Ram Kumar Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Designing and implementing Splunk-based best practice solutions. Requirement gathering and analysis. Interacted with team members and Business users during the design and development of the application. • Data collection from various systems/servers, Forwarder Management, creating and managing Splunk apps. • Designing and implementing Splunk-based best practice solutions. Requirement gathering and analysis. Interacted with team members and Business users during the design and development of the application. • Data collection from various systems/servers, Forwarder Management, creating and managing Splunk apps. • Building Splunk queries by Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Regular expressions. Publishing data into Splunk through configurations such as inputs.conf, severclass.conf, server.conf, apps.conf and Outputs.conf configurations.• Configurations with deployment server, indexers, search heads, serverclass.conf, server.conf, apps.conf, props.conf, transform.conf, forwarder management configurations. • Created and triggered various dropdowns and drilldowns by using Splunk static Lookups. • Configured and developed complex dashboards and reports on Splunk. Involved in Installation, Administration and Configuration of Splunk Enterprise and integration with local legacy systems. • Built Latency and Time lag analytics in Hadoop and Informatica. • Built several Key Performance Indicators for the Personal Insurance team through Splunk Metrics. • Installation and configuration of Splunk product at different environments. Configured Splunk c Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Created fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects. • Created Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats using continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics. • Knowledge on Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing. • Conducted surveillance on various phishing emails and created alerts from future spam. • Developed Splunk Infrastructure on Cloud (Amazon AWS) in coordination with infrastructure Support Teams. • Installing and Configuring Indexer, Search Head, License Server as well as Deployment Server on Cloud (Amazon AWS). • Troubleshoot and tune Splunk deployment for servers, applications and network devices. • Worked on large datasets to generate insights by using SPLUNK. • Production error monitoring and root cause analysis using SPLUNK. • Using VMware for Cloud Computing and Splunk Virtualization Services. • Improved search performance by configuring to search heads for all Indexes in production. • Analyzed security-based events, risks and reporting instances. Developed Splunk queries and dashboards targeted at understanding application performance and capacity analysis. • Worked for getting data in managing Splunk apps. Assisted internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards. • Splunk DB Connect 2.0 in search head cluster environments of Oracle. Installation and implementation of several kinds of visualizations to Splunk dashboards. Continuous monitored of the alerts received through emails to check if all the application servers and web servers are up.

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• Configured Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management. • Supported in updating Splunk 6 to 7 version• Support SPLUNK on UNIX, Linux, and Windows-based platforms.• Assisted with automation of processes and procedures. • Used Splunk DB Connect Addon to integrate Splunk with Database like SQL • Knowledge in Splunk configuration that involves different web application and batch, create Saved search and summary search, summary indexes.• Experience in using Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management • Experience in writing complex Interactive Field Extractor (IFX), rex and Multikv command to extracts the fields from the log files. • Experience in creating different visualizations using Bar, Line and Pie chart, Background Maps, Box plots, Scatter plots, Gantt charts, Bubble charts, Histograms, Trend lines & statistics, Bullets, Heat maps, and Highlight tables.• Working knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Python bash, etc.). Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP networking, and inter-networking.• Performed Field Extractions and Transformations using the RegEx in Splunk. • Created Splunk DB Connect Add-on to integrate Splunk with the SQL Database• On a scheduled basis, configure backups, verify custom reports, manage log source groups, and validate log sources with the client. • Dispatch queries and makes configuration changes using the RESTful API and python scripts.• Monitored Database Connection Health by using Splunk DB connects health dashboards.• Proficient in writing SQL Queries, PL/SQL Packages, Functions, Triggers. • Create advanced dashboards, alerts, and reports with SPL and XML. • Supports, Monitors and manages the SIEM environment.• Integration of Splunk with a wide variety of legacy and security data.