Splunk Admin/developer Resume
CA
SUMMARY
- Over 7 years of experience in Data Visualization, Analytics, Data Management, Data Integration, Implementation and Maintenance of Business Intelligence, and teh related Database Platforms.
- Experience in Operational Intelligence using Splunk.
- Proficiency with teh usage of various search commands like stats, chart, timechart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where, xyseries, table etc. ; Experience with teh usage of Extract Key Word, sed, etc..
- Expertise with Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
- Experience in creating different visualizations using Bar, Line and Pie chart, Background Maps, Box plots, Scatter plots, Gantt charts, Bubble charts, Histograms, Trend lines & statistics, Bullets, Heat maps and Highlight tables.
- Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports.
- Extensive experience in developing complex mappings from varied transformations like Router, Filter, Sorter, Connected and Unconnected lookups, Normalizer, Expression, Aggregator, Joiner, Union, Update Strategy, Stored Procedure and Sequence Generator Etc.
- Implemented a Log Viewer Dashboard as a replacement for an existing tool to view logs across multiple applications hosted on aPaaS setup.
- Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) concepts such as IBM
- Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
- Expertise in using teh commands like rex, erex, sedandIFX to extract teh fields from log files.
- Extensive noledge in creating accurate reports using XML,Dashboards,visualization and pivot tables for teh business users.
- Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time fieldextraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
- Knowledge on configuration files in SPLUNK(props.conf, transforms.conf, output.conf).
- Extensive Data Warehouse experience using Informatica 7/8.x/9 Power Center tools (Source Analyzer,Mapping Designer, Mapplet Designer, Transformation Designer, Repository Manager, Server Manager) as ETL tool on Oracle /DB2 Database.
- Extensive experience in writing Packages, Stored Procedures, Functions and Database Triggers using PL / SQL and UNIX Shell scripts. Also handled Oracle utilities like SQL Loader, import etc.
- Working noledge of data warehouse techniques and practices, experience including ETL processes, dimensional data modeling (Star Schema, Snow Flake Schema, FACT & Dimension Tables), OLTP and OLAP.
- Experience in data mart life cycle development, performed ETL procedure to load data from different sources into Data marts, Data warehouse using Informatica Power Center.
- Experienced in all data processing phases, from teh Enterprise Model, Data Model (Logical and Physical Model), and Data Warehousing (ETL).
- Good understanding of Views, Synonyms, Indexes, Joins, and Sub - Queries.
- Team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Highly motivated team player with zeal to learn new technologies.
- Ability to manage projects starting with gathering requirements, accordingly deciding andordering hardware, building, configuring and supporting them.
- Excellent understanding of project issues, tracking of issues, solving issues and closing issues.
- Have experience in coordinating and working with different infrastructure teams like dba, san,network etc. along with vendors such as IBM, HP,Splunk etc.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Data Warehousing: Informatica Power Center 9.5/ 9.1/8.5/8.1.1/7.1.2, Informatica Designer, Workflow Manager, Work flow Monitor, Datamart, Mapplet, Transformations, Autosys, SQL*Plus
Hadoop/Big Data: HDFS, Mapreduce, HBase, Pig, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, Mongo DB, Cassandra, Power pivot, Puppet, Oozie, Zookeeper.
Java&J2EETechnologies: Core Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JNDI, Java Beans
IDE’s: Eclipse, Net beans
Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, Unix Shell Scripting, C
Databases: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, MySQL, DB2, MS-SQL Server
Web Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat
Web Technologies: HTML, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, SOAP, WSDL
Network Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP
ETL Tools: Informatica, Talend
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, CA
Splunk Admin/Developer
Responsibilities:
- SetupSplunkForwarders for new application tiers introduced into environment and existing applications
- Work closely with Application Teams to create newsplunkdashboards for Operation teams.
- Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time field extraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
- Created Regular Expressions for Field Extractions and Field Transformations inSplunk.
- Very Good experience onSplunkSearch Language and Regular expressions.
- Supported 14 clusters 100+Splunksearch Heads, 200+ Indexers, 3000 + forwarders.
- Anonymize teh PII data inSplunk. Masked sensitive information such SSN numbers, Addresses when showing results inSplunk.
- ConfigureSplunkfor all teh mission critical applications and usingSplunkeffectively for Application troubleshooting and monitoring post go lives
- ConfiguredSplunkforwarder to send unnecessary log events to Null Queue using props and transforms configurations to reduce license costs.
- Good noledge about Indexer and Search head clustering.
- Created Shell Scripts to installSplunkForwarders on all servers and configure with common configuration files such as Bootstrap scripts, Outputs.conf and Inputs.conf files.
- Experienced in attending teh bridge calls for production issues and non - prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve teh issues and involved in Root cause analysis for teh issues encountered.
- Provide regular support guidance toSplunkproject teams on complex solution and issue resolution with teh objective of ensuring best fit and high quality.
- Doing deeper analysis of data using event correlations across indexes and various source types to generate custom reports for senior management.
Environment: SplunkEnterprise Server 5.x.x/6.x.x, UniversalSplunkForwarder 5.x.x/6.x.x, IBM HTTP Web Server 7/8, Oracle, HTML, Java Script, XML, R2, Python (Jython), Regular Expressions.
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Splunk Engineer
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- me have helped teams to on-board data,create various noledge objects, install and maintain teh SplunkApps, TAs
- Provided services related to java script for advance UI as well Python for advance backend integrations.
- Integrated ServiceNow with Splunk to generate teh Incidents from Splunk.
- Extensive experience on setting up teh Splunk to monitor teh customer volume and track teh 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, 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.
- Captured data from various front end, middle ware application.
- Field Extraction, Using Ifx,Rex Command and Regex in configuration files.
- Created many of teh proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners which are used to monitor application and server health.
- As in production environment, me was involved in triaging and resolving various complex productionissues by analyzing data from various monitoring tools from Sys logs and application logs. This involves working with various teams real time on a conference call.
- Also, worked on code changes for various maintenance and customer reported bugs as part of production support.
- Used techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time field extraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
- Various types of charts Alert settings Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions,Creating and managing app, Create userrole Permissions to noledge objects.
- Create dashboard from search, Scheduled searches o Inline search vs scheduled search in a dashboard.
Environment: SPLUNK 6.0.5, Linux, Hadoop
Confidential, Detroit, MI
Splunk Power User
Responsibilities:
- Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles.
- Prepared, arranged and testedSplunksearch strings and operational strings.
- Involved in setting up alerts for different type of errors.
- Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances
- Prepared, arranged and tested Splunksearch strings and operational strings.
- Developed, evaluated and documented specific metrics for management purpose.
- Using SPL created Visualizations to get teh value out of data
- Created Dashboards for various types of business users in organization.
- Played a major role in understanding teh logs, server data and brought an insight of teh data for teh users.
- Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.
- Involved in assisting offshore members to understand teh use case of business.
- Assisted internal users of Splunkin designing and maintaining production-quality dashboard
- Used Datameer to analyze teh transaction data for teh client.
- Installed, configured and managed Datameer users on teh Hadoop cluster.
- Involved in writing complex IFX, rex and Multikvcommand to extracts teh fields from teh log files.
- Involved in helping teh Unix and Splunk administrators to deploySplunk across teh UNIX and windows environment.
- Helped teh client to setup alerts for different type of errors.
- Worked with administrators to ensure Splunk is actively and accurately running and monitoring on teh current infrastructure implementation.
- Involved in installing and using Splunk app for Linux and Unix.
Environment: Splunk 6.0, Pivotal HD, Datameer, Linux, Bash, Perl, Hbase, Hive, Pig, Hawq, Sed, rex, erex, Splunk Knowledge Objects
Confidential, Sacramento, CA
Informatica Developer
Responsibilities:
- Used Informatica Power Center for (ETL) extraction, transformation and loading data from heterogeneous source systems into target database.
- Created mappings using Designer and extracted data from various sources, transformed data according to teh requirement.
- Involved in extracting teh data from teh Flat Files and Relational databases into staging area.
- Mappings, Sessions, Workflows from Development to Test and then to UAT environment.
- Developed Informatica Mappings and Reusable Transformations to facilitate timely Loading of Data of a star schema.
- Developed teh Informatica Mappings by usage of Aggregator, SQL overrides usage in Lookups, source filter usage in Source qualifiers, and data flow management into multiple targets using Router.
- Created Sessions and extracted data from various sources, transformed data according to teh requirement and loading into data warehouse.
- Used various transformations like Filter, Expression, Sequence Generator, Update Strategy, Joiner, Router and Aggregator to create robust mappings in teh Informatica Power Center Designer.
- Imported various heterogeneous files using Informatica Power Center 8.x Source Analyzer.
- Developed several reusable transformations and mapplets dat were used in other mappings.
- Prepared Technical Design documents and Test cases.
- Optimized teh performance of teh mappings by various tests on sources, targets and transformations. Identified and removed teh Bottlenecks, and implemented performance tuning logic on targets, sources, mappings, sessions to provide maximum efficiency and performance.
- Involved in scheduling of documents monthly, weekly and daily through Control-M.
- Responsible for determining teh bottlenecks and fixing teh bottlenecks with performance tuning.
- Worked with Index Cache and Data Cache in cache using transformation like Rank, Lookup, Joiner, and Aggregator Transformations.
- Extensive experience in debugging and troubleshooting Sessions using teh Debugger and Workflow Monitor.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.6, Informatica Workflow Manager, DB2 UDB 8.1, UNIX Shell Scripting, Control M
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
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 teh data in both source and target databases.
- Extensively worked with various lookup caches like Static Cache, Dynamic Cache, and Persistent Cache.
- My achievements include complete revamp of teh Santander Bank testing and production environment which include of retiring teh hardware and reducing around 1 Million dollar savings in teh maintenance and cost of hardware
- Involved in writing UNIX Shell scripts (Pre/Post Sessions commands) for teh Sessions &wrote Shell scripts to kickoff workflows, unscheduled workflows, get status of workflows.
- Tuned SQL Statements, Mappings, Sources, Targets, Transformations, Sessions, Database, Network for teh 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 teh performance tuning of aggregator transformation.
- Created various tasks like Pre/Post Session, Command, Timer and Event wait.
- Tuned teh performance of mappings by following Informatica best practices and also applied several methods to get best performance by decreasing teh run time of workflows.
- Validated teh Mappings, Sessions & Workflows, Generated & Loaded teh Data into teh target database.
- Created various tasks like Pre/Post Session, Command, Timer and Event wait.
- Created Materialized view for summary data to improve teh 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 teh target database.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 7.1.2, Oracle, Mainframe, DB2, COBOL, VSAM, SQL, PL/SQL
Confidential
JAVA/ Flex Developer
Responsibilities:
- Developed teh Total module end to end.
- Involved in JSP / Flex integration to bring up teh Flex application as Pop up on click of teh button from teh JSP Page.
- Involved in developing Core API for teh system.
- Developed this application using Rich Internet Application (RIA) using Adobe Flex, Action Script, Cairngorm, etc.,
- Created java classes package structure module wise.
- Coordinating with team members for developing Flex components using ActionScript and other Java services for WebServices.
- Developed various Components in Flex using ActionScript to re-use on UI side.
- Created events/Commands using Cairngorm library to achieve MVC at UI side.
- Event Driven program is used to develop UI components with teh help of Flex/Cairngorm libraries.
- Assisted teh System Integration Team in integrating all modules of teh application.
- Assisted teh Deployment Team in building and deploying project on server.
- Assisted teh Testing team in testing application in various aspects.
Environment: Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, Adobe Flex 3.0, Action Script 3.0, Cairngorm, Adobe Flex Builder, Blaze DS, Unix, putty, TOAD, Eclipse 3.2, Oracle, SQL, Weblogic 9.2.2, SOAP Webservices, CVS, Maven, CSS, XML, Windows XP.
Confidential
Jr. Java Developer
Responsibilities:
- Designed teh application based on teh architecture of theMVC designpattern.
- Project was developed followingAgileandScrummethodologies.
- Requirement Analysis and Documentation as per SDLC methodologies.
- Converted requirement into flow design diagram using MS Visio.
- Performed data loading usingspring-Hibernate.
- UsedWSDLto post teh services in theUDDI.
- ConfiguredHibernate'ssecond level cache usingEHCacheto reduce teh number of hits to teh configuration table data.
- Developed views for JSP pages using AJAX
- Extensively usedHibernatein data access layer to access and update information in teh database.
- Code development using Eclipse, HTML, JAVA, JSP, SWING, Servlet and SQL
- Created Functional Test cases and achieved bug fixes.
- WroteSQL,PL/SQL(Procedures/Functions/Packages/Triggers) to handle business functionality.
- UsedXMLSAXparsertosimulate xml file which TEMPhas simulated test data.
- Code review and function testing for better client interface and usability.
- Participation in meeting with team, senior management and client stakeholders
Environment: Java, J2SE, JSP, Servlet, SQL, Oracle9i, JDBC, Swing, Eclipse, HTML, SDLC, MS Office, Windows, AJAX, JPA annotations, SOAP web services, WSDL, UDDI, SAX, DOM