Splunk Admin/Engineer

OLUWASEGUN FAKOREDE

********@*****.*** 713-***-**** Houston, Texas 77036

Summary

I am a Splunk Certified Security Admin with over 4+ years of experience in troubleshooting Splunk in both On-prem and Cloud environments. Also, as a mid-level Splunk Security professional, I have over 5 years of Information Technology experience with focus on Big Data Management, Security Operations Management, and structured software methodologies. I am an expert in onboarding data from all sorts of Servers, Network devices, Syslog, and API sources. I script, automate, and manage clients' environments, including infrastructure and tooling monitoring, and reporting to effectively protect client organizational data and associated systems. I'm also a self-driven, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and goal oriented SIEM Engineer with proven success in System Management, Linux (Red Hat), AWS, Windows Servers, and Databases, and working in distributed Splunk Environments, Multi-Site Clustered environments for larger clients. Over my cognitive years, I have worked together with clients' engineers and technology leadership teams to develop problem-solving solutions that, in the event of a production down incident, contribute to the resolution of operational issues and stabilize the environment.

Skills

• Data Analysis

• Splunk Enterprise

• Splunk Enterprise Security

• Linux Server (Red Hat)

• Best Practices and Standards

• Data Extraction

• Troubleshooting

• Analytical skills

• Information Security

• Critical Thinking

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Client Service

• Data Management

• Team Management

• Hands-on commands and shell scripting

• Disaster Recovery

Experience

CapacityBay Inc

Splunk Admin

12/2018 - Current

• Manage Splunk knowledge objects (Apps, Dashboards, Saved Searches, Scheduled Searches, Alerts)

• Create user role through Splunk GUI and configuration file system

• Daily monitoring of user account access, license usage, disk usage, and authentications

• Responsible for Installing, configuring, and administering Splunk Enterprise on Linux and Windows servers

• Clustering and deploying apps through Splunk deployer and deployment server

• Perform data onboarding from APIs, HEC, Heavy forwarders, UFs, TCP, and UDP ports for both windows and server onboarding

• Implementing base search speed up a dashboard

• Normalize data during searches using Common Information Model (CIM) to conform to standards used by other Splunk applications and dashboards

• Perform regular expressions and field extractions

• Writing Splunk Queries, Expert in searching, monitoring, analyzing, and visualizing Splunk logs

• Ensure technical issues are quickly resolved and help implement strategies and solutions to reduce the likelihood of recurrence

• Partner with clients to understand end-user needs and establish requirements for security posture facilitation and growth

• Maintain up to date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices

• Demonstrate AWS EC2 cloud technology management, problem-solving, and solution implementation understanding through architectural design principle definition solutions.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other Visio-skills to create projects documents and presentations.

• Assist in documenting standard operating procedures, configuration guides and core standards

B & D AUTO SERVICES

System Administrator

10/2017 - 12/2018

• Performed daily administrative tasks and troubleshooting

• Monitored user activities and authorization

• Transferred data between information processing equipment and systems

• Monitored and evaluated system performances to ensure they are all functional

• Installed or assisted with the installation and set-up of new hardware, software, and peripheral equipment

• Made needed upgrades and repairs to networks (on and offsite) and ensured that systems are operating optimally

• Under general supervision, I was responsible for implementation and support of information management related services within B&D infrastructure

• Performed backup and recovery of data and information on all corporate servers/systems as needed.

Education and Training

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

MBA in Marketing Management

Yaba College of Technology

HND in Accounting

CGPA: 3.32/4.0

Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria

Registered Financial Reporting Accountant

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA)

The Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria (ICEN) Associate Chartered Economist (ACE)

Certifications & Trainings

• Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, [Splunk] - [2023]

• Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, [Splunk] - [2022]

• Splunk Core Certified Power User, [Splunk] - [2022]

• Splunk Core Certified User, [Splunk] - [2021]

• Introduction to CyberArk Identity Security

• Introduction to CyberArk Privileged Access Management

• Introduction to Cybersecurity, MITRE Attack, NIST Cybersecurity framework (CSF)- NIST SP 800-53

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Training

• Cribl Stream Fundamentals, Data Collection & Certified Observability Engineer Stream User.

• LFD103 : A beginner’s Guide to Linux Kernel Development

• IBM: Hands- on Linux commands and shell scripting References

References are available on request

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