SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of experience in Information Technology field with strong experience as Splunk Admin.
• Strong experience with Splunk 5.x and 6.x product, distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexes and forwarders
• Expertise in severalProof - of-Concepts (POC) on Splunk implementation, mentored and guided other team members on Understanding the use case of Splunk.
• Expertise in customizing Splunk for monitoring, Application Management and security per customer requirements and industry best practice
• Implemented workflow actions to drive troubleshooting across multiple event types in Splunk.
• 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
• Knowledge on Configuration files in Splunk (props.conf, Transforms.conf, Output.conf)
• Experience in deploying Splunk in large distributed Splunk environment with 5TB of license
• Production error monitoring and root causeanalysis using SPLUNK.
• Build, customize and deploy Splunk apps as per internal customers
• Experience in creating complex queries, alerts, reports and dashboards
• Experience in setting up HA for all Splunk components, Index clustering and Search heads
• Implemented a Log Viewer Dashboard as a replacement for an existing tool to view logs across multiple applications hosted on a PaaS setup.
• Experience Splunk Administration and configuration with SSO enablement.
• 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 .
• Designed, developed and implemented multi-tiered Splunk log collection solutions.
• Used HUNK to pull the unstructured data from HDFS data into the Splunk environment.
• Experience with creating synthetic transactions on keynote.
• Experience in Dynatrace server side monitoring, real time call inspection, analysis
• Experience in installing and configuring Dynatrace DC-RUM components.
• Experience in installing and configuration of Dynatrace applications monitoring components.
• Create and maintain reports and alerts in APM tools.
• Experience with AWS cloud integration.
• Experience with toolsets like chef, Puppet and Ansible.
• Used NAGIOS for monitoring of desktop and server operating systems.
• Installed, configured and administered JBoss Application server 5.0, 7.0 in various environments.
• Installed, configured and administered Web Servers like Apache 2.x HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat 6.x, Sun One 6.x Web Server and Microsoft IIS Server for WebLogic plug-ins.
• Strong experience with web/application servers likeApache Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, IBM WebSphere, WebLogic.
• Strong experience using SQL, PL/SQL Procedures/Functions, Triggers and Packages.
• Working knowledge of data warehouse techniques and practices, experience including ETL processes, dimensional data modeling (Star Schema, Snow Flake Schema, FACT & Dimension Tables), OLTP and OLAP.
• 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 5.x and 6.x, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk on Splunk, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk Cloud, Hunk, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Web Framework

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Windows NT, Unix/Linux (Red Hat), VM Ware

Data Analysis: Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, detail design, data flow diagrams, data definition table, Business Rules, data modeling, Data Warehousing, system integration

Java: J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JSF

RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i, MS-SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Sybase, DB2 MS Access.

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, XML, XSL, XSLT

Web/App Servers: Apache Tomcat 6.0, web logic8.1/9.2, web sphere 6.0

Tools: Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose, Quality Center

Concepts: SDLC, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Assembly and System Level Testing, exposure in Agile.

Programming Language: C, C++, Java, Python, UNIX shell scripts

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Splunk Developer/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Splunk implementation, planning, customization, integration with Application servers, big data and statistical and analytical modeling.
• Helped the Client to setup alerts for different types of errors.
• Administer Splunk as well as create, test and deploying operational search strings.
• On boarded new data into a multi-tiered Splunk environment.
• Troubleshoot and tune Splunk deployment for servers,applications and network devices
• Create and optimize Alerting, Reporting and advanced dashboards
• Provide regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution.
• Install Splunk forwarder on various platforms like windows, linux, Unix
• Install Splunk indexers and Search heads for various Splunk environments
• Configure multiple Splunk servers to use 5 TB of license
• Create data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization
• Create multiple Splunk role based LDAP authentication
• Created several different dashboards for multiple different teams and clusters
• Troubleshoot Splunk components like forwarders, indexers and search heads and performance issues
• Splunk dashboard creation and advanced searching and reporting.
• Experience Splunk Administration and configuration with SSO enablement.
• Experience in implementing data retention policies and creating various Splunk roles and groups
• Experience in Clustering of indexers and search heads .
• Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and windows platforms
• Create role based AD access for Splunk
• Used python and css in splunk SDK’s.
• Experience with creating synthetic transactions on keynote.
• Experience in Dynatrace server side monitoring, real time call inspection, analysis
• Experience in installing and configuring Dynatrace DC-RUM components.
• Experience in installing and configuration of Dynatrace applications monitoring components.
• Create and maintain reports and alerts in APM tools.
• Nagios support monitoring of Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS/X
• Assist internal customers for creating and maintaining quality dashboards, alerts and reports
• Configured Node manager to remotely administer Managed servers
• Experience in handling network resources and protocols such as TCP/IP, Ethernet, DNS
• Ability to troubleshoot Splunk infrastructure components in highly available, multi-site design.
• Created Splunk applications and deploy using Splunk Deployment Server.
• Configuration and administration of Connection pools for JDBC connections
• Experience in handling Java and Sun Hotspot JVM tuning.
• Experience with AWS cloud integration.
• Experience with toolsets like chef, Puppet and Ansible
• Created Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.
• Installed and configured Tomcat 6.0 and provided support.
• Configured LDAP and provided support for applications.
• Experience with Splunk dbConnect application and Splunk forwarder deployment.
• Installing and configuring Oracle Access Manager, Policy Manager, and Oracle Virtual Directory for Authentication, and User Authorization.
• Worked on new indexers and search head in Cluster environment on Linux platform with Splunk 6.2 version.
• Creation of Queries using calculated and restricted key figures, filters, exceptions, conditions and exit variables.
• Configured and deployed applications in various work environments like Development, System Test, QA and Production.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as web load and load runner.
• Supported on call 24x7 schedule for Production Support.
• Testing and profiling to measure the performance of the applications.
• Experience on use and understand of complex RegEx (regular expressions).
• Remedy administration, support and development with ITSM 7.x.

Environment: Splunk 6.x, Splunk Enterprise and splunk modules, WebLogic server 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g, Tomcat 6.0, IBM HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS 7.0, Apache 2.x, Solaris10, Windows 2008, Oracle 11g/10g, Mercury 7, HP Site scope, web services, LDAP, Oracle Access Manager, JDK 1.7, SOA Suite 11g, Wily Introscope 8.x

Splunk Developer/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Developed Splunk infrastructure and related solutions as per automation toolsets.
• Implemented forwarder configuration, search heads and indexing.
• Created Dashboards, report, scheduled searches and alerts.
• Resolved configuration based issues in coordination with infrastructure support teams.
• Creating DevOps dashboard that aggregates data across multiple services to identify critical threats and proactively mitigate risks.
• Prepared, arranged and tested SPLUNK search strings and operational strings.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.
• Developing custom web application solutions for internal ticket metrics reporting.
• Provide regular support guidance to SPLUNK project teams on complex solution and issue resolution with the objective of ensuring best fit and high quality.
• Experience Splunk Administration and configuration with SSO enablement.
• Experience in implementing data retention policies and creating various Splunk roles and groups
• Experience in Clustering of indexers and search heads .
• Troubleshoot Splunk components like forwarders, indexers and search heads and performance issues
• Interact with the data warehousing team regarding extracting the data and suggest the standard data format such that Splunk will identify most of the fields.
• Onboard new log sources with log analysis and parsing to enable SIEM correlation.
• Subject matter expert in best practices, security protocols, PKI, and other security-related issues.
• Analyzed large datasets to identify metrics, drivers, performance gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Experience with creating synthetic transactions on keynote.
• Building Scripts with the use of python, CSS in Splunk SDK’s usage
• Experience in Dynatrace server side monitoring, real time call inspection, analysis
• Experience in installing and configuring Dynatrace DC-RUM components.
• Experience in installing and configuration of Dynatrace applications monitoring components.
• Create and maintain reports and alerts in APM tools.
• Nagios support monitoring of Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS
• Worked on large datasets to generate insights and communicate insights to guide strategic roadmap.
• Created many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners which are used to monitor application and server health.
• Performed field extraction using IFX in an event action.
• Involved in setting up alerts for different type of errors.
• Analyzed security based events,risks and reporting instances.
• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• 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.
• Create dashboard from search, Scheduled searches o Inline search vs scheduled search in a dashboard.
• Gained in depth knowledge on Ant build and Web Sphereservers.
• Involved in handling various Incident and request related to the application.
• Involved in monitoring the ticketing tool and taking the ownership of the tickets.
• Worked on various defects analysis and fixed them.
• Experience with AWS cloud integration.
• Experience with toolsets like chef, Puppet and Ansible
• Problem record analysis and solution providing.
• Worked closely with business partners in addressing their queries.
• Supported on call 24x7 schedule for Production Support.

Environment: SPLUNK 6.1.3, Splunk Module, Linux, Hbase, rex, site catalyst, JSP, EJBs, JMS, HTML, XML, JRUN, SSL, JDBC, JMS, JNDI

Splunk Developer/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Splunk implementation, planning, customization, integration with Application servers, big data and statistical and analytical modeling.
• Administer Splunk as well as create, test and deploying operational search strings.
• On boarded new data into a multi-tiered Splunk environment.
• Troubleshoot and tune Splunk deployment for servers, applications and network devices
• Create and optimize Alerting, Reporting and advanced dashboards
• Install Splunk forwarder on various platforms like windows, linux, Unix
• Install Splunk indexers and Search heads for various Splunk environments
• Configure multiple Splunk servers to use 5 TB of license
• Create data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization
• Create multiple Splunk role based LDAP authentication
• Created several different dashboards for multiple different teams and clusters
• Troubleshoot Splunk components like forwarders, indexers and search heads and performance issues
• Splunk dashboard creation and advanced searching and reporting.
• Experience Splunk Administration and configuration with SSO enablement.
• Experience in implementing data retention policies and creating various Splunk roles and groups
• Experience in Clustering of indexers and search heads.
• Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and windows platforms
• Create roled based AD access for Splunk
• Experience with creating synthetic transactions on keynote.
• Experience in Dynatrace server side monitoring, real time call inspection, analysis
• Experience in installing and configuring Dynatrace DC-RUM components.
• Experience in installing and configuration of Dynatrace applications monitoring components.
• Create and maintain reports and alerts in APM tools.
• Nagios support monitoring of Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS/X
• Assist internal customers for creating and maintaining quality dashboards, alerts and reports
• Configured Node manager to remotely administer Managed servers
• Experience in handling network resources and protocols such as TCP/IP, Ethernet, DNS
• Ability to troubleshoot Splunk infrastructure components in highly available, multi-site design.
• Created Splunk applications and deploy using Splunk Deployment Server.
• Configuration and administration of Connection pools for JDBC connections
• Experience in handling Java and Sun Hotspot JVM tuning
• Created Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.
• Configured LDAP and provided support for applications.
• Experience with Splunk dbConnect application and Splunk forwarder deployment.
• Installing and configuring Oracle Access Manager, Policy Manager, and Oracle Virtual Directory for Authentication, and User Authorization.
• Worked on new indexers and search head in Cluster environment on Linux platform with Splunk 6.2 version.
• Creation of Queries using calculated and restricted key figures, filters, exceptions, conditions and exit variables.

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

Splunk Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provide regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution. Created Dashboards, report, scheduled searches and alerts.
• Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports.
• Developed Splunk infrastructure and related solutions as per automation toolsets.
• Implemented forwarder configuration, search heads and indexing.
• Provide regular support guidance to SPLUNK project teams on complex solution and issue resolution with the objective of ensuring best fit and high quality.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
• I have helped teams to on-board data, create various knowledge objects, install and maintain the Splunk Apps, TAs
• Provided services related to java script for advance UI as well Python for advance backend integrations.
• Integrated Service Now with Splunk to generate the Incidents from Splunk.
• Extensive experience on setting up the Splunk to monitor the customer volume and track the customer activity.
• Have involved as a SplunkAdmin in capturing, analyzing and monitoring front end and middle ware applications.
• Worked on DBConnect configuration for Oracle, MySQL, and MSSQL.
• 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.
• Installed, Configured and administrated IBM WebSphere Application server (WAS) 8.0/7.0, IBM HTTP Server, and IIS 7.0 on Red Hat Linux 6.0/7.0, AIX, Solaris, IBM Mainframes and Windows Server.
• Created Configuration manager, Brokers, Queue Managers, define Objects, channels, SSL, Clustering, shared channels, shared objects.
• Configuration of the Configuration Manager and Broker.
• Prepared mapping documents for each individual interface.
• Developed Message Flows, ESQL Statements, Message Sets, Pub/Sub applications.
• Developed Message flows without Message set which used custom XSD/XSLT transformations to transform into XML and Fixed Length Message (TDS).
• Developed message flows which done XML/XSLT transformations, CWF-TDS transformations and conversions from one format to another, SOAP/HTTP XML to IMS (MRM) mappings and transformations.
• Implemented ESQL logic for database lookups, Metadata-Driven Processing, Message Validation/ Translation/Transformation, Exception Handling and Stored Procedures for batched code set lookups.
• Involved in Debugging ESQL and Java code.
• Performed problem determination and problem source identification based on 1st level troubleshooting and provided production support.
• Processed XML messages with exceptions and performed Message transformations, translation, validation

Environment: SPLUNK 6.0.1, Linux, UNIX, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL.

PL/SQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creation of Low Level Design including sequence diagrams and class diagrams to understand the existing architecture.
• Understanding of the Functional specifications, based on that prepared design documents.
• Developing highly complex applications using Oracle 10g database as back-end with expertise in design and development of Oracle PL/SQL Packages and Procedures. Superior skills in designing and developing Oracle objects such as Tables, Views, Indexes, Stored Procedures and Functions in PL/SQL, Packages in PL/SQL, Materialized Views, and Dynamic SQL
• Using concepts like Partitioning, Partition pruning, Index by Tables, Bulk Collect, Pipelined Functions, Insert All, Global Temporary tables
• Analyzing business requirements, preparation of source-target mapping documents, conduct unit testing and code walkthroughs to ensure there are no missing elements, and perform integration testing
• Handling code defects, enhancements and release management using tools like Rational Clear case and Rational Clear quest
• Performing the performance tuning for faster retrieval of data using various optimizer hints such as Parallel, Ordered, Append and Use Hash and used customized v$ scripts to monitor the database processes and performance
• Using existing processes and procedures for application deployment and provided 24x7 production support as Primary
• Creating shell scripting for generating reports for clients
• Tuning of Queries, Packages using Oracle utilities Explain Plan, DBMS Prof.
• Developing procedures using native dynamic SQL (EXECUTE IMMEDIATE), dynamic SQL, Ref cursors.
• Developed the different components of application such as JSPs, Servlets and used VSS for version control.

Environment:: Oracle 10g, Clear case, Clear quest, Toad 9.5, PLSQL Developer 7, Java, HTML

PL/SQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements, design, and development and testing phases of project.
• Developed PL/SQL Stored Procedures, Functions and Packages, Triggers for searching all types of book in advance search model.
• Involved in development of Unix Shell scripts to call procedures and functions maintained logs where executed properly or not, copy the only selected fields into other text files.
• Extensively involved in tuning of Oracle databases, using Oracle utilities Explain Plan, DBMS Profiler.
• Used Views, Materialized Views, Cursors, REF Cursors, Partitioning, Exception handling, Bulking Techniques
• Extensively involved in loading the data from different files using SQL LOADER utility, Creation of different control files and used fillers in those files for selective loading.
• Restructured packages, procedures to improve performance.
• Involved in improving the performance of loading and manipulations using Bulk Binds, Creation of different types of indexes.
• Involved in developing procedures using native dynamic SQL (EXECUTE IMMEDIATE), dynamic SQL, Ref cursors.
• Involved in Logical and physical data modeling.
• Involved in developing JDBC Connections to connect to database and fetch the data.
• Involved in development of KornShell Scripts including file manipulation, calling procedures and functions, using SQL LOADER utilities, awk, sed etc.
• Experienced in batch job scheduling.
• Experience with FTP to put and get the files.
• Used Clearcase for each release of project.
• Involved in another project Using transform data to another DB.
• Extensively worked on Toad during development for connecting to different servers.
• Involved in Unit Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing.
• Used Test Director to keep track of the Test Cases.
• Involved in Promotion of code to UAT, PRODUTION.
• Analysis of client requirement in the initial development phase and provide the best solution for any requirement.

Environment: Oracle 10g/9i, SQL and PL/SQL,Proc *C, UNIX, PERL, Toad

Jr. PL/SQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design, coding, deployment and maintenance of the project.
• Acted as a single point contact for the Database related activities like developing/ creating tables, procedures and functions for the java developers. Involved in designing of the application using UML (Unified Modeling Language).
• Written PLSQL procedures to extract the daily promoted and demoted Employees from the HR database.
• Developed various reports by using SQL.
• Loading of data (Data Migration) from legacy system to custom tables using SQL LOADER.
• Supporting on-call in out of office hours.
• Developed stored procedures and triggers to facilitate consistent data entry into the database.
• Written Stored Procedures using PL/SQL and functions and procedure for common utilities.
• Participated in system analysis and data modeling, which included creating tables, views, indexes, synonyms, triggers, functions, procedures, cursors and packages. Created programming code using advanced concepts of Records, Collections and Dynamic SQL.
• Used advanced Bulk technologies (FOR ALL, BULK COLLECT) to improve performance. Developed installation scripts for all the deliverables. Performed functional testing for different Oracle Forms application functionalities.
• Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
• Worked on Oracle database to design Database schema, created Database structure, Tables and Relationship diagrams.
• Supported on call 24x7 schedule for Production Support.

Environment: Oracle 11g, SQL, PL/SQL, Proc *C, Java Script, UNIX