Meraj Hussain
Pune
Summary
Overall 12+ years of experience with In-depth understanding and experience of managed service & provides Governance support and accountability for the delivery and maintenance of tools/technology, process, driving compliance with, and contributing to the development of relevant standards for overall practice. Leads the implementation and delivery of Security Services projects, leveraging our global delivery capability. Expertise in Splunk Security Information and Event Management(SIEM) implementation with sound knowledge to develop Playbook, SOP, SLA Tracking, and investigate the security incident and IR process Professionally. Develops and executes security systems compliance policies and procedures.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Splunk-Security Architect (SME)
Cisco,(Payroll of Nets-International)
Riyadh
09.2021 - Current
- Led the operation of a global SaaS SIEM platform across all of the company’s Business Units around the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- As a Splunk Technical Architect responsible for the design, performance, implementation, and capacity of the Splunk Platform
- As a Splunk Architect and senior support for System Admins, Content Managers and developers to ensure the delivery of Splunk best practices and standards related to each job function
- As platform Architecture and Capacity planning also on several platform Upgrades and Optimization on Nutanix, Vmware and AWS.
- Headed Proof-of-Concepts (POC) on Splunk ES implementation, mentored and guided other team members on Understanding the use case of Splunk
- Customizing Splunk for Monitoring, Application Management and Security as per customer requirements and industry best practice
- Supports, Monitors and manages the SIEM environment align with SOC team.
- Technical writing/creation of formal documentation such as reports, training material and architecture diagrams
- Train and mentor for team towards solution development and POC, KPI, Metrics Monitoring execution in SPLUNK.
Splunk-Security Consultant (SME)
TSYS
Pune
09.2021 - 07.2022
- Working as Consultant supports for System Admin, Content Developers to ensure the delivery of Splunk Best practices and standards related to each job function.
- Provided technical assistance with software upgrades and system changes.
- Working on Setup, configuring Splunk UBA platform, implementing UBA warm spare, cluster configuration & Integration with Splunk ES
- Implement SIEM Splunk solutions with UBA to take an integrated approach to cybersecurity for implementing additional use cases.
- Implementing content development for new requirements for in-house applications (like data onboarding, dashboard, reports and Alerts).
Tech Lead -Splunk
Fiserv
Pune
04.2019 - 09.2021
- Experience on Splunk ITSI service modelling, creation of correlation searches and aggregation policies
- Implement SIEM splunk solutions to take an integrated approach to cybersecurity - prevent intrusion, minimize risk, control loss, and stay resilient
- Onboarding different kinds of data like network, scripted
- Clude(AWS ,Azure),sensor & IoT devices
- Installing and configuring new deployments of Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud and Premium Apps such as Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk IT Service Intelligence
- Gather requirements for building /strengthening monitoring needs by working with Production support/development teams
- Develop and automate standard operating procedures around common failure scenarios
- Hands on development experience in customizing Splunk dashboards, visualizations, configurations, reports and search capabilities using customized Splunk queries
- Installing and Configuring Indexer, Search Head, License Server as well as Deployment Server on Cloud (Amazon AWS)
- Prepared Daily, Weekly and Monthly Reports for Business according to requirement using Splunk and reported to Business in case of any Data Mismatch or Data abnormality
- Monitoring the performance of all the critical Servers using AppDynamics & Creation of Alerts and Dashboards
- DevOps tools- Ansible,Jenkin, Git,Docker, Kubernets,Terraform with python.
Technology Specialist
Yash Technology
Pune
10.2018 - 03.2019
Associate Consultant
Capgemini
Pune
01.2017 - 10.2018
Sr.Member Technical
ADP
Pune
08.2016 - 01.2017
Technical Specialist
Tieto
Pune
09.2014 - 08.2016
System Administrator
Parag Foods Pvt Ltd
Pune
- 09.2014
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Marathwada University
01.2011
Skills
- Service Delivery Expert
- Designing Solutions
- Splunk Architect
- Cybersecurity Frameworks
- Splunk Enterprise Security
- DevSecOps
- Information Security
- AppDynamics
- SOC
- IT Service Management
- Cloud Technologies(AWS &Azure)
- Linux & Docker
- Programming (Scripting and Python)
Recognition Achievements
- Recognized Level-3 category by Sr. Leadership leader for extracting Mismatch data from production data in Fiserv.
- Awarded as 'Employee of the Year' in Fiserv 2020
- Awarded 'Rising start' award for Technical Innovation in Capgemini 2016
- Awarded as 'UdoneIT' award in solution Focus Category in Cloud for year 2015.
- Awarded as 'Tieto Got Talent' for best Singer and instrumental.
- Achievement in Various Sports at National Level & state level.
Corresponding Address
Pune, Maharashtra
Permanent Address
Nagpur, Maharashtra
Certifications Trainings
- ITIL v3 Foundation certification
- AWS Certified Sysops Associate
- RedHat Certified System Engineer (160-085-718)
- RedHat Certified System Administrator (160-085-718)
- MCSE(B562-7127)
- Certification Splunk PowerUser Certified
- Training in VMware 6.X Certified Course
- Trained in Splunk Architect, ITSI & Enterprise Security
Personal Information
- Pan Number: ACSPH5298K
- Passport Number: L8846791
- Date of Birth: 03/17/86
- Gender: Male
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Urdu
- Arabic
Certification
- Nutanix Expert Multi-Cloud Platform
- Splunk ES Admin
- AWS Certified Sysops Associate
- ITIL v3 Foundation certification
- Splunk Admin
- RedHat Certified System Engineer (160-085-718)
- RedHat Certified System Administrator (160-085-718)
- MCSE(B562-7127)
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Marathi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Urdu
Advanced (C1)
C1
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Splunk-Security Architect (SME)
Cisco,(Payroll of Nets-International)
09.2021 - Current
Splunk-Security Consultant (SME)
TSYS
09.2021 - 07.2022
Tech Lead -Splunk
Fiserv
04.2019 - 09.2021
Technology Specialist
Yash Technology
10.2018 - 03.2019
Associate Consultant
Capgemini
01.2017 - 10.2018
Sr.Member Technical
ADP
08.2016 - 01.2017
Technical Specialist
Tieto
09.2014 - 08.2016
System Administrator
Parag Foods Pvt Ltd
- 09.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Marathwada University
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