Splunk consultant Resume

SUMMARY

An astute professional with 10+ years of valuable experience as a Splunk Consultant and application administrator (tomcat/jboss/MQ) .
StrongSplunkUI experience and able to debug expensive search queries.
Experience onboarding new data sources and setting up alerts (formatting, standardization, etc)
Designed solutions and concepts for data aggregation and visualization.
Knowledge of user and role access permissions.
Have good knowledge of Various logging tools apart from Splunk like Xpolog etc.
Splunk Architech,Splunk PowerUser, Splunk Admin RHCE and ITIL V3 Certified
Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of areas like Tomcat, Jboss and Linux administration and Incident/change/Problem Management etc.
Good Knowledge on Change/Incident Ticketing tools Service Now, Remedy, HP Service Center etc
Have understanding of Configuration tool like Chef, and github .
Proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilizing the same in a productive manner.
An effective communicator with excellent skills in building relationships; possess strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Splunk consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Configure all app logs,syslog and network logs in Splunk and make sure the logging is available with out any issues.
Prepare, arrange and test Splunk search strings and operational strings.
Create and configure management reports and dashboards.
Develop, evaluate and document specific metrics for management purpose
Analyze security based events, risks and reporting instances.
Manage and maintain use cases into correlation systems.
Provide technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.
Maintain and manage Splunk related issues.
Requirement gathering from Infrastructure Teams and Security Operation Teams collecting logs from closed appliances such as proxies, firewalls and network devices
Responds to queries and requests for computer security information and reports from both internal and external customers
Design solutions and concepts for data aggregation and visualization.
Analyzing the issues from Application and Infrastructure perspective and taking them a logical resolution
Incident logging, change and problem management using Service Now tool.

Splunk consultant/Middleware administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Deploy tomcat middleware applications on linux servers
Configure the tomcat logs in Splunk.
Solve SplunkIntegration challenges.
Debug Splunkconfiguration issues. write regex to perform field extractions at search time
Document Splunk related configuration, used cases, process and procedures
Create and configure management reports and Splunk dashboards
Train the Splunk users and create necessary documentation.
Participate as a subject matter expert in splunk related discussions.
Design solutions and concepts for data aggregation and visualization
Automation of the Middleware Activities through Shell Scripting.
Incident/Change/Management Using the tool Remedy.
Take care of the File System issues like disk growth etc.
Update the Technical Documentation so that the information is available for all the team members.
Coordinate release activities with Release Management, Project Management, QA, and Web Development teams to ensure a smooth and trouble - free roll out of releases
Manage, deploy and support multiple concurrent releases through various test environments

Middleware Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Install and configure Tomcat applications on Red hat linux servers.
Responsible for enterprise wide WebSphere MQ messaging infrastructure across distributed platforms including; UNIX, WINDOWS
Perform Websphere MQ administration tasks on Linux and Windows servers, and MVS
Deploy new MQ objects
Setup security for WebSphere MQ queues and channels.
Provide production, testing and development support (taking care of messaging problems through resolution)
Working with the development team and manage implementations and installations
Monitor system utilization and application performance and assist in growth analysis and capacity planning.
Assist in the load testing of the applications.
Change/incident/Problem Management.
Troubleshoot and debug the issues in the applications.
Configuring and renewing digital certificates for secured applications
Assisting developers in debugging application issues
Support application deployments
Using monitoring tools to find problems, resolve and/or escalate to development teams.
Manage and maintain multiple test environments, ensuring that these environments are properly setup, configured, and available for each project as scheduled.
Use of programming scripts such as Bash/Korn Shell scripting for administration and documenting support procedures.