SUMMARY

• Experience in Splunk 5.x and 6.x product, Distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers, forwarders, etc.
• Experienced in Preparing, arranging and testing Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• Experience in Operational Intelligence using Splunk.
• Created and configured management reports and dashboards.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.
• Expertise with Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
• Expert in installing and using Splunk apps for Unix and Linux (Splunk nix).
• Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports.
• Expertise with the usage of various search commands like stats, chart, timechart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where, xyseries, table etc. ; Experience with the usage of Extract Key Word, sed, etc..
• Installed, tested and deployed monitoring solutions with Splunk services.
• Implemented a Log Viewer Dashboard as a replacement for an existing tool to view logs across multiple applications hosted on aPaaS setup.
• Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• In depth and extensive Knowledge in setting up alerts and Monitoring recipes from the Machine generated data.
• Set up Splunkto capture and analyze data from various layers Load Balancers, Web servers and application servers.
• Extensive knowledge in creating accurate reports using XML,Dashboards,visualization and pivot tables for the business users.
• Good understanding of Views, Synonyms, Indexes, Joins, and Sub - Queries.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Has the ability to prioritize and adapt quickly to changes.
• Excellent understanding of project issues, tracking of issues, solving issues and closing issues.
• Strong focus on processes, quality assurance .
• Quick & self motivated learner with sound interpersonal and communications skills .

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Unix Shell Scripting
• SPLUNK
• Machine data reporting
• CGI/HTML
• Windows 2000/XP
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Splunk Developer/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring Confidential .com by using splunk
• Provide 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 SplunkAdmin in capturing, analyzing and monitoring front end and middle ware applications.
• Using SPL created Visualizations to get the value out of data
• 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.
• Involved in installing and using Splunk app.
• 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.
• Involved in writing complex IFX, rex and Multikv command to extracts the fields from the log files.
• 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.
• Had installed splunk on remote graphic work station and by using forwarders monitored and reported data by using splunk on another work station.

Environment: SPLUNK 6.1.3, Linux, Linux, Bash, Perl, Hbase, Hive, Pig, rex, site catalyst, alertsite, erex,SplunkKnowledge Objects

Confidential, Virginia Beach, VA

Splunk Developer

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge aboutSplunkarchitecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
• Involved in standardizingSplunkforwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing .
• Created Dashboards, report, scheduled searches and alerts.
• Provide regular support guidance toSplunkproject teams on complex solution and issue resolution.
• Integrated Service Now withSplunkto generate the Incidents fromSplunk
• 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.
• Field Extraction, Using Ifx, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files.
• 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
• Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time field extraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
• Create dashboard from search, Scheduled searches o Inline search vs scheduled search in a dashboard
• Worked on configuring the Splunk on R-GFX work station.

Environment: SPLUNK6.0.1, Linux, Unix, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL.

Confidential

Splunk Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, tested and deployed monitoring solutions with Splunk services.
• Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.
• Implemented forwarder configuration, search heads and indexing.
• Supported data source configurations and change management processes.
• Analyzed and monitored incident management and incident resolution problems.
• Resolved configuration based issues in coordination with infrastructure support teams.
• Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.
• Onboarding e-Commerce and other channel applications intoSplunkenvironment.
• Creating operations dashboard for production support teams.
• Summary indexes to accelerate the dashboard performance.
• Setting up alerts on critical conditions for monitoring teams for proactive monitoring.
• Error aggregation dashboard across all applications using Side view Utils.
• Creating REST API calls.
• Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.
• Assisted internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboard.
• Used Datameer to analyze the transaction data for the client.
• Installed, configured and managed Datameer users on the Hadoop cluster.
• Involved in writing complex IFX, rex and Multikvcommand to extracts the fields from the log files.

Environment: Splunk5.0s, Side View Utils 2.4.10

Confidential

Jr Informatica Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Business Requirements Analysis, preparation of Technical Design documents, Data Analysis, Logical and Physical database design, Coding, Testing, Implementing, and deploying to business users.
• Prepared SQL Queries to validate the data in both source and target databases.
• Extensively worked with various lookup caches like Static Cache, Dynamic Cache, and Persistent Cache.
• Involved in writing UNIX Shell scripts (Pre/Post Sessions commands) for the Sessions &wrote Shell scripts to kickoff workflows, unscheduled workflows, get status of workflows.
• Tuned SQL Statements, Mappings, Sources, Targets, Transformations, Sessions, Database, Network for the bottlenecks, used Informatica parallelism options to speed up data loading to target.
• Responsible for Performance Tuning in Informatica Power Center.
• Creating sessions, configuring workflows to extract data from various sources, transforming data, and loading into enterprise data warehouse.
• Extensively made use of sorted input option for the performance tuning of aggregator transformation.
• Created various tasks like Pre/Post Session, Command, Timer and Event wait.
• Tuned the performance of mappings by following Informatica best practices and also applied several methods to get best performance by decreasing the run time of workflows.
• Validated the Mappings, Sessions & Workflows, Generated & Loaded the Data into the target database.
• Created various tasks like Pre/Post Session, Command, Timer and Event wait.
• Created Materialized view for summary data to improve the query performance.
• Running and monitoring daily scheduled jobs by using Work Load manager for supporting EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) loads for History as well as incremental data.
• Worked with Update strategy transformation using functions like DD INSERT, DD UPDATE, DD REJECT, and DD DELETE.
• Monitored batches and sessions for weekly and Monthly extracts from various data sources to the target database.

Environment: Informatica Power Center, Oracle, Mainframe, DB2, COBOL, VSAM, SQL, PL/SQL