Suman G.

About Suman G.

I\'m passionate IT professional with 8+ yrs. of experience, constantly upgrading technical skills to excel in my area of expertise towards implementing best practices of infrastructure monitoring/Data Analytics/Predictions for business critical applications and to help teams understand business trends/backlogs/RCA by leveraging Splunk architecture across the enterprise to fine tune and track low Latency, High Availability, fault-tolerance, Optimization, and to increase the frequency of deployments on a large scale production environment. Projects: Infrastructure Design, Migrations of Data Centers, Setup & Monitoring, ACL, RBACGreat, Communication and Documentation skills.

Experience

1. IT Devops Engineer Lead (Splunk Admin)

   Progressive Insurance

   Jul 2018 — Present · Cleveland, OH, US

   Installed and configured Splunk Search Head/Indexer cluster to support large volume of dataset as part of the project.• Managed Splunk Universal Forwarder/Heavy Forwarders/Add-on Servers/Stream via centralized deployment server which is integrated with TFS team built to automate the deployment.• Installation as well as Configuration of Indexer, Search Head, Heavy Forwarder, Add-on Server, License Master and Deployment Server on both Windows and Linux Servers. • Implemented SSO (Single Sign on) to provide and Authentications to all the users on board based on roles.• Drove complex deployments of Splunk dashboards and reports while working side by side with technical teams to solve their integration issues.• AWS Cloud Data On-boarded to Splunk using the Firehose, kinesis and Splunk Add-on for AWS and customized dashboards/visualization in Splunk App for AWS.• Designed road map to ingest container data from Kubernetes Pods and Openshift container platforms using Splunk connect for Openshift/Kubernetes.• End-to-End installation of DB connect app to ingest data Remedy data from SQL table on daily/hourly basis.• Designed and maintained production-quality Splunk dashboards, Data gathering from onsite and coming up with an implementation plan.• Installed, tested, and deployed monitoring solutions (Alerts, Dashboards and Reports) with Splunk services for different Application Teams.Worked on Knowledge Objects such as Event Types, Tags, Field Extraction (Using Regular Expression), and Lookups etc. • Used Splunk Enterprise REST API that uses HTTP requests to configure and manage Splunk instance, create and run searches.• Dashboard creation for various use cases required for real time monitoring of various infrastructure & the cyber security of the organization on Splunk • Creation of Knowledge Objects (Lookups, Tags & Event Types, Workflow Actions, Alerts, Macros, Data Models, Alerts) & Summary Indexing to Optimize performance and functionality.

Education

• Southern Arkansas University

  Master of Science - MS, Master of computer information sciences

  2015 — 2016