THAMINA T
Green Card Holder
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Splunk Admin / Developer
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Experience as Splunk Admin/Developer performed activities including requirement analysis, design, and implementations of various client server-based applications using Splunk 5.x, Splunk 6.x, Splunk 7.x and Splunk 8.x.
Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Migration, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Splunk, Passionate about Machine data and operational Intelligence.
Extensive experience of Splunk implementation and standardization.
Extensive experience in Splunk Apps and Dashboard creation.
Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
Developed customized application configurations in SPLUNK to parse, index multiple types of log format across all application environments.
Installing and using Splunk apps for UNIX and Linux (Splunk nix).
Experience on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration management using Ansible.
Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (Indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server)
Experience with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations.
Set indexing property configurations, including time zone offset, custom source type rules.
Knowledge in using Amazon S3 as object storage built to store and receives any amount of data at a massive scale integrating as part of Splunk Frozen Bucket Archival & Restoration Process.
Created and Managed Splunk DB connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.
Knowledge in working with Splunk Authentication and permissions and having significant experience in supporting large scale Splunk deployments.
Configure Regex transformations to perform on data inputs.
Experience in using setting up monitoring for Splunk- Docker Logging Driver to forward the container logs to Splunk.
Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules - (Splunk ITSI and Enterprise Security App) Knowledge Objects, Administration, Dashboards, Clustering
Experience with Linux and Windows specialists for Splunk organization with a strong comprehension of the Splunk framework.
Having experience in understanding of Splunk 7.x and 6.x product, distributed Splunk architecture and components including installation of Search Heads, Indexers, Forwarders, Deployment Server, License Model and Heavy/Universal Forwarder.
Experience in using ETL methodologies for supporting Data Extraction, Data Migration, Data Transformation and loading using Informatica Power center and IDQ
Performed the data profiling and analysis making use of Informatica Data Quality (IDQ).
SQL scripts for transforming business rules.
Experienced in designing the Conceptual, Logical and Physical data modeling using Erwin and ER Studio Data modeling tools.
Experience in Agile/Scrum, TDD and BDD methodologies
Hands-on experience across all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including business requirement analysis, data mapping, build, unit testing, systems integration and user acceptance testing.
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, committed team player with multitasking capabilities.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with an ability to express complex business
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Splunk Developer
FirstView Financial LLC - Atlanta, GA
August 2018 to Present
Responsibilities:
Building SPLUNK Custom apps, which involve Dashboard creation, Reporting and Alerting.
Proficient in Splunk search queries, reporting and alerting.
Worked on pulling data from Service Now to Splunk through REST API call.
Worked on saved search and summary indexes to improve the dashboards performance.
Implemented innovative systems for data collection, storage and management of customer orders.
Worked on custom visualization on dashboards like highlighting rows, adding custom icons in table definitions, adding animations using CSS and JavaScript.
Created Splunk custom commands (Ex. SLA Calculator).
Working as Splunk Administration, maintaining the configuration files at the backend using Professional Services approach.
Troubleshooting Splunk.
Interacted with the clients directly and understood their use cases, identifying new use cases by analyzing their data to provide automation solutions.
Played an integral role in building an automation solution, which involved user conversation agent, coded in Node.js express framework, voice and text Sentiment Analysis coded using Python ML Libraries.
Configured and defined the DialogFlow (NLP engine) for user conversation with Chatbot.
Handling different web end-points in NodeJS using Express framework.
Connected Splunk Machine Learning app from chatbot to predict the required fields using parameters received from DialogFlow.
Designed voice recognition, Voice and Text Sentiment Analysis using Python Machine Learning Algorithms in Chabot.
Built a Server Monitoring App using Splunk and NodeJS. This App start the server automatically when a server goes down.
Built a Database Prediction App in Splunk.
Built Job Monitoring App in Splunk, which gets the logs of jobs and keep track of the deployment and predicts the probability of the job failure and intimate the job owner.
Work as part of a team to provide excellent customer experience.
Provide emergency or scheduled support out of hours as required.
Splunk Developer/Administrator
Humana - Louisville, KY Mar 2016 to July 2018
Responsibilities:
Developed robust, efficient queries that will feed custom Alert, Dashboards and Reports.
Worked on Splunk search processing language, Splunk dashboards and Splunk db connect app.
Publishing data into Splunk through configurations such as inputs.conf, sever class.conf, server.conf, apps.conf and Outputs.conf configurations
Design and customize complex search queries, and promote advanced searching, forensics and analytics
Developed dashboards, data models, reports and optimized their performance.
Provided engineering expertise and assistance to the Splunk user community
Developed Splunk dashboards, data models, reports and applications, indexing, tagging and field extraction in Splunk
Created Splunk knowledge objects (e.g. fields, lookups, macros, etc.)
Experience in dashboards and reports performance optimization.
Developed Dashboards for Business Activity Monitoring, Enterprise Architecture
Built KPIs dashboards on Patient Enrollment transactions and other business activities
Built Key Performance Indicators to the Enterprise Architecture team through Splunk
Created Alerts on different SLAs and thresholds through Splunk.
Manipulating raw data and Field extraction
Built KPIs, alerts on SLAs of filesystem services project.
Business Activity Monitoring and troubleshooting
Good experience on Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Regular expressions.
Monitor the applications and server infrastructure for optimization, performance and Utilization metrics.
Experience in developing dashboards and customizing them.
Implemented various visualization Add-ons to the developed dashboards
Extensively worked on creation of range maps for various SLA conditions by using all kinds of Splunk 6.x Dashboard Examples.
Maintain current functional and technical knowledge of the SPLUNK platform and future products.
Help to document best practices in developing and using SPLUNK.
Experience with Splunk UI/GUI development and/or operations roles
Work with business/IT and create the next steps plan and implement the same.
Doing deeper analysis of data using event correlations across indexes and various source types to generate custom reports for senior management.
Splunk Engineer
Absolute Infotech Pvt Ltd (Remote)
June 2014 to Feb 2016
Responsibilities:
Building custom visualized dashboards in Splunk and Grafana for server metrics and micro-services logs.
Creating custom commands in Splunk.
Worked on pulling logs from Hadoop to Splunk using script input (Python).
Data on boarding to Splunk indexers - configuring inputs.conf and outputs.conf.
Configuring props.conf and transforms.conf for data parsing and routing.
Setting up alerts for server metrics (Linux and Windows server) and anthem micro-services logs (like Transaction failure).
Creating summary indexes and optimizing query to improve the performance of dashboards.
Field Extraction, Using Rex Command and regex.
Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operational roles.
Played a major role in understanding the data and providing operational intelligence.
Knowledge about the Splunk architecture at various levels (Indexer, search head, forwarder, heavy and universal forwarder, License model).
Created Dashboards, Scheduled searches and alerts.
Creating and managing apps, user, role and user permissions.
Analyzed system health, risks and reporting instances.
Optimized the search performance of queries and reduced time for loading dashboards.
Field Extraction, Using Rex Command and regex.
Involved in implementing searches and schedule them.
Experience in setting up dashboards for production support.
Experience on configuration files in Splunk (Props, transforms, output).
Experience in dashboards and reports performance optimization.
Developed Dashboards for Business Activity Monitoring, Enterprise Architecture
Doing deeper analysis of data using event correlations across indexes and various source types to generate custom reports for senior management.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating Systems
Windows 2000, XP, Win 10, Windows Server, Unix/Linux (Red Hat), Free BSD
Security / Vulnerability Tools
Snort, Wireshark, Websense, Bluecoat, Palo Alto, Checkpoint
Symantec, Qualys Vulnerability Manager, FireEye HX, Sophos, Sourcefire
RDBMS
Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i, MS-SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Sybase, DB2 MS Access, Mysql
Networking Protocols and Tools
TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, SSL, DNS, SNMP Routers, Switches, Load Balancers, Cisco VPN, MS- Direct Access
Programming Language
C, C++, Java with Big Data, Python, UNIX shell scripts
Monitoring Tool
Netcool,Dynatrace,tealeaf