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KEHINDE DAWUDA

Camby

Summary

Splunk admin/engineer with 6+ years’ experience in Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk administration and development. Adept at monitoring critical applications, analyzing incident management and resolution problems and creating apps on Splunk to analyze Big Data. Possess the ability to create dashboards, forms, alerts, reports, dynamic drill downs, knowledge objects and post processing searches.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Splunk Admin

Damar Services Inc.
11.2020 - Current
  • Configured Splunk for all the mission critical applications and using Splunk effectively for Application troubleshooting and monitoring post go lives
  • Configure and Install Splunk Enterprise, Agent, and Apache Server for user and role authentication and SSO
  • Manage Splunk configuration files like inputs, props, transforms, and lookups
  • Upgrading the Splunk Enterprise and security patching
  • Deploy, configure and maintain Splunk forwarder in different platforms
  • Ensuring that the application website is up and available to the users
  • Continuous monitoring of the alerts received through mails to check if all the application servers and web servers are up
  • Create Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards, worked on various defects analysis and fixed them
  • Problem record analysis and solution providing Field Extraction, Using Ifx, Rex
  • Weatherford

Splunk Admin

Cardinal Health
04.2019 - 10.2020
  • Developed end to end monitoring dashboards, alerts, and reports in Splunk and communicate with internal customers/teams to reduce downtime and root cause by utilizing dashboards
  • Monitoring system performance and availability with Splunk Monitoring Console
  • Standardized Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across Windows and UNIX platforms
  • Worked Directly with Splunk Inc sales team in determining Log size and licensing cost for the client's Infrastructure
  • Upgrading and Migrating the Splunk Components and setting up the Retention Policy for the indexes
  • Supported HTTP methods following the REST API subsets including the CURD operations like the GET, POST and DELETE to return a HTTP status code to indicate the success of the operation or cause of a failure to fulfill the request
  • Responsible for collecting and on-boarding data from various systems/servers, Forwarder Management
  • Creating and managing Splunk apps
  • Builds Splunk queries by Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Regular expressions
  • Responsible for setting up alerts and monitoring from the Machine generated live data
  • Troubleshooting server outages and crashes; using Splunkd, diagnostic reports, crash reports and btool as tools to gain insights
  • Managing splunk user and authentication management by creating new roles and assigning required capabilities to the users from various other applications
  • Managing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting Splunk Enterprise servers running on AWS cloud.

Splunk Engineer

Kohls Distribution
04.2018 - 01.2020
  • Responsible for setting up alerts and monitoring from the Machine generated live data
  • Troubleshooting server outages and crashes; using Splunkd, diagnostic reports, crash reports and btool as tools to gain insights
  • Managing splunk user and authentication management by creating new roles and assigning required capabilities to the users from various other applications
  • Managing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting Splunk Enterprise servers running on AWS cloud.
  • Monitored computer virus reports to determine when to update virus protection systems.

Splunk Engineer

Etisalat Telecommunication
01.2015 - 12.2016
  • Conducted research to test and analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components, and systems.
  • Read and interpreted blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports.
  • Provided input to team lead regarding areas for process and procedural improvement.
  • Interpreted blueprints and technical drawings to analyze upcoming projects.
  • Developed planning criteria for integrating and enabling new technologies.
  • Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
  • Wrote, reviewed and edited technical document in accordance with template requirements.
  • Coordinated sampling and analysis tasks to verify quality of finished products.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Political Science

Olabisi Onabanjo University
Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria
08.2016

Skills

  • 6 years of IT experience with specialization that’s includes Splunk administration, Windows administration
  • Using scripts to automate Splunk deployment Creating knowledge objects such as dashboards, alerts, and reports
  • Ingesting historical data into Splunk platform
  • Using CIM to normalize data for maximum efficiency at search time
  • Use CIM to create dashboards and reports
  • Managing Splunk through Monitoring Console
  • Configuring Splunk forwarder management
  • Provided administrative database security role by protecting the database, creating, and managing users
  • Provide system management role by troubleshooting, reviewing, and monitoring database performance
  • Knowledge of AWS and Cloud Technologies
  • Performance monitoring with Splunk Enterprise
  • Configuring Splunk forwarder on application server for log monitoring
  • Risk Mitigation

Certification

Splunk Certified User

Splunk Certified Power User

Splunk Certified Admin

Timeline

Splunk Admin

Damar Services Inc.
11.2020 - Current

Splunk Admin

Cardinal Health
04.2019 - 10.2020

Splunk Engineer

Kohls Distribution
04.2018 - 01.2020

Splunk Engineer

Etisalat Telecommunication
01.2015 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Science - Political Science

Olabisi Onabanjo University

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