SUMMARY

• Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
• Experience on 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.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• Maintenance of Splunk Environment with multiple Indexers.
• Worked on large datasets to generate insights by using Splunk.
• Set indexing property configurations, including time zone offset, custom source type rules. Configure regextransformations to perform on data inputs. Use in tandem with props.conf.
• Helping application teams in on - boarding Splunk and creating dashboards/alerts/reports etc.
• Integration of Splunk with Ldap.
• 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.
• Worked as Splunk developer to setup Splunk app for a critical new launch.
• Field Extraction, Using IFX, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files.
• Knowledge of Extract keyword, sed, Knowledge objects, Knowledge of various search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where, xyseries, table etc. Difference between event stats and stats.
• Time chart attributes such as span, bins, Tag, Event types, Creating dashboards, reports using XML. Create dashboard from search, Scheduled searches online search vs scheduled search in a dashboard.
• Worked on setup of various dashboards, reports and alerts in Splunk.
• Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time field extraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
• Was responsible for data inputs/app creation/objects/views managing in Splunk.
• Strong Data Warehousing ETL experience of using Informatica 9.1/8.6.1/8.5/8.1/7.1 Power Center Client tools - Mapping Designer, Repository manager, Workflow Manager/Monitor and Server tools - Informatica Server, Repository Server manager.
• Proficient in Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i/7.3, PL/SQL back end applications development Toad, SQL Plus, and PL/SQL Developer.
• Experience with Splunk technical implementation, planning, customization, integration with big data and statistical and analytical modeling.
• Well-versed with different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Perl (Korn shell) Unix Shell Scripts, JSP, C, C++, java, J2EE, CSS, HTML, XML.

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

Oracle Utilities: SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, SQL developer, TOAD.

Tools: APEX 4.2,3.2, Informatica 9.1/8.6.1/8.5/8.1/7.1 Power Center Oracle Forms 10g,9i,6i and Reports 10g,9i,6i, ERWIN,VISIO, Autosys Control-M.

Data Modeling: Dimensional Data Modeling (Star Schema, Snow-Flake, FACT-Dimensions), Conceptual Physical and Logical Data Modeling, ER Models, OLAP, OLTP concepts.

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/6.x, Sun Solaris 9/10, ES3/4, HP-UX 11.11,11.23, AIX5.3/6.1, Windows 2010/2008.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Splunk Developer

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model
• Created splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats through the use of continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics.
• UtilizingSplunkfor monitoring, correlating, analyzing security events from devices including: Blue Coat Proxy, FireEye, SoureFire,Symantec, Juniper SRX, Fortigate, and others.
• Symantec Antivirus server console Management, Support for Symantec Enterprise product.
• Experience in Implementing & managing Symantec Data Loss Prevention.
• In-depth knowledge of theSplunk platform and ITIL set of best practices for managing the IT Service organization.
• Successfully implemented the following Splunk applications: Configuration, Software Asset, Change, Release, Problem, Incident, Knowledge, Service Catalog, Discovery, SDLC.
• Configuring and defining Symantec Firewall Policies, Intrusion Prevention Policies, Antivirus & Antispyware Policies and Server - Client and server communication policies.
• Developed an intuitive command-line tool that allowed QA and developers on the Product Team to efficiently interact with our RESTful API as a variety of different user types to test new changes merged to the staging environment and to inspect/share relevant responses/exceptions, using Python and Redis.
• Created pytest helper functions and re-factored significant portions of unit/integration test code to provide a consistent pattern that new tests could follow.
• Added new features to the Django/Tastypie API of the core product.
• AnalyzingJVMheap settings andtuning.Web Servers - Apache with standalone Managed Servers and Clusters of managed servers.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts and auto deployment process. Maintenance of DB objects to maintain the database growth.
• Designing and developing dynamic web pages using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Coded extensively in jQuery to make rich Internet web pages and created custom date picker on the website.
• Developed mockups and prototypes using HTML and CSS.
• Design website and maintain the website content up to date.
• Improved documentation for setting up backend developer environment and created a setup script to automate as much of the process as possible.
• Created Dashboards, report, scheduled searches and alerts.
• Performed installation, new databases design, configuration, backup, recovery, security, upgrade and schema changes, tuning and data integrity.
• Provide Regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution.
• Helping application teams in on-boarding Splunk and creating dashboards/alerts/reports etc.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Assisted with sizing, query optimization, buffer tuning, backup and recovery, installations, upgrades and security including other administration functions as part of profiling plan.
• Extensive experience on setting up the Splunk to monitor the customer volume and track the customer activity.
• Ability to carry out security tasks at network level such as TCP/IP ports through firewall.
• Integrate Service Now with Splunk to generate the Incidents from Splunk
• Worked on Splunk DB Connect configuration for Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL
• Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.
• Created many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners which are used to monitor application and server health.
• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports
• Created Splunk Dashboards for various types of business users in organization.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing
• Field Extraction, Using Ifx, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files
• Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs. Index time field extraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working
• Create Splunk dashboard from search, Scheduled searches Inline search vs. scheduled search in a dashboard.
• Involved in helping the Unix and Splunk administrators to deploy Splunk across the UNIX and windows environment.
• Troubleshooting of searches for performance issues, integration of Splunk with Ldap.
• 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.

Environment: Splunk 6.1.3, Tomcat 7.x, F5 Load Balancers, Wily Introscope 6.0,Python Scripting, Apache HTTP server 2.4, JVM tuning, ITIL, RedHat Linux 6.x, LDAP, Splunk UI, JDBC, JDK1.7, J2EE, XML, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL, Solaris 10, SVN, CVS.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Splunk Power User

Responsibilities:

• Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles.
• Prepared, arranged and testedSplunksearch strings and operational strings.
• Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data and brought an insight of the data for the users.
• Optimized Splunk for peak performance by splitting Splunk indexing and search activities across different machines.
• Involved in setting up alerts for different type of errors and helped the client to setup alerts for different type of errors.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances
• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• Developed, evaluated and documented specific metrics for management purpose.
• Using SPL created Visualizations to get the value out of data
• Configure and Install Splunk Enterprise, Agent, and Apache Server for user and role authentication and SSO.
• Provide inputs for identifying best fit architectural solutions - deployment for Splunk project.
• Deploy, configure and maintain Splunk forwarder in different platforms.
• Created Dashboards for various types of business users in organization.
• Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.
• Involved in assisting offshore members to understand the use case of business.
• Assisted internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboard
• Involved in writing complex IFX, rex and Multikv command to extracts the fields from the log files.
• Experience in setting up dashboards for senior management and production support- required to use Splunk.
• Involved in helping the UNIX and Splunk administrators to deploy Splunk across the UNIX and windows environment.
• Worked with administrators to ensure Splunk is actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.
• Involved in installing and using Splunk app for Linux and Unix.

Environment: Splunk, Linux, Windows Server 2012, 2008, Splunk Enterprise Security, ESX, Applications Development, Big Data Analysis, operations analysis.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Splunk Engineer and Developer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise withSplunkUI/GUI development and operations roles.
• Prepared, arranged and testedSplunksearch strings and operational strings.
• Helped the client to setup alerts for different type of errors.
• Setting up trusted proxy's for Single Sign-on of the authentication.
• Configuration Management and event trigger using Service-Now.
• Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data and brought insight of the data for the users.
• Involved in setting up alerts for different type of errors.
• Assisted internal users ofSplunkin designing and maintaining production-quality dashboard.
• Involved in writing complex IFX, rex and Multikv command to extracts the fields from the log files.
• Involved in helping the UNIX andSplunkadministration to deploySplunkacross the UNIX and windows environment.
• Worked with administrators to ensureSplunkis actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.

Environment: Splunk5.0, Pivotal HD, Datameer, Linux, Bash, Perl, Hbase, Hive, Pig, Hawq, Sed, rex, erex,SplunkKnowledge Objects.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Informatica Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and analyzing the requirements and preparing business rules.
• Designed and developed complex mappings by using Lookup, Expression, Update, Sequence generator, Aggregator, Router, Stored Procedure, etc., transformations to implement complex logics while coding a mapping.
• Worked with Informatica power center Designer, Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor and Repository Manager.
• Developed and maintained ETL (Extract, Transformation and Loading) mappings to extract the data from multiple source systems like Oracle, SQL server and Flat files and loaded into Oracle.
• Developed Informatica Workflows and sessions associated with the mappings using Workflow Manager.
• Extracted data from different databases like Oracle and external source systems like flat files using ETL tool.
• Involved in debugging Informatica mappings, testing of Stored Procedures and Functions, Performance and Unit testing of Informatica Sessions, Batches and Target Data.
• Developed Mapplets, Reusable Transformations, Source and Target definitions, mappings using Informatica 9.1.0.
• Generated queries using SQL to check for consistency of the data in the tables and to update the tables as per the Business requirements.
• Involved in Performance Tuning of mappings in Informatica.
• Good understanding of source to target data mapping and Business rules associated with the ETL processes.

Environment: Informatica 9.1, Oracle 11g, SQL server 2008 R2, SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, Toad 10.6, SQL Loader, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler 5.3.1, Unix, Flat files.

ETL Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement designing, and development of data warehouse environment.
• Actively involved in creating design specifications and ETL design documents.
• Preparation of the shell scripts for running the Informatica programs in Autosys Scheduler.
• Preparing UNIX scripts for triggering Teradata load utilities like Fast load and Mload.
• Optimized the process using table driven approach.
• Implemented the reusability of mappings by creating mapping shortcuts.
• Analysed the data and provide resolution by writing analytical/complex SQL in case of data discrepancies.
• Provided guidance in performance tuning of Informatica mappings & Teradata BTEQs
• Troubleshoot the defects encountered in SIT & UAT and provided resolutions.
• Extensively worked on UNIX Shell scripting and BTEQs to extract the data from the warehouse.
• Involved in Performance Tuning and Data Quality (Both Database and Informatica) and there by decreased the load time.

Environment: Informatica Power Centre 7.1/8.1, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, TOAD, Micro strategy, Teradata, Autosys and Solaris, UNIX.

SQL Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing databases, tables, indexes, views, stored procedures.
• Enforcing business rules with triggers and user defined functions, troubleshooting, and replication.
• Writing the Stored Procedures, checking the code for efficiency.
• Maintenance and Correction of Transact Sequel Server (T-SQL) Statements.
• Daily Monitoring of the Database Performance and network issues.
• SQL Authentication.
• Rebuilding indexes on various tables.
• Preparing Test Cases and performing Unit Testing.
• Review of Unit and Integration test cases.
• Production Implementation and Post Production Support.

Environment: MS SQL Server 6.5, SQL Server 7, MS SQL Server 2000.