Varun K Konda

Splunk Engineer Developer @Charter Communications

Charlotte, NC, US

Designed and deployed multi-site clustered Splunk environments across AWS and GCP. Automated forwarder management using Git and Jenkins pipelines, improving deployment efficiency. Implemented Windows Event Collectors and HEC Collectors, optimizing real-time log ingestion. Configured and fine-tuned Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) dashboards for cybersecurity threat detection. Created advanced Splunk alerts and correlation searches to monitor high-risk security events. Reduced data ingestion costs by 20% through log filtering and indexing optimizations in CRIBL. Conducted health checks and troubleshooting of Splunk infrastructure issues to ensure uptime and performance. Developed and documented best practices for Splunk administration, security, and performance tuning. Migrated 200+ data sources to Splunk Cloud, optimizing log retention policies. Automated data onboarding and parsing using Python and Ansible, improving efficiency. Implemented role-based access controls (RBAC) to manage user permissions securely. Provided Splunk training sessions to internal teams, improving log management and analysis capabilities.