Gopinath J

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India13 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led global operations for Splunk COE-Ops across multiple regions.
  • Implemented AI OPS, reducing repeat incidents by 40%.
  • Designed advanced dashboards enhancing operational efficiency.
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SplunkAiops

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleDockerEnterprise ArchitectureGithubGitSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Splunk CloudSplunk Enterprise SecuritySplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)Splunk User Behavior Analyticssplunk SOARData ingestionDevOps

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Strategic IT Leader | AIOps, Observability, and Cybersecurity Innovator As a certified Splunk professional, I specialize in Splunk Enterprise, Cloud, ITSI, and Enterprise Security (ES), with a deep focus on AIOps, observability, and cybersecurity frameworks. My expertise lies in designing scalable architectures that transform data into actionable insights, driving operational excellence and resilience. Technical Expertise: Splunk Mastery: Extensive experience as a Splunk Core Certified Consultant, Architect, and Developer, proficient in distributed enterprise architectures, including indexer clusters, search heads, license masters, and universal forwarders. AIOps & Observability: Proficient in Splunk ITSI and predictive analytics, enabling proactive incident resolution through advanced integrations. Cybersecurity: Skilled in deploying Splunk ES (SIEM), crafting correlation searches, and aligning use cases with NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, and Cyber Kill Chain frameworks. Cloud & Automation: Expertise in AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Route53), Terraform, Docker, and CLI automation for streamlined deployments. Data Integration: Onboarded and optimized diverse data sources, including ServiceNow, AWS, Cisco devices, and OS event logs (Windows/Linux), utilizing heavy forwarders, HTTP event collectors, and Splunk DB Connect. Key Contributions: Designed advanced dashboards, visualizations, and alerts to empower IT operations and security teams. Enhanced enterprise Splunk environments through performance troubleshooting, fine-tuning, and distributed architecture improvements. Led training sessions and developed internal knowledge repositories to upskill teams on Splunk components. Leadership Experience: I collaborate with cross-functional teams spanning engineering, customer support, professional services, and managed services, ensuring technical solutions align with business goals. My expertise covers IT consulting, system architecture, and service reliability engineering (SRE). Unique Skills: Advanced SPL, CIM/Data Model mapping, and leveraging Splunk Knowledge Objects. Strategic alignment of cybersecurity and operational analytics with global frameworks. I am passionate about transforming IT operations, scaling observability solutions, and building resilient, data-driven cybersecurity frameworks for the future. Let's connect to explore new opportunities and innovations in this ever-evolving landscape.

Experience

Cisco

Security Engineering Technical Leader

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Led and managed global operations of the Splunk SGS COE-Ops across Europe, India, the US, and Costa Rica, supporting multi-region observability and infrastructure needs.
  • Oversee ITIL-aligned incident, problem, and change management in ServiceNow, ensuring minimal disruption to production environments.
  • Drove adoption and optimisation of Splunk Cloud, SOAR, ES, ITSI, and O11y for internal teams and business units, delivering a ~30% increase in operational efficiency.
  • Implemented AI OPS and event-driven automation to proactively eliminate recurring incidents, reducing repeat issues by 40%.
  • Integrated Splunk Platforms with Federated Search Capabilities to multiple Stacks as part of Search and Index Next generation Project (SING), streamlined Data ingestion through Docker HFs and Edge Processor as a part of Data Ingest Next generation Project (DING)
  • Defined performance metrics and operational processes in alignment with Splunk Inc.'s global COE standards, ensuring process consistency across regions.
  • Instrumented Splunk Observability Cloud for infrastructure monitoring, enhancing real-time visibility and reducing incident detection time by 40%.
  • Integrated Splunk Cloud, Splunk Observability (O11y), Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), and Splunk SOAR into a unified ecosystem for end-to-end application monitoring, predictive alerting, and automated remediation — reducing MTTR by 45% and significantly improving service resilience.
  • Ensured 99.9% uptime and performance reliability of Splunk RZ and DEVRZ infrastructure across critical business units.
  • Drove vendor management activities, including contract performance reviews, SLA tracking, and cost optimisation.
  • Partnered with Cisco-Splunk global leadership to execute a unified COE Ops roadmap, accelerating project delivery timelines by 20%.
  • Mentored 12+ engineers across shifts, fostering technical growth, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleDockerEnterprise ArchitectureGithubGit+9

Splunk

Senior Operations Engineer

Oct 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Splunk CloudSplunk Enterprise SecuritySecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleDevOps+10

Wipro

2 roles

Technical Architect

Apr 2023Oct 2023 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

AIOps Implementation Lead

Nov 2021Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Leading and overseeing all operations related to Splunk COE Automation and
  • Monitoring –HP India Client.
  • Overseeing and Leading the Splunk AIOPS practice under Wipro AIOPS for RFP, Solutioning and Delivery.
  • Acting as central point of contact for Wipro GSI Enablement with Splunk
  • Designed and Implemented the DR (Disaster Recovery) Plan for Splunk in AWS.
  • Perform outreach and provide support for internal teams and business units.
  • Overseeing the implementation, Solutioning, RFPs of Splunk Projects
  • WIPRO-IDEAS AIOps practice
  • Architecting Splunk solution as a Monitoring, Correlation and Auto
  • remediation engine by bi-directional integration with ServiceNow.
  • Developed Splunk apps -'HP Infrastructure monitoring', HP Storage, HP Backup Monitoring, which provides infrastructure visualization and monitoring using Splunk Dashboards, Alerts,
  • Summary indexes, saved searches, Splunk REST API to provide holistic performance HP Infrastructure.
  • Alerting and Monitoring of HP - WWN Applications servers, windows and Linux clusters, nodes, resources, services, system resource usage like memory, process, disk etc for fault tolerance and failures hardware and performance failures etc.
  • Implemented Splunk Smart store using Amazon S3 to reduce the storage
  • costs
  • Upgrade Splunk from 7.2.3 to 8.1.0 then 8.2.4
  • Troubleshoot problems and diagnosed system faults in Linux and windows
  • servers UF and other Splunk components.
  • Strong experience with Splunk SPL, RegEx, reporting,dashboard development, and search acceleration techniques, Splunk best practices, Search optimization
  • Lead projects and performed gap analysis to identify opportunities for Service Improvement plans for customers to scale-up slow/buggy environments for better performances
  • Developed Standard Operating Procedures for various Splunk Operations like Daily Maintenance, Upgrade, Troubleshooting UFs, HFs, Communitation Matrix with multiple stakeholders, Architecture Roadmap and Diagrams, Induction Manuals etc.
Splunk Enterprise SecuritySplunk EnterpriseEnterprise SystemsEnterprise ArchitectureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)+6

Office depot (compucom)

Splunk Admin II (L3) at Office Depot (CompuCom)

Nov 2019Nov 2021 · 2 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Team lead for Splunk Operations team with in Global Information Security Practice.
  • Closely worked with IT InfoSec Architect and Director to develop IT Security Monitoring Solution using Splunk Enterprise Security. I have to work with multiple Applications teams to develop a monitoring, Data Analytics, and Machine learning platform using Splunk Enterprise
  • Upgraded the Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) (5.2 to 6.6.2) and Splunk
  • Enterprise to maintain latest version (7.3 to 8.2.6 )
  • Scaled up the volume of Splunk daily ingestion from 500GB to 2 TB
  • Implemented and fine tuning MITRE Attack framework, Advanced Threat
  • detection, Workflow actions, Correlation searches, Data models, Dashboards,
  • Adaptive response actions in Splunk ES and Splunk
  • Successfully implemented the integration of Splunk and Splunk ES with
  • ServiceNow, Multiple data sources like Qualys, AWS,GCP, AZURE, CISCO and
  • Checkpoint firewalls, Database, Application logs, Salesforce, HR data system
  • etc.
  • Experience scripting with the Splunk REST API.
  • Helping SOC and TVM team to build correlation searches and Dashboards.
  • Implemented GIT, Ansible integration for automation of Splunk operations,
  • apps deployment, Splunk upgrade, version control etc
  • Provided training to SOC Analytics and others on Splunk and Splunk ES.
Enterprise SystemsEnterprise ArchitectureArchitecture

Ipac

Associate

Dec 2017Oct 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
  • Work with business teams to perform requirements gathering sessions to develop the scope and design of new and existing dashboards, alerts, reports, and data sources.
  • Ability to understand the business process flow and design & develop an End-2-End business transaction visibility, including large scale processing, integration, and analysis of system logs and databases in Splunk.
  • Exprience is Political, Social and Media analytics by correlation of multiple data sets.
  • Ability to discover and mine data to develop meaningful insights into Failed, Unexpected, Incomplete or Delayed business transactions.
  • Develop visualization dashboards and indicators that identify anomalous activities using statistical behaviour models, and machine learning.
  • Experience in Splunk development Create Dashboards, Visualizations, Statistical reports, scheduled searches, alerts and knowledge objects
  • Expert level knowledge and understanding of Splunk Search language and building complex queries
  • Knowledge of how to customize Dashboards via the simple XML,HTML.
  • Expert-level capabilities with regular expression and statistical functions
  • Develop integration between Splunk and other tools
  • Develops the technical solutions, implements them and performs the component integration tests
  • Experience in working in infrastructure production support environment
Enterprise SystemsEnterprise ArchitectureArchitecture

Tata consultancy services

System Engineer

Dec 2012Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad

  • Working with Cross-functional teams in systems integration projects.
  • Leading the Support and Delivery of Splunk Enterprise, Opentext Content Server,Livelink Applications
  • Secured the Project approval for implantation of Splunk as monitoring and
  • log Analytics solution to the client.
  • Building Dashboards, reports,Alerts, DataModels, Workflow Actions, KV Store, lookups, and other Knoweldge objects.
  • Configuring mulitple add-ons, UFs, HFs and HEC tokens to collect data from muliple sources
  • Configured Syslong-ng server to send data to Splunk.
  • Ensuring 100% availability of Machine critical application -Splunk and Open
  • text Content Server 10 (Livelink)
  • Monitoring performance of Best Effort, Managed and Machine critical
  • applications as per agreed MTR and SLA.
  • Creating rapid prototypes for Enterprise Splunk Deployment and Log
  • Forwarding Solutions.
  • Integration of Splunk with LDAP and SAML SSO
  • Monitor communications channels, monitoring tools, and related systems to
  • ensure awareness of system stability, health, and performance.
  • Identify and implement automation for repetitive tasks and requests.
  • Collaborate with other technical leads to integrate a design that's well
  • documented
  • Using Splunk Creating Reports and Dashboards for executive presentations.
  • Creating Splunk Alerts to report the monitoring applications performance
  • issues.
  • Automated the deployment of Syslog servers, UFs, Splunk Upgrade using
  • using shell script and YAML.
  • Data Routing, Parsing, Masking, as per customer requirements
  • Working with teams spread across organizations and Teams.
JavaSQLEnterprise SystemsSplunkEnterprise ArchitectureOpen Text Livelink+3

Education

Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology

B.Tech — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2012

Loyola Polytechnic

Diploma

Jan 2006Jan 2009

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