Luke Tessier
Montgomery,AL
Summary
Skilled Splunk Engineer with extensive experience in designing, deploying, optimizing, and managing large Splunk Enterprise environments within classified and unclassified networks. Expertise developed through work on the AFINC 2, 2.5, and 3 contracts, supporting critical operations in highly regulated settings at the 26th Network Operations Squadron.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
Work History
Lead Splunk Engineer
Abacus Technology
Montgomery, AL
07.2025 - Current
- Oversaw a team consisting of a Splunk engineer and a junior Splunk engineer focused on enhancing and maintaining Splunk capabilities.
- Oversaw the design, deployment, and maintenance of Splunk Enterprise environments in controlled unclassified information (CUI) networks and classified networks while conveying progress to higher leadership.
- Collaborated with functional teams to create custom dynamic dashboards for firewall visibility and security compliance, improving situational awareness.
- Enhanced the performance of existing dashboards and reports with the use of base searches and SPL optimization leading to significant search performance increases.
- Developed and delivered Splunk SOPs and training to improve end user experience with the platform.
Splunk Engineer
Heptagon Technologies
Montgomery, AL
03.2025 - 07.2025
- Designed, deployed and maintained distributed clustered Splunk Enterprise environments, including indexers, forwarders, search heads and management nodes in Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) networks and classified networks.
- Managed Splunk data ingestion pipelines, optimizing indexing and parsing for large-scale log sources to ensure efficient processing of over 15TB/day.
- Normalized data using the common information model (CIM).
- Defined and accelerated data models using CIM compliant data, significantly improving search performance.
- Conducted system reviews and managed Splunk configurations to ensure compliance with STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide) standards.
- Managed 100+ Splunk Universal Forwarders utilizing a deployment server.
- Performed Splunk Enterprise updates for installed apps and add-ons as well as upgrades for new Splunk Enterprise versions.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity
Troy University
Troy, AL12-2024
Skills
- Splunk Enterprise
- Search Processing Language (SPL)
- Log Analytics
- Data Ingestion/ Parsing
- Security Compliance
- STIGs
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Dashboard creation
- Problem Resolution
- Team Collaboration
- Communication
- Problem Resolution
Certification
Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
Timeline
Lead Splunk Engineer
Abacus Technology
07.2025 - Current
Splunk Engineer
Heptagon Technologies
03.2025 - 07.2025
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity
Troy University