Kenneth Walters
District Heights,MD
Summary
8+ years IT Professional with over 5+ years of experience in Splunk engineering, administration, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance for large-scale network environments. Highly familiar with both Windows and Linux platforms, as well as configuring Splunk components through GUI, CLI, and configuration files.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Splunk Admin
HCL Technologies
06.2021 - Current
- Promote data security by utilizing SEDCMD to mask client based PII, in which can be configured through stanza edits in transforms.conf, props.conf, and inputs.conf
- Configured UF’s through CLI, .conf files, GUI (Windows installation wizard), and the deployment server.
- Configured HF’s through both the GUI and outputs.conf; applying a heavy forwarder license.
- Responsible for Installing, configuring, and administering Splunk Enterprise on Linux and Windows servers.
- Configured Splunk forwarders to send unnecessary log events to “Null Queue” using props and transforms configuration files to reduce license cost.
- Monitor and maintain index integrity by utilizing CLI commands to validate hashes, assuring the data is untampered.
- Created retention policies by editing indexes.conf, Insuring the data moves through the index buckets in the specified time or volume per client request
- Configured deployers through servers.conf, then configured search head clusters in the CLI by writing advanced commands to initialize individual machines.
- Utilized btool for advanced configuration troubleshooting, identifying configuration paths, and checking for grammatical errors.
- Integrated Splunk with Active Directory, LDAP, and MFA authentication; Map users and user groups to Splunk roles, Promoting a secure and organized environment.
- Configured deployment servers to manage the server classes by sending deployment apps and configuration updates.
- Provided network syncing, insuring all machines are properly communicating before configuring a distributed environment, preventing any potential connection issues.
- Created and configured network inputs to listen on TCP/UDP ports, enabling syslog data to be ingested.
- Assisted in scripting complex data to make parsing more manageable, as well as manage passwords and credentials.
- Configure live data extraction from external client intelligence sites using the HEC.
Splunk Admin
ITECH Solutions
02.2020 - 12.2020
- Installed and configured Splunk UF’s on both linux and windows servers.
- Created a backup and recovery policy and monitor network communication to identify and recover critical data and information.
- Created indexes and updated configuration files in Splunk deployment server based on on-boarding requirements.
- Performed troubleshooting, debugging and correct issues related to data ingestion.
- Integrated Splunk with Active Directory and LDAP authentication.
- Utilizing Splunk Deployment Server to manage and deploy Splunk upgrades and configurations updates.
- Use Data Preview to validate event creation during the parsing phase.
- Managed the Deployment Server through configuration files and FMI.
- Configured monitor inputs using CLI, GUI, and editing inputs.conf.
- Frequently monitor the fishbucket index, significantly preventing duplicate data which may result in higher license cost and inaccurate search queries.
Splunk Engineer
Phoenix Cyber
02.2018 - 10.2019
- Created and configured management reports and dashboards in Splunk for application log monitoring.
- Manage Splunk licenses, indexers, search heads and, configuration management and capacity monitoring.
- Develop Splunk SPL queries for reports, dashboards and alerts.
- Implement Splunk data onboarding best practices to ensure logs are being ingested and parsed correctly.
- Manage Splunk knowledge objects (Apps, Dashboards, Saved Searches, Scheduled Searches, Alerts).
- Perform Field Extractions and Transformations using the RegEx in Splunk.
- Responsible for Installing, configuring, and administering Splunk Enterprise on Linux and Windows servers.
- Experience with working on large datasets to generate insights and communicate insights to
- guide strategic roadmap.
Data Analyst
Maxar Technologies
04.2017 - 01.2018
- Built scalable and deployable machine learning models.
- Performed exploratory data analysis, finding trends and clusters.
- extensively performed large data read/writes to and from csv and excel files using pandas.
- Tackled highly imbalanced fraud dataset using under sampling with ensemble method, oversampling and cost sensitive algorithms
- Worked extensively with data governance team to maintain data models, metadata and dictionaries
- Analyzed and extract data from various confidential databases/DataMart using SQL/Oracle (toad) queries/codes
- Maintain data flow documentation and perform object mapping using bI tools and validation
- Created project presentations for business, stakeholders and clients using MS PowerPoint
Help Desk Tech
Thrive
06.2015 - 03.2016
- Provided technical support for various desktop hardware, software support and network operating systems.
- Provided end-user technical support for both standard and custom applications
- Used SMS, PC anywhere, and net meeting to troubleshoot user on the LAN
- Monitored system and reported outages and potential problems to the appropriate desktop technicians, administrators, engineers, and managers
- Performed periodic user level maintenance on desktop and laptop computers, printers, and network components; maintain hardware and soft ware inventories
- Generated and responded to trouble tickets
- Published shared folders, backed up the active directory and restored active directory.
- Set up Active Directory security for OU’s and domain security
- First and second level support for more than 4,000 clients
- Mapped network printers and install local printer for end users
- Assist and troubleshoot remote end users with VPN connection
Education
Bachelor of Science - Data Science
PGCC
Largo, MD03.2015
Skills
- Linux
- Python
- Regex
- HEC
- SEDCMD
- Syslog
- SPL
- Configuration file management
- Cluster Management
- btool
- Excel
- Active Directory
- TCP/UDP
Timeline
Splunk Admin
HCL Technologies
06.2021 - Current
Splunk Admin
ITECH Solutions
02.2020 - 12.2020
Splunk Engineer
Phoenix Cyber
02.2018 - 10.2019
Data Analyst
Maxar Technologies
04.2017 - 01.2018
Help Desk Tech
Thrive
06.2015 - 03.2016
Bachelor of Science - Data Science
PGCC
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