# Kumar BJ > Info Security SRE. Dynatrace/Certified Splunk ITSI/Cribl, 3x Certified Associate Sr. Splunk Enterprise Security Architect/Site Reliability/App dynamics/ Qradar/Performance/SOAR engineer/ New Relic Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kumarbj ## Work Experience ### APM Architect @ Fortive Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area Splunk, Dynatrace, Newrelic, Devops, Cloud Architect Cribl Designed and deployed secure CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, integrating container security scans, credential scanning, and automated compliance checks. Deployed and maintained Dynatrace OneAgent across hybrid infrastructure, developing custom dashboards and problem detection rules. Integrated Splunk for centralized log aggregation and alerting on cloud resources across AWS and Azure. Leveraged New Relic for application performance insights and SLO/SLA tracking across critical services. Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform for multi-cloud environments (AWS & Azure). Enabled end-to-end monitoring of microservices and Kubernetes workloads on AKS and EKS. Collaborated with security teams to implement Azure Policy, AWS Config, and GuardDuty alerts in CI/CD. Created and maintained Jenkins pipelines for CI/CD, integrated with SonarQube, Nexus, and New Relic for build-time feedback and monitoring. Managed AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation and Terraform, supporting scalable EC2-based applications and RDS databases. Implemented Splunk dashboards for operational teams, tracking deployment metrics, error rates, and security anomalies. Onboarded critical application logs into Splunk and Dynatrace with custom parsing and tag-based filtering. Delivered performance insights via New Relic APM for Node.js and Java applications. Built self-healing scripts and Lambda functions triggered by CloudWatch and Azure Monitor alerts. Migrated legacy applications to AWS cloud, designing resilient architecture using EC2, ELB, and S3. Maintained uptime and reliability through proactive monitoring with Dynatrace and Splunk alerts. Implemented Ansible for server provisioning and configuration management across hybrid infrastructure. Integrated Azure Monitor and Sentinel for log and alert correlation across on-prem and cloud workloads. ### Sr. Splunk Architech, Dynatrace, New Relic APM Engineer/Cribl @ Entergy Jan 2021 – Present | Half Moon Bay, California, United States Responsibilities: •Expertise in implementing and configuring Dynatrace APM solutions for monitoring application performance and identifying performance bottlenecks. Proficient in deploying and managing Dynatrace agents on various platforms and environments. Extensive knowledge of application performance management (APM) concepts, methodologies, and best practices. Designed, implemented, and optimized Splunk applications (including Enterprise Security), queries, knowledge objects, and data models. • Developed custom scripts to facilitate automation, integration, and operational efficiencies. • Develop new dashboards, searches, and alerts to enhance Enterprise Security use cases. • Collaborated with other engineers and analysts to enhance the development of actionable business intelligence, troubleshoot performance issues, and combat threats. • Educated management and peers about Splunk-related issues; Maintain compliance with security regulations and guidelines. • Installation of Enterprise Security (Premium App) in the Splunk Infrastructure. • Creation of Identities and Assets within Splunk. Migrated Assets from QRadar. • Tuned Correlation Searches. • Created DB Connect connections with multiple databases to ingest data. ### Splunk Developer/Architect/New Relic, Dynatrace, SailPoint, Saviynt, IAM, Cyberark @ Kemper Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Jacksonville, Florida, United States • Developed Splunk infrastructure and related solutions in our Company environment. • Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Universal and Heavy Forwarder. • Installed, tested, and deployed monitoring solutions with Splunk services. • Provided technical services to projects, user requests, and data queries. Implemented forwarder configuration, search heads, and indexing. • Created a large variety of field extractions, lookups, and evals using props. conf and transforms. conf. • Made recommendations for Splunk forwarder configurations to prevent duplicate indexing of data • Added a distributed summary indexing model to a large-scale Splunk environment. • Developed custom dashboards and views for performance monitoring, capacity management, and diagnostics to meet a variety of use cases. • Led the client's first initiatives to get Windows event logs and database logs on board with Splunk logging using scripted inputs, Splunk alerting capabilities, Unix scripting, and SQL plus utility. • Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk-related issues, and administrators. • Experience in consuming REST and SOAP web services. • Write automation scripts for REST APIs using TestNG and Java. • Managed configuration files for heavy forwarders, deployment servers, indexers, indexes, cluster masters, clusters and search heads. ### Splunk Admin /Developer/ Application Monitoring Engineer @ Alabama Power Company Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mobile, Alabama, United States • Worked in installing Splunk Enterprise 6.3.3 on both Linux (Red Hat Distro) and Windows Servers as a separate Splunk User. • Installation and configuration of various components like indexer, forwarder, search head, and deployment server. • Worked on installing the Splunk Universal Forwarder and Splunk Heavy Forwarder on both Linux and Windows environments. • Installation of Splunk Applications and Technology Add-ons concerning the technology. • Updated the Splunk Enterprise 6.3.3 to 6.4. • Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards. • Used Apache JMeter to analyze the Load balancing Problems and Checking Stress Performance testing on system web Applications. • Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration as part of configuration management. • Helping application teams in onboarding Splunk and creating dashboards/alerts/reports etc. • Most of the time worked to install universal forwarders but we have heavy forwarders set up to see data from the sys log, ### Splunk Developer @ WEBADDA Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India Worked in installing Splunk Enterprise 6.3.3 on both Linux (Red Hat Distro) and Windows Servers as a separate Splunk User. Installation and configuration of various components like indexer, forwarder, search head, and deployment server. Worked on installing the Splunk Universal Forwarder and Splunk Heavy Forwarder on both Linux and Windows environments. Installation of Splunk Applications and Technology Add-ons concerning the technology. Updated the Splunk Enterprise 6.3.3 to 6.4. Designing and maintaining production-quality Splunk dashboards. Used Apache JMeter to analyze the Load balancing Problems and Checking Stress Performance testing on system web Applications. Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration as part of configuration management. Helping application teams in onboarding Splunk and creating dashboards/alerts/reports etc. Most of the time worked to install universal forwarders but we have heavy forwarders set up to see data from the sys log, server side. Heavy Forwarders to bring any kind of data fields into Splunk. Expertise with Design, Implementation, Configuration, and Management of Splunk Enterprise. Created Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts, and Dashboards. Creating and Managing Apps, Creating user, role, and Permissions to Knowledge objects. Create Dashboard Views, Reports, and Alerts for events and configure alert mail OR depending on the requirement. Troubleshooting of searches for performance issues by adding lookups, correct joins, and using summary indexes Captured data from various front-end, middleware application. Dashboards were created to monitor the traffic volume across, response times, Errors, and Warnings across. Performed troubleshooting and/or configuration changes to resolve Splunk integration issues. Playing a key role in identifying and driving process changes within the team. ## Education ### Masters in Computer Science Troy University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kumar-bj-7a6aa8225 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kumarbj JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kumarbj/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13