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PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEMAIL AVAILABLESUMMARY: Splunk Engineer with 8+ years of experience in the support, implementation, configuration, installation, and maintenance of Splunk and Cloud infrastructure. Engineered various custom applications, updated Splunk TA apps, ran a variety of searches, and created multiple dashboards. Managed Splunk, frontend and backend, installed Splunk and components such as forwarder, search head, and indexer, and maintained Splunk cluster. Served as Cloud administrator with AWS administration; created EC2 Instances, IAM (like privilege access management). Collaborated with third party application, hosting, and CDN providers to integrate data feeds to a centralized Splunk platform, Kafka, and Big fix. Created alerts / timed reports and developed and managed Splunk applications. Utilized Remedy for ticket coordination and completed Jira and Confluence administration, add data to Splunk via CLI, and complete source type and host configuration. Experiences Streaming Analytics at Petabyte Scale using Puppet as a deployment tool as it automatically deploys software to the system. Extensive experience in Splunk Data Management Ability to onboard data sources through various methods (UF, HF, Syslog, Splunk TA, HEC, FTP(S), CSV, DBConnect, etc.) Experience working with the Splunk Common Information Model (without the need of Splunk Apps!!) Skillful at parsing fields from unstructured logs (without the needs of Splunk Apps!!) Have experience working with Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk ES Essentials Experience in developing Data Models and base save searches Used Splunk IT Service Intelligenc for IT Infrastructure Operations Monitoring Experience working with (as a customer not as an administrator) CI/CD technologies such as: Gitlab Runner, Jenkins, Circle CI Experience (as a customer) of using git technology: Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket Used Python scripts to spin up and tear down test environments for the recipe projects - used by Jenkins during ci builds.EDUCATION: University of Buea, CameroonBachelor s Degree In Computer Science, 2009 2013
TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS: Splunk Enterprise Admin Certification Splunk Core Certified Power User Splunk Enterprise Security Certification (currently pursuing) AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate AWS Certified DevOps Engineer ProfessionalTECHNICAL SKILLS: Splunk
AWS Oracle /DBA/SQL syntax
Windows, Linux, Unix
Python Gitlab, GitHub, BitbucketPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:MetLife, MD
February 2018 July 2023Splunk Engineer / Architect Developed Splunk infrastructure, dashboards, and related solutions per client requirement. Developed and implemented RDS modular log input for RDS logs from AWS. Wrote detailed documentation on production support processes for ease of transferability. Used Splunk Hunk for Splunk analytics with Hadoop. Worked on Amazon AWS, launching Linux and windows server instances for Splunk deployment. Diligently design and develop dashboards, data models, reports, visualizations, and perform performance optimization. Provide knowledge and ability to architect, design, support, and maintain high availability, distributed, multi-clustered and multi-tenant Splunk deployment environments. Confidently participate in Splunk deployment and server infrastructure analysis, optimization, and capacity planning. Extensive experience in Splunk Data Management Ability to onboard data sources through various methods (UF, HF, Syslog, Splunk TA, HEC, FTP(S), CSV, DBConnect, etc.) Used Python script to integrate with Splunk (input, output) Experience working with the Splunk Common Information Model (without the need of Splunk Apps!!) Skillful at parsing fields from unstructured logs (without the needs of Splunk Apps!!) Have experience working with Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk ES Essentials Experience in developing Data Models and base save searches Managed Splunk application on front and back end and installed Splunk forwarder, indexer, and search head. Created alerts / timed reports and developed and managed Splunk applications. Experience working with (as a customer not as an administrator) CI/CD technologies such as: Gitlab Runner, Jenkins, Circle CI Experience (as a customer) of using git technology: Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket Used Python scripts to spin up and tear down test environments for the recipe projects - used by Jenkins during ci builds. Used Regular Expression (regex) to search through text to find pattern matches in your data. Used a deployment server to distribute content and configurations (collectively called deployment apps) to deployment clients, grouped into server classes. Deployment apps can be full-fledged apps, such as those available on Splunkbase, or they can be just simple groups of configurations. Used Splunk IT Service Intelligenc for monitoring potential applications, depending on what the data source ingestion. Used Splunk IT Service Intelligence for SIEMUnum, MD
February 2017 January 2018Splunk Developer/Administration Managed Splunk cluster environment and developed apps to manage deployment clients on the deployment server. Provided security consulting to project and development teams in the area of information security. Engineered dashboards with visual metrics for stakeholders, standardized Splunk Universal Forwarder deployment, and configured it in Linux and Windows platforms. Served as Cloud administrator with AWS administration; created EC2 Instances, IAM (like privilege access management). Supported testing of new integrations for infrastructure and production performance pipeline, tested automation, and provided deployment based on tools usage, policies, and standards. Built dashboards, edited / changed dashboard permissions, modified dashboard panel visualizations, and edited the xml configuration of the dashboards. Engineered transition plans, identified documentation required, scheduled tasks, and executed the approved plan. Provided dev support for Mac OS (operating system) and worked in DevOps environment with agile concepts.T & N Reliable Nursing Care, DCSplunk Engineer / DeveloperDecember 2015 December 2016 Managed Splunk application on front and back end and installed Splunk forwarder, indexer, and search head. Created alerts / timed reports and developed and managed Splunk applications. Managed Splunk application on front and back end and installed Splunk forwarder, indexer, and search head. Created alerts / timed reports and developed and managed Splunk applications. Utilized AWS platform for Splunk maintenance and used Splunk to create knowledge objects. Coached and trained new users to utilize standard applications, equipment, and business applications. Assisting in the proper operation and performance of Splunk, plug-ins, loggers, and connectors Experience with Data Ingestion and Data Searches Building Splunk reports to meet business needs. Defining strategy and design around data collection, aggregations, and summarization processes Developing dashboards with visual metrics for stakeholders Write and develop custom scripts and programs as needed. Partnering with other enterprise teams to support data capture and advanced data analytics and forecasting efforts to support proactive identification of issues. Enforcing best practices related to summarizing and querying data. Set up and configure Splunk search servers, deployment servers, clustered indexers, and forwarders, as required. Designing the Splunk system solution to meet growth while maintaining a balance between performance, stability, scalability, and agility.Nestle Cameroun Douala, CameroonSplunk EngineerFebruary 2013 November 2014 Successfully managed Splunk cluster environment and developed apps to manage deployment clients on the deployment server. Provided security consulting to project and development teams in the area of information security. Engineered dashboards with visual metrics for stakeholders, standardized Splunk Universal Forwarder deployment, and configured it in Linux and Windows platforms. Served as Cloud administrator with AWS administration; created EC2 Instances, IAM (like privilege access management). Supported testing of new integrations for infrastructure and production performance pipeline, tested automation, and provided deployment based on tools usage, policies, and standards. Built dashboards, edited / changed dashboard permissions, modified dashboard panel visualizations, and edited the xml configuration of the dashboards. Engineered transition plans, identified documentation required, scheduled tasks, and executed the approved plan. Provided dev support for Mac OS (operating system) and worked in DevOps environment with agile concepts. Utilized AWS platform for Splunk maintenance and used Splunk to create knowledge objects. Coached and trained new users to utilize standard applications, equipment, and business applications. Charged with Windows Active Directory administration / management, creating new file systems, monitoring, and checking data consistency of file systems, and installing and configuring web applications such as Apache. Customer journey analytics (CJA): Configured basic analytics and connections for CJA and created data views for CJA. Successfully setup Nagios server to monitor systems uptime, services, and file systems. Utilized Remedy for ticket coordination and worked on Docker containers and virtual machines (VM ware pro). |