SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of work experience in IT industry in analysis, design, development and testing of various software applications.
• Around 3+ years’ experience as Splunk developer and Admin, Splunk 6.x product, Distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers, forwarders, etc.
• Around 2 years’ experience in Data Warehousing in the role of Informatica Developer
• Around 3+ years’ experience in networking operations, administration, management and support.
• Efficiently handled Work Load Management for load balancing and failover, improving performance, reliability and scalability (Splunk).
• Good Knowledge on Configuration files in Splunk precedence and working Props.conf, transforms.conf, inputs.conf, outputs.conf, distsearch.conf, setting up a forwarder Monitor stanza in inputs.conf.
• Strong experience in Dashboards for various types of business users in organization and worked on creating different Splunk Knowledge objects like Macros, IFX, Calculated fields, Tags, Event Types and Look ups.
• Worked wif team to understand wat their security needs like custom roles are and Index creation and through put of the data, wat is the new index size and retention period
• Develop custom app configurations (deployment - apps) wifin SPLUNK in order to Parse, Index multiple types of log format across all application environment. Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application levels brought into environment.
• Created Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats through the use of continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics. .
• Extensive experience in developing Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) processes using Informatica Power Center and full life cycle implementation of Data warehouses.
• Experience in integration of various data sources like Oracle, SQL Server, Flat Files, XML files, Teradata into the data warehouse.
• Full life cycle of Software Development (SDLC) experience including Define, Analyst and Review of Software and Business Requirement Specifications, Design and Development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Data Analytics Log Management Tools: Splunk 6.3, Splunk 6.1, Splunk DB Connect

ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center 9.x/8.x

Methodologies: Data Modeling - Logical/ Physical / Dimensional, Star / Snowflake

Databases: Oracle 10g/9i, MS SQL Server 2008, Sybase, Teradata

Database Utilities: WinSQL, WinSCP, Toad

Language: SQL, PL/SQL

Operating Systems: Windows 9X/XP/NT, LINUX.

Scheduling tools: Control M

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

Splunk Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created Dashboards, Visualizations, Statistical reports, scheduled searches, alerts and also worked on creating different other knowledge objects.
• Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, Deployment server), Universal and Heavy forwarder.
• Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards Environment.
• Used SPL created Visualizations to get the value out of data.
• Create Dashboard, Reports and Alerts for events and configure alert mail.
• Performed scripting for automation, and monitoring using SHELL, PYTHON scripts.
• Collecting logs from closed appliances such as proxies, firewalls and network devices.
• On boarding of new data into Splunk. Troubleshooting Splunk and optimizing performance.
• Worked on installing Universal Forwarders and Heavy Forwarders to bring any kind of data fields in to Splunk.
• Analyzing the issues from Application and Infrastructure perspective and taking them a logical resolution.
• Incident logging, change and problem management using Service Now tool.
• Develop, evaluate and document specific metrics for management purpose.
• Developed a custom application in Splunk Fetched the data from databases using DB Connect.

Environment: Splunk 6.3, AWS, Palo Alto Networks, Windows Server 2012 R2.

Confidential, Suitland, MD

Splunk Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed Splunk administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and tuning.
• Experience in working wif Splunk autantication and permissions and having significant experience in supporting large scale Splunk deployments.
• Created and managed app, Create user, role, Permissions to knowledge objects.
• Architecture various components wifin Splunk (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server),Heavy and Universal Forwarder, Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts, Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing, License model.
• Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.
• Involved in helping the UNIX and Splunk administrators to deploy Splunk across the UNIX and windows environment.
• Experience in handling security events that effect VMware systems, applications, infrastructure, information and users.
• Interact wif the Data Warehousing team regarding extracting the data and suggest the standard data format such that Splunk will identify most of the fields.
• Worked on DB Connect configuration for Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL.
• Interact wif the data warehousing team regarding extracting the data and suggest the standard data format such that Splunk will identify most of the fields.

Environment: Splunk 6.1, DB Connect, MYSQL, MSSQL, REDHAT.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Informatica Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Informatica - Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Mapping Designer & Mapplet, and Transformation Developer.
• There were two kinds of data loading processes (Daily and Weekly) depending on the frequency of source data.
• Imported data from various sources transformed and loaded into Data Warehouse Targets using Informatica.
• Fixing invalid Mappings, testing of Stored Procedures and Functions, Unit and Integration Testing of Informatica Sessions, Batches and Target Data.
• Extensively used Transformations like Router, Aggregator, Source Qualifier, Joiner, Expression, Aggregator and Sequence generator.
• Scheduled Sessions and Batches on the Informatica Server using Informatica Server Manager/Workflow Manager.
• Worked wif pmcmd to interact wif Informatica Server from command mode and execute the shells scripts.
• Worked wif different sources such as Oracle, MS SQL Server and flat files.
• Knowledge of slowly changing dimension tables and fact tables.
• Writing documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, testing, changes and corrections.
• Used control-M for Scheduling, Created various UNIX Shell Scripts for scheduling various data cleansing scripts and loading process. Maintained the batch processes using Unix Shell Scripts
• Optimizing the mappings by changing the logic to reduce run time.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.1 (ETL), Teradata, Oracle 9i, DB2, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, SQL Navigator, SQL Server 2000, Windows NT/2000, HP-Unix.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive knowledge and troubleshooting in data communication protocols and standards including TCP/IP.
• Responsible for designing and implementation of customer's network and Security infrastructure.
• Experience wif Cisco switches and routers: Physical cabling, IP addresses, Wide Area Network configurations.
• Involved in configuring Cisco Net flow for network performance and monitoring.
• Hands on experience working wif security issues like applying ACL's, configuring NAT and VPN.
• Responsible for Internal and external accounts and, managing LAN/WAN and checking for security.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of LAN, WAN, IP Routing, Multilayer Switching.
• Used Wireshark to analyze the networks and Maintained Network devices like DHCP, DNS servers, Firewall servers.
• Used various Network sniffers like Ethereal, TCP dump etc.
• Responsible for Internal and external accounts and, managing LAN/WAN and checking for security.
• Designed network connectivity and network security, between various offices and data center. Installed and configured routers, including 1800, 2600 along wif Cisco switches including 3750 and 6500.

Environment: DNS, DHCP, NAT, Cisco switches 3750, 6500, Cisco routers 1800, 2600, TCP dump, Ethereal, Firewall.

Confidential 

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Tier1 technical support; assisted users facing network problems. Perform advanced troubleshooting, diagnostics and provide tier/level-1 solutions to network failures.
• Worked wif Client teams to find out requirements for their Network Requirements.
• Designing solutions for frozen requirements using Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Deploying the network infrastructure to meet the requirements.
• Created VLAN and Inter-Vlan routing wif Multilayer Switching.
• Migration of RIP V2 to OSPF, BGP routing protocols.
• Documenting and Log analyzing the Cisco ASA 5500 series firewall.
• Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck.
• Performed administrative support for RIP, OSPF routing protocol.
• Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 routers wif HSRP.
• Real time monitoring and network management using Cisco Works LMS.
• Provided technical support on hardware and software related issues to remote production sites.
• Network infrastructure support to routing and switching equipment’s.
• Redistribute routing protocols and Frame-Relay configuration.
• Managed installations, configuration and administration of Cisco equipment in IT architecture of organization.
• Design/lead/participate in effort to increase consistency in user, product, system, and SRND documentation.
• Design of a multiple network installations including a new building, extensive work wif Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco hardware and IOS, customer network architecture and implementation.
• Responsible for generation of requirement documentation, technical planning, design and detailed systems engineering of voice and data networks as well as the required network infrastructure of various requirements of clients
• Support customer wif the configuration and maintenance of ASA firewall systems.
• Implemented ISL and 802.1Q for communicating through VTP.
• Troubleshoot and resolved dynamic routing, Ethernet switching and host connectivity issues in a window and network environment.
• Troubleshoot wiring problems and serial communication lines.
• Develop, plan and maintain documentation necessary for operation in support of LAN to WAN connectivity.
• Maintained excellent communication wif the IT Manager on all tasks and projects.