SUMMARY

• Proficient Software Engineer 8+ years of experience in configuring, implementing and supporting Middleware and Splunk Infrastructure components.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting of WebSphere Application Server v 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1/5.0 ,
• Architecture various components within Splunk (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts, Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing, License model
• Field Extraction using Ifx, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files.
• Used techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time field extraction and un - derstanding of configuration files, precedence and working Props.conf, transforms. conf, inputs.conf, outputs.conf setting up a forwarder Monitor stanza in inputs.conf.
• Built the new indexers and search heads in Cluster environment on Windows platform with Splunk v 6.2.
• Scripting and development skills (Perl, Python, Java) with strong knowledge of regular expressions.
• Time chart attributes such as span, bins, Tag, Event types, Creating dashboards, reports using XML. Create dash-board from search, Scheduled searches Inline search vs scheduled search in a dashboard
• Good Knowledge in Science Logic and New Relic
• 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.
• Upgrade and Optimize Splunk setup with new discharges.
• Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application levels brought into environment.
• Extensive experience in deploying, configuring and administering Splunk clusters.
• Helping application teams in on-boarding Splunk and creating dashboards, alerts, reports etc.
• Develop custom app configurations (deployment-apps) within Splunk in order to parse, index multiple types of log format across all application environments.
• System Administration familiar with Windows Servers, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Servers, Solaris and IBM AIX servers.
• Created and configured websites and application pools in IIS and worked extensively on .Net deployments in Windows space
• Experience in Shell scripting and extensively used Regular expressions in search string and data anonymization.
• Worked broadly on firm wide Enterprise Releases and DR events.
• Understanding of Network Firewalls, Load-balancers, LDAP and complex network design.
• Experience in Optimized search queries using summary indexing.
• Excellent skills on troubleshooting and problem determination of HTTP/System/ Network related problems in-cluding monitoring, capacity planning and maintenance by providing 24X7 support on call for all mission critical applications.
• Expertise on investigating HTTP issues using tools like Fiddler, HTTP Analyzer etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: IBM AIX 5.x, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2000/XP/2003/vista/windows 8(32/64), Sun Solaris

Scripting: ANT (apache & ws ant), Jython, Unix shell (ksh, bash), Java, C/C++, Perl

Security: Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM), CA SiteMinder, RSA cleartrust

LDAP: MS Active Directory 2003, IBM Directory Server, Lotus Domino

Monitoring: Wily Introscope, IBM ITCAM, Tivoli Performance Viewer, BMC Patrol

J2EE: Portlets (JSR 168 & IBM API), JSP, JSF, XML, Servlets, EJBs, Web Services

Development: IBM Portlet Factory (Bowstreet), RAD 6/7, WASAD 5.1, JBuilder X, Eclipse

Databases: IBM UDB 8.x/9.x, Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server, Derby (Cloudscape)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Splunk Administrator and Developer

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and administer Splunk Enterprise Server 6.0.4 and Splunk Forwarder 6.2.0 on Redhat Linux and Windows severs.
• Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application tiers introduced into environment and existing applications.
• Configure and Install Splunk Enterprise, Agent, Apache Server for user and role authentication and SSO.
• Upgraded Splunk to 6.2.3 with patching in multiple server without downtime.
• Working on indexers and computing servers and with configuration management.
• Monitor the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization
• Troubleshoot Splunk search head, Indexer and forwarder issues and document.
• Automating in Splunk using Perl with Service - Now for event triggering.
• Used Splunk data Connector between Splunk Enterprise and Relational Database
• Provide access on roles, restriction permissions. Report on license usage and set Distributed license system.
• Deploying Splunk updates and license distribution over multiple servers using a deployment server.
• Create Dashboard Views, Reports and Alerts for events and configure alert mail.
• Create Splunk apps for consuming data for applications and implement apps.
• Work closely with Application Teams to create new Splunk dashboards for Operation teams.
• Troubleshooting and resolve the - performance, log monitoring issues; role mapping, dashboard creation etc.
• Created Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats through the use of continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics.
• Created Regular Expressions for Field Extractions and Field Transformations in Splunk.
• Anonymize the PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data in Splunk. Masked sensitive information such SSN numbers, Addresses when showing results in Splunk.
• Configure Splunk for all the mission critical applications and using Splunk effectively for Application trouble-shooting and monitoring post go lives
• Supported 8+ Splunk search Heads, 50 + Indexers, 3200 + forwarders.
• Created Dashboards and Reports to show Login count of each application, to show which app resources being accessed more, Number of failed logins, statistics on High hitting applications.
• 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
• Configured Splunk forwarder to send unnecessary log events to "Null Queue" using props and transforms con-figurations to reduce license costs.
• Developing a custom application in Splunk
• Fetching the data from databases using "DB Connect Application"
• Extensively involved in troubleshooting the issues and document the problem resolutions for future s. Attended Change management meetings for approval for the applications, which are supposed to go live and pro-vided the MOM of CM meetings to the team.
• Experienced in attending the bridge calls for production issues and non-prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve the issues and involved in Root cause analysis for the is-sues encountered. Also provided 24/7 on call support for all the production applications.
• Involved in developing complex scripts to automate batch jobs.
• Developed a POC on usage of Puppet Configuration Management tool.

Environment: Splunk Enterprise Server 6.2.0/6.2.3 , Universal Splunk Forwarder, RedHat Linux, IBM HTTP Web Server 6.1/7/8, Oracle, HACMP 5.4, HTML, Perl, Java Script, XML, Wily Introscope 9.x, IIS 7, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 R2, Python (Jython), Regular Expressions.

Splunk Administrator and Developer

Confidential, St. louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Provide regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution.
• Helped teams on - board data, create various knowledge objects, install and maintain the Splunk Apps, TAs and good knowledge on java script for advance UI as well Python for advance backend integrations
• Created Dashboards, report, scheduled searches and alerts.
• Have involved as a Splunk Admin in capturing, analyzing and monitoring front end and middle ware applications.
• Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.
• 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.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows plat-forms.
• Worked on setting up Splunk to capture and analyze data from various layers Load Balancers, Web servers and appli-cation servers.
• Captured data from various front end, middle ware application
• Integrated Service Now with Splunk to generate the Incidents from Splunk.
• 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 ap-plication and server health.
• Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
• Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows plat-forms.
• Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
• 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.
• Analyzed large datasets to identify metrics, drivers, performance gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time field extraction and understand-ing of configuration files, precedence and working.

Environment: SPLUNK 6.0.1, Linux, UNIX, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL.

Sr. WebSphere System Administrator

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, deployment, scripting, troubleshooting of WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and WebSphere Portal Server 6.0 on Linux and Windows 2000/2003 environments using silent and GUI methods.
• Responsible for WebSphere Portal Server v 6.0 installation, configuration and deploymentincluding activating portlets and portlet applications, managing users and groups.
• Experience in deploying and configuring the J2EE and Web Applications on multiple Servers using Jythong/Jacl and shell scripts in Development, Integration Testing, QA and Production environment: s.
• Responsible for development of business process and work flow for development and testing of Web Sphere components and ensure transition to Operations groups for production delivery and post - production support.
• Coordinated the monthly release processes by reviewing and editing deployment documents, creating zip/tar packages and setting up staging environment for production implementation.
• Responsible for enabling the security for enterprise applications using External Security Manager (ESM) SiteMinder.
• Involved in new application installs, upgrades, applying patches, application server installsresolving outages adherent to the corporate procedures, policies and escalation levels set forth for the e-Business team.
• Experienced in automating the portal deployment process using XMLAccess for web applications of the WebSphere Portal.
• Experience in migrating all the J2EE Applications, which includes setting up new Research, DEV, TEST, QA environment from Web Sphere 4.0.7 to Web Sphere 5.1.
• Responsible for SiteMinder Application Support, this includes Web Agent Support like how the agents are plugged into the web server, Policy Server like how the policy server will talk to LDAP user store schemas that the policy server uses for authentication, authorization etc., LDAP user store like configuring the user store, modifying the user profiles etc.
• Responsible for Managing, Monitoring and Creating Change Management Records (CMR)Critical System Support, to Install Web Applications. Clearing the problem and ticket queues, solving prob-lems and reassigning to concerned groups by end of the day if required.
• Responsible for conduction bridge calls for situations like escalating issues, high priority issues, tasks in-volving many teams, and project integration.
• Experience in migrating applications from JBoss 4.0 to WebSphere Application Server v6.1.
• Responsible for automation of installation, deployments using JYTHON/JACL scripts on
• WebSphere ApplicationServer.
• Assisting team members in trouble shooting of Web Sphere environment related issues and providing presentation on the Support procedures and knowledge sharing sessions on CMR process.
• Supported MQ teams when they conduct stress testing to calculate message throughput and performance tuning on WMQ & WMQSI application components to meet up the SLA requirements.
• Documented the daily activity of the WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0 in the middleware environ-ment.
• Assist teams 24x7 on call supports.

WebSphere System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuring infrastructure solutions for J2EE applications around IBM WebSphere Appli - cation Server 6.0/5.1, IBM HTTP Server, IBM WebSphere Process Server v5.1, IBM
• WebSphere Portal Server 5.1 and IBM MQSeries on Linux and Windows platforms using silent and console methods.
• Upgraded and configured Clustering for WebSphere Application Server 6.0.
• Responsible for providing Security for applications in the environments using External Security Manag-er like SiteMinder.
• Responsible for configuring JDBC providers and data sources to support backend applications on DB2.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the issues with the help of logs like Process logs, JVM logs.
• Took active participation in deploying new applications on WebSphere Application Server6.0/5.1.
• Good experienced in Production Release process.
• Configured and set up Secure Socket Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
• Worked in various Software Development Life Cycle with rational unified process (rup)/AJILE.
• Responsible for configuring Data Replication Services for session management on WebSphere Applica-tion Server.
• Responsible for creating Realms from different kinds of repositories using Virtual Member Manager (VMM).
• Monitored the performance of WebSphere Application Server using Wily Introscope.
• Analyzed the heap/thread dumps with Heap/Thread Dump Analyzer (Alpha Work) for resolving memory issues of Application Server.
• Configured the tuning parameters like JVM heap size, Connection Pool Settings, Web Container threads, log sizes, caching for optimized Performance of WebSphere Application Server.
• Experienced in collecting IBM must gather documents manually and also using ISA WORK BENCH/ISALITE.
• Responsible for documentation of operational environments support procedures.

WebSphere System Administrator

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Installing and Configuring WebSphere Application Server 5.1.1.13, WebSphere Portal Servers5.1, WebSphere MQ 5.3, and IBM Http Server on multiple - tier architecture on Linux, Windows 2000 advanced Server and Window 2003 Server environments.
• Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source CreationVirtual Host Creation, Session management, clusters, Deployment Manager ConfigurationNetwork Deployment Configuration in WebSphere5.1.1.3 on Linux and Windows 2003 Server environ-ments.
• Responsible for configuring shared environment (clustering) for the WebSphere Application Server.
• Responsible for resolving heap and thread dump issues using Heap dump Analyzer and thread dump ana-lyzer for the WebSphere Application Server v5.1 environments.
• Configured the deployment including portlet applications, active portlets and managing users and groups for WebSphere Portal 5.1.
• Responsible for monitoring the health of the WebSphere Application server v5.1.
• Used Mercury Load Runner for load testing the WebSphere Application Server v5.1.
• Monitored the Web Server/App Server/Portal error reports and log files and responsible for resolving various distributed application issues in order to maintain efficient operations.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the issues using first failure data capture (ffdc) by feeding data to analy-sis engine for solutions.
• Responsible for enabling the security with Tivoli Access Manager for the WAS environment.
• Developed Jacl and Jython scripts to automate the WebSphere environment.
• Interfaced WebSphere MQ with WebSphere Application Serverv5.1.
• Documented day to day activity of the application server and supported the team with 24/7 on call support.