Aravind Pachaiappan
Melbourne,VIC
Summary
Aravind Pachaiappan, an IT professional with over 9 years of experience, has adeptly utilized various technologies. His expertise spans strong business and technical requirements gathering, encompassing design, development, implementation, and maintenance. In his role as a Splunk Admin/Developer, Aravind demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, fine-tuning data, and administering the Splunk platform. Experience integrating multiple data feeds like databases, applications, and security devices logs to SIEM tools for threat detection. Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security (Splunk ES). Additionally, he served as an IBM MQ Admin & TIBCO EMS Admin, successfully migrating the products to their latest versions. Aravind provided L3 level & 24x7 support for critical applications, actively participating in root cause analysis for server and application issues. Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems. Aravind is dedicated to driving continuous improvement and operational excellence through automation strategies.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Splunk Consultant
Dialog Information Technology
07.2020 - Current
- Liaised with clients, customers and management to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
- Implemented Splunk and its related apps in multi-cloud platforms. E.g., AWS, Azure etc.
- Onboarded data from various resources such as servers, syslog, network devices, API sources, UF & HF using different integration pattern such as Splunk UF, Splunk DB Connect, AWS S3, Syslog, AWS HEC Lambda, Kafka etc.
- Developed complex queries, alerts, reports and dashboards using Splunk SPL language.
- Experienced in SIEM tools such as Splunk enterprise security & IBM QRadar.
- Experienced in Splunk clustered architecture environments and its workload management.
- Responsible for configuration of current enterprise security log source types into the SIEM.
- Worked closely with Security Operations team (SOC) team and helped them with data onboarding, data modelling and apps installation for their investigation.
- Built CICD Jenkins pipeline for automated log ingestion and deployments in Splunk.
- Practical experience with Cribl for log streaming and ingesting data from various sources into Splunk involving data optimization, data masking, data enrichment, volume reduction, dual routing to multiple endpoints etc.
- Knowledge of syslog/syslog-ng configuration.
- Developed Splunk apps and add-ons using simple XML dashboard visualizations, Bash and python scripting.
- Understand business process flow and developed an “End-2-End” business transaction visibility in Splunk.
- Documenting the testing strategies, production changes and related support manuals.
- Monitored Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, system health, availability and optimization.
- Expertise in proof of concepts (POC) with Splunk Enterprise and guided team on understanding the use cases.
DevOps Senior Engineer
Infosys Limited
10.2014 - 07.2020
- Performed Impact assessment of solutions and providing the effort including cost to the business.
- Created and managed project plans, timeliness, and budgets.
- Configured latest IBM MQ & TIBCO EMS services with high-availability mode, queues, topics, user and groups.
- Co-ordinate and manage the change management activities with multiple stakeholders and review all production changes.
- Prepare migration related documents for team’s knowledge purpose.
- Created Splunk dashboards & alerts to pro-actively monitor performance of the IBM MQ and TIBCO EMS.
- Created automated alerting, reporting and statistics collection using Splunk.
- Provided L3 level and 24x7 Support for many critical situations and involved in many Root cause analyses for server and application issues.
- Administered WebSphere Application Server including activities like - Profile creation, Module deployment, Queue configurations, and Cache object instances.
- Prepared the Testing/Production Environment by deploying the code binaries and performed necessary configuration changes.
- Created and executed the Database scripts to perform the data set-up activities along with creation of required Database objects.
- Created Shell Scripts for application & infrastructure monitoring and housekeeping activities.
- Worked on additional tools such as GH Tester, HP QC, Rational Clear case and JIRA for the application testing, maintenance and tracking.
- Support, Investigate and resolve incidents, bug fixes, defects in production/test environments and root cause analysis.
- User profiling, installation and configuration of Splunk forwarder.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering
Pondicherry University
Puducherry, India05.2014
Skills
- Scrum Methodology, Sprint Planning & Work Prioritization & Backlog Management
- Client Meetings, Functional and Business Requirements, Team Meetings, Project Finance, Forecasting and Planning
- Splunk Development: Apps, Dashboards, Automated alerting, Statistics, Reporting, and Data Onboarding
- SIEM - Splunk Enterprise Security & CRIBL
- Agile Tools - Rally, JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, Jenkins, ServiceNow
- Cloud & Middleware Technologies: AWS & GCP, IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS, IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Scripting Languages: Shell, Python, HTML 5, JAVA Script
- Other Tools - BMC Remedy, Putty, HP-QC ALM, IBM MQ Explorer & Oracle SQL Developer
- Incident and Change Management
Nationality
Australian Citizen
Certification
- Certified - Splunk Enterprise Security Admin
- Certified - Splunk Enterprise Data Admin
- Certified - Google Cloud Architect
- Certified - TIBCO Cloud Integration Certified Associate
Timeline
Splunk Consultant
Dialog Information Technology
07.2020 - Current
DevOps Senior Engineer
Infosys Limited
10.2014 - 07.2020
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering
Pondicherry University
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