PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of IT experience and 5+ years of experience with Splunk - Enterprise Splunk, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk configuring, implementing, and supporting Splunk Server Infrastructure across Windows, UNIX and Linux.
• Extensive knowledge of Splunk architecture and various components. Passionate about Machine data and operational Intelligence.
• Having experience in understanding of Splunk 5.x and 6.x product, Distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers, forwarders.
• Expertise in Splunkenterprise architecture such as Search Heads, Indexers, Deployment server, Deployer, License Master, Heavy/Universal Forwarders.
• Headed Proof-of-Concepts on Splunk implementation, splunk indexing and plugins, mentored and guided other team members on Understanding the use case of Splunk.
• Installation and implementation of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security and documented best practices for the installation and performed knowledge transfer on the process.
• Expert in installing and using Splunk apps for Unix and Linux (Splunk nix).
• Used Time chart attributes such as Span, Bins, Tag, and Event Types. Created and configured management reports and dashboards.
• Experience on Data Analytics, Advanced Data Analytics, Visualization, Advanced Visualization, Dashboard Customization, and Advanced Dashboard Customization in Splunk.
• Experience on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enable continuous integration as part of configuration using (props.conf, Transforms.conf, Input.conf&Output.conf, Deployment.conf) management.
• Experience in Create and Manage Splunk DB connects Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.
• Experience on log parsing, complex Splunk searches, including external table lookups, Splunk data flow, components, features and product capability.
• Experience on Splunk query language and Monitored Database Connection Health by using Splunk DB connect health dashboards.
• In depth and extensive Knowledge in setting up alerts and Monitoring recipes from the Machine generated data.
• Exposure to Application Servers like Web Logic, IBM Web Sphere, JBoss and Apache Tomcat Web Server.
• Experience in PL/SQL programming - Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages, SQL tuning, and creation of Oracle Objects - Tables, Views, Materialized Views, Triggers, Sequences, Synonyms, Database Links, and User Defined Data Types. Experience using SQL, PL/SQL Procedures, Functions, Triggers and Packages.
• Expertise in performance tuning and query optimization using various types of hints, partitioning, bulking techniques and indexes. experience developing packages, stored procedures, functions, exception handling, dynamic cursor programs, data collections, views and database triggers using SQL and PL/SQL in Oracle.
• Expertise in SOX/PCI, System Enterprise Reporting, and performance tuning of use case reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Splunk: Splunk 5.x and 6.x, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk on Splunk, Splunk DB 2 Connect, Splunk Cloud, Hunk, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Web Framework

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Win 10, Windows Server, Unix/Linux (Red Hat), Free BSD

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

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

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

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

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

Programming Language: C, C++, Java with Big Data, Python, UNIX shell scripts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Splunk Developer/ Administrator

Confidential, MIAMI, FL

Responsibilities:

• Designed Splunk Enterprise 6.5 infrastructure to provide high availability by configuring clusters across two different data centers.
• Installed, Configured, Maintained, Tuned and Supported Splunk Enterprise server 6.x/5.x.
• Architect and Implement Splunk arrangements in exceptionally accessible, repetitive, conveyed figuring situations.
• Performed Field Extractions and Transformations using the RegEx in Splunk.
• Responsible for Installing, configured and administered Splunk Enterprise on Linux and Windows servers.
• Supported the upgradation of Splunk Enterprise server and Splunk Universal Forwarder from 6.5 to 6.6.
• Installation and implementation of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security and documented best practices for the installation and performed knowledge transfer on the process.
• Worked on installing Universal Forwarders and Heavy Forwarders to bring any kind of data fields into Splunk.
• Writing Splunk Queries, Expertise in searching, monitoring, analyzing and visualizing Splunk logs.
• Experience in alert handling, standard availability and performance report generation. Experience in root cause analysis of post-production performance related issues through Splunk tool.
• Designing, optimizing and executing Splunk-based enterprise solutions.
• Installed and configured Splunk Universal Forwarders on both UNIX (Linux, Solaris, and AIX) and Windows Servers.
• Hands on experience in customizing Splunk dashboards, visualizations, configurations using customized Splunk queries.
• Monitored the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, scalability, and optimization.
• Experienced in using Splunk- DB connect for real-time data integration between Splunk Enterprise and rest all other databases.
• Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports.
• Responsible with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Monitored license usage, indexing metrics, Index Performance, Forwarder performance, death testing.
• Splunk Architecture/Engineering and Administration for SOX monitoring and control compliance.
• Design and implement Splunk Architecture (Indexer, Deployment server, Search heads, and Forwarder management), create/migrate existing Dashboards, Reports, Alerts, on daily/weekly schedule to provide the best productivity and service to the business units and other stakeholders.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Configured Syslog server for the forwarding the logs to Splunk server via network protocols like TCP and UDP.
• Subject matter expert in best practices, security protocols, PKI, and other security-related issues.
• Monitored the database (data tables and error tables), WebLogic error log files and application error log files to track and fix bugs.
• Responsible for troubleshooting various indexing issues by analyzing splunk logs such as splunkd.log, metrics.log ingested as internal index.
• Support and execute arrangements considering a full information lifecycle (Search & Investigate, Add Knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze). Followed agile and scrum process for the whole implementation process.

Splunk Engineer

Confidential, Manson, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Maintained, Tuned and Supported Splunk Enterprise Server 6.0 and Splunk Universal Forwarder 6.0.
• Administered a complex cluster based environment involving search heads in a cluster while the indexers are in standalone mode.
• Configured Splunk forwarder to send unnecessary log events to "Null Queue" using props and transforms configurations.
• Created and configured management reports and dashboards in Splunk for application log monitoring.
• Active monitoring of Jobs through alert tools and responding with certain action to logs analyses the logs and escalate to high level teams on critical issues.
• Responsible for developing Splunk queries and dashboards targeted at understanding application performance and capacity analysis.
• 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.
• Created Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats using continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics.
• 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.
• Work closely with Application Teams to create new Splunk dashboards for Operation teams using advance XML and CSS.
• Created Shell Scripts to install Splunk Forwarders on all servers and configure with common configuration files such as Bootstrap scripts, Outputs.conf and Inputs.conf files.
• Extensively used Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.
• Installation and implementation of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security and documented best practices for the installation and performed knowledge transfer on the process.
• Using DB connect for real-time data integration between SplunkEnterprise and databases.
• Analyzing in forwarder level to mask the customer sensitive data able to manage distributed search across set of indexers.
• Responsible to filter the unwanted data in heavy forwarder level thereby reducing the license cost.
• Worked with administrators to ensure Splunk is actively, accurately running, and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.
• Worked on properly creating/maintaining/updating necessary documentation for Splunk Apps, dashboards, upgrades and tracked issues.
• Provided On-call support for various production applications.
• Administered various shell and Python scripts for monitoring and automation.
• Extensive experience on setting up the Splunk to monitor the customer volume and track the customer activity.
• Administering the MS SQL Server by Creating User Logins with appropriate roles, dropping and locking the logins, monitoring the user accounts, creation of groups, granting the privileges to users and groups.

Splunk Developer

Confidential, Altanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Installed & configured and managed SplunkEnterprise Server 5.x/4.x, Splunk Universal Forwarder 5.x/4.x on various platforms like Windows Server, UNIX, Solaris.
• Tuned and Supported SplunkEnterprise Server 5.0.
• Worked on various components in Splunkenterprise architecture such as Search Heads, Indexers, Deployment server, Deployer, License Master, Heavy/Universal Forwarders etc.
• Developed Splunk queries and dashboards targeted at understanding application performance and capacity analysis.
• Worked on multiple Splunk SPL functions to create new fields during search.
• Used Splunk for Application Log, Security Log and Performance monitoring.
• Configured Splunk multisite indexer cluster for data replication.
• Developed Splunk infrastructure and related solutions as per automation tool sets.
• Knowledge of security threats and vulnerabilities and how to detect and mitigate them, experience in building security monitoring and incident management solutions using Splunk.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Create dashboard from search, Scheduled searches o Inline search vs scheduled search in a dashboard.
• Configured up to 10 standard data sources based on use case scenarios to support the underlying security requirements.
• Optimized Splunk for peak performance by splitting Splunk indexing and search activities across different machines.
• Optimized Splunk for peak performance by splitting Splunk indexing and search activities across different machines.
• Worked with administrators to ensure Splunk is actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.

Oracle PL/ SQL Developer

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analysis, Design, Coding, Debugging and testing the processes/programs that are necessary to extract data from Operational Databases, transforming and cleaning the data and loading it to data ware house.
• Experience in writing the SQL, PLSQL stored procedures to meet the business requirements and the transformations.
• Developed PL/SQL triggers and master tables for automatic creation of primary keys.
• Used Dynamic SQL to implement DDL statements in PL/SQL programs.
• Worked with the team to design, develop, test & implement system. Creation of database objects like tables, procedures using Oracle tools like PL/SQL, TOAD. Written Stored Procedures using PL/SQL.
• Responsible for developing PL/SQL Functions, Procedures, Packages, Cursors and Triggers.
• Created programming code using advanced concepts of Records, Collections and Dynamic SQL.
• Extensively used error and exception handling techniques for validation purposes in code.
• Created Functions for duty calculations and validation of the inputs.
• Involved in Development of the applications by using PL/SQL tools like cursors and exception handlers, Loops and records. SQL Queries.
• Generated specific reports using crystal report system.
• Developed scripts for checking Oracle errors in alert logs and trace files for every 15minutes.
• Involved in coding with SQL, PL/SQL function, stored procedure, packages, triggers, and Materialized view for Oracle database.
• Successfully performed data replication using Materialized views.
• Implementing Best Practices for optimizing and tuning the database.
• Monitoring the database audit log.

PL/ SQL Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensive PL/SQL programming including Development of new backend packages, procedures and functions to in corporate advanced modules.
• Analyzed the business requirements for the enhancements needed in the contract administration application and related policy modules.
• Developed Data entry, query and reports request screens and tuned the SQL queries.
• Created control files for fixed length data, variable length data and for data that has to be inserted in multiple tables within a database at a time.
• Involved in Unit testing of the Reports, Forms and PL/SQL Stored procedures.
• Worked on Incidents daily in solving the issues arising in the PL/SQL Code, Reports and Forms 11g as support team.
• Created records, tables, collections (nested tables and arrays) for improving Query performance by reducing context switching.
• Participated in code reviews in Oracle Views, Pl/SQL Procedures to understand the testing needs of the change components.
• Involved in writing PL/SQL Packages, Functions, Stored Procedures, and Data Base Triggers.
• Created huge database packages with related functions and procedures.
• Added database triggers to some history tables of the database.
• Worked with the development team to design, develop, test and implement the application.