience in working with Splunk authentication and permissions and having significant experience in supporting large scale Splunk deployments.
• Splunk implementation, planning, customization, integration with Application servers, big data and statistical and analytical modeling.
• Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.
• Designed and Built Tomcat environment in Stage, Dev and Production environment
• Created and Managed Splunk DB connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.
• Experience on Splunk search construction with ability to create well-structured search queries that minimize performance impact.
• Experience developing Splunk queries and dashboards targeted at understanding application performance and capacity analysis.
• Configured and administered JDBC connection pools and Data Sources for Tomcat server with Oracle9i database
• Experience with Splunk technical implementation, planning, customization, integration with big data and statistical and analytical modeling.
• Experience in setting of indexing property configurations, including time zone offset, custom source type rules.
• As primary for Splunk support, supported more than 10000 forwarders across diff OS including Linux, Solaris and windows.
• Knowledge on Creating Dashboards and Alerts.
• Deployed applications on multiple Tomcat Server instances and maintained Load balancing, High availability and Fail over for the servers
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers(SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
• Installed and configured Splunk DB Connect in Single and distributed server environments.
• Involved in troubleshooting, performance monitoring using Wily.
• Have Knowledge in various search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction, SRTP time, SRTF time, eval, where, series, table and difference between event stats and stats.
• Used config wizard and builder extensively to create and manage WebLogic domains
• Maintained and Configured stand-alone instances and application server clusters.
• Created Crontab scripts for timely running jobs
• Monitored the performance of JVM by adjusting heap size and garbage collection parameters using Wily Introscope.

Environment: Splunk 5.0/6.1, Splunk DB Connect, Apache Tomcat 7.x, WebLogic Server 11g/10.x, JBoss 7.x, F5 BIG-IP Load Balancers, SAML, CA Wily Introscope 6.0, Configured plug-ins for Apache HTTP server 2.4, RedHat Linux 6.x, LDAP, JDK1.7, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JMS, XML, Oracle 11g, Solaris 10, SVN, GitHub.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Splunk Administrator and Developer

Responsibilities:

• Having experience in understanding of Splunk 5.x and 6.x product, Distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers, and forwarders.
• Experience in creating Splunk based infrastructure with Clustered Indexers and Clustered Search heads.
• Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments of Oracle.
• Experience in working with Splunk based LDAP authentication
• Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles.
• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• Involved in setting up alerts for different type of errors.
• Involved in Installation, Administration and Configuration of Splunk Enterprise and integration with local systems.
• Developed, evaluated and documented specific metrics for management purpose.
• Using SPL created Visualizations to get the value out of data.
• Created Dashboards for various types of business users in organization.
• Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data and brought an insight of the data for the users.
• Performed Splunk administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and tuning. Install and maintain the Splunk add-on including the DB Connect 1, Active.
• Directory LDAP for work with directory and SQL database.
• Installed and configured Splunk DB Connect in Single and distributed server environments.
• Configure the add-on app SSO Integration for user authentication and Single Sign-on in Splunk Web.
• Deployed Splunk updates and license distribution over multiple servers using deployment server.
• Create Dashboard Views, Reports and Alerts for events and configure alert mail.
• Monitor the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization.
• Server monitoring using tools likes Splunk, Solar winds-Orion, HP BSM and HP Open View.
• Integrated Service now with Splunk to generate the Incidents from Splunk.
• Active monitoring of Jobs through alert tools and responding with certain action logs, analyses the logs and escalate to high level teams on critical issues.
• Configured and administered Tomcat JDBC, JMS and JNDI services.
• Configured Node manager to remotely administer Managed servers.
• Experience in handling network resources and protocols such as TCP/IP, Ethernet, DNS.
• Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create saved search and summary search, summary indexes.
• Splunk search construction with ability to create well-structured search queries that minimize performance impact

Environment: Splunk Enterprise Server 6.4.1, Universal Splunk Forwarders5.x.x/6.x.x, RedHat Linux, HTML, Java Script, XML, CSS, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2, Python, Regular Expressions, Splunk reports and Alerts, TCP/IP, Ethernet, DNS.

Confidential, Aiken, SC

Splunk Power user

Responsibilities:

• Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles.
• Prepared, and testedSplunkbased regular expressions for field extractions.
• Analyzed security-based events, risks and reporting instances
• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• Developed, evaluated and documented specific metrics for management purpose.
• Designed configurations to remove garbage data to avoid much License consumption
• Designed configurations to override the default metadata information at HF level
• Deployed basic queries using generating search commands like stats, chart, time chart, tables etc.
• 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.
• Using SPL created Visualizations to get the value out of data
• Created Dashboards for various types of business users in organization.
• Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data and brought an insight of the data for the users.
• Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments of Oracle, My-SQL.
• Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
• Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.
• Involved in assisting offshore members to understand the use case of business.
• Involved in helping the Unix and Splunk administrators to deploy Splunk across the UNIX and windows environment.
• Helped the client to setup alerts for different type of business use cases.
• Worked with administrators to ensure Splunk is actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.
• Involved in installing and using Splunk app for Linux and Unix.

Environment: Splunk 6.0, Pivotal HD, Linux, Bash, Perl, H-base, Hive, Pig, Hawq, Sed, rex, Splunk Knowledge Objects.

Confidential

Splunk Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution.
• Created Dashboards, report, scheduled searches and alerts.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms using Deployment server
• Analyzing Oracle audit trails sent through syslog by using Oracle Audit Trail.
• Supporting and maintaining a Splunk cluster infrastructure in AWS cloud environment.
• By using AWS collect detailed billing data and in-depth analysis of Amazon Web server.
• Worked on DB Connect configuration for Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL.
• Monitor Splunk Infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization.
• Created many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners which are used to monitor application and server health.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x.
• Developed a RHEL documentation web metrics program from the ground up.
• Developed approach to prioritization in content development using data from various sources, including web analytics and case trend analysis.
• Using Cisco Networks App includes dashboards, data models and logic for analyzing data from Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and NX-OS devices.
• User/Group Administration - Splunk authentication with LDAP for user accounts/groups creation and bindings of LDAP groups to Splunk.
• Generated the reports by onboarding the data from various servers and devices.
• Involved in migrating to Splunk platform from other monitoring tools.
• Performed troubleshooting and configuration changes to resolve Splunk configuration issues

Environment: Splunk 5.x and 6.x, UNIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x, Oracle DB, Splunk Dashboard, Splunk cluster infrastructure.

Confidential

SQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• The Responsibilities included in understanding the Issue by having conversation with Business users and owners.
• Developing packages, procedures, functions, and triggers for the application.
• Coordinates/ facilitates transition (planning, sign-off, team meetings, and escalations).
• Involvement in Production Change Management & Release Coordination.
• Writing technical documents using the functional specifications.
• Identifying and tuning costly queries.
• Writing PL/SQL stored procedures, functions, triggers to meet new features to be incorporated in the system to implements business rules.
• Code review & Packaging DB Scripts.
• Mentored junior programmers in Oracle database design and development
• Trouble shooting for the end users requirement and Optimizing Queries.
• Using UNIX environment for performing the testing.
• Performing the tests on the newly coded procedures and documenting the same.

Environment: Oracle 9i and10g, PL/SQL Developer, UNIX Shell Scripting, DB Scripting.