SUMMARY

• Information technology professional with 14 years of overall experience in deploying and maintaining Splunk, Amazon Web Services, VERITAS NetBackup/Bckup Exec, EMC Clarion, EMC Data Domain and SAN Copy etc. in Windows & UNIX environment. Certified ITIL with extensive experience in administer and managing Splunk, AWS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Public Cloud: AWS

Log Analyzer: Splunk 6.4.6/7.0.2

Private Cloud: VMware, VSphere with Virtual center.

Platforms: Linux, Solaris, MS - Windows.

Backup Technologies: VERITAS NetBackup, Backup Exec.

Storage Technologies: EMC clarion, Navisphere Manager.

Tape Libraries: Storage Tek, Dell, Quantum, IBM & VTL.

Tape Drives: DAT, DLT, LTO 1-2-3-4-5 and VTL.

Ticketing Tools: Impact, Remedy, Maximo, Saral, JIRA, CAPRS and Torque.

Monitoring Tool: Brocade 4.5, Ps Center, and BPPM.

Appliance: Pure disk, Data Domain.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MD

Network Administrator

Environment: AWS /Splunk | Platform: Linux and Windows

Responsibilities:

• Experienced Splunk architect to lead the implementation of Splunk for the Enterprise Logging & Analytics project.
• Experience implementing an operational Splunk environment. Review, recommend changes and improvements.
• Splunk Enterprise deployment to include indexer and search head architecture
• Experience in developing dashboards and reports for monitoring of real-time log data
• Installation of Enterprise Splunk servers, Deployment servers, Universal forwarders, Indexers.
• Onboarding syslog to Splunk, Monitoring health check of Splunk servers.
• Experience in building / deploying complex infrastructure & proven hands-on cloud migration solution design / delivery experience, advised software development teams on architecting and designing web interfaces and infrastructures that safely and efficiently power the cloud environment.
• Strong working knowledge of the Splunk platform, including day-to-day administration of our multi-site distributed Splunk environment.
• User and group management within Splunk, as well as Splunk App & Add-on installation and configuration.
• Ability to manage data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization, configuration backups.
• Ability to troubleshoot performance and access issues, as well as installation of Splunk upgrades throughout clustered environment.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing by creating and maintaining detailed and comprehensive documentation and diagrams, while also collaborating with other team members on standard processes and technology roadmaps.
• Respond to and resolve support requests in timely fashion, while balancing project timelines and other responsibilities.

Confidential, Waukegan, IL

Environment: AWS/Splunk | Platform: UNIX and Windows | Tape Library: IBM, STK, Quantum Tape libraries and Data Domains

Responsibilities:

• Designs, deploys, operates, and maintains Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security systems for new or existing computer systems.
• Day-to-day maintenance and operations of Splunk and the development of user access (e.g. rules, reports, and configuration)
• Provide industry standard expertise in the deployment, configuration, and operations of Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Good understanding of Splunk application and infrastructure architecture, application workflow, key transactions and guide the customer.
• Plans and directs upgrades of systems, designs systems enhancements, and monitors capacity to maintain operational capacity, following change management processes.
• Develops and directs tests to ensure systems meet documented user requirements.
• Provides system/equipment/specialized training and technical guidance.
• Determines system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.
• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.
• Review, recommend changes and improve upon the current Splunk Enterprise deployment to include indexer and search head architecture.
• Partner with IT stakeholders to develop requirements and create execution plan to utilize Splunk for centralized enterprise log analysis.
• Create alerts, reports, dashboards and monitoring for key security application events.
• Expert level knowledge and working experience of AWS products and services (e.g. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Dynamo DB, Amazon Cloud Front, Amazon EMR)
• Expertise with Amazon Web Service AMI EC2 Instance creation(s) and administration for both the EBS and S3 Instances.

Confidential, Lexington, MA

Environment: AWS, NetBackup | Platform: Solaris and Windows | Tape Library: Quantum, Data Domain

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing complex, HA multi-tier, end-to-end solutions using a wide variety of private and public cloud offerings, including AWS EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, Route 53, RDS, IAM, MAI, Cloud Front and Auto Scaling.
• Mastery of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, and its many dimensions of scalability - including but not limited to: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), EC2, load-balancing with ELB, messaging with SQS, auto scaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch etc.
• Ability to effectively address data security concepts in public cloud as it relates to customer needs including an in depth understanding of Federated Security / Single Sign On, and AWS IAM
• Ability to develop high level and detailed design documents addressing the business, infrastructure, security, support and operational needs of the business.
• Establish AWS technical credibility with customers and external parties, help customers build scalable, resilient, and high-performance applications and services on AWS.
• Experience using and creating custom scripts and applications using the AWS SDK and/or CLI Tools.
• Leading & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in operations and meeting of individual & group targets.
• Basic understanding of Splunk dashboards, alerts and reports.
• Experience in giving user permissions for existing /new users.
• Experience in monitoting onprim splunk infrastructure and taking backup and restoring of splunk servers.
• Good Knowledge on customized Splunk dashboards for operations, security and management teams Reviews completion and implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and makes recommendations to management and/or clients.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Environment: NetBackup 7.0 | Platform: Solaris and Windows | Tape Library: SL8500 and VTL

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Networker backup infrastructure to Netbackup. Working on changes, Problem management.
• Initial hardware troubleshooting and escalating major hardware issue.
• Troubleshooting on networking issues on Windows and Solaris boxes. Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site.
• Having good knowledge on NDMP, SLP and VTL. Follow-up with vendors for the qualified problems of hardware or software to get problem resolution in time.
• Worked with Support, Project Team. Providing support to the engineering department.
• Handling escalated calls (Technical / Process /SLA missed). Handling daily/weekly meetings with related to Technical issues/process oriented issue.
• Taking care of SLA breached (Incidents/CRQ), Installation/gradation of Backup servers