Kaliyappan R
Splunk Admin & Infra Automation Engineer
Professional Summary
Splunk Administrator and Infrastructure Automation Engineer with 2+ years of hands-on experience in managing enterprise Splunk environments and automating deployment workflows. Skilled in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, data onboarding, forwarder management, and platform monitoring. Passionate about building reliable, automated, and high-performance Splunk architectures for production workloads.
Key Achievements & Expertise
- Managed distributed Splunk environments including Indexer Clusters and Search Head Clusters
- Automated Splunk infrastructure deployments using Terraform and Ansible (IaC)
- Built CI/CD pipelines for automated Splunk app deployment and configuration management
- Onboarded 50+ data sources across Windows, Linux, and cloud platforms
- Configured and maintained Universal Forwarders across 500+ endpoints
- Implemented monitoring dashboards for infrastructure health and license usage tracking
- Performed Splunk platform upgrades and patch management across production environments
Project Experience Showcase
Cloud Infrastructure Provider
Key Contributions
- Automated Splunk forwarder deployments across 1000+ cloud instances using Terraform
- Built Ansible playbooks for consistent configuration management across environments
- Developed CI/CD pipelines for automated Splunk app deployment via GitHub Actions
- Created infrastructure health monitoring dashboards tracking 500+ endpoints
"Kaliyappan's automation expertise was instrumental in scaling our Splunk infrastructure. His Terraform and Ansible pipelines reduced what used to be days of manual deployment work to fully automated, repeatable processes. A true infrastructure automation specialist."
Healthcare Technology Organization
Key Contributions
- Managed Universal Forwarder fleet across 300+ healthcare endpoints
- Configured role-based access control aligned with healthcare compliance standards
- Assisted in platform upgrade execution and post-upgrade validation testing
- Built operational monitoring dashboards for cluster health and license tracking
"Kaliyappan was a key member of our platform support team. His meticulous approach to forwarder management and proactive monitoring ensured our healthcare Splunk environment maintained the strict uptime requirements demanded by compliance standards."