Hari Venkata Kiran Kumar KANIKARAM

SPLUNK ARCHITECT

Mob: +1-209-***-****

E-Mail: adjr5u@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

Information technology professional with 15 years of overall IT experience in deploying and maintaining Splunk, Amazon Web Services, VERITAS NetBackup/Backup Exec, EMC Clarion, EMC Data Domain and SAN Copy etc. in Windows & UNIX environment. Certified ITIL with extensive experience in administer and managing Splunk, AWS. Having hands on experience as Splunk Architect from past 4 plus years.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Splunk Certified Power User.

AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate level.

ITIL V3 Expert Certified.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Public Cloud: AWS

Log Analyzer: Splunk 6.4.6/7.2.1

Private Cloud: VMware, VSphere with Virtual center.

Platforms: Linux, Solaris, MS-Windows.

Backup Technologies: VERITAS NetBackup, Backup Exec.

Storage Technologies: EMC clarion, Navisphere Manager.

Tape Libraries: Storage Tek, Dell, Quantum, IBM & VTL.

Tape Drives: DAT, DLT, LTO 1-2-3-4-5 and VTL.

Ticketing Tools: Impact, Remedy, Maximo, Saral, JIRA, CAPRS and Torque.

Monitoring Tool: Brocade 4.5, Ps Center, and BPPM

Appliance: Pure disk, Data Domain.

EDUCATION:

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) in 2007 from IGNOU-India.

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) in 2006 from IGNOU-India.

EXPERIENCE:

Mercedes-Benz, Atlanta GA May 2019 to April 2020

Splunk Architect

Responsibilities:

Experienced Splunk architect to lead the implementation of Splunk Enterprise.

Experience implementing an operational Splunk environment. Review, recommend changes and improvements.

Install and configure new Splunk Search Head(s) and Index(ers)

Splunk Technical Add-on installation/configuration

Splunk Forwarder deployment and configuration

Data import and field extraction

Splunk custom Dashboard and report development, alert definition and setup

Develop Splunk Dashboards, searches and reporting to support various internal clients in Security, IT Operations and Application Development.

Assist with on boarding relevant data sources as needed, including inputs, SQL, index-time configurations, search-time field extractions, event types, parsing rules, and tags.

Extract complex fields from different types of Log files using Regular Expressions

Work with Application Development to create a standard for all in host applications, to log directly to Splunk

Develop Advanced Dashboards, using Machine Learning / Business Intelligence when possible.

Monitor and track Splunk performance problems. Create custom Splunk Applications as needed.

Environment: AWS /Splunk Platform, Linux and Windows

Rackspace, San Antanio, TX Feb 2019 to till May 2019.

Splunk Architect

Responsibilities:

Experience in Splunk Engineering/Administrating development and grow Splunk environment and work with infrastructure and application teams not familiar with Splunk. Working closely with Infrastructure, Application, Network, Security, and Business Intelligence teams getting started with Splunk.

Grow and improve the enterprise Splunk environment from early stages to a mature implementation by creating forwarder apps to ingest application or OS logs.

Assist and provide expert best practices in adoption, expansion, additional use cases and in setting up Splunk.

Support and guide internal resources that include Splunk Administrators, Architects, Knowledge Managers, Developers and Users for increasing Splunk adoption and overall customer success.

Good Knowledge with system upgrade planning and execution. Assist in workshops to help leverage the full value of Splunk solutions and lead periodic stakeholder meetings.

Act as the Splunk liaison for Splunk technical questions, issues or escalations. This will include working with Splunk Support, Product Management (i.e. roadmaps), or others as needed.

Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple on premise data centers

Monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability, and capacity

Create and maintain documentation related to architecture and operational processes for Splunk

Engage application and infrastructure teams to establish best practices for utilizing Splunk data and visualizations

Mercedes-Benz, Atlanta GA Oct’2018 to Jan 2019

Splunk Architect

Responsibilities:

Experienced Splunk architect to lead the implementation of Splunk Enterprise.

Experience implementing an operational Splunk environment. Review, recommend changes and improvements.

Install and configure new Splunk Search Head(s) and Index(ers)

Splunk Technical Add-on installation/configuration

Splunk Forwarder deployment and configuration

Data import and field extraction

Splunk custom Dashboard and report development, alert definition and setup

Develop Splunk Dashboards, searches and reporting to support various internal clients in Security, IT Operations and Application Development.

Assist with on boarding relevant data sources as needed, including inputs, SQL, index-time configurations, search-time field extractions, event types, parsing rules, and tags.

Environment: AWS /Splunk Platform, Linux and Windows

GDIT, MD StackArmor May’2018 to Sept’2018

Splunk Architect

Responsibilities:

Experienced Splunk architect to lead the implementation of Splunk for the Enterprise Logging & Analytics project.

Experience implementing an operational Splunk environment. Review, recommend changes and improvements.

Splunk Enterprise deployment to include indexer and search head architecture

Experience in developing dashboards and reports for monitoring of real-time log data

Installation of Enterprise Splunk servers, Deployment servers, Universal forwarders, Indexers.

Experience in building / deploying complex infrastructure & proven hands-on cloud migration solution design / delivery experience, advised software development teams on architecting and designing web interfaces and infrastructures that safely and efficiently power the cloud environment.

Environment: AWS /Splunk Platform: Linux and Windows

Social Security Administration, Baltimore, MD USA Mar’2017 to Mar’2018

Splunk Architect

Responsibilities:

Experience of a distributed Splunk installation Indexer Cluster, Search Head Cluster, Forwarders (Universal/Heavy), Deployed, Deployment Server.

Strong experience with installing, building and working with Splunk Apps and add-ons in a distributed cluster

Strong experience with configuring HTTP Event Collector, Deployment Server and Deployer

Experience with data on-boarding procedures, CIM compliance and data normalization techniques

Strong experience with security data and security data models.

Familiar with Index-time and Search-time data parsing.

Strong knowledge of Splunk search language.

Knowledge of Splunk Best Practices, Workflows, and Processes.

Experience with automation of Splunk infrastructure configurations.

Strong experience with headless splunk management using CLI and config files

Experience in developing dashboards and reports for monitoring of real-time log data

Onboarding syslog to Splunk, Monitoring health check of Splunk servers.

Strong working knowledge of the Splunk platform, including day-to-day administration of our multi-site distributed Splunk environment.

User and group management within Splunk, as well as Splunk App & Add-on installation and configuration.

Ability to manage data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization, configuration backups.

Ability to troubleshoot performance and access issues, as well as installation of Splunk upgrades throughout clustered environment.

Facilitate knowledge sharing by creating and maintaining detailed and comprehensive documentation and diagrams, while also collaborating with other team members on standard processes and technology roadmaps.

Respond to and resolve support requests in timely fashion, while balancing project timelines and other responsibilities.

Environment: AWS /Splunk Platform: Linux and Windows

Abbott Laboratories, Waukegan, IL Mar’2016 to Oct’2016

AWS / Splunk Architect

Responsibilities:

Designs, deploys, operates, and maintains Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security systems for new or existing computer systems.

Day-to-day maintenance and operations of Splunk and the development of user access (e.g. rules, reports, and configuration)

Provide industry standard expertise in the deployment, configuration, and operations of Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security.

Good understanding of Splunk application and infrastructure architecture, application workflow, key transactions and guide the customer.

Plans and directs upgrades of systems, designs systems enhancements, and monitors capacity to maintain operational capacity, following change management processes.

Develops and directs tests to ensure systems meet documented user requirements.

Provides system/equipment/specialized training and technical guidance.

Determines system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.

Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.

Review, recommend changes and improve upon the current Splunk Enterprise deployment to include indexer and search head architecture.

Partner with IT stakeholders to develop requirements and create execution plan to utilize Splunk for centralized enterprise log analysis.

Create alerts, reports, dashboards and monitoring for key security application events.

Environment: AWS/Splunk Platform: UNIX and Windows Tape Library: IBM, STK, Quantum Tape libraries and Data Domains

HCL Technologies / Shire Pharma, Lexington, MA Mar’2014 to Jan’2016

Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

Mastery of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, and its many dimensions of scalability - including but not limited to: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), EC2, load-balancing with ELB, messaging with SQS, auto scaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch etc.

Ability to effectively address data security concepts in public cloud as it relates to customer needs including an in depth understanding of Federated Security / Single Sign On, and AWS IAM

Ability to develop high level and detailed design documents addressing the business, infrastructure, security, support and operational needs of the business.

Establish AWS technical credibility with customers and external parties, help customers build scalable, resilient, and high-performance applications and services on AWS.

Experience using and creating custom scripts and applications using the AWS SDK and/or CLI Tools.

Leading & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in operations and meeting of individual & group targets.

Basic understanding of Splunk dashboards alerts and reports.

Experience in giving user permissions for existing /new users.

Experience in monitoring on-prim splunk infrastructure and taking backup and restoring of splunk servers.

Good Knowledge on customized Splunk dashboards for operations, security and management teams Reviews completion and implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and makes recommendations to management and/or clients.

Environment: AWS, NetBackup Platform: Solaris and Windows Tape Library: Quantum, Data Domain

Bank of America Mphais-an HP Company Mar’2011 to Feb’2014

Symantec, Herndon, VA Mphasis-HP company

Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

Migrated Networker backup infrastructure to NetBackup. Working on changes, Problem management. Initial hardware troubleshooting and escalating major hardware issue. Troubleshooting on networking issues on Windows and Solaris boxes.

Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site. Having good knowledge on NDMP, SLP and VTL. Follow-up with vendors for the qualified problems of hardware or software to get problem resolution in time. Worked with Support, Project Team.

Providing support to the engineering department. Handling escalated calls (Technical / Process /SLA missed). Handling daily/weekly meetings with related to Technical issues/process oriented issue.

Taking care of SLA breached (Incidents/CRQ), Installation/gradation of Backup servers

Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.

Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site. Troubleshooting on various problems while taking backups and restores. Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site. Having good knowledge on NDMP, SLP and VTL

Follow-up with vendors for the qualified problems of hardware or software to get problem resolution in time. Participating in team/technical discussions, giving rating to the team members. Participating in Sox Complaisance Audits, SLA breached tickets calls. Configuring Database clients like Oracle RMAN, SQL server and exchange server backups. Perform catalog backup and disaster recovery and Database Restores.

Configuration of tape drives and libraries Policies, Storage Devices, Storage Units, Volumes. Troubleshooting backup failures based on error codes and performing appropriate action towards resolution. Handling and resolving connectivity issue between backup servers and Clients.

Environment: NetBackup 7.0 OS Platform: Solaris and Windows Tape Library: ACLS/SL8500, VTL, Pure Disk.

British Petroleum, Orlando, FL USA IBM May’2008 to Mar’2011

Gates Corporation, Chambersburg, PA, USA IBM

Storage Back up Lead / Architect

Responsibilities:

Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups. Working on changes, Problem management. Initial hardware troubleshooting and escalating major hardware issue.

Troubleshooting on networking issues on Windows and Solaris boxes. Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site. Having good knowledge on NDMP, SLP and VTL.

Excellent understanding of configuring cold backup/hot backup for databases. Experience in managing critical restorations, database restorations.

Responsible for gathering requirements, installation, configuration, and testing of backups in a high availability enterprise system.

Ability to Define, maintain and manage the library space across multiple storage pools through proper migration and reclamation of data. Prepared DR plans and perform routine disaster recovery scenarios.

Monitor disk space of backup servers and analyze logs to troubleshoot the issues. Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.

Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site. Troubleshooting on various problems while taking backups and restores. Working on changes.

Ensuring the team members are following ITIL practices while doing their tasks. Participating in team/technical discussions.

Handling escalated calls (Technical / Process /SLA missed).

Environment: NetBackup 5.1, Networker Platform: HP –Ux, Windows

Tape Libraries: STKL700, STK L80, STK L20, Dell LT4000

Parsec Technologies Ltd. Feb’2006 to Apr’2008

Technical Executive

Description: Solaris and Windows support project for BPO Company. Supported Hardware, Software, peripherals, accounts, servers, printers. Ensured system security, backups, and protections. Network connectivity (TCP/IP) initiated, used, monitored, maintained and trouble-shot (LAN/Ethernet connectivity).

Platform: Sun Solaris, Windows.

Hyderabad Technologies Nov’2004 to Jan’2006

System Administrator

Description: Supported in-house project. Performing Hardware and Software upgrades, Troubleshooting printer and internet connectivity issues. Installation and maintains of Anti-Virus. Installed and maintained Active Directory Users. Participated in new deployments.

Platform: Windows.

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