Scrum Master System Administrator

IGWE UCHENNA GERALD

+1-202-***-**** Silver Spring, MD 20903

+1-202-***-**** adty3v@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

To join a team of result oriented and driven individuals wanting to advance a career in a stimulating and ambitious company

Summary

A result oriented and purpose driven IT professional with over 9 years’ experience in Information Technology and 5 years plus experience in Splunk Administration. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Good knowledge of System Administration, SIEM management, powerful back end and troubleshooting skills. A Certified Splunk Enterprise Security Admin with zero tolerance for fraud and good knowledge for counter measures on cyber breaches and cyber security applications.

Build and maintain Indexer(s) and Search head cluster, Deployer server, Deployment server and Universal forwarders in clustered environments at multi - terabyte scales.

Write efficient queries for searching alerts and summaries.

Good knowledge of standalone and clustered environments

Use of (HEC) to manage multi-TB/day Event Collection

Downloading and uploading Apps and Add-ons to Splunk environment, Data onboarding, dash board creation, alert development and monitoring.

Managing Splunk infrastructure and active users, monitoring the usage of Splunk license in both clustered and non-clustered environments

File monitoring through rsylog/syslogng and event collection mechanism

Monitoring of Splunk health, forwarder(s) health and making sure our environment is easily searchable

Manage and advice and work with team to always adhere to Splunk best practice and ensure products meets FINRA standards

Ability to work with little or no supervision and report status updates and any other issue on regular basis

Knowledge of LDAP, Service Now, HTML, Jira

Enterprise Capacity planning and Gap analysis

Firewall and endpoint security

LINUX/UNIX

Server monitoring. Risk mitigation, Resource allocation, Report and documentation

Cloud implementation (GCP, AWS Azure)

Data quality, data mapping, database management

Working knowledge of Splunk Enterprise Security

Experience in the use of Enterprise Security Asset & Identity and Threat Intelligence Framework within Splunk Enterprise Security.

Skills

. Operating System . Use Cases Development . Troubleshooting

. Splunk ES / Splunk cloud . Excellent Use of ITIL . Splunk use case development

. LDAP/SSO . Configuration Management . Infrastructure Planning

. Ability to work with little or no supervision . CIM

. Good Communication skills . Network security

Relevant Experience

FEB 2017 – PRESENT

SPLUNK ENGINEER

CAPACITYBAY. MARYLAND, USA

Managed Splunk indexers, forwarders and license

Planned, tested and support high-availability infrastructures

Work with users requesting new data and onboarded requested data

Have all newly ingested data sources documented

End-to-end event monitoring infrastructure of business-aligned applications

Set up dashboards for management and production support for all Splunk users and ensure environment is searchable

Provide regular support guidance to all Splunk project team(s) on complex issues and help proffer solutions

Maintain and manage assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administration

Monitored monitory console and respond to all system issues

Manage date extraction, parsing, timestamp extraction and event line breaking

Possess good knowledge of configuration files, understanding and ability to work with Props.conf, transforms.conf, inputs.conf, outputs.conf.

Manage existing applications and create new visual and non-visual

Carry out preventive maintenance and upgrade system to ensure system, network and date integrity and availability

Roll out patches and solutions to vulnerabilities to secure applications

Monitor those who access our privilege data or environment

Ensure users change their password every 5o days or less.

Ensure all groups are secured and make sure those taking out of security groups don't have access to the environment

JUNE 2016 – FEB 2017

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR,

CAPACITYBAY, MARYLAND, USA

Performed preventive maintenance and upgraded systems to improve system, network, availability of data and integrity

Set up all user accounts, define network policies and procedures and create permissions and passwords

Set up and oversaw all upgrades to system hardware and soft ware

Managed files, operating systems, documents and drivers

Restored and backed up data, troubleshoot and controlled files and documents

Provide technical support, troubleshoot and issue resolution to maintain system performance level

Oversaw daily performance of computer use and performance

Assisted end user with diagnostics to resolve issues

Documented all repair processes and helped streamline procedures for future technical support action

Remove malware and viruses from laptop and desktop systems using specialized software

Monitor team members on best practice usage

AUGUST 2013 – JUNE 2016

MANAGER, SYSTEM ENGINEER

MASTERS ENERGY GROUP. LAGOS, NIGERIA.

Setting up new users and giving them access to the intranet.

Monitor server event logs, performance logs, growth of data on the network, and checking the status of nightly server backup.

Performs day-to-day maintenance and installation of server, network equipment, virtual machines, messaging, backups, and storage.

Performs administration activities such as setting user accounts, roles, access, and privileges

Implement system security by configuring, monitoring, and maintaining email application and virus application software.

Maintained a 50+ mixed server environment, including, windows, and Linux while ensuring 99.9% uptime.

Responsible for hardware and software applications for workstations, servers, and network data communications. Collaborated with executive management and department leaders to assess network capacity needs.

Designed, developed, and modified reporting processes in accordance with client specifications.

Create proactive procedures for problem prevention and resolution, interfaced with software developers, analyzed issues, and designed solutions.

DECEMBER 2008 – AUGUST 2013

AREA MANAGER, MARKETING & SALES

MASTERS ENERGY OIL & GAS LIMITED

Create awareness and presence of Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited in the region

Source and advice management on the purchase of new filling station for new outlets under the DODO, CODO or DOCO pattern

Advice management on viability of business in the region

Market all white products (DPK, AGO, LPFO, PMS) and Lubricants to all industrial customers and filling stations within the region

Ensure that all government regulatory license and certificates for operations are renewed as at when due

Liaise with all government bodies to ensure that all regulations are strictly adhered to

Monitor prizes of other major competitive outlets and companies to effect good competition

Ensure that all Masters Energy Retail outlets sell strictly to company stipulated prize

Ensure that all products sold at Masters Energy Retail outlets are supplied only from Masters Energy (depots) or head office

Ensure all outlets comply to companies pumps tolerance level and adhere strictly to DPR and Weight & Measure guidelines

Monitor all product delivery from Masters Energy to both outlets and customers to forestall any form of malpractices (like product shortage or diversion)

Take constant totalizer reading of pumps to ascertain quantity sold at e any point in time

Regular dipping of underground tanks to check and avoid product adulteration and diversion while confirming accountability of stock

Do regular visitation checks to all outlets in my region for constant reconciliation and operational accountability of all workers to ensure good business health and profit endeavor and seeing to the day

Employ all outlet workers within my region and ensure they work to achieve set target at any period

See to the day to day running of all retail outlets ensuring all workers maintain good house practice within the station

Certifications

Certified Splunk Enterprise Security Admin

Certified Splunk administrator

Certified CompTIA Security + (in view)

Certified Splunk Power User

Certified Splunk Core User

Certified Scrum Master

Google Technical Support Fundamentals

Education

N.C.E Electrical Electronics 1996

Federal Polytechnic Oko Anambra, Nigeria

References

AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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