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Sourabh Saxena

Cyber Security Professional
Bangalore

Summary

  • Splunk Certified Architect & Cribl Certified Edge/Stream Admin and with more than 20+ Years of experience in IT Operations, Service Delivery.
  • Exposure in managing & deploying large scale distributed Splunk environments.
  • In depth understanding of various logging & Monitoring solutions.
  • Sold experience in Architecting Enterprise grade solutions using Splunk & ELK.
  • Good knowledge of a distributed Splunk installation - Multi-site Indexer Cluster, Search Head Cluster, Forwarders (Universal/Heavy)
  • Good understanding of installing & configuring Splunk in AWS and GCP environments
  • Ability to troubleshoot performance and access issues, as well as installation of Splunk upgrades including setting up and maintaining a clustered environment.
  • Having extensive exposure in data on-boarding procedures and strong knowledge of Splunk search language
  • Possess strong working knowledge of the Splunk platform, including day-to-day administration of distributed Splunk environment.
  • Good understanding of Splunk dashboards and Splunk alerts
  • Exposure to ELK stack & Prometheus
  • Worked on various SIEM Solutions MS Sentinel, Splunk ES
  • Good understanding of Google cloud infrastructure.
  • Proven abilities in managing the Application Support, Operations and delivery.
  • Sound knowledge of Incident Management, Problem & PKE Management.
  • Sound understanding of software configuration management systems
  • Solid Project & Team Management experience

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certificates

Work History

Senior Consultant, Delivery Lead

HCL Tech
02.2021 - Current
  • Working as a Delivery Lead for Data Lake Project
  • Providing L3 Platform support to the internal stakeholders
  • Involve in Architectural Design, Upgrade, Maintenance of the Splunk Platform
  • Worked in Cribl Stream for logs redirections to various destination
  • Single POC for all client related Issues
  • Actively Involved in migration from Splunk On Prem to Splunk Cloud

Assistant Manager, IDC

Accenture Solutions Pvt LTD.
Bangalore
06.2010 - 02.2021

Splunk Tech Architect Design & Delivery (Japanese Telco Project) May 2018 – Feb 2021

● Supporting client in documenting HLD and LLD in confluence/Jira for the Observatory framework built on Splunk platform.

● Discussing the requirement with the client team and transforming them into a technical solution.

● Responsible for taking sign off from the Client Product team for the Technical Design & Approach.

● Responsible for writing the Technical User story for the Dev team.

● Supporting Dev team in Technical Implementation

● Addressing on going customer requirements. Ex Auto scaling, Self-Healing

● Involved in writing technical response for the Splunk RFPs

Splunk Application Delivery & Platform Support (Australian Telco Project) May 2014 – April 2018

● Worked as Splunk Application support / Delivery lead (Team Size 18)

● Responsible for onboarding any New Application into Splunk platform

● Responsible for integrating Splunk with various data sources

● Involved in incident triage and resolutions related to Splunk platform

● Responsible for Providing L2 to L3 Support for the Splunk

● Supporting Onshore team in any production upgrade or enhancements

● Involved in Design and automation of various billing tasks using Splunk

● Automated various reports & dashboards via Splunk Ver 6.3

● Managing Splunk Licenses for the Project

● Involved in SPLUNK installation and User Mgmts.

● Automated Incident triage with email alerts, inflows report (Fetch data from BO Report using Splunk Forwarder and Shows real-time count of incidents in each domain and number of incoming incidents in Accenture queue)

● Created Dumber CPU utilization app in Splunk (automated per day reports of CPU utilization with visualization of each user).

● Created Dashboards in Splunk for displaying closed/resolved critical/High incidents for each domain in Accenture queue (automated email alerts to domains for downgrading SLA missed incidents).

● Engagement in Presentation of Splunk Automation works during client visits.

Team Lead IT Operations (Germany -Telco Billing Project) June 2010 – May 2014

● Managing 24x7 billing Operations.

● Driving SLA for the Critical & High Incidents & problems

● Working with Stake holder’s domain lead on various business Issues.

● Forecasting SLAs projection to the senior management to avoid financial penalties.

● Liaising with different teams across geographies for the New Project Roll Outs.

● Driving Various Service Management Practices across the teams for the smooth operation of the project

●Working with business on the new requirements and the Implementations.

● Interacting with business and customers in problem management meeting & calls

Senior Engineer Telecom Billing

COLT Technology
Gurugram
12.2007 - 06.2010
  • Actively Involved in the System Integration Testing for Usage & Invoicing for Kenan Billing System.
  • Actively involved in writing Test Scripts for the various Processes in Kenan like MPS, BIP, IGEN, etc.
  • Active member of the IPA (Implementation Planning and Analysis) team providing inputs from the business side
  • Involved in design, development and unit testing of customize billing application communicating to Kenan billing system
  • Involved in Managing the testing team, allocating task & taking status on daily bases.
  • Involve in preparing & reviewing defect log and Issue log
  • Involve in Defect management & Client interaction during execution
  • Involve in Coordinating the Testing activities with development team.

Senior Executive IT

Vodafone India
Lucknow
02.2005 - 12.2007
  • Implementation of Tariffs as per company policy.
  • Monitoring the provisioning related issues.
  • Testing & implementation of various modules to support billing system.
  • Analyze the cause of rejection of calls and cycling the same.
  • Reconciliation of subscribers in HLR vs. Billing System.
  • MIS- Generating various reports through TOAD for Analysis purpose

Education

Master of Computer Application - Computer

Madhav Institute of Technology & Science
Gwalior
06.2000 - 05.2003

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Systems

Govt. Science College
06.1997 - 06.2000

Skills

Splunk Enterprise 9x

Experience with Splunk ITSI imple

Azure/GCP

Cribl

ELK Stack

Sentinel

Certification

Splunk Certified Architect v 7.x

Accomplishments

  • Secured 2nd Position in MCA Program, at College Level.
  • Secured Gold Medal in B.Sc. from Govt Science College Gwalior.
  • Secured Successively first position in the First & Second year of graduation.
  • Secured silver medal in high school.
  • Secured 37th AIR in Pre MCA-Entrance Exam.

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Work Availability

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Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

On-SiteRemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany CulturePersonal development programsHealthcare benefitsTeam Building / Company RetreatsWork from home option

Timeline

Senior Consultant, Delivery Lead

HCL Tech
02.2021 - Current

Assistant Manager, IDC

Accenture Solutions Pvt LTD.
06.2010 - 02.2021

Senior Engineer Telecom Billing

COLT Technology
12.2007 - 06.2010

Senior Executive IT

Vodafone India
02.2005 - 12.2007

Master of Computer Application - Computer

Madhav Institute of Technology & Science
06.2000 - 05.2003

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Systems

Govt. Science College
06.1997 - 06.2000
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