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Charles Olowokere

Charles Olowokere

Danbury,CT

Summary

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.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Splunk Engineer

Pearson Learning
Boston, MA
09.2021 - Current

· 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.

Splunk Cloud Engineer

Pearson Learning
Boston, MA
05.2020 - 09.2021

· 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.

Linux System Administrator

Pearson Learning
Boston, MA
01.2018 - 09.2021

· 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.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

SUNY At Albany
Albany, NY
05-2004

Skills

  • Operating Systems: RHEL 7 & 8,
    Windows Server 2012, 2019,AWS
    Linux,Ubuntu, MacOs Sonoma,
    Solaris

    Log Analysis Tool: Splunk,
    Universal Forwarder, Heavy
    Forwarder

    Cloud: AWS-EC2, Public/private
    key pairs, security groups,
    S3,IAMAWS CLI

    Networking Protocols: TCP, UDP,
    IP, DNS, LAN, WAN, HTTPS, SSH

    Security Technologies: Palo
    Alto, Cisco, TCPDump, Vagrant,
    Putty/SSH

    File Sharing: WINSCP, SCP, rsync
    Troubleshooting: Software
    updates Server Hardening
    Hardware failure Application &
    Services

    Network Troubleshooting: Ping,
    tracert, traceroute, ncat,
    netstat lsof,wget

    Builds: Splunk distributed
    environment AWS Sandbox

    Data Consolidation: rsyslog
    Server Monitoring: Splunk
    Monitoring Console, Nagios,

    Applications: Vagrant, WinScp,
    PowerShell, Putty, MtPutt

Affiliations

  • Love Traveling
  • Presidents of Basketball League
  • Ballroom Dancer

Certification

· Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin

· Splunk Core Certified Power User

· Splunk Core Certified User

Languages

English
Professional
Yoruba
Professional

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Splunk Engineer

Pearson Learning
09.2021 - Current

Splunk Cloud Engineer

Pearson Learning
05.2020 - 09.2021

Linux System Administrator

Pearson Learning
01.2018 - 09.2021

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

SUNY At Albany
Charles Olowokere