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- Around 4 years of professional IT experience which includes proven experience in Hadoop Administration on Cloudera (CDH), Hortonworks (HDP) Distributions, and 3+ year of experience in Kafka, DevOps, and Linux Administration- Monitor the performance of the systems and ensure high uptime and provide 24/7 support.Deploy new and maintain existing Kafka cluster environments on Cloud or on-prem.- Handling the Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning, and ongoing monitoring.- Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts Has good knowledge of best practices- Working closely with the various teams to make sure that all the Kafka clusters are highly available and performing as expected- Enabled Auto-replace for stateless systems like Mirrormaker, Rest proxy & Lenses to ensure High Availability and also to reduce the Xmatters alerts for Operational excellence.- Installed, configured, and Administered Splunk search Head, Indexes, Heavy Forwarders, Cluster Master, Deployment Server, and Universal Forwarder on Linux and Windows Operating Systems. Written Splunk queries for Log Analysis and Analytics- Proactively monitor and setup alerting mechanism for Kafka Cluster and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability- Primary member in Application/Network Monitoring in the development of applications.- Strong Knowledge of apps like Splunk DB Connect, Splunk App for AWS- Knowledge of Splunk architecture including essential components like indexer, search head, heavy forwarder, and deployment server.- expertise in customizing Splunk for monitoring, Security, Application management, and security as per the industry best practices and customer requirements.- Involved in delivering the Cloud-ready advertising components.- Created Dashboards and alerts in Splunk to view the logs and their events for monitoring aspects.- Excellent understanding of project issues, tracking of these issues and solving and closing them.- Implemented techniques to optimize searches for better performance, search Time vs Index Time Filed Extractions- Ability to deliver quality work under pressure and aptitude to meet the given deadlines.- Working experience on Splunk 5.x, 6.x, Splunk Enterprise Security 4.1 on distributed Splunk Environments and Clustered Splunk Environments on Linux and Windows.- Created and configured dashboards in Grafana to visualise the metrics from Datasources.