Saurav Rath
Bengaluru
Summary
Splunk Architect & Observability SME | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 10+ years of experience in Splunk, Observability, SRE practices, and cloud monitoring. Expertise in designing scalable logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions for enterprise environments. Proven ability to enhance system reliability, automate infrastructure monitoring, and optimize incident response using tools like Splunk, New Relic, Terraform, AWS, and PagerDuty.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Splunk Architect/Admin/Developer
Tech Mahindra
Bengaluru
01.2023 - Current
- Designed and implemented the Splunk SVT environment end-to-end for enterprise observability.
- Led complex E2E observability solutions for IPND, ITAAS API Stats Automation, and TIM Migration, collaborating with multiple feature teams to integrate diverse components.
- Architected and managed observability solutions using Splunk, New Relic, and AWS for large-scale distributed systems.
- Automated infrastructure monitoring with Terraform, ensuring SRE error budget compliance.
- Developed incident response automation with PagerDuty and ServiceNow, reducing MTTR by 35%.
Splunk Architect / Observability SME
Telstra
Bengaluru
03.2020 - 01.2023
- Troubleshot complex Splunk admin issues, including indexing delays, search performance optimization, and data ingestion failures, improving system stability.
- Developed custom Splunk dashboards tailored to client requirements, enabling real-time monitoring and KPI tracking for business-critical services.
- Worked extensively with New Relic DT, AIOps, and APM monitoring, optimizing application performance and enhancing proactive alerting.
- Led POCs for implementing observability best practices, integrating distributed tracing, log correlation, and anomaly detection for improved system insights.
Senior Splunk Engineer
Cognizant
Bengaluru
10.2018 - 03.2020
- Designed and configured Splunk ITSI by developing KPIs, correlation searches, and Glass Tables to enable end-to-end service monitoring and proactive incident detection.
- Managed Splunk deployment architecture, including Deployment Server setup, Universal Forwarder (UF) and Heavy Forwarder (HF) management, and app installations in the production Splunk environment.
- Led Splunk upgrade activities, implemented clustering setups, and streamlined data onboarding and parsing processes, ensuring optimized performance and high availability.
Education
B.Tech - CSE
GEC
Odisha05-2014
Skills
- Splunk Architect
- Splunk Developer
- Splunk Admin
- Splunk ITSI
- New Relic
- PagerDuty
- Terraform
- AWS
- ServiceNow / JIRA / Agile
- Gitlab / Bamboo / BitBucket
Certification
- Splunk Certified Power User
- Splunk Certified Admin
- Administering Splunk ES
- Advance Dashboard & Visualisations
Timeline
Splunk Architect/Admin/Developer
Tech Mahindra
01.2023 - Current
Splunk Architect / Observability SME
Telstra
03.2020 - 01.2023
Senior Splunk Engineer
Cognizant
10.2018 - 03.2020
B.Tech - CSE
GEC
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