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Sarayu - Splunk Engineer

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Location: Austin, Texas, USA

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NAME: SARAYU KONATHAM Contact:+1 7192397099 Email: [email protected] Location: Austin, TX LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarayu-reddy-4877a6264/ Summary: Over 8 years of diverse experience in Configuring, Monitoring, Implementing Splunk server Infrastructure across Windows, LINUX and UNIX operating systems Developed and scheduled new Splunk capacity dashboards, data models & performance reports to assist Sr. management in making business critical capacity decisions Created data models using Pivot tables in Splunk, after mining data and extracting key information for capacity planning purposes Develop custom app configurations (deployment-apps) within Splunk to Parse, Index multiple types of log format across all application environment System Administration familiar with Window Servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers, Solaris and IBM AIX servers Extensive experience in Deploying, Configuring and Administering Splunk clusters Various types of charts Alert settings Knowledge of App Creation, User and Role access permissions Expertise in Reporting, Development, Deployment, Management and Performance tuning of reports Expertise in Search Head Cluster, Indexer Cluster, Heavy forwarders, Deployment Server, License Master, Deployer and Master Node In depth and extensive Knowledge in setting up Alerts and Monitoring recipes from the Machine generated data Understanding of Network Firewalls, Load-balancers, LDAP and complex network design Experience on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration (props.conf, transforms.conf, outputs.conf) management Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On s, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management Created and Managed Splunk DB connect Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls Expertise Splunk query language and Monitored Database Connection Health by using Splunk DB connect health dashboards Collecting IAM and usage statistics from Amazon Web services to Splunk Experience with Splunk technical implementation, planning, customization, integration with big data and statistical and analytical modeling Experience in writing complex REGEX (Regular Expressions) Knowledge about the Splunk User Behavior Analytics Worked on log parsing, complex Splunk searches, including external table lookups Experience on use and understand rex, Sed and erex to extract the fields from the log files Experience on Splunk data flow, components, features and product capability Experience on Splunk search construction with ability to create well-structured search queries that minimize performance impact Created non-clustered indexes for increasing the performance, also monitored the indexes by troubleshooting any corrupt indexes using monitoring console Good communication and interpersonal skills Expertise at accessing client needs, working in a group, suggesting ideas that enhance Efficiency and maximize performance, implementing cutting-edge technology solutions and training end users Provided 24/7 support Education: Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communications Engineering, Sri Nidhi Institute of Science and Technology, 2015 Certifications: Splunk Core Certified Power User Technical Skills: Operating Systems Windows 2008, 2012, XP, Windows NT, Suse Linux, Redhat, IBM AIX Splunk Modules Splunk 7.x, 8.x, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Common Informational Model, Splunk Add on for Microsoft Cloud services, Splunk App for Unix, Splunk App for AWS Programming Language C, C++, Python RDBMS Oracle, MS-SQL Server, IBM DB2, Postgres Web Technologies HTML4/5, CSS3, JavaScript, XML Web/App Servers Apache Tomcat 6.0, web logic8.1/9.2, WebSphere Application Server 6,7,8, Weblogic,WebSphere MQ Server 6.x,/7.x, Jboss Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, Sun One webserver, IIS 7.x, Apache Webserver Monitoring Tools Splunk, New relic, Dynatrace, Tivoli, ELK, Nagios SCM Tools Chef, JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins Scripting Shell, Bash, Python Certifications Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin and Splunk Enterprise Power User Experience: Client: Blackrock, Atlanta, GA Dec 2021 Till Date Role: SR. Splunk Engineer Responsibilities: Design and implement Splunk Architecture with 15TB of licensing Gathered requirements, planned capacity, retention policy and provided estimates for clients Configured Search Head Cluster, Indexer Cluster, Heavy forwarders, Deployment Server, License Master, Deployer and Master Node Managed Splunk team and assigned work to offshore team Interacted with Multiple clients during requirement gatherings and provided road map designs for Splunk solutions Installed and configured Universal Forwarders and Heavy Forwarders to bring any kind of data fields in to Splunk. Installed Splunk apps like Splunk Addon for Microsoft Windows, Splunk app for REST API, Splunk app for Unix, Splunk app for JMX, Splunk app for DBConnect, Splunk app for Microsoft cloud services, Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services etc. Created custom Dashboards, Alerts and Reports to meet requirements of various user groups Development and customization of Splunk using XML templates and advanced configuration Build custom Splunk App dashboards with search forms and views, packaging and distribution Developed Schedule reports and Alerts for various requests Created Ansible scripts to automate the installation of Universal Forwarders on Windows and Unix Experience with summary indexing and data models Filtered and routed unwanted data to null queues using props and transforms Troubleshoot and resolve the issues related to queues, hec and role mapping Integrated Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources that use various protocols Consulting with customers to customize and configure Splunk in order to meet their requirements Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and windows platforms Set up the Splunk to monitor the customer volume and track the customer Installed and configured Splunk DB Connect in single and distributed environments Evaluate, test and implement major and minor revision releases as they become available from Splunk Constantly monitor and report to proactively detect and resolve issues before occurring Expertise in Report acceleration Provide regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution Created dashboards, report, scheduled searches and alerts Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model Integrated Service Now with Splunk to generate the Incidents from Splunk Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards Created many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners which are used to monitor application and server health Environments: SPLUNK 8.x, Splunk DB Connect, Ansible, Confluence, Bit Bucket, RedHat Linux, AWS Client: ADP, Atlanta, GA Oct 2020 Nov 2021 Role: SR. Splunk Administrator Responsibilities: Support Splunk environment with daily ingest volume of 10TB Have Knowledge in various search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction Experience in working with Splunk authentication and permissions with LDAP or SAML Experience in supporting large scale Splunk deployments Having experience in understanding of Splunk 6.x and 7.x product, distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers and forwarders Experience in extracting fileds search time vs. Index time Good understanding of configuration files, precedence and daily work exposure to props.conf, transforms.conf, inputs.conf, outputs.conf Maintain Splunk environment with multiple indexers and manage and configure index settings Designed core scripts to automate Splunk maintenance and alerting tasks Created many proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and Infrastructure teams Monitor application and server health using data ingested into Splunk Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components such as indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server, Heavy and Universal forwarder, License master Expertise in reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning Various types of charts Alert settings Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions Create and manage app, create user, role, permissions to knowledge objects Integrate Service Now with Splunk to generate the Incidents from Splunk Involved in Admin tasks in managing most of the knowledge objects and configuration files Created many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners, which are used to monitor application and server health Good understanding of parsing, indexing, searching concepts along with hot, warm, cold, frozen and thawd buckets Onboard new log sources with log analysis and parsing to enable SIEM correlation Subject matter expert in best practices, security protocols, PKI, and other security-related issues Analyzed large datasets to identify metrics, performance gaps and opportunities for improvement Environments: Splunk7.x, Rest API, Linux OS, Service Now, XML, SIEM Client: State Street Boston, MA Jan 2019 Sep 2020 Role: Splunk Engineer Responsibilities Integrated Splunk with Active directory and LDAP authentication Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles Helped in Integration of Splunk with Service now, maintaining Splunk instance and monitoring health of the cluster Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings Helped the client to setup alerts for different type of errors Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data and brought an insight of the data for the users Involved in using Splunk deployment server for managing Splunk instances and troubleshooting issues Installed Splunk on nix and Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Windows for security use cases Created set of user roles to in LDAP and single sign on implementation Involved in setting up alerts for different type of errors, analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings Developed, evaluated and documented specific metrics for management purpose Using SPL created visualizations to get the value out of data Created dashboards for various types of business users in organization Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries Involved in assisting offshore members to understand the use case of business Assisted internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboard Involved in writing complex rex and multikv command to extracts the fields from the log data Involved in helping unix admins, Windows admins and Splunk administrators to deploy Splunk across the UNIX and windows Worked with administrators to ensure Splunk is actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation Involved in installing and using multiple applications downloaded from Splunkbase Environments: Splunk Enterprise, Linux, GitLab, DB Connect, RedHat, AWS, ServiceNow Client: Coreway Technologies India Feb 2017 Dec 2018 Role: Splunk Admin/Developer Responsibilities: Worked on continuous optimization of resources by setting up monitoring console Experience writing Splunk Search query and optimization Experience in UNIX shell and rest API s Experience in Design core scripts to automate Splunk maintenance and alerting tasks Experience with Splunk regular expressions and lookups for data enrichment Working experience with Dynatrace application performance management tool Batch management and optimization using performance metrics with Splunk Experience on knowledge objects like Data models, lookups, macros, event type, saved searches, tags etc. Create Splunk applications and deploy using Splunk Deployment Server Participated in Splunk weekly Maintenance and Patching Compared the Logs in networking devices take them into Splunk for finding issues quickly Participated in Tools tribe meetings and gathered requirements from all SME's and developed dashboards Developed customized Shell scripts in order to install, manage and configure multiple instances of Splunk Analyzed the user/business requirements and created user accesses by using admin privileges Provided 24/7 on call support (rotational basis) behalf of Tools team to acknowledge and solve the production issues Environments: Splunk 6.x, Bladelogic, Github, DB Connect, DMC, Indexer Cluster Client: Infosys, India June 2016 Jan 2017 Role: Network Engineer Responsibilities: Worked as Network designing and Planning in the Telecom related project for an Australia Based client NBN is responsible for connecting your premises broadband access network Connecting all the locations which are nearer to the one access network and checking whether the connecting locations can reduce the extra cost for cable lengths, extra equipment. Analyze where we have to use the Daisy Chaining Designing the network in a way that equipment must be placed in the middle locations. After designing we have to run the Design Tool and check whether there are no errors or not Test the design network by running the QI validator and Delta Tool Use Splunk for network troubleshooting After testing, merge all the locations which are in that network and start implementing the network in that area Environment: Cisco 3560/2950/2924/6509/6513/5500 switches, Cisco 3825/3640/7200 routers, VPN, BGP, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, F5 BIG-IP, LTM, GTM, Nexus Switches 5K/7K, VLAN, VTP, Checkpoint Client: Infosys, India Aug 2015 June 2016 Role: ABAP Developer Responsibilities: Worked as Order to Cash Developer in a large SAP Business Transformation project for a major US Based client implementing complex OTC Business processes in SAP Headed in business process design, analyze requirements and arrive at functional solution for to be business process Designed, configured, developed and implemented SAP functional modules Design functional specifications for reports, interfaces, enhancements, workflow and forms Modified, tested and implemented SAP application software Utilizes SAP knowledge and expertise to identify issues and implementation opportunities Performing unit, system, integration and regression testing through the project life cycle Analyzing critical issues and defects and provide SAP solutions accordingly Environment: NW 7.0, ECC 6.0, SD, MM, FI modules, Oracle Keywords: cprogramm cplusplus user interface message queue materials management database information technology ffive microsoft Georgia Massachusetts South Dakota Texas