Ramany M
Splunk Admin / Developer
Professional Summary
Splunk Administrator, Developer and Trainer with 5+ years of experience delivering end-to-end Splunk solutions, including architecture design, data onboarding, cluster management, and platform optimization for enterprise environments. Experienced in production support, infrastructure upgrades, and training professionals on Splunk administration and data onboarding best practices.
Key Achievements & Expertise
- Engineered enterprise data pipelines processing over 100 TB of data with Multisite Indexer and Search Head Clusters
- Reduced cloud billing by 47% and license consumption by 40% through advanced event and regex-based filtering
- Orchestrated large-scale distributed deployments monitoring 20,000+ Windows servers and 1,000+ Linux servers
- Automated Splunk app deployments using Jenkins pipelines and developed AWS dashboards via Python SDK
- Course creator of "Splunk Data Onboarding Essentials" and delivered comprehensive training to 300+ enterprise professionals
Project Experience Showcase
Managed Security Services Provider
Key Contributions
- Designed the automated data onboarding framework supporting 200+ data sources
- Built reusable deployment templates for multi-tenant customer environments
- Implemented Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated Splunk app deployments
- Delivered comprehensive training to the onboarding engineering team
"Ramany's architectural vision was the cornerstone of our automated onboarding platform. His deep knowledge of data pipelines and deployment automation allowed us to scale from handling 20 customers to 200+ without adding headcount. Exceptional work."
Healthcare Technology Organization
Key Contributions
- Conducted full-scale Splunk Health Check across the distributed environment
- Redesigned cluster architecture with Multisite Indexer and Search Head Clusters
- Resolved 15 critical bucket replication and data integrity issues
- Created comprehensive platform monitoring dashboards for ongoing health tracking
"Ramany identified deep architectural flaws that our internal team had missed for over a year. His remediation work brought our Splunk environment from constant instability to enterprise-grade reliability. His training sessions also upskilled our entire admin team."
Cloud Infrastructure Provider
Key Contributions
- Architected intelligent data filtering strategies at the forwarder edge layer
- Integrated 1000+ cloud instances using automated Universal Forwarder deployments
- Implemented regex-based filtering reducing license consumption by 40%
- Developed infrastructure utilization dashboards using Python SDK and AWS APIs
"Ramany's data pipeline engineering is phenomenal. He managed to bring order to our chaotic cloud logging setup, implementing smart filtering that gave us better visibility at a fraction of the cost. His expertise in large-scale forwarder management is unmatched."
Banking SIEM Modernization & Enterprise Security
Key Contributions
- Led the modernization of the organization's Splunk Enterprise platform by implementing a scalable SIEM architecture and onboarding critical security data sources
- Designed and deployed a distributed Splunk Enterprise architecture with Indexer Cluster and Search Head Cluster
- Onboarded Windows, Linux, Active Directory, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Microsoft Defender, AWS CloudTrail, and Office 365 logs
- Developed CIM-compliant parsing, field extractions, event types, and data models
- Created correlation searches, dashboards, scheduled reports, and operational alerts
- Optimized indexing and search performance, reducing average search latency by over 50%
- Automated health monitoring and infrastructure reporting using Splunk REST APIs and Python
"Ramany played a key role in modernizing our Splunk platform. Her expertise in data onboarding and SIEM optimization significantly improved SOC efficiency and platform reliability."
Retail Cloud Monitoring & Log Analytics Platform
Key Contributions
- Implemented a centralized observability and log analytics platform for a multi-cloud retail environment
- Integrated AWS, Azure, Windows, Linux, IIS, Apache, Kubernetes, Docker, and application logs into Splunk
- Built reusable onboarding templates using Universal Forwarders and Deployment Server
- Designed dashboards for infrastructure health, cloud monitoring, license utilization, and data ingestion trends
- Implemented event filtering and routing at the forwarder layer to reduce unnecessary data ingestion
- Automated Splunk app deployments using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
- Developed Python scripts for infrastructure reporting and cloud resource utilization
"The centralized monitoring platform transformed our operational visibility. Ramany's automation and optimization initiatives greatly reduced operational costs while improving system reliability."