Mahalakshmi V
Thanjavur
Summary
- 6 years of IT experience and 3+ years of experience with Splunk, Enterprise Splunk, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk configuring, implementing, and supporting Splunk Server Infrastructure across Windows, UNIX and Linux.
- 2 years of experience in Vulnerability Assessment and CyberArk in the cybersecurity domain.
- Extensive knowledge of Splunk architecture and various components. Passionate about Machine data and operational Intelligence.
- Provided regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on the complex solution and issue resolution.
- Provided Regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on the complex solution and issue resolution.
- Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration, and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
- Experienced in the understanding of Splunk 7.x and 8.x product, Distributed Splunk.
- Extracted complex Fields from different types of Log files using Regular Expressions.
- Created and configured management reports and dashboards. Maintained documentation of applications including what work has been done, what is left to do, and site-specific procedures documenting the Splunk environment.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Lead
Cognizant Technology solutions
Chennai
09.2021 - Current
- Splunk Administrator, accountable for importing data into splunk, maintain data quality and defining event boundaries
- Responsible for the administration, design and maintenance of the complex splunk SIEM system.
- Supported the logging infrastructure, including log storage, syslog and windows event collector servers, DB connections
- Onboarded splunk with data sources from more than 100 environmentsand diverse onboarding solutions
- Applied an advancing filtering mechanism to the syslog configuration to separate the OS and APP logs
- Supported users with in-person and remote technical assistance.
- Troubleshot program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning.
- Developed, documented and revised system design procedures and quality standards.
Splunk Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
03.2017 - 08.2021
- I have hands-on experience with both Splunk Standalone and cluster architecture.
- Involved in the creation of distributed clustered environment.
- Onboard the data from Syslog, SNMP traps, HEC, Rest API (Tenable, Azure, DB connect, etc,)
- Upgraded the Splunk platform manually from 7.3.5 to 8.0.6
- Upgraded the universal forwarders using the UCD Automation tool
- Setup Git repositories in Splunk and maintained the Splunk configuration in a centralized repository.
- Set up many custom roles and integrated with LDAP Participated in requirements discussions, followed by analysis. To Analyze the requirements of the project.
- To configure all the application data into Splunk and monitor in Splunk. Responsible for code review and testing. Responsible for creating all the deliverable documents.
- Involved in analyzing the existing process flow, so as to accommodate the new changes that are described in the process.
- Understood the existing project flow and analyzed the impacts due to the code changes, which reduced the introduction of new defects or inconsistencies in the application.
- Worked on both Index level and search level extractions.
- Performed all the production changes by raising the Change request by getting it reviewed by Service Management.
- Performed health checks on a daily basis in the production environment. Monitored all the data via ITSI Monitoring and BMC Remedy.
Education
Bachelor of Science - ECE
SRM Valliammai Engineering College
Kattankulathur04.2016
Skills
Splunk: Splunk 7x and 8x, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk DB 2 Connect, Splunk Cloud, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Web Framework, AWS workspace
Other tools: CyberArk, Vulnerability assessment, Datadog
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Win 10, Windows Server, Unix/Linux (Red Hat)
Accomplishments
- Received "Star of the Month" twice for completing the Customer requirements on time.
- Received "On the Spot" in TCS for building quick search head cluster development and delivered it on time
- Received "Cheers Award" in CTS for single handedly managed the environment
Timeline
Tech Lead
Cognizant Technology solutions
09.2021 - Current
Splunk Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2017 - 08.2021
Bachelor of Science - ECE
SRM Valliammai Engineering College
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