Engineer Data
Resume:
Satish Kumar
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Over 7years experience in configuring, implementing and supporting Splunk server infrastructure across Windows, UNIX and Linux. Experience with a variety of Operating Systems, Protocols and Tools depending on the type of platform or application to be administered.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
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.
Extensive experience in deploying, configuring and administering Splunk clusters.
Expertise in Actuate reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports
Helping application teams in on-boarding Splunk and creating dashboards, alerts, reports etc.
Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application levels brought into environment.
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.
Good Understanding of configuration files, precedence and daily work exposure to Props.conf, transforms.conf, inputs.conf, outputs.conf and Setting up a forwarder information based on requirement.
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).
Experience in unix scripting
Experience in onboarding logs from *nix, windows servers, through HEC, syslog servers etc.
Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills and ability to learn new concepts and supported 24/7 on call in production and development environment.
Configure JDBC, ODBC Experienced with security-related technologies including Active Directory, host-based firewalls, host-based intrusion detection systems, application white listing, server configuration controls, logging, SIEM, monitoring tools, and antivirus systems.
Worked with members of the Security Operations Center to develop alerts and correlation searches for SIEM events
Experience in Dynatrace
Understanding of Network Firewalls, Load-balancers, LDAP and complex network design.
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.
Excellent Communication Skills and Presentation Skills, Comprehensive problem solving abilities.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Log Analysis Tool: Splunk Enterprise Server 4.x.x/5.x.x/6.x.x, Splunk Universal Forwarder5.x.x/6.x.x/7.x.x
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, python, bash, PHP
Databases: Oracle (10g/11i), Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2
Networking: TCP/IP Protocols, Socket Programming, DNS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CenturyLink Inc, Dublin, OH Feb19 - Present
Splunk Engineer
Designed Splunk Enterprise infrastructure to provide high availability by configuring clusters across two different data centers.
Installed, Configured, Maintained, Tuned and Supported Splunk Enterprise server 7.x/6.x.
Architect and Implement Splunk arrangements in exceptionally accessible, repetitive, conveyed figuring situations.
Performed Field Extractions and Transformations using the RegEx in Splunk.
Responsible for Installing, configured and administered Splunk Enterprise on Linux and Windows servers.
Supported the upgradation of Splunk Enterprise server and Splunk Universal Forwarder from 6.8 to 7.1
Installation and implementation of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security and documented best practices for the installation and performed knowledge transfer on the process.
Worked on installing Universal Forwarders and Heavy Forwarders to bring any kind of data fields into Splunk.
Writing Splunk Queries, Expertise in searching, monitoring, analyzing and visualizing Splunk logs.
Experience in alert handling, standard availability and performance report generation. Experience in root cause analysis of post-production performance related issues through Splunk tool.
Designing, optimizing and executing Splunk-based enterprise solutions.
Installed and configured Splunk Universal Forwarders on both UNIX (Linux, Solaris, and AIX) and Windows Servers.
Hands on experience in customizing Splunk dashboards, visualizations, configurations using customized Splunk queries.
Monitored the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, scalability, and optimization.
Experienced in using Splunk- DB connect for real-time data integration between Splunk Enterprise and rest all other databases.
Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports.
Responsible with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
Monitored license usage, indexing metrics, Index Performance, Forwarder performance, death testing.
Splunk Architecture/Engineering and Administration for SOX monitoring and control compliance.
Design and implement Splunk Architecture (Indexer, Deployment server, Search heads, and Forwarder management), create/migrate existing Dashboards, Reports, Alerts, on daily/weekly schedule to provide the best productivity and service to the business units and other stakeholders.
Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
Configured Syslog server for the forwarding the logs to Splunk server via network protocols like TCP and UDP.
Subject matter expert in best practices, security protocols, PKI, and other security-related issues.
Monitored the database (data tables and error tables), WebLogic error log files and application error log files to track and fix bugs.
Responsible for troubleshooting various indexing issues by analyzing splunk logs such as splunkd.log, metrics.log ingested as internal index.
Support and execute arrangements considering a full information lifecycle (Search & Investigate, Add Knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze). Followed agile and scrum process for the whole implementation process.
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI June 16 – Jan 19
Splunk Engineer
Install, configure and administer Splunk Enterprise Server 6.x.x and Splunk Forwarder 7.x.x on Redhat Linux.
Designing and implementing Splunk-based best practice solutions.
Requirement gathering and analysis. Interacted with team members and users during the design and development of the applications and Splunk Objects.
Receiving promptly, handling, gathering requirements through remedy tickets and resolving at on time.
Communicating and collaborating with customers, Splunk users.
Data collection from various systems/servers, Forwarder Management, creating and managing Splunk apps.
Building Splunk queries by Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Regular expressions.
Creating, maintain, support, repair, customizing System & Splunk applications, search queries and dashboards.
Design, support and maintain large Splunk environment in a highly available, redundant, geographically dispersed environment
Perform Splunk agent deployment, configuration and troubleshooting across a variety of platforms
Deployment automation using chef
Install and configure Splunk DB Connect. Configuration and support of syslog-ng
Experience on Splunk APP for PCI Compliance
Knowledge on Big Data- Hadoop
Experience on Splunk app for AWS/cloud
Experience on Splunk apps for Devops Tools
Experience on Dynatrace
Install and configure splunk Hadoop connect, splunk add on for Dynatrace app and Splunk add on for ServiceNow
Good understanding of Splunk with experience in Ruby/Chef
Deploy new Splunk systems and Monitor Splunk internal logs to identify and resolve existing or potential issues
Monitor the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, system health, availability and optimization
Install and configure splunk IT Service Intelligence(ITSI)
Troubleshoot technical issues to determine root cause and resolve or implement workaround as necessary
Reproduce customer issues, file bug reports and escalate cases toSplunk support as necessary
Perform Enterprise Linux tasks as they pertain to supporting the Splunk application
Designed solutions and concepts for data aggregation and visualization.
Worked with a small team to enhance the existing Infrastructure.
Solve complex Splunk Integration challenges; Debug complex Splunk configuration issues.
Configurations with deployment server, indexers, search heads, serverclass.conf, server.conf, apps.conf, props.conf, transforms.conf, forwarder management configurations.
Creation of indexes, forwarder & indexer management, Splunk Field Extractor IFX; New/Older versions.
Configure KPI alerts and develop various dashboards
Search head Clustering, Indexer clustering, Splunk up gradation, Creating users and roles, architecture planning, replication factor, search factor
Very Good experience on Splunk Search Language and Regular expressions
Created Alerts on different SLAs and thresholds through Splunk. Manipulating raw data and search time field extraction, alerting, reports.
Strong technical knowledge in VMware (ESXi, vSphere, vCenter)
Created data models, Pivot reports etc.
Provide overall management of the Splunk platform - creating and customizing Splunk applications, searches and dashboards.
Review and apply any newly available and applicable Splunk software or policy updates routinely.
Assist with design of core scripts to automate Splunk maintenance and alerting tasks.
Support Splunk on UNIX, Linux and Windows-based platforms. Assist with automation of processes and procedures.
B M Tech Solutions Inc., Dublin, Ohio Aug 15– June 16
Splunk Consultant
Install, configure and administer Splunk Enterprise Server 6.x.x and Splunk Forwarder6.x.x on Redhat Linux.
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 Netgear genie application to analyze the data and create dashboards which would help the business.
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.
GlobalLogic Technologies, Hyderabad, India Jan 2013 - July 2014
Analyst
Created Regular Expressions for Field Extractions and Field Transformations in Splunk.
Anonymize the Personally Identifiable Information data in Splunk. Masked sensitive information such as 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
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
GlobalLogic Technologies, Hyderabad, India May 2012 - Jan 2013
SQL Developer
Managing databases, tables, indexes, views, stored procedures.
Enforcing business rules with triggers and user defined functions, troubleshooting, and replication.
Writing the Stored Procedures, checking the code for efficiency.
Maintenance and Correction of Transact Sequel Server (T-SQL) Statements.
Daily Monitoring of the Database Performance and network issues.
Administering the MS SQL Server by Creating User Logins with appropriate roles, dropping and locking the logins, monitoring the user accounts, creation of groups, granting the privileges to users and groups.
SQL Authentication.
Rebuilding indexes on various tables.
Preparing Test Cases and performing Unit Testing.
Prepared SQL Queries to validate the data in both source and target databases.
Created Test cases for the mappings developed and then created integration Testing Document.
Prepared the error handling document to maintain the error handling process.
Review of Unit and Integration test cases.
Production Implementation and Post Production Support.
EDUCATION:
Masters in Information Systems from Texas A & M International University, Laredo TX in 2015.
Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India in 2012.
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