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Fernadez M Splunk Consultant & Architect

Highly motivated Splunk enterprise (ITSI) Developer/Architect, Linux (RHEL/ROCKY) administrator and data analyst with over 7 years’ experience in fast-paced big data environments ranging from pharmaceutical, Medical, datacenters and Financial industries. I can help drive strategic decision-making through detailed analysis insights, reporting on key performance indicators and financial results. Consistently demonstrated an ability to manage teams through leadership, mentorship, training, and employee development.

Quick facts
10+ yrs
Splunk experience
ES / ITSI
Security & SRE
SPL
Optimization
Cloud
AWS/GCP/Azure/Openstack

Core skills

SPL / MLTK
Forwarders / IDX / CM / Deployer
Parsing (props/transforms)
Hec / UF / HF
Search Optimization
Dashboards Studio
KV Store / Lookups
RBAC & SSO
AWS/GCP/Azure Add-ons
Terraform / Ansible
Linux / Networking
Python / Go / Java / Angular

Selected work

SENIOR SPLUNK DEVELOPER/ARCHITECT/CONSULTANT

2023–Present

Designed multi-site Splunk clustering + SHC, 8TB/day ingest, 99.95% SLA.

  • Design and implement Splunk clustered environment
  • Manage and upgrade all Splunk components.
  • Build custom Splunk apps for specific internal use (proprietary)
  • Manual/auto Splunk ingestion (ansible or webform base)
  • Install and manage Splunk premium apps (ITSI)

SENIOR SPLUNK DEVELOPER/ARCHITECT/ENGINEER

2021–2023

Migrate indexes to Smart-Store

  • Migrate Splunk Indexes to Smart-Store and optimized Smart-Store Caches (AWS S3 Buckets)
  • Developed Splunk advance App/add-on with JavaScript, html, SPL and CSS
  • Persist Splunk App data using KV-store and referencing lookups
  • Secure Splunk App by adding Capabilities and roles
  • Automate Splunk Upgrade with Ansible (From version 8.0.4 to 8.2.0)

SPLUNK DEVELOPER/LINUX SYSTEM ENGINEER

2020–2021

Splunk admin and linux admin

  • Developed custom Splunk apps/Addon to sync with Splunk KV-store. (Kafka monitoring
  • Collaborate with Java developers to intergrade Splunk with Microservices (Splunk REST and JMS)
  • Upgrade Splunk from version 7. xx to 8.0.5 and upgrade ITSI from version 3.xx to 4.7.1 with ansible
  • Upgrade Linux servers from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 and upgrade the kernel
  • Automate Splunk ITSI entities and service update

SPLUNK ADMINISTRATOR/DEVELOPER

2018–2020

Splunk admin and linux admin

  • Manage and monitor Splunk Enterprise
  • Ingest data from IOT devices
  • Normalizing data through CIM compliance process
  • Deployment of updates via deployment server
  • Troubleshoot and analyze Splunk processes and logs

Certifications

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Open to contracts and fractional leadership