Cybersecurity Operations & Compliance Specialist

SALMAN SHAHZAD

St. Louis, MO Not open to relocation

Splunk Platform Engineer Observability & Platform Governance Splunk Administrator

Professional Summary

Senior IT professional with 15+ years of overall IT experience and 5+ years of specialized, hands-on Splunk experience administering and engineering enterprise observability platforms.

Core Platform & Observability Skills

Platform Governance, Observability Tooling (Splunk; exposure to Datadog/Dynatrace), Identity & Access Management, ITSM/ITIL & Jira, Automation (PowerShell, basic Python), Basic Terraform, AWS EC2 access, Agile/Scrum, Documentation

Professional Experience

Ameren Services Co. — Software Engineer

Splunk Platform Engineer / Administrator 2020–2025

• Owned Splunk platform governance and operations

• Engineered clustered environments

• Managed IAM, upgrades, and lifecycle

• Provided L3 troubleshooting

Sitecore Administrator 2017–2020

• Administered Sitecore and IIS

Banner Personnel — Systems Consultant 2015–2017

• Supported enterprise deployments

HRE Comm LLC — IIS / Systems Administrator 2010–2015

• Administered Windows/Linux systems

IT Support Specialist 2006–2010

• Provided Tier 1/2 IT support

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

CompTIA Security+ (In Progress); Linux Administration (In Progress)

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