• Leading a team of 7 Splunk expertise
• Architecture review and improvement of Splunk
• Redirecting global data to central and regional platform
• Introduction and conception of Cribl
• Implementation of PoC
• Setup DevOps processes and procedure to increase quality of platform.
• Conception and implementation of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) ? Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible
• Merging regional platform to central platform
• Setup of Level 7 disaster recovery
• Conception of data backup to cover the human errors on data loss.
• Design and implementation of a platform migration to AWS
• Design and implementation of a multi deployment-servers with +30k clients
• Consulting BMW internal customers for onboarding of use cases 
• Preparing platform for SIEM use cases.
• Hardening Splunk communications interfaces by apply custom certificates.
• Setup of both LDAP and SAML authentication for different uses-cases and platforms
• Setting-up a hybrid search-head cluster having search peers on AWS and On-Prem
• Third level support for Splunk team
• Creating Knowledge Objects (reports, savedsearches, dashboards, lookups, etc.) for Monitoring IT infrastructures / Platforms 

• Period: December 2019 ? January 2020 (2 Weeks)

Customer: T-System and Swiss Federal Railways (Zollikofen, Switzerland)

Reviewing the Splunk Architecture

Improving the technical setup to increase platform performance

Building Splunk knowledge objects to monitor and track signals? gaps between locomotives and operation center during trains trips 

• Period: November 2019 (1 Week)

 Customer: Syngenta AG (Basel, Switzerland)

Creating a Migration plan to AWS

Splunk Core Migration to AWS

Splunk Data Migration to AWS

Proof of concept of migration plan

• Period: Nov. 2018 - Jan. 2019 (4 weeks)

 Customer: European Central Bank (Frankfurt am Main)

 Splunk Core Installation

 Splunk Cluster Setup

 Security Relevant Data On-boarding and CIM Validation

 Enterprise Security setup and Configuration

 Simple DevOps Implementation

• Period: 3-5 July 2018 (3 days)

 Customer: Kapsch (Vienna)

Splunk Core Installation

Splunk Custer setup

Data On-boarding

LDAP Authentication Setup   

• Design and implementation of Splunk on various Clustered Platform
• Design and implementation of Splunk clustered environment in Azure & AWS
• Improving and Extending Splunk Architecture
• Estimating and ordering HW capacities
• Migration of distributed environments into clustered environments
• Develop and implementation of various data onboarding
• Design and implementation of DevOps for Splunk Project (adapting E.ON available DevOps tools)
• Developing custom Apps and add-ons for onboarding different data sources and user groups
• Implementation of custom role concept
• Administration and maintenance (3rdLevel) of various Splunk platforms

• Design and Installation of Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security UAT (10 Servers , Cluster) and DEV (4 Servers, Non-Cluster)
• Creating / Improving a Complex Custom Role Concept to meet increasing application criticality classification from low to critical
• Implementing Custom Role Concept in Splunk
• On-boarding various User Groups in Splunk
• On-boarding of various data sources (Security relevant)
• Implementing of various Splunk App and Add-ons
• Investigating incidents and Fixing issues (3rd Level Support) as core engineer
• Improving and Extending Splunk Architecture
• Estimating and ordering HW capacities
• Reviewing Requirements and Interface Spec. (Data Onboarding)
• Consulting Users to build / improve their use cases

• Data Lake (Hadoop Bigdata)
• Planning delivery and coordinating Vendor’s (Splunk)
• Professional Services Delivery
• Member of review panel of Vendor’s Statement of Work
• Managing the Splunk Professional Services delivery in DB
• Verification of Security Policies / Compliance during project rollout
• Creating Role Concept according to DB Policies
• Managing Deployment of Splunk in Production    

• Data Lake (Hadoop Bigdate)
• Member of review panel of Vendor’s Statement of Work
• Coordination of Vendor delivery according to DB policies
• Creating and implementing CISO program Test Strategy 
• Verification of Security Compliance
• Setup and introduction of  various DB Standard Tools within CISO Program (ALM, JIRA, JAMA, GIT, Artifactory, etc.)
• Evaluation of automation tools Poppet, Ansible, and Chef
• Setup and implementation of Poppet (Pilot) 
• Aligning CISO deliveries and DB’s SDLC Standard

• Development of a USB device in order to manage security credentials and provide secure data mobility
• Security Risk Analysis (Vulnerabilities, Threats, KPIs)
• Requirements Engineering & Solution Design
• Secure Data Storage Design
• Access Control Design
• Management of suppliers

• Build up of the acceptance test team.
• Training of test teams in ISTQB CTFL and CTAL (Test management).
• Development of the integration test strategy.
• Improvement of the customer incident management process.

Quality Management

• Creation and Implementation of an overall test strategy by considering different processes and procedures of all participating countries.
• Creation of a common test framework by coordinating and managing a Working Group of national companies (AT, DE, NL, CZ, and UK).
• Build-up and Management of a Test Team in Germany.
• Build-up and Management of an Off-Shore Test Team in St. Petersburg.
• Coaching and Training of all Teams in ISTQB CTFL and CTAL.
• Day to day Defect and Incident Management as Head of Quality Management.
• Release-driven Change Management

Engineering

• Solution Design for TIBCO based Agency Gateway (central gateway for communicating with external credit rating agencies)
• Solution Design for SOA WAVE-2 into the Customer Risk Management System (securing all online communication via PKI)
• Solution Design for Customer Credit Checks to be applied by T-Mobile Czechia
• Creating Data Protection and Security Concept for all systems in scope
• Development of an intelligent gateway in order to be used by all Telekom unites for calling external credit agencies (e.g. Schufa, Bürgel, etc.)