Maria Arokiaraj
Splunk SME
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Senior Splunk Developer working primarily on data on-boarding via Multiple Methods such as Forwarders, Syslog, API And Add-ons. Expert in handling End to End responsibilities ranging from Requirements Gathering, Effort Analysis, Working on Purchase Orders as per Business needs,Data On-boarding, Parsing and Field Extractions, Development of Knowledge Objects, Project Demo , Project Sign Off and Successful Go-Live. Have consistently successfully delivered multiple dashboards and custom apps. Stepped up as the Splunk team lead during critical scenarios to ensure prompt delivery. Expert Team Player and Client Coordinator. Dedicated Splunk professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Splunk Admin & Content Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2021 - Current
- Understanding complete Splunk Architecture of ASML
- Conducting Intake meetings with users to understand requirements completely and making sure to get sign off before moving to On-boarding/Development activities
- Onboarding necessary logs from the Applications through Deployment Server (Log File Onboarding), Apps and Add-ons for applications like SNOW & ONTAP, Modular Inputs for API Calls, Syslog for device logs and DB Connect for Database logs
- Testing complete on-boarding, parsing and development activity in Dev environment before going to PROD
- Making sure that Parsing(Line Breaking, Time settings & Truncation) is perfect for each log type on-boarded
- Analyzing logs and performing Field extractions wherever required to perform Development activities
- Following ASML Standards on each Dashboards to provide users with required knowledge on how dashboard could be used
- Delivering requirements on-time and gaining complete user satisfaction by engaging with users throughout the process and adapting to changes suggested
- Creating AD Groups and Splunk Roles for users who will need access to Specific Apps / Dashboards and delivering once Development activity is completed.
Splunk Team Lead
Maxis Communications, Wipro
06.2020 - 03.2021
- On-boarding 40 Maxis applications into Splunk Environment and creating Security Use-cases relevant for each Application
- Conducted multiple meetings with Client for understanding the Project scope and Requirements
- Conducted Splunk Introduction sessions for all the Application Teams explaining how Splunk works and what values Splunk can provide for their Applications
- Suggested basic security use cases like Unauthorized user access, Access to Apps from Unknown IP Addresses and analyzed if Applications have necessary logs
- Conducted multiple Requirements Gathering sessions with each Application Owners and finalized use-cases for each Application
- Obtained sign-off from Application owners and Maxis SOC Team for finalized Business and Security use-cases respectively
- Created necessary configuration files and Apps for each Application and pushed to Application Servers via Deployment Server for Data forwarding
- Along with Database team created Service Accounts for Onboarding logs from Databases wherever necessary and added inputs in DB Connect to collect the data
- Created dedicated Apps, Datasets, Alerts, Reports and Dashboards for requested Use-Cases
- Created Understanding document for each Application explaining complete details of Developed Use-cases and how they could use them for their day-to-day activities
- Conducted Handover sessions with Operations Team and Obtained sign-off from Client for all the Development work completed.
Splunk Developer & Consultant
Kohl’s, Wipro
03.2019 - 05.2020
- Creating knowledge objects to monitor sales and application performances
- Data received from all internal Applications are monitored and suggested on possible Reports / Alerts that could be created
- Creating dashboards in Staging environment and deploying them into Production through GitHub after getting necessary approvals
- Following CR process in GitHub for Dashboard changes and deployments
- Contacting Stakeholders to understand dashboard requirements and work through complete process until getting the Dashboards approved and deployed
- Cleaning up / Fixing broken Dashboards every 6 months to make sure that all dashboards are following standards
- Delivering requirements well within planned Sprint following Agile practices
- Handling Access related issues or issues on Splunk knowledge objects reported by end users
- Creating saved searches, event types, tags, field extractions, lookups to make it easier for non-technical Splunk users to use the application with ease
Senior Splunk Developer
Experian, Tavant Technologies
12.2017 - 11.2018
- Experian is a leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to clients around the world
- Created Alerts, Reports and Dashboards with the logs received from Automation Anywhere to calculate the Success Rates and handle the exceptions
- Created several dashboards in Staging environment and deployed them into Production and handled their permissions
- Created Knowledge Objects like Lookups, Saved Searches, Pivots, Data Models, Datasets and used them in reports to increase efficiency.
- Handled customer directly in order to gather requirements.
- Delivered requirements well before deadline
- Have also helped new teams that are starting to use Splunk by setting up their fresh environments in Windows and CentOS.
Splunk Developer
Nestle/Nespresso, Tech Mahindra
03.2014 - 11.2017
- Installing and configuring universal forwarders in various servers
- Splunk DB Connect app was used to collect database logs to monitor health of Database and ORA errors
- On-boarded data with help of deployment servers and pushed configurations to deployment clients by creating server class
- Pro-actively monitored Web servers (Application servers, Middle wares) health status through customized dashboards and avoided unnecessary outages/sales down on PROD environment
- Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings
- Created and configured management reports and dashboards
- Created Alerts, Reports and Dashboards for market users for specific conditions
- Investigating issues on Splunk environment whenever there is something reported through DMC by checking on Splunkd logs
Application Support Engineer
Nestle/Nespresso, Tech Mahindra
09.2011 - 02.2014
- Handling tickets raised from Markets regarding issues with Nessoft ERP application when shopping Coffee capsules and Machines
- Nessoft is a single ERP application that handles Users, Order Management, Supply Chain Management, Journal and Database management. Learnt complete life cycle of end to end order management and supply chain management
- Find and fix the issues in inbound & outbound batches
- Fix errors that occurred during customer creation, order creation/validation, contract creation, stock creation, logistic order creation and supply chain order creation
- Data conversion activities for bulk data
- Monitor long running jobs and kill/restart them manually
- Creation of database objects like tables, views, materialized views, procedures and packages using oracle PL/SQL Developer
- Created indexes on tables for faster retrieval of data to enhance database performance.
Education
B.Sc - Information Technology
G.R.D College of Science
Coimbatore, TN 06.2008 - 04.2011
Skills
Splunk Development & Admin
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Timeline
Splunk Admin & Content Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2021 - Current
Splunk Team Lead
Maxis Communications, Wipro
06.2020 - 03.2021
Splunk Developer & Consultant
Kohl’s, Wipro
03.2019 - 05.2020
Senior Splunk Developer
Experian, Tavant Technologies
12.2017 - 11.2018
Splunk Developer
Nestle/Nespresso, Tech Mahindra
03.2014 - 11.2017
Application Support Engineer
Nestle/Nespresso, Tech Mahindra
09.2011 - 02.2014
B.Sc - Information Technology
G.R.D College of Science
06.2008 - 04.2011
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