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Vineel Aakash
Splunk Consultant
ac4meo@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY:
4+years of experience in Splunk configuring, implementing and supporting Splunk Server Infrastructure across Windows, UNIX and Linux and in-depth knowledge of log analysis generated by various systems including security products.
Experience with a variety of Operating Systems, Protocols and Tools depending on the type of platform or application to be administered.
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
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.
Experience in Shell scripting and extensively used Regular expressions in search string and data anonymization.
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 including monitoring, capacity planning and maintenance by providing 24X7 support on call for all mission critical applications.
Strong background in a disciplined software development life cycle (SDLC).
Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills and ability to learn new concepts and supported 24/7 on call in production and development environment.
Excellent Communication Skills and Presentation Skills, Comprehensive problem-solving abilities.
Skilled at accessing client needs, working in a group, suggesting ideas that enhance efficiency and maximize performance, implementing cutting-edge technology solutions and Training/Supporting end users.
Have experience working in different environments and also with the process flows in AGILE as well as Waterfall methodologies.
Technical Skills:
Log Analysis Tool
Splunk Enterprise Server 4.x.x/5.x.x/6.x.x, Splunk Universal Forwarder 4. xx/5. xx/6. xx
Web/App Servers
WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.x/7.x/8.x, Web Sphere MQ Sever 6.x/7.x, WebSphere XD 6.0/6.1, IBM Http Server 6.x/7.x/8.x, Apache Web Server 2.x, Tomcat 5.5, IIS 6/7.x
Operating Systems
IBM AIX (5.1/6.1), RHL Linux, Windows Server2003/2008 R2, VMWare
Programming
C#, VB, SQL/PL SQL, HTML, DHTML, XML.
Scripting
JavaScript, Perl, CSS
Databases
Oracle (10g/11i), Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2
Networking
TCP/IP Protocols, Socket Programming, DNS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bank of America., NJ Oct 2016- Present
Splunk Consultant
Responsibilities:
Experience as Splunk Admin/Developer, performed activities including requirement analysis, design and implementations of various client server based applications using Splunk 6.x.
Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Migration, Trouble-Shooting and Maintenance of Splunk, Passionate about Machine data and operational Intelligence.
Creates Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts, and Dashboards.
Analyzed terabytes of data for online banking BOFA customers on different applications.
Created SPLUNK several summary indexes and saved searches for various AGILE/SCRUM project initiatives in consumer banking and user presentations.
Developed SPLUNK Dashboards in for different kinds of instances which were part of Bank of America using advanced XML, Simple XML, HTML, JQuery, CSS and JavaScript
Worked on several third-party applications and add-ons like Kafka in the beneficiary of user.
Created a proof of concept(POC) on Splunk IT service intelligence(ITSI) for the local environments.
Created and configured KPI's in Splunk IT Service Intelligence(ITSI).
Knowledge on Splunk ITSI glasstables, deep dives, KPI's, ITSI modules.
Provided ETL capabilities to analyze meta data and generate analytic reports across multiple SQL and Oracle DB servers
Also worked on DB connect, managing SQL queries in regarding attaining metric logs and other transformation of user logs.
Being in Bank of America with large data and many instances I created a “Health Monitoring app” to maintain uniformity and status of health report on all the instances by allotting several dashboards for each environment.
Collaborated with Developers, Designers, and Testers during Agile SDLC to implement IT system upgrades and changes.
Gained expertise by working in a huge enterprise environment like BOFA on handling serval curtail aspects like index clustering.
Managed more than 270 clustered and stand-alone indexers with almost 30 search head clusters of four major environments.
Developed and executed shell and Perl scripts to generate reports according to specification.
One of the major expertise gained is in onboarding different types of logs in different environments and instances. Managed to onboard logs both manually and also by using automation tool like blade logic.
Performed testing for Security Tool Engineering Bug Fix.
Became an expert in installing forwarders and monitoring the logs after its completion.
Working experience on Integrating Splunk with Windows Active Directory and LDAP.
Experience on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration (props.conf, Transforms.conf, Output.conf, inputs.conf etc,.) management, and intense troubleshooting issues.
Being in a financial firm gave me an opportunity to deal with immense confidential data integrated with ATM and Retail environments.
Adopted the enterprise tools like Splunk and Aternity to existing Subject Matter Experts (SME)s and Remediation teams, mentoring those teams until they become self-sufficient on the tools.
Worked as part of a triage team and ensure that all the right SMEs are engaged when appropriate, and that those SMEs also use data to justify recommendations.
As a part of team player worked as an “on call support” for a week (monitoring 27/7) each month dealing all sorts of admin issues like troubleshooting sudden drop of dashboards and server downs etc.,
Environment: Splunk 6.2,6.3,Splunk DB Connect and other modules, Splunk ITSI, Linux, Unix, Windows, XML, CSS, Oracle 9i/10g, JDBC, JDK, Regular Expressions, BladeLogic, Apache 2.x, Python., SQL.
Applab systems. Edison, NJ Jan 2016- Oct 2016
Splunk Consultant
Responsibilities:
Performing nature initiative for cyber security; building dashboards, on-boarding log sources, doing some general infrastructure tuning in the space
Work closely with Application Teams to create new Splunk dashboards for Operation teams.
Troubleshooting and resolve the Splunk – performance, search poling, log monitoring issues; role mapping, dashboard creation etc.
Install, configure and administer Splunk Enterprise Server 6.x.x and Splunk Forwarder6.x.x on Redhat Linux.
Assisted in auditing through Splunk SME knowledge (PCI, SOC, etc.)
Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application tiers introduced into environment and existing applications.
Work closely with Application Teams to create new Splunk dashboards for Operation teams.
Troubleshooting and resolve the Splunk – performance, search poling, log monitoring issues; role mapping, dashboard creation etc.
Worked on Net gear genie application to analyze the data and create dashboards which would help the business.
Provided SME consultation to management with alternative structures for implementing organizational changes and classification recommendations.
Experience in integrating Splunk with Tableau.
Experience in communicating with other teams in gathering data and requirements
Helping the marketing team in improving their sales by showing the analysis using Splunk
Indexing data from apache log servers into Splunk and creating dashboards.
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
Experience in using scripting languages.
Creating alerts to know the errors in indexing.
Environment: Splunk 6.0, Linux, UNIX, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL, McAfee EPO, Data Models, Server management, Dashboards, Splunk ITSI, Search processing language (SPL), Field extraction, Regex.
Texas A & M International University, Texas Jan’15- Dec’15
Graduate Research Assistant
Tutor students on Calculus, Object Oriented Programming Languages like java
Assist a faculty member with a research project; engage in statistics searches
Assisting faculty in the development of new material for their courses
Chetana soft solutions May’13 – Dec’14
Analyst
Responsibilities:
Created Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats through the use of continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics.
Install, configure and administer Splunk Enterprise Server 6.0.4 and Splunk Forwarder 4.x.x/5.x.x/6.x.x on Redhat Linux and Windows servers.
Created Regular Expressions for Field Extractions and Field Transformations in Splunk.
Anonymize the 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 troubleshooting and monitoring post go lives
Experience using Python and Perl scripting languages for forwarding the data to the indexers
Supported 8+ Splunk search Heads, 50 + Indexers, 3200 + forwarders.
Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.
Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application tiers introduced into environment and existing applications.
Work closely with Application Teams to create new Splunk dashboards for Operation teams.
Troubleshooting and resolve the Splunk – performance, log monitoring issues; role mapping, dashboard creation etc.
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
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.
Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance, Search time vs Index time field extraction. And understanding of configuration files, precedence and working.
Create dashboard from search, Scheduled searches o Inline search vs scheduled search in a dashboard
Environment: Splunk 6.0.1, Linux, UNIX, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2012, SQL.
EDUCATION:
Masters in Information Systems from Texas A & M International University, Laredo TX in 2015.
Bachelors in Electronics and communications Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Ananthapur India in 2013.
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