Timothee DJOUOKEP TCHOUAMOU
Silver Spring,MD
Summary
8+ years in IT Engineer with 4+ years of experience in Splunk Security, Splunk architect, splunk administrator
Expertise in identity & access management, monitoring & event management, data onboarding. Expertise in Creation of solution proposals in line with an organization's goals around performance, scalability, security, monitoring.
Proficiency in configuring and managing Splunk Architecture (Forwarder, Indexer, Deployment server, and Search heads),
Works perfectly and effectively under stressful conditions where speed and accuracy are necessary for mission critical applications.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SPLUNK SECURITY/ ENGINEER
Marketing Science Company
Washington, DC
02.2022 - Current
- Installed Splunk Enterprise environment on Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP), Configured Universal and Heavy forwarder to send log to indexers
- Onboard data from various sources into Splunk, ensuring proper parsing and indexing.
- Monitored the health of the Splunk environment and optimize its performance
- Developed and implemented processes for ingesting data from various sources into Splunk,
- Configured and managed data inputs to accommodate different types of data sources, including logs, metrics, and events
- Implement data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) techniques to bring data into Splunk
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Splunk performance, data indexing, and searches.
- Created dashboards, alerts, and reports, and provided expertise to enhance the organization's data analytics and monitoring capabilities
- Used Regular expressions (regex) to extract field in event
- Manage SPLUNK user accounts (create, delete, modify, etc..)
- Performed routine security functions for risk detection, prevention, and response
- Configured hot, warm and cold buckets to hold data for extended period
SPLUNK ENGINEER
OTC Markets Group
New York, NY
03.2021 - 02.2022
- Installed, Configured, Maintained, Tuned and Supported Splunk Enterprise Server and Splunk Universal Forwarder server to send unwanted log events to 'Null Queue' using props and transforms configurations
- Created and configured management reports and dashboards in Splunk for application log monitoring
- Created Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats using continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics
- Created Shell Scripts to install Splunk Forwarders on all servers and configure with common configuration files such as Bootstrap scripts, Outputs.conf and Inputs.conf files
- Using DB connect for real-time data integration between Splunk Enterprise and databases
- Performed the configuration and maintenance of Splunk infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and security of the Splunk environment
- Monitored tool health and performance to identify issues, bugs, or potential improvements
- Managed Enforcement, Least Privilege, and workflow for all user account requests and account recertifications
- Collaboration with the Security Operations Center (SOC) teams for process optimization, tool tuning, tool integration, information sharing, playbook development, and incident response
- Performed implementation, administration, operations and maintenance, optimization, & integration of cybersecurity tools, technologies, and services
- Provided On-call support for various production applications
- Communicate with peer and supervisors routinely, document work, meetings, and decisions
Sr. Linux System Administrator
ABC Corporation
WAIPAHU, HI
02.2020 - 02.2021
- Installation, configuration and connecting RHEL 7, Centos 7.4 and Solaris 10 servers to a network using standard installation and Kickstart
- Experienced in Virtualization (VMware Esxi 7.2, Hyper-V and Oracle Virtual Box)
- Hardening, and patching both Red Hat 7 and Solaris servers and upgrade new release on standalone servers (using single user mode), and also on production servers
- Setting up firewall configuration using IPChains/IPTables and SELinux
- Performed multiplatform volume management using LVM and VCS volume manager and manage swap configurations
- Used Puppet and Ansible as automation tools for application management and OS management
- Created cron jobs for periodic processes using crontab or bash scripting
- Managed crash and core dump files, archive, compress files and send to vendors
- Configured Apache Tomcat server on Red Hat 7 for virtual and web hosting
- Installed and configure samba for quick publishing using third party web page maker
- Monitoring and Maintaining system configuration and log files and system error with password recovery and performance tuning, perform fault isolation and root-cause analysis of recurring issues
- Responsible for data management using Red Hat utilities for archiving, compression backup and restoration
- Implementation of NFS, SAMBA file servers and SQUID proxy servers
- Installation and configuration of DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Print Server, Remote Access, VPN, Mail servers, file sharing and network drive mapping on Windows Server 2003
JUNIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
STECY S.A
Yaoundé, CAMEROON
04.2014 - 09.2019
- Use Virtualization tools (VMware ESXi 7.4, Hyper-V and Oracle Virtual Box) to host and manage VMs
- Assembled and use Puppet Master, Agent and Database servers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platforms
- Archiving, compression backup and restoration of data from Veritas NetBackup
- Provided 24/7 support in a production and staging environment, troubleshooting and documentation for future reference
- Used Red Hat Satellite server to deploy, monitor and manage systems updates
- Installed and configured Active Directory Domain Services and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services for deployment of applications, Integrate LDAP running on Linux with Active Directory Services on Windows
- Implementation of Failover Clustering, Windows Server migration Tools, Windows Server Backup Group Policy Management, SMTP Server
- Cloud experience on OpenStack private cloud, Windows Azure and Amazon
- Assist to design, configure, manage, and maintain the deployment and operations in Amazon EC2, AWS, VPC, S3, Elastic Search services and creating security groups
Education
B.Sc. - Computer Science and Mathematics
University Of Yaoundé 1
Center Africa01.2012
Skills
- Reporting and documentation
- Investigation techniques
- Monitoring computer viruses
- Jira
- Ansible
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Containers CI/CD
- GitHub
- BitBucket
- Terraform
- Openshift
- Bash shell
- Java Script
- AWS Config Rules & Organization
Certification
- Splunk Core Certified User
- Splunk Core Certified Power-User
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
- Splunk Certified Developer
Timeline
SPLUNK SECURITY/ ENGINEER
Marketing Science Company
02.2022 - Current
SPLUNK ENGINEER
OTC Markets Group
03.2021 - 02.2022
Sr. Linux System Administrator
ABC Corporation
02.2020 - 02.2021
JUNIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
STECY S.A
04.2014 - 09.2019
B.Sc. - Computer Science and Mathematics
University Of Yaoundé 1
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