SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of experience in Information Technology field with strong experience as Splunk Admin.
• Worked with Splunk GUI, command line interface and directly with configuration files.
• Designed scripts to automate Splunk forwarder maintenance and alerts.
• Troubleshoot Splunk infrastructure components, performance issue and license usage in coordination with infrastructure support teams.
• Worked with Splunk GUI, command line interface and directly with configuration files.
• Managed Splunk Universal forwarder deployment and configuration. Monitoring and maintaining Splunk performance and optimization after deployment.
• Provided all round support for Splunk forwarder logging issues, troubleshoot servers not forwarding events.
• Monitored and tracked Splunk performance problems, administrations and open tickets with Splunk if there is need.
• Used Splunk Deployment Server to deploy Splunk upgrades and configurations changes.
• Built dashboards and alerts via search tabs and configuration files for operational and business intelligence.
• Expert in installing and configuring Splunk forwarders on Linux, Unix and Windows
• Expert in installing and using Splunk apps for UNIX, Linux, Cisco, DBConnect, VMware etc.
• Experience in implementing data retention policies and creating various Splunk roles and groups
• Experience in Clustering of indexers and search heads.
• Time chart attributes such as span, bins, Tag, Event types, Scheduled searches online search vs scheduled search in a dashboard
• Managed Splunk deployment authentication, maintenance and optimization
• Configured Deployment Server for application deployments of data ingestion
• Advise client on Splunk base apps and configured and installed applications
• Oracle database applications on diverse Unix Shell Scripting and Windows platforms
• Extensive experience in Oracle Development in table designs, writing stored procedure, Database Triggers, Functions and PL/SQL packages. Strong knowledge in Oracle Cursor management and Exception Handling.
• Extensive experience in Oracle Technologies in back - end oracle database design, development, testing, performance tuning, production migration and production support
• Used SQL*Loader to load into Oracle database tables
• Experience on Data Modeling (Star Schema, Snow Flake Schema) at Logical, & Physical levels using Erwin.
• Extensively involved in designing, capturing updating the module using Oracle designer and developing various web-based services likes AWS and reports in HTML and Oracle (PL/SQL Procedures with HTTP utility).
• Experience with source code maintenance systems, such as SVN Subversion
• Coordinate with offshore teams on projects
• Working in Agile environment. Attending daily standup meetings, sprint plan meetings to review the user stories
• Excellent communication, presentation, project management skills, a very good team player and self-starter with ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• 24/7 on call support

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Splunk: Splunk Enterprise Server 4.0.2/5.0/6.2. Splunk Universal Forwarder 4.3/5.0/6.1, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk on Splunk, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk Cloud, Hunk,, Splunk Web Framework

Languages: JAVA, C, Pro*C, FORTRAN, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML

Database: Oracle 12c/11g/10g (RAC)/9i, 8.x, 7.x and MS Access 2000

Tools: Developer/2000 (Oracle Forms 6.0, Reports 6.0),Crystal Reports 9.0/ 8.0/ 7.0/, Designer/2000, Visual Basic 6.0/5.0, PL/SQL Web Toolkit, Toad 9.2/8.5

Log Analysis Tools: Web/App Servers WebSphere Application Server, Web Sphere MQ Sever 6.1, WebSphere XD 6.0/6.1, IBM Http Server 6.0

Operating Systems: SCO UNIX, SUN Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 98/95/2000/XP, Windows 3.11, MS-DOS, Ubuntu, Redhat

Hardware: IBM PC compatibles, HCL Magnum, Compaq Presario, and Sun Sparc

Networking: TCP/IP Protocols, Socket Programming, DNS. Frame work MVC, J2EE Design Patterns, Struts.Novell NetWare and Windows NT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Splunk Developer/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Provided 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.
• Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data & brought a insight of the data for the users.
• Involved in setting up alerts for different type of errors.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.
• Extensive experience on setting up the Splunk to monitor the customer volume and track the customer activity.
• Have involved as a Splunk Admin in capturing, analyzing and monitoring front end and middle ware applications.
• Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
• Worked on setting up Splunk to capture and analyze data from various layers Load Balancers, Web servers and application servers.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.
• Responsible to check the Splunk logs for web server so as to avoid server time down during production are used to monitor application and server health.
• Various types of charts Alert settings Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions, Creating and managing app, Create userrole Permissions to knowledge objects.
• Create dashboard from search, Scheduled searches online search vs scheduled search in a dashboard.
• Maintain and manage the application error during production.
• Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.
• Worked with administrators to ensureSplunkis actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.
• Assisted internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboard.
• Installation and Maintenance of Splunk Universal Forwarders, Solving Forwarder Issues, Deployment Server Classes and Apps through Deployment Server.
• Implemented Forwarders (Universal and Heavy) with Load Balancing, Splunk Forwarder Management
• Managed the Splunk Enterprise Deployment.

Environment: SPLUNK 6.1.3, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Module, Linux, Hbase, Hive, Pig, rex, site catalyst, alertsite, erex,SplunkKnowledge Objects.

Confidential, Mayfield, OH

Splunk Administrator and Developer

Responsibilities:

• As primary for Splunk support, supported Splunk circulated environment comprising of search heads, indexers and forwarders across different OS including Aix, Solaris and Windows.
• Configured Indexer replication to achieve Data availability, Data fidelity and Disaster tolerance.
• Improved search performance by configuring 2 search heads for all Indexes in production.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Worked on setting up Splunk to capture and analyse data from various layers Load Balancers, Webservers and application servers.
• Install different Splunk Applications, for example, Cisco for Splunk, Windows for Splunk and VMware for Splunk.
• Created and configured management reports and dashboards in Splunk for Application Log Monitoring.
• Responsible for administering, maintaining and configuring a 24 x 7 highly available, Splunk apps for production portal environment.
• Various types of Charts Alert settings Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions. Creating and managing app, Create user, role, Permissions to knowledge objects.
• Work towards accomplishing a speedier ROI and keeping up partners persuaded of the worth and undiscovered open doors in Splunk.
• Worked on large datasets to identify metrics, drivers, performance gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Supporter and execute arrangements considering a full information lifecycle (Search & Investigate, Add Knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze)
• Basic understanding of Network Firewalls, Load-balancers, LDAP and complex network design

Environment: Splunk Enterprise Server 5.0.1/6.0.4 , Universal Splunk Forwarder 5.0.1/6.1, Linux, UNIX, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge of project management to plan and coordinate resources, time and staff
• Worked with various functional experts to implement their functional knowledge into working procedures.
• Worked with appropriate development and technical support teams to triage, assess and solution.
• Involved in Solution design, Technical Documentation, Database Development, Unit test, Integration Test and writing Test plan.
• Responsible for data analysis, engineering, programming, implementation and Support for the product.
• Worked closely with different functional team including Development, QA and Business.
• Custom ETL Development (Test Data, Legacy Data Sources) Using Shell and PL/SQL
• SQL statement Tuning using Explain Plans and SQL Trace using TKPROF utility and AUTOTRACE utility.
• Have converted old data from Flat files to Oracle database Using SQL * Loader
• Database and Application Performance Tuning
• XML patient Data Transformation to measure determinants using PL/SQL
• Proper Log files and log tables where created to monitor the whole ETL process
• Prepare Test strategy and Test Plan for each Release cycle.
• Implementation of sampling algorithm according to TJC (The Joint Commission) standards, helping the data abstraction cost to the users. This module was adapted by over 600 hospitals in the US.
• Provided support and data analysis for the System Acceptance Testing of the new release of the Confidential application.
• Coordinate with offshore teams on projects
• Working in Agile environment. Attending daily standup meetings, sprint plan meetings to review the user stories.
• Well versed in database applications using Oracle and MYSQL
• Hands on experience in MySQL and MS SQL Server databases.
• Support for MySQL databases in production and staging environments.

Environment: Oracle 11g/10g (RAC), SQL, SQL/PLSQL, SQL*Loader, TOAD 9.7, Mysql, Java, Spring, Hibernate, HTML,XML, Tortoise SVN 1.6, WinSCP 4.1, Center8.1,AraxisMerge 6.5,BMC Remedy Action System 7.5, Web logic 10, Unix and Windows 2003 server, Agile Scrum Rally.

Confidential

Oracle Developer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Technical documents for all the modules developed by our team
• Actively participated in the meeting with management and the team members.
• Preparing flowchart of various business processes and participated in various knowledge transfer sessions with team members
• Documented all existing process/business flow information with a vision to have common customer data for the company.
• Involved in the Oracle 10g upgrade process by executing effective and efficient work plans and test cases.
• Actively involved in ongoing day to day production support activities / issues and providing problem resolving solutions to tickets.
• Involved in data Quality Assurance, created validation routines, unit test cases and test plan.
• Extensively used Erwin to design Logical/Physical data modules, relational database design, Forward/Reverse engineering.
• Providing periodic batch support by scheduling and monitoring batch jobs using Zena
• Worked with several different IT application teams as well as business unit to document use of data, definition of data and analytical needs.
• Created Materialized views to analyze complex queries.
• Used Refcursor, implicit/explicit cursor in PL/.SQL module extensively
• Designed the table sizing and partitioning parameters.
• Used Exception Handling extensively for the ease of debugging and displaying the error message in the application
• Imported data from various environment using SQL*Loader
• Developed ETL mapping and created SQL scripts for incremental data load.
• Used package like UTL FILE for read and write to operating system files, delete or rename a file

Environment: Oracle 10g (RAC)/9i, SQL, SQL/PLSQL, SQL*Loader, TOAD 8.5/9.2, HTML, Boomi 3.1, ASG-Zena 2.4, Nimbus 3.7, Daisy, JIRA 2.1, Tortoise SVN 1.6, WinSCP 4.1, Quarryman 4.2, Unix and Windows NT