Passionate Splunk Engineer with 6 years of hands-on experience in IT and designing, implementing, and maintaining robust Splunk environments. Adept at creating custom searches, dashboards, and alerts to extract meaningful insights from machine-generated data. Proven track record in optimizing Splunk deployments for performance and scalability. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to address complex issues and enhance overall operational efficiency. Certified Splunk Professional with a passion for staying updated on the latest industry trends and technologies. Ready to leverage my expertise to drive data-driven decision-making and security initiatives for companies that are welcoming to the growth and demands of the new AI era in a futuristic thinking environemnt.
· Responsible for getting Logs from Linux servers in an on-prem distributed environment.
· Designed and customized complex search queries and optimized performance of the queries used in dashboards and alerts.
· Administering Splunk architecture for various components like Indexers, Search Head, Deployments Server, Cluster Managers, License Master, Deployer, Heavy forwarders and Universal Forwarders.
· Integrating Splunk with wide variety of legacy data sources
· Brought in custom logs from different sources using Splunk Universal Forwarder
· Responsible for Managing and updating configuration needed for ALL Indexers, Forwarders, Syslog Servers, Heavy Forwarders.
· Ensuring Security and efficiency of IT infrastructure
· Administering Splunk and Splunk Apps to include developing new and extending existing Apps to perform specialized functionality.
· Standardizing Splunk agent deployment, configurations and maintenance across variety Linux and Windows platforms
· Responsible for performing Content Development to properly identify data deeding SEIM and correlation of events to enhance overall health of Splunk.
· Developed advance search and reporting with Splunk using advanced commands for look ups and regular expressions.
· Troubleshoot Splunk Severs and agent problems issues.
· Use regex to create field extractions, identify patterns, and SED function to anonymize data.
· Utilize stats, eval and its functions, time chart attributes to create and configure management.
reports and dashboards.
· Check connectivity between servers using different Linux command.
· Implemented Infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation to automate the provisioning of resources, resulting in reduction deployment time.
· Orchestrated the deployment and management of scalable and highly available applications using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lamba
· Implemented AWS identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and conducted regular surety audits, ensuring compliance with industry standards and company policies.
· Responsible for creating securities group and access to file.
· Configured AWS CloudWatch for real-time monitoring and implemented centralized logging using services like AWS CloudTrail and provided visibility into system performance and security.
· Coordinated with other team members to design and implement solutions for high availability and disaster recovery using AWS services, ensuring minimal to zero downtime and data integrity.
· Administered and maintained Linux servers (Red Hat, CentOS,) in both physical and virtualized environments.
· Responsible for implementing security measures, including access controls, firewalls, and regular system patching, resulting in 40% reduction in security incidents.
· Was responsible for conducting regular system backups and implementing disaster recovery plans and creating resilience environments.
· Managed Linux servers and contributed to application migration effort.
· Implemented and configured various services like DNS, HHCP, NFS, Apache Web Server, HTTP, RPM package management.
· Created and set up cron jobs to perform system backup and automated administered tasks using scripting.
· Collaborated with different teams to deploy and troubleshoot applications in Linux environments.
· Assisted in the installation, configuration and maintenance of Linux servers and associated hardware.
· Provided on-call support for system-related issues and resolved incidents based on ticketing systems.
· Responsible for managing and monitoring system performance, so has to have high availability and faster processing of critical applications.
· Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
· Splunk Core Certified Power User
· Splunk Core Certified User