PROFILE:

• 6+ years of extensive experience on Integrating Splunk with Windows Active Directory and LDAP.
• Installing and using Splunk apps for UNIX and Linux (Splunk nix).
• Developed scripts (Python Scripting, Java Scripting, Shell scripting, Perl Scripting) as needed in support of data collection, reporting and presentation requirements
• Extensive experience and actively involved in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Reviews.
• Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports.
• Orchestration improvements to Dynatrace deployment to reduce upgrade time.
• Integrated Dynatrace with Active directory, Email Servers, and event management
• Execute Metadata process and requirements partners with Data Stewards, technology partners, Data Sourcing team and enterprise Data Management
• Involved in identifying and defining the data inputs and captured metadata and associated rules from various source of data for ETL Process for data warehouse
• Responsible for communicating Defect Status Reports to business in project meetings.
• Participated and Organized weekly meetings and walkthroughs to improve the testing efforts.
• Managed users, workflow, groups and projects in JIRA.
• Reported bugs and tracked defects using JIRA.
• Designed, built, and managed techniques for deploying specific automated builds to isolated development and built assurance environments.
• Perform in - house vulnerability testing, risk analyses and security assessments and oversee remediation, oversee third party vulnerability testing and remediation
• Research the latest information (IT) security trends and recommend appropriate security tools and countermeasures
• Respond to and manage disruptive events within the firm, analyze and investigate to determine if alerts or events warrant incident classification
• Monitor, track, and document information security related issues and threats to ensure prompt resolution
• Contributed for daily build processes, including monitoring builds, break/fix management, issue tracking (JIRA), and identifying and resolving a wide variety of build-related issues for different products and versions
• Implemented workflow actions to drive troubleshooting across multiple event types in Splunk.
• Experience on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration (props.conf, Transforms.conf, Output.confg) management.
• Extensive experience in deploying, configuring and administering Splunk clusters.
• Upgrade and Optimize Splunk setup with new discharges.
• Implemented and enforced rules for content usage as defined by product management, data architects, and legal. for supporting customers in the development and execution of their business disaster recovery test scenarios and disaster recovery events
• Developed reporting systems, tools and applications to facilitate management of content.
• Identified and sourced new data and defined approaches for data integration.
• Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application levels brought into environment.
• Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Created and Managed Splunk DB connects Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.
• Worked on log parsing, complex Splunk searches, including external table lookups.
• Experience in using Regular Expressions.
• Extracted complex Fields from different types of log files using Regular Expressions.
• Experience on Splunk data flow, components, features and product capability.
• Experience on Splunk search construction with ability to create well-structured search queries that minimize performance impact.
• Expertise Splunk query language and Monitored Database Connection Health by using Splunk DB connect health dashboards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Splunk, C, C++, Basic JAVA, SQL, XML, PL/SQL, eVB, AssemblyLanguage

Data Base: Oracle, MySql

Splunk Modules: Splunk 6.2, Splunk 6.1.3, Splunk on Splunk, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Web Framework

Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, Appdynamics

Platforms: Windows XP Pro / Vista/ ME, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x

Tools: Eclipse, JDeveloper, JProbe, CVS, Ant, MS Visual Studio, NetBeans, Eclipse

Server: Apache HTTP Web server, IIS, Oracle Application Server, Apache Tomcat, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, TN

Splunk Developer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring and Administering Splunk Enterprise Server 6.0/6.3.2 and Splunk Forwarder 6.0 on Red hat Linux and Windows severs.
• Developed Splunk Dashboards, searches and reporting to support various internal clients in Security, IT Operations and Application Development.
• Assisted with on boarding relevant data sources as needed, including inputs, SQL, index-time configurations, search-time field extractions, event types, and tags.
• Onboarding performance monitoring tools for GCRM applications.
• Build performance dashboards through Splunk, Extrahop, writing Java script and customized scripts
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Migration, Trouble-Shooting and Maintenance of Splunk, Passionate about Machine data and operational Intelligence.
• Developed best of breed performance and capacity planning metrics.
• Managed existing application and created new applications (visual and non-visual).
• Maintaining Data repository Data correlation and trending.
• Maintain documentation of applications including what work has been done, what is left to do and site-specific procedures documenting the Splunk environment.
• Work with application team and production support team to troubleshoot production performance and reliability issues.
• Developed scripts (Python Scripting, Java Scripting, Shell scripting, Perl Scripting) as needed in support of data collection, reporting and presentation requirements.
• Independently identified opportunities to improve operational and other performance for Security, IT Operations and other clients.
• Very good understanding of software development life-cycle (SDLC) process, followed Agile Scrum and story maps for dev tracking.
• Involved in interacting with business owners, developers and business analysts in improving the application.
• Used Splunk tool in order to analyze the logs in the applications.
• Involved in handling various Incident and request related to the application.
• Involved in installing and using Splunk app for Linux and UNIX.

Environment: Splunk 6.2, Splunk 6.1, Pivotal HD, Datameter, Linux, Bash, Perl, Oracle 11g, Splunk Knowledge Objects.

Confidential, AL

Splunk Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gather Splunk requirements for on boarding data and estimate storage requirements and time frame to onboard data.
• Connect all forwarders to deployment server and update configurations.
• Configured Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Responsible for documenting the current architectural configurations and detailed data flow, and Troubleshooting Guides for application support.
• Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards.
• Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration management.
• Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports.
• Implemented workflow actions to drive troubleshooting across multiple event types in Splunk.
• Experience on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration (props.conf, Transforms.conf, Output.confg) management.
• Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments of Oracle.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.
• Experience with Splunk technical implementation, planning, customization, integration with big data and statistical and analytical modeling.
• Independently identified opportunities to improve operational and other performance for Security, IT Operations and other clients.
• Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.
• Various types of charts alerts settings Knowledge of App creation, user and role access permissions.
• Created clustered and non-clustered indexes for increasing the performance, also monitored the indexes
• By troubleshooting any corrupt indexes by removing fragmentation from indexes

Environment: Splunk 6.x, Splunk DB Connect and other modules, Oracle Web Logic 9.x/10.x, JBoss 5.x/6.x, Tomcat 5.x/6.x, Oracle 9i/10g, Solaris 10, LINUX, Sun ONE Directory Server 6, Sun Server 6.0, Apache 2.x, python.

Confidential, OR

Splunk Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Optimized Splunk for peak performance by splitting Splunk indexing and search activities across different machines.
• Experience with Splunk technical implementation, planning, customization, integration with big data and statistical and analytical modeling.
• Extracted complex Fields from different types of Log files using Regular Expressions.
• Created Search Commands to retrieve multiline log events in the form Single transaction giving Start Line and End Line as inputs. Field Extraction, Using Ifx, Rex Command and regex
• Guarantee high accessibility & execution trough flat scaling and burden adjusted segments.
• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• Created and configured Management reports and dashboards.
• Managed and maintained use cases into correlation systems.
• Designed, developed and implemented system engineering plans and technical support services.
• Executed systems programming activities and supported data center activities.
• Supported data source configurations and change management processes.
• Created Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats through the use of continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics.
• Created Regular Expressions for Field Extractions and Field Transformations in Splunk.
• Created EVAL Functions where necessary to create new field during search run time.
• Provide inputs for identifying best fit architectural solutions - deployment for Splunk project.
• Splunk Engineer/Dashboard Developer responsible for the end-to-end event monitoring infrastructure Of business-aligned applications.
• Experience in setting up dashboards for senior management and production support- required to use SPLUNK.
• Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.
• Worked on DB Connect configuration for Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL.
• Created many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners which are
• Used to monitor application and server health.

Environment: Splunk Enterprise Server 5.x.x/6.x.x, Universal Splunk Forwarder 5.x.x/6.x.x, ShellPython Scripting, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed data using event correlations across indexes and various source types to generate custom reports for senior management.
• Experienced in data model relationships with underlying raw data and making it more meaningful and useful to quickly generate charts, visuals and dashboards.
• Involved extensively in configuring alerts for different kinds of error logs.
• Created dashboards, reports, alerts and lookup files that will support the client requirements and log management for the enterprise.
• Distribution administrative tasks in Package management of RPM and YUM repository.
• Supported in installation of packages/patches on Linux platforms. Implemented Backup & Disaster recovery management on Linux.
• Performed application administration duties for Apache.
• Built and installed many open source packages including Apache
• Worked on Validation Rules, Workflows, and approval processes.
• Developed Test cases for Unit Testing of the Mappings, and also was involved in the Integration Testing.

Environment: XML, Python scripting, Selinium, and JMS.