Splunk Engineer

SREENIVAS GANJI, CISSP, Splunk

Phone: 682-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

●13 years of IT experience in Splunk Administration, SAP Security, Basis, Architecture, Design & Administration, Build DR strategies, SOX audits, DB Encryption

●Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Technical Lead, Application Consultant, Database Administrator, and SAP Administrator.

●To expand my technical knowledge, I am studying for Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), will obtain a GCIH (Certified Incident Handler) and GIAC (Intrusion Analyst) credentials.

SKILL SET

●Applications Administered: Splunk, SAP ERP, SAP NW, SAP SCM, SAP CRM, SAP PO, Redwood CPS,

SAP GRC, SAP BI, SAP EP, SAP MDM, SAP NWDI, SAP CC, Vertex, Taxware, IXOS, SAP Hybris

●Implementations: Splunk, SAP Hybris, SAP ERP, SAP GRC, Redwood CPS, SAP Biller Direct,

SAP Solution Manager, SAP Data Archiving, HA setup.

●Migrations: IXOS servers, SAP OS/DB migrations.

●Monitoring tools: Splunk, Opmanager, and SAP Solution Manager.

●SAP Data Archiving: Design SAP Data Archiving strategies.

●OS Administered: Windows, AIX, UNIX, Linux, and Sun Solaris.

●Database Administered: Oracle, DB2, MYSQL

●Trainings: Cyber Security trained at Training Camp (official (ISC)2 training

Institute). Trained on Hana, In-memory DB at Prof. Hasso Plattner

Institute.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EBay, Inc. Feb 2015 – Till date

Responsibilities:

Splunk, Infrastructure Engineer

●Splunk Configuration and Administration.

●Installed, configured and administered Indexers, Search Heads, Deployer, Deployment Server, Forwarders Heavy and Universal, License Master.

●Administered Splunk Cluster Architecture.

●Expertise in Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning.

●Written shell scripts to automate the tasks.

●Written Regex expressions for extractions, transformations to perform on data inputs.

●Worked on large datasets to generate insights by using Splunk.

●Administered Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen buckets.

●Created proof-of-concept dashboards for Business Operations, SAP Hybris Billing

●Monitored DB health check, expensive SQL queries, anomalies in DB with Splunk DB Connect

●Integrating external data sources into Splunk

●Designing the Splunk system solution to meet growth while maintaining a balance between performance, stability, scalability and agility

●Strong understanding of data exfiltration techniques. Demonstrated ability in critical thinking, problem solving, and analytics

●Experienced in installing/configuring Splunk add-on applications from Splunkbase

●Experienced in driving Splunk demo’s for providing insight to other teams and business units.

●Experienced in extracting fields, multivalue fields, tags, field aliases, etc.

●Experienced in writing complex regular expression to extract fields for data that is structured and unstructured.

●Experienced in writing scripts to collect data that cannot use the universal forwarder.

●Experienced in indexing data from multiple types of systems with and without universal forwarders.

●Experienced in building complex searches and utilizing lookup tables and inputlookups from KVStores.

●Experienced in creating custom indexes, setting custom retention times.

●Experienced in creating custom Roles, mapping groups and roles.

●Experienced in creating Dashboards, Reports, Alerts

●Migration of SAP applications on to private cloud.

●Automate the build of SAP applications on to the private cloud.

●Design, develop, document, implement and manage SAP Security.

●Security assessment, auditing, control and monitoring, optimizing the security.

●Business impact and risk analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery.

●Classification of Business Data.

●Identification of network zones of the servers based on the classification of data handled.

●Write SOP’s to handle GDPR data and Security Operations.

●Identity, authentication, access control, change, release and configuration management.

●Administration of Billing as a Service SAP (BaaS) infrastructure.

●SAP Systems & Network Architecture

●Application Monitoring thru Splunk and Opmanager.

●Database Encryption using HSM as root of secure.

●Configure Single Sign On, SSL/TLS.

Forest City Enterprises Inc. Nov 2014 – Feb 2015

Responsibilities:

SAP Basis Lead

Day to day technical systems support all SAP systems at Forest City Enterprises.

Handle the lifecycle management of the SAP systems – planning and executing installations, patches, and upgrades.

Perform system copies and working with the development and functional teams to promote changes through the SAP environments.

To provide the highest level of technical expertise and consulting on the SAP systems to business process teams and IT staff.

Evaluate, direct and support SAP system enhancements and perform quality assurance functions.

Researching and implementing solutions for administration functionality in the areas of performance monitoring, tuning, systems configurations, designs and implementation.

Work closely with systems analysts and other team members to implement business and IT requirements that drive the analysis and design of technical solutions that are in alignment with technical design blueprints and business strategies.

Sodexo Aug 2014 – Oct 201

Responsibilities:

SAP Basis Architect

●Putting in Transports for go live

●Troubleshooting failed Transports

●Making Tuning Recommendations

●Doing Performance Evaluations

●Solution Manager Basic configuration and initial setup.

●LMDB and SLD configuration.

●Managed system configuration.

●Solution Manager Technical Monitoring configuration.

●Upgradation of Solution Manager from 7.1 SPS 4 to SPS 8

●Providing KT to the current support team on how to use monitoring after Go-live.

Sanofi Mar 2014 – Aug 2014

Responsibilities:

SAP Basis Architect

●As part of the Sanofi SAP GIS Team working as SAP BASIS Architect/Project Technical Coordinator for Migration Project and responsible of designing, preparing, planning and executing SAP re-platforming and migration activities to NGDC Data Centers in the US.

●Preparing & designing SAP Re-platforming from US Legacy DCs to NGDCs: As Is Analysis, Target architecture design, migration strategies & plans

●Organize the work from implementation, migration/cut over as a project manager.

●Coordinate technical SAP related activities to be implemented: SAP installation, data migration/conversion, technical testing.

●Conduct and coordinate mock cutovers.

IBM Oct 2009 – Mar 2014

Responsibilities:

Senior SAP Basis Administrator

●Responsible for defining and execution of solution strategy to migrate SAP systems, and integrate them with other SAP and non-SAP systems.

●Coordinate SAP related technical activities for building the new landscapes as existing once in support of split of organization.

●Plan strategy considering all the stake holders and implement SAP Data archive solutions after the organization split.

●Provide support to client as part of AMS.

●Handling day to day issues in SAP systems.Proactive monitoring. Handling tickets and addressing them within the SLA. Administration of ECC 6.0, BI 7.1, NWDI 7.0, Portal 7.3, MDM, Archiving, Vertex, Rev-Trac, Configuration of Work Centers in Solution Manager, EWA configuration, Administration of SAP Bolt-ons.

●To plan Project Technical area, integrations, team building, and training to the customer core team.

●Administration as a part of AMS: ECC, BI, CRM, SCM, SolMan, MDM, NWDI and EP.

●NWDI: Configuration of New Tracks, CTS+ configuration, Addition of new SC’s, Transports, Upgradationof tracks, Defining track dependencies.

●MDM Archiving of Content Repositories, Restoring CR, MDM transports, MDM administration.

●SAP Data Archiving:

●Creation and configuration of Content Repositories in SAP and PBS

●Installation and configuration of PBS Content Link Server.

●Scheduling write jobs manually through SARA and also using PBS

●Execute storage jobs using either PBS or manually through SARA.

●Execute delete jobs manually through SARA.

●Building of indexes through PBS.

●Working with end users to fix any issues in reading archived data.

●Troubleshoot any issues with PBS.

●SolMan 7.1:

●Installation of SolMan 7.1.

●EWA configuration.

●Sol Man Diagnostics configuration, Installation of Diagnostic agents on Java and ABAP systems.

●Rev-Trac (Transport Management configuration)

●CTS+ configuration

●Vertex: Administration, monthly updates and maintenance of Vertex.

●Uperform: Uperform Installation and configuration.

●Analyze long running jobs and ABAP dumps.

●Worked with SAP and software vendors to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner.

●Provided on-call support and problem resolution for production systems on a rotating basis

●Responsible for maintaining disaster recovery and high availability environments for SAP and SAP bolt-on app.

●Provide troubleshooting and support for ABAP and Java systems.

●Support SAP Live Cache systems for APO.

●Monitor SAP Systems and Database through CCMS.

●Configure Information Broadcasting on BW Java systems.

●BI: Configuration of source systems and activation of Data Sources, Transformations, DTPs, and BW Info providers in BW systems. Implementation of component Biller Direct on EP SAP NW 7.1 Installation and implementation Redwood CPS on SAP NW 7.0 Java stack, Installation of PI 7.0

●SAP system Load balancing and Workload analysis.

●R/3 Logon load balancing, Maintaining Operation Modes for Performance tuning.

●Analyze EWA Reports and tune the SAP System and DB parameters accordingly.

●Availability Monitoring Setup

●Connectivity Monitoring, Proactive Monitoring and Job Monitoring

●Early Watch Alert Setup for ABAP and JAVA

●IT Performance Reporting and Service Level Reporting

●Maintaining various SAP and Non – SAP Bolt Ons like Rev-Trac, U-perform, Read soft and HP Quality Center.

●CPS: Did End to end implementation which covers installation on SAP NW Java, performance tuning, Configuration process, Alert configuration, Defining and scheduling jobs, training and knowledge transfer to support team.

●SAP Biller Direct: Installation and Implementation of component Biller Direct on EP SAP NW 7.1

●SAP GRC PC 3.0: Installation of SAP GRC PC 3.0 on SAP NW 7.0

●SAP Portal: SAP Portal installation, involved in implementation and Portal Administration

●OS/DB Migration: Migration of SAP Servers from Solaris to Linux. Tune Performance of SAP R/3 and Java systems. System copies, System Upgrades SPAM, SDM, JSPM, Kernel upgrade.

●SolMan: Supported CharM

●STMS Configuration. Installation and implementation Redwood CPS on SAP NW 7.0 Java stack Installation of PI 7.0 Configure SSO. SAP EHP Upgrades.

●SAP Oracle upgrades from 9i to 11g, Oracle CPU patches.

●Prepare Transport Release strategy.

●Create Road Map for Quarterly Technical upgrade.

●Installing Wily Introscope and monitoring Java systems.

●Implemented Redwood CPS Job scheduler.

Hewlett Packard May 2007 – June 2009

Responsibilities:

SAP Data Archiver

●SAP archive administration (SARA), Data retention tool (DART) implementation/ extraction/ storage and SAP Archive Information system (SARI)

●SAP Data Archiving experience includes archiving of Master/ Transactional and Technical data. Building data strategy for large enterprises. Ongoing Maintenance strategy for archiving solutions.

●SAP Data Archiving for many solutions of SAP systems like ECC 6.0, ERP 4.7, HRMS, SAP GTS, SAP BW configurations and maintenance

●Responsible for maintenance of Ixos an Open Text product used in SAP Data Archiving.

●Migration of Ixos to NGDC (New Generation Data Center).

●Create of Content Repositories in IXOS server and maintain retention period accordingly.

●Migration of archived data from optical media to RAID Disk.

●Consolidation of multiple Ixos servers to single Server.

●Schedule batch jobs to move Archived Data from file system to Ixos Server.

●Troubleshoot IXOS application

Code Technologies June 2005 – May 2007

Responsibilities:

SAP Basis Administrator

●Upgrade system from 4.6 to ECC 5.0 and Unicode conversion.

●Upgrade MDMP non Unicode system to Unicode System.

●Created and Maintained Vocabulary during Unicode conversion.

●SAP System Monitoring and Health Checks

●Troubleshooting activities, providing support by handling the tickets.

●System Copy from Production to quality.

●Post-Installation Activities like TMS configuration, client copy (all types), License application, operation modes, background job scheduling, printer configuration.

●Applying Patches, Kernel Upgrade.

●Configure CCMS.

●Performed Add-on installations, SAINT/SPAM up-grades

●System Refreshes.

●Applying OSS notes where and when required.

●Scheduling and monitoring SAP DB Backup.

●Transports between the system landscape

●Perform daily monitoring of SAP system, administering and maintaining locks, ensuring daily log checks, ensuring updates.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

●Masters in Information Technology from Dravidian University, Andhra Pradesh, India.

CERTIFICATIONS:

●Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

●Splunk Certified User

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