Nita Nandha

Email: adp3g2@r.postjobfree.com PH: 614-***-****

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nita-nandha-116a66228/

Plain City, OH 43064

US Citizen

Splunk Admin /Splunk Developer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

To obtain a challenging and rewarding Splunk position with growth and learning opportunities in a supportive, challenging work environment that would take advantage of my job experience. Always seeking an opportunity that will allow me to prove myself in various aspects of critical conditions and adding values to the prosperity and development of the company.

Multi-cultural experience of 6 years IT experience and as Splunk administration and Splunk developer on varied projects which involves Design and Development of client/server. In platform consisting of Red Hat Linux, Windows, and Sun Solaris operating systems.

Extensive experience in Installation, Configuration, and Migration, Trouble-Shooting and Maintenance of Splunk, Apache Web Server on different UNIX flavors like Linux.

Expert in installing and using Splunk apps for UNIX and Linux plunk Add-on *nix.

Hands on experience in installing Splunk TASSymantec DLP, Splunk DB connect Splunk App for and more.

Worked on Security solutions (SIEM) that enable organizations to detect, respond and prevent these threats by providing valuable context and visual insights to help you make faster and smarter security decisions.

Experience in creating Access controls, to user by creating AD (Active Directory) groups power and user groups.

Experience with Active Directory and SSO Single sign-On option.

Experience in Python general scripting, Hands on Experience in secure coding.

Expertise in using Splunk with shell script in creating scripts for various activities like Generating Server Status and Health reports, Deployments on large scale configuration of servers.

Experience with Splunk technical implementation, Planning, customization, integration with big data and statistical and analytical modeling.

Responsible in Scheduling Backups and Restore, Maintenance plans using Native & Third-party tools.

Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.

Experience in Splunk development (creating apps, dashboards, data models, etc.

Experience on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration management.

Administration, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.

Created and Managed Splunk DB connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.

Monitored Database Connection Health by using SplunkDB connects health dashboards.

Expertise in creating accurate reports, Dashboards, Visualizations and Pivot tables for the business users.

Created Reports, Alerts and Dashboards by Splunk query language. Experienced in creating and running Cron Jobs for scheduled tasks.

Parsing, Indexing, searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.

Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (Indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server).

Experience in all facets of SDLC viz. requirement analysis, designs, development, testing, and post implementation revisions.

Have excellent logical, analytical & debugging skills Possesses high working qualities with good interpersonal skills, highly motivated, fast learner, good team player and very proactive in problem solving with providing best solutions.

Provided 24/7 on-call support for production, strong team player, good analytical skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Splunk Admin /Splunk Developer

Procter & Gamble, Ohio, USA

May 2020 to Present

Responsibilities:

Installation of Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Splunk forwarder, Splunk Indexer, Apps in multiple servers (Windows and Linux) with automation.

Having hands on experience on onboarding data into Splunk cloud.

Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration management.

Splunk DB Connect in search head cluster environments of Oracle.

Hands on experience in Assisting stake holders of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality data, dashboards and various applications.

Team player in Proof-of-Concepts (POC) on Splunk implementation mentored and guided other team members on Understanding the use case of Splunk.

Hands on experience in on-boarding data of Stake holder into Splunk and explaining the Line of business concepts.

Experience in using Rsyslog application during security issues.

Experience in using monitor text files and convert their contents into syslog messages.

Experience in creating Access controls, to user by creating AD (Active Directory) groups power and user groups.

Troubleshoot technical issues to establish the root cause of problems and form a solution or workaround across a range of environments.

Reproduce issues and if necessary, file bug reports, escalate cases to Vendor, and provide necessary documentation.

Setup SSL for communication with & between various Splunk components.

Grew and improve the Enterprise Splunk environment from early stages to a mature implementation.

Mentor members of the technical staff to support and assist in Splunk-related activities.

Involved in Installation, Administration and Configuration of Splunk Enterprise.

Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments of Oracle.

Experience with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles.

Expertise in creating and customizing Splunk applications, searches and dashboards as desired by IT teams and business.

Drive complex deployments of Splunk dashboards and reports while working side by side with technical teams to solve their integration issues.

Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.

Managing indexes and cluster indexes, Splunk web framework, data model and pivot tables.

Performed troubleshooting and/or configuration changes to resolve Splunk integration issues.

Hands on development experience in customizing Splunk dashboards, visualizations, configurations, reports and search capabilities using customized Splunk queries.

Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.

Good experience in Splunk, Shell scripting to automate and monitor the environment routine tasks.

Splunk Admin /Splunk Developer

Progressive Insurance, Ohio, US

January 2018 to April 2020

Responsibilities:

Configurations with deployment server, indexers, search heads, serverclass.conf, server.conf, apps.conf, props.conf, transforms.conf, forwarder management configurations

Responsible for designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting, deploying and maintaining Splunk solutions, reporting, alerting and dashboards

Experience with Splunk DB Connect application and Splunk forwarder deployment

Extensive knowledge of a tier Splunk installation, Indexer, Intermediate, Heavy forwarder, Search heads, UFs and apps

Deploy new Splunk systems and Monitor Splunk internal logs to identify and resolve existing or potential issues

Helping application teams in on-boarding and POC’s of new Splunk base apps for their data and creating dashboards, alerts, reports in Splunk

Hands on experience in customizing Splunk Apps and dashboards, built advanced visualizations, configurations, Reports and search capabilities

Experienced in major changes in Splunk sandbox environment before moving them to your production system

Responsible for the deployments through the service now incidents and changes.

Communicating and collaborating with customers, Splunk users

Created and Managed Splunk DB connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls

Working with Splunk authentication and permissions and having significant experience in supporting large scale Splunk deployments

Good knowledge in On-boarding the applications like Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, etc., with the HTTP Event collector

Administered and configured Users, Roles, Groups and Group Members for the application

Monitoring Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, system health, availability, and optimization

Drive complex deployments of Splunk dashboards and reports while working side by side with technical teams to solve their integration issues

Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time field extraction and understanding of configuration files, precedence and working

Parsing, Indexing, searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing

Set indexing property configurations, including time zone offset, custom source type rules

Complete deployment of Search Head Clusters in different environments, including migration of existing Search Head pooling (simultaneously cut over from current Search Head’s instead of creating from scratch

Splunk Admin /Splunk Developer

Target, Ohio, USA

July 2016 to December 2017

Responsibilities:

Responsible for providing design, implementation and operations process support as it pertains to Splunk.

Responsible for Enhancing cyber threat notification and compliance reporting by monitoring logs in Splunk. Perform Splunk software upgrades and patches.

Install and configure Splunk apps and Splunk Add-On’s.

Create and update run books, Splunk standard operating procedures, and incident handling first responder playbooks.

Installation of Splunk Enterprise, Splunk forwarder, Splunk Indexer, Apps in multiple servers (Windows and Linux) with automation.

Monitor common log sources (e.g., firewalls, operating systems, databases, malware prevention, intrusion detection, and applications)

Onboard new log sources into Splunk based on client requirement and Perform security data analytics. Creating and modifying Splunk dashboards, Alerts, Reports.

Integrating Splunk with Third party tools. Rsa integration.

Experience in using monitor text files and convert their contents into syslog messages.

Experience in creating Access controls, to user by creating AD (Active Directory) groups power and user groups.

Troubleshoot technical issues to establish the root cause of problems and form a solution or workaround across a range of environments.

Hands on experience in on-boarding data of Stake holder into Splunk and explaining the Line of business concepts.

Experience in using Rsyslog application during security issues.

Experience in using monitor text files and convert their contents into syslog messages.

Experience in creating Access controls, to user by creating AD (Active Directory) groups power and user groups.

Troubleshoot technical issues to establish the root cause of problems and form a solution or workaround across a range of environments.

Reproduce issues and if necessary, file bug reports, escalate cases to Vendor, and provide necessary documentation.

Setup SSL for communication with & between various Splunk components.

Splunk Admin /Splunk Developer

IGS, Ohio, USA

January 2015 to June 2016

Responsibilities:

Installation of SplunkEnterprise, Splunk forwarder, Splunk Indexer, Apps in multiple servers (Windows and Linux) with automation.

Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration management.

Splunk DB Connect in search head cluster environments of Oracle.

Hands on experience in Assisting stake holders of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality data, dashboards and various applications.

Team player in Proof-of-Concepts (POC) on Splunk implementation mentored and guided other team members on Understanding the use case of Splunk.

Hands on experience in on-boarding data of Stake holder into Splunk and explaining the Line of business concepts.

Experience in using Rsyslog application during security issues.

Experience in using Rsyslog in UNIX computer systems for forwarding log messages in an Ipnetwork, write it to a file or database or forward it to a remote host.

Experience in using monitor text files and convert their contents into syslog messages.

Experience in creating Access controls, to user by creating AD (Active Directory) groups power and user groups.

Troubleshoot technical issues to establish the root cause of problems and form a solution or workaround across a range of environments.

Reproduce issues and if necessary, file bug reports, escalate cases to Vendor, and provide necessary documentation.

Setup SSL for communication with & between various Splunk components.

Grew and improve the Enterprise Splunk environment from early stages to a mature implementation.

Mentor members of the technical staff to support and assist in Splunk-related activities.

Involved in Installation, Administration and Configuration of Splunk Enterprise.

Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments of Oracle.

Experience with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles.

Expertise in creating and customizing Splunk applications, searches and dashboards as desired by IT teams and business.

Drive complex deployments of Splunk dashboards and reports while working side by side with technical teams to solve their integration issues.

Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.

Managing indexes and cluster indexes, Splunk web framework, data model and pivot tables.

Performed troubleshooting and/or configuration changes to resolve Splunk integration issues.

Hands on development experience in customizing Splunk dashboards, visualizations, configurations, reports and search capabilities using customized Splunk queries.

Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.

Good experience in Splunk, Shell scripting to automate and monitor the environment routine tasks.

EDUCATION:

Bachelors in Computer Science - Franklin University - Nov 2000 to March 2002, Columbus, OH

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