Data Security

Usharani Yenugu

Splunk Developer/Admin

********.******@*****.*** +1-832-***-****

Professional Profile:

Experience in configuring, implementing, analyzing 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.

Implement Splunk solutions in highly available, redundant, distributed computing environments

Gathering requirements and analysis by Interacting with team members and users during the design and development

Designing and implementing Splunk-based best practice solutions.

Planning, communicating clear instructions to team members; training, and direction.

Capacity planning, optimization and architecture.

Help manage the strategy of the Splunk Business Unit within the company.

Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles.

Configuration and troubleshooting across a variety of platforms.

Deploy new Splunk instances, including clustered deployments and apps

Integrating Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources and industry leading commercial security tools.

Create and customize System & Splunk applications, search queries and dashboards.

Create Splunk reports, dashboards, forms, visualizations, alerts.

Optimize searches and implement post processing on dashboards.

Assisting users to customize and configure Splunk to meet their requirements.

Perform implementation of security and compliance-based use cases.

Performing maintenance and optimization of Splunk deployments.

Communicating with customer stake holders to include leadership, support teams, and system administrators.

Technical writing/creation of formal documentation such as reports, training material and architecture diagrams.

Build Key Performance Indicators to the Enterprise Architecture through Splunk.

Build dashboards to monitor license, indexers, search heads.

Maintain Splunk systems documentation, including SOP's and design documents Integration of systems and application tools with Splunk.

Provide occasional presentations and thought leadership

Experience in writing security related use cases and tuning based on false positives

Good experience in creating Splunk apps, navigations, interfaces and good experience on Splunk lookups, macros, Pivot, data models, lookup files and their publication into

Splunk. Network Monitoring, bandwidth and traffic monitoring through Splunk and SolarWinds.

Knowledge on scripting language like python and java script.

Performed Splunk queries by Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Regular expressions

Experience with software development, system architecture, and/or database.

Education:

Bachelor of Commerce in Computer Science from Andhra University, India in 2008

Technical Skills:

Splunk: Splunk 5.x and Splunk 6.x/7.x, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk on Splunk, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Web Framework, Splunk UBA

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux.

Web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, Advanced XML.

Concepts: SIEM, SDLC, Object Oriented Analysis and Design.

Programming Languages: C, Python, UNIX shell scripts.

Database: Oracle, MySQL, SQL queries, SQL Procedures.

Professional Experience:

Noblis May 2020 - Till date

Splunk Developer

Design and develop an “end to end” electronic transaction visibility, including large scale processing, integration, and analysis of system logs and databases in Splunk.

Develop statistical behavior models, and provide support for the development of machine learning approaches.

Develop visualization dashboards and indicators that identify anomalous activities.

Assist with the development of project status briefings and dashboards for IRS executives

Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff.

Familiarity with the configuration file options that are not available through the GUI.

A sophisticated understanding of Splunk “Search” language

A deep understanding of Splunk Dashboards, Reports, Lookup Tables, and Summary Indexes.

Knowledge of how to customize Dashboards via the XML source.

Awareness of the Common Information Model and how to apply it directly and indirectly to data feeds.

Expert-level capabilities with regular expression.

Experience with Splunk Apps (both using and making).

Intermediate to Expert -level capability with the Python Scripting Language.

Awareness of how to handle null data and its impact on statistical analysis

Wells Fargo Bank Nov 2019 to April 2020

Splunk Admin

Worked in large enterprise environment scale, change controls, process and procedure.

Enterprise environment ingesting >2TB daily.

Experience in indexer and search head clusters, deployment servers, cluster masters.

Splunk query, reporting, and dashboard skills with emphasis on reporting.

SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) experience.

Experience in using internal Splunk app onboarding tool (Triage)

Apps manual onboarding through SVN and Index consolidation

Coca-Cola Corporation Jan 2015 to Nov 2019

Splunk Consultant

Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.

Created and configured management reports and dashboards.

Developed, evaluated and documented specific metrics for management purpose.

Trained Splunk security team members for complex search strings and ES modules.

Analyzed security-based events, risks and reporting instances.

Managed and maintained use cases into correlation systems.

Designed, developed and implemented system engineering plans and technical support services.

Executed systems programming activities and supported data center activities

Developed Splunk infrastructure and related solutions as per automation toolsets.

Installed, tested and deployed monitoring solutions with Splunk services.

Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.

Implemented forwarder configuration, search heads and indexing.

Supported data source configurations and change management processes.

Analyzed and monitored incident management and incident resolution problems.

Resolved configuration-based issues in coordination with infrastructure support teams.

Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.

Develop custom Splunk ES correlation searches & tune notable events.

Optimize and tune current dashboards.

Create new dashboards based on new feeds and tune over a period.

Correlate event logs to create more targeted dashboards and alerts.

Set up advanced searches and reports.

Create knowledge objects specific to SOC operations.

Create prioritized list of assets within Splunk and related live dashboards and notification.

Set up live data pull from external intelligence sites and integrate with correlation searches.

Document Network Flows & create diagrams

Weekly status reports on all work executed, deliverables developed/submitted, and work planned for next period

Use-case development.

Work with Audit and Assessment teams to validate controls and architecture deployment.

Support the identification and documentation of data sources.

Architecting and deploying clustered/distributed Splunk Enterprise 6.x implementations to large, complex customers.

Administering Splunk and Splunk Apps to include developing new/custom Apps to perform specialized functionality.

Integrating Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources and industry leading commercial security tools that use various protocols.

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