R Dinesh Kumar

Senior Splunk Solution Architect and Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-grade monitoring and observability platforms across regulated, business-critical environments in Linux and Windows systems.

Splunk Certified

Admin and Splunk Certified Power User with deep expertise in multisite indexer/search-head clustering in Linux systems, SmartStore, accelerated KV Store lookups, and complex data models. Equally comfortable in technical depth and customer-facing advisory — translating monitoring and observability capabilities into measurable business value, guiding enterprise customers through adoption and value realisation, and building trusted relationships with stakeholders from engineers to executives. Hands-on across hybrid estates spanning onprem and cloud, with proven delivery on mission-critical systems in banking and capital markets (ATM networks, trading-grade reliability) and automotive telemetry.

Adept across Grafana Cloud, Elastic Cloud (ECK on Kubernetes), the LGTM stack, and Splunk Observability Cloud.

Senior Splunk Solution Architect at iOPEX Technologies (2025-08 – Present)

• Deliver expert solution architecture and technical guidance to premium Splunk partners and global enterprise organizations in both Linux and Windows environments.
• Lead full-lifecycle Splunk architecture in Linux and Windows, encompassing requirements gathering, blueprinting, deployment, optimization, and long-term operationalization.
• Design resilient multi-site indexers, search head cluster topologies, SmartStore deployments, and hybrid/Splunk Cloud configurations aligned to strict compliance and DR mandates.
• Define enterprise-wide data ingestion strategies, infrastructure sizing, licensing models, and data retention policies for terabyte-to-petabyte-scale environments.
• Leverage the Splunk Cloud Migration Assessment tool to evaluate on-premises topologies, identify cloud incompatibilities, and map out structured greenfield or dual-firing cutover strategies.
• Modernise data ingestion mechanisms by replacing legacy systems with HTTP Event Collectors and Edge Processors to filter, mask, and stream data directly to Splunk Cloud.
• Act as the premier Subject Matter Expert (SME) to resolve complex architectural, performance, and data-pipeline challenges in business-critical environments.
• Engineer corrective architectures and conduct deep-dive root-cause analyses for high-visibility, production-impacting issues.
• Guide long-term observability strategies, software adoption, and value realization for high-value premium tier clients.
• Drive discovery workshops, technical demonstrations, and Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) to build credibility from engineering teams to CXO suites.
• Partner with sales and account teams to deliver tailored monitoring and observability solutions that connect core technical capabilities to clear business value.
• Formulate AI Governance frameworks aligned with GDPR/ISO standards, establishing logging, monitoring, and alerting baselines to ensure traceability in AI/LLM-based systems.

Senior Observability SRE & Splunk Specialist at Volvo Car Corporation India (2021-01 – 2025-08)

Served as the SME and Senior Observability Site Reliability Engineer for the Volvo Auto India landscape, owning observability strategy, multisite cluster architecture, and end-user enablement across a global, hybrid estate.

• Owned the complete Splunk Architecture implemented on the logistics side.
• Audit, refactor, and package custom apps and legacy knowledge objects to fully comply with Splunk Cloud security vetting policies and private app standards.
• Architect and deploy hybrid search capabilities allowing seamless security investigations across concurrent on-premises archival storage and active Splunk Cloud indexing tiers.
• Design secure cloud-native authentication frameworks by migrating legacy local access control lists to enterprise SAML/SSO and identity management systems.
• Owned end-to-end observability across Grafana Cloud (Alloy, Operator, Control Plane), Elastic Cloud (ECK on Kubernetes), the LGTM Stack, and Splunk Observability Cloud — ensuring global reliability, uptime, and proactive incident management.
• Defined SLO/SLI frameworks, golden-signal dashboards, and proactive alerting to reduce MTTR and strengthen reliability posture across mission-critical services.
• Architected unified metrics, logs, and traces pipelines from diverse sources including Virtual Machines via Grafana Alloy and Prometheus exporters.
• Architected unified metrics, logs, and traces pipelines from Containerized platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS) using Grafana Agent Operator and custom CRDs.
• Architected unified metrics, logs, and traces pipelines from Databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, MSSQL) via native exporters and Alloy integrations.
• Architected unified metrics, logs, and traces pipelines from Azure AD, Office 365, and Azure Monitor for identity and cloud-native telemetry.
• Architected unified metrics, logs, and traces pipelines from Application instrumentation via OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing.
• Implemented Grafana Alloy as a unified telemetry agent across hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure, simplifying collection across thousands of nodes.
• Designed automated observability provisioning using Grafana Operator and Control Plane CRDs, enabling self-service observability with standardized governance — driving adoption and consistent platform usage across engineering teams.
• Partnered closely with engineering, operations, and architecture stakeholders, interpreting usage and health data to identify risk early and guide platform adoption.
• Cluster administration and licensing for 100+ TB across multi-region setups (10+ servers); single-site (HA) and multisite (DR) indexer clusters.
• Designed highly interactive dashboards, alerts, scheduled searches, and operational reports aligned to business and engineering use cases.

Splunk Consultant at Capgemini (2019-03 – 2021-01)

• Splunk cluster administration handling 100+ TB across multi-region setups; architected single-site HA and multisite DR clusters.
• Search Head Cluster management, upgrades, and log onboarding via UF/UDP/TCP/SSL.
• Built interactive dashboards, alerts, and reports; presented solutions and roadmaps directly to clients.

Senior Application Engineer & Support at Standard Chartered Bank GBS (2017-05 – 2019-02)

Supported multiple Standard Chartered banking entities across Malaysia and Singapore, operating within highly regulated, business-critical financial environments where reliability, data integrity, and careful change control are paramount.

• Worked directly with banking stakeholders across Malaysia and Singapore to understand complex operational problems, then designed and developed specialised dashboards tailored to security, operations, and compliance needs.
• Led careful, governed onboarding of data sources into Splunk for mission-critical banking systems — including ATM networks — recognising the sensitivity, regulatory scrutiny, and zero-tolerance-for-error nature of banking operations.
• Configured Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) Search Heads, data enrichment, and lookups to strengthen monitoring and threat visibility.
• Managed Search Head Clusters, Splunk version upgrades, and log onboarding under strict change-management discipline.
• Built dashboards, alerts, and analytical reports trusted by security and operations teams across regions.

Splunk Developer at Accenture (2014-04 – 2017-05)

British Telecom Retail Project. Joined as an Intern; promoted to Associate Software Engineer in 2 months, then to Software Engineering Analyst with top recognition.

• Independently implemented Splunk in greenfield environments — forwarder installation, configuration, and admin activities.
• Built Log Management and Server Management dashboards for client teams (Splunk 6.0.2 / 6.1.2).

B. Tech in Electrical & Electronics – VIT University, Vellore

12th CBSE – Kendriya Vidyalaya ONGC

10th CBSE – Kendriya Vidyalaya ONGC