Tatsinkounde - Engineer Splunk

IT SPECIALIST SPLUNK SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

(IBM-CIC)
◦ Administrating Splunk Infrastructure: make sure that splunk is alway available and data correctly
ingested into splunk. Importing log and parsing/indexing log into splunk and building knowledge
object for reporting support (SLA).
Creating Monitoring Dashboard for Service Desk level II and manager support.
◦ Level 3 support on splunk deployment architecture on : configure splunk server setting up
distibuted splunk infrastructure (clustering indexer , clustering search head, forwarder load
balancing etc …).
◦ Ongoing Project: Upgrade splunk infrastructure Test and Prod from 6.6.3 to 8.0.x

SYSTEM ENGINEER AND SPLUNK SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Here I passed from local group compagny Banca5 S.P.A (compagny of Italian Banking Group
Intesa Sanpolo S.P.A) to become an employee of the main group (Intesa Sanpaolo Bank). So I
passed from administrating a local splunk infrastructure in a specific compagny (Banca5 S.P.A) to
become a member of Intesa Sanpaolo Group task force on splunk deployment infrastructure on
the compagnies of the group.
I continue with my previous activities and it was added a splunk deployment activities and
support level on different compagnies of the group.
◦ Level 3 support on splunk deployment architecture on : configure splunk server setting up
distibuted splunk infrastructure (clustering indexer , clustering search head, forwarder load
balancing etc …).

SYSTEM ENGINEER AND SPLUNK TECHNICAL ANALISIS

Banca 5 S.p.A. - Gruppo Intesa Sanpaolo
Here, I am not longer a Consultant, Banca5 S.P.A (group compagny of Intesa Sanpaolo Bank
Group) make me to become a permament employee. So I passed from an IT Consultant to local
bank employee as System Engineer focus on splunk administration activities.
I contninue with my previous activities when I was consultant and it was added a new activity
of administrating the local Bank insfrastructure.
◦ Administrating splunk insfrastructure: make sure that splunk is alway available and data
correctly ingested into splunk. Importing log and parsing/indexing log into splunk and building
knowledge object for reporting support.

IT SPLUNK CONSULTANT

Creating Monitoring Dashboard for Service Desk level II to support bank transactions and
phone's credit recharge.
◦ Set employees formation on splunk uses cases, producing dashboard and data handling
documentation.

SYSTEM ENGINEER AND BMC TMART TECHNICAL SUPPORT

• The activity consists of application monitoring, followed by analyzes and interventions at the
application or infrastructure level to resolve detected anomalies (performance, availability etc ..).
• Creating script used to perform simulation to test the monitored application state.
• Used technologies : To carry out the activity we use 3 powerful technological tools for monitoring
applications TMART from BMC (active monitoring), DCRUM from Dynatrace (passive monitoring)
and Splunk. For testing, bash scripting (on Linux) and Python are used to develop schedulated
scripts for a given application. The applications access is via Oracle's Single Sign On (SSO) platform.
Good knowledge of TCP / IP protocols to be able to distinguish cases of application anomalies or
infrastructural anomalies.

NETWORKING SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

The activity consisted of ensuring the operational continuity of the system, ensuring bugs
management and necessary activities to enable service restoration.
• First level monitoring and intervention; configuration and management of DHCP, DNS, Active
Directory, SSH services.
• Used technologies: LINUX, HW architectures, Splunk, firewalls (Palo Alto and Checkpoint), TCP / IP
protocols, security policy, vlan, vpn, routing (static and dynamic).

Humanitarian mission and voluntary service to refugees and homeless people in Milan, Italy. Helping
them to learn Italian, academic support and psychological support to catalyze social reintegration.

IT TECHNICIAN – Interface SA

- HelpDesk, hardware and software maintenance of company computers. Periodic control of
partner company databases and creation of backups. Activity carried out on Linux CentOS
environment, Stress Testing, Backup Tools.