PRANITHA P
Bridgewater,NJ
Summary
Over 8 years of Versatile experience in IT industry with experience in Server administration in various environments like Identity Access management, Active Directory, PowerShell scripting, Windows with Active Directory Services .Provided Tier-3 & Tier-2 Support for production environments and trouble shoot critical issues at minimal business impact.
Career Objective :
To obtain an opportunity with an organization which would enable continuous career growth through maximum improvisation of acquired knowledge and technical and to achieve professional satisfaction by meeting higher responsibilities and involving in competent work areas.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Security Analyst
Bausch Health Companies
03.2018 - Current
- Design, develop, test, implement, integrate IAM systems solutions like PAM, Provisioning workflow engine and Customer IAM tools
- Work on Risk Management, Information Security strategy, technologies and tools, identity lifecycle management of user identities, including onboarding, offboarding, transfers, ensuring adherence to security policies and compliance requirements, access issues troubleshooting
- Worked on drive management and security, Active directory Operations, Workflow Creation, Desktop Services, Enterprise information management for end users
- Worked on security incident response related to IAM security incidents, investigating and remediating security breaches or unauthorized access attempts or suspicious activities, security applications/tools administration support
- Detect and respond to security incidents
- Review and triage information security alerts, provide analysis, determine, and track remediation, and escalate as appropriate
- Provide technical leadership for the vulnerability management program, ensure authorized access by investigating improper access; revoking access; reporting violations; monitors information requests; recommend improvements
- Manage, update, and implement the Info-security policy, procedures, standards, and guidelines to ensure information assets and related updates are secure
- Provide training on bulk scripting
- Customizing, reporting options for auditing, incident response, compliance purposes, creation of custom parsers, use cases, and extensions to adapt to specific security needs with QRadar
- Work on documenting IAM processes, procedures, and policies, generating reports on access activities, development and implementation of identity governance strategies, including defining and enforcing access controls, segregation of duties and least privilege principles Collaborating with stakeholders, including clients, IT administrators, security teams, and application owners, to align IAM initiatives with their business objectives.
Cloud Admin
Optimal Answers
02.2017 - 02.2018
- Managed end-to-end onboarding of Scale Units to TFS Cloud Services, including creation and configuration of Azure Cloud services, databases, storage service accounts
- Managed active directory responsibilities using Azure, Created and Migrated virtual machines in Microsoft azure
- Worked on API apps on Azure to develop and host API’s in the cloud, Managed own API and external API in Azure API Management
- Replicated machines to Resource Manager storage accounts using Azure portals to make it available in the nearest datacenter
- Deployed and monitored azure web apps and worked on installations on virtual machine
- Worked on creating and validating the Power BI reports for optimal reports connecting it to SQL Azure
- Migrated the entire infrastructure from Optimal desktop to Azure
- Deployed their applications on Azure IaaS and configured other required component DNS service, database, load testing of their application
- Created databases in SQL Azure, migrated databases from SQL Server 2016 to SQL azure, stored on elastic pool and given permissions to specific users
- Created Databases on SQL Server and managed them from both SQL Server Management Studio and Optimal web page
- Worked on Setting up Connection Strings, connecting SQL Server AZURE Databases from Installed SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for Developers
- Responsible for creation, setup and maintenance of new users and assigning user accounts and grant permissions to shared resources
- Worked on deployment of app to an Azure web app using Visual Studio Team Service
- Monitored the performance of different resources including physical and virtual machines using log analytics in OMS services
- Designed and implemented Subversion metadata like elements, labels, attributes in SQL databases and web application using scripting
- Worked on configuration of VM automatic shutdown and restart using PowerShell scripting
- Imported an API to Microsoft Azure
- Migrate VMWare VM servers to Azure and automated VM deployment through scripting.
Active Directory Specialist
MTA
10.2015 - 01.2017
- Worked on Enterprise application onboarding to enable SSO in Azure
- Managing the sync cycle in azure AD connect Troubleshooting on the sync issues, Upgradation of Azure AD connect servers, Adding New Tenants in azure and PowerShell scripting
- Worked on o365 management like License management, Provisioning mailbox to users, troubleshooting cloud sync issues, Adding new Agents and SVC accounts
- Worked on Domain Controller Management, Promotion of the DC, Demotion of the DC, upgrading to higher level and configure new domain controller via change controller procedures
- Certificate Authority Management including Upgradation of certificate Authority servers and handling auto enrolment of certificates
- Group policy Management like Cleanup of the stale GPO's, Deploying the GPO's and Creating GMSA accounts, adding servers to GMSA groups
- Worked on AD Hardening project like Cleaning Impersonation Accounts, Upgrading Domain controller
- Responsible for third level engineering of Windows Active Directory Domain Services based on Server 2012 R2 and migrated Servers
- Designed process for DNS zone migration from legacy storage to application partition storage
- Security threat detection and countermeasures, protect from enumeration and scanning
- Designed and deployed Virtual lab environment based on leading tier 1 hypervisor
- Cross platform authentication (Unix to Windows)
- Privileged Access Management system deployment, Password vaulting, Privileged session recording
- Configure constrained delegation in Active Directory for Kerberos enabled applications
- Troubleshoot Kerberos authentication and constrained delegation
- Cross forest/domain migration of users for acquisition and removal from the enterprise
- Designed and deployed VM host environment for pre-production and development testing
- Designed Sysvol migration from FRS to DFSR in production environments
- Implemented Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to manage and provision Virtual Machines in both production and integration.
Active Directory Consultant
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
01.2015 - 08.2015
- Build application servers based on the business requirements and assisted various test teams in preproduction environments to validate the application functionality
- Provided Tier-2 Support for production environments and trouble shoot critical issues at minimal business impact
- Expertise in Migration Using Quest Migration Manager Tool for Active Directory
- Expertise in Active Directory design and support (GPOs, AD Schema, OUs, LDAP, Sites, Replication, etc.)
- Expertise in deployment and troubleshooting of windows 2008 and 2012 R2Domain Controllers in Active Directory
- Experience in Migrating Group and Exception Policies from one domain to another domain in AD forest
- Expertise in creating Exception Group policies for Windows Server in AD domain
- Performed and Raise the Domain functional level from windows server 2003 to 2008 R2
- Experience in creating Service Accounts to have Log on as a Batch and Service Jobs, Create and Link Exception policy to windows Application Servers
- Proficiency in VMware
- Installation and monitoring Virtual environments with ESX 4.x/5.x Servers and Virtual Center
- Used VMware for testing various applications on different operating system
- Experience on working with Integration of UNIX and LINUXwith Active Directory using Centrify Tool Provided 24x7 on call Support for Production Environments
- Assisted in designing, implementing and evaluating applications, systems and utilities relevant to Active Directory services
- Experience in Migrating Users, Groups, Workstations and Application window Servers from Source Domain to Target Administration of user Accounts, Groups, Resources, Security, Backup strategies in window Servers
- Experience in managing Active Directory Domain Controllers, DNS and DHCP Servers
- Handy Experience on troubleshooting Application Authentication issues in Active directory Multi domain Environment.
Wintel System Administrator
Yash Technologies
01.2013 - 06.2014
- Installation of ESX 4 Nodes, vCenter 4, Update manager, and Administering VMs across 4 Datacenters running 2000 VMs
- Implementation of Different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
- Experience using VMware converter running different applications with Different Hardware
- Used MS share point for centralized sharing of documents
- Used SharePoint to manage and edit information in websites to add graphics and create new pages
- Used SharePoint to display charts and graphs effectively
- Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more
- Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines
- Database Upgrade for vCenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on VCenter Servers
- Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting Desktops, Laptops, Operating systems such as Windows XP/Vista/Win7, Windows2003/2008 server
- Provide L2 level RIM/Server support for the organization
- Remote Support for clients thru MSTSC, Dame ware & Symantec Pc anywhere
- Installation and Configuration of Windows 2003, 2008 R2 Servers
- Configuring and managing DHCP, DNS and Active Directory
- Migration/Upgrade domain controllers
- Building VMs and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools
- Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
- Generating Reports and graphs on Performance of ESX Nodes.
Education
Masters of Business Administration in Cybersecurity -
NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE
Henniker, New HampshireMasters in Electrical Engineering -
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
San Antonio, TexasBachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering -
GITAM UNIVERSITY
Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshSkills
- Programming skills: C, C, Assembly level language (8086), Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA (basics)
- Designing Software: AUTOCAD
- Simulation Software: TopSpice
- Computing Languages: MATLAB, Mathematica, Verilog HDL
- Presentation skills: MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio
- Database: SQL server 2016, SQLserver 2014
- Storage: iSCSI, RAID, SAN, NAS
Languages
English
Professional Working
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Interpersonal Strengths
- Hardworking
- Optimism
- Eagerness to learn new things
Timeline
Security Analyst
Bausch Health Companies
03.2018 - Current
Cloud Admin
Optimal Answers
02.2017 - 02.2018
Active Directory Specialist
MTA
10.2015 - 01.2017
Active Directory Consultant
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
01.2015 - 08.2015
Wintel System Administrator
Yash Technologies
01.2013 - 06.2014
Masters of Business Administration in Cybersecurity -
NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE
Masters in Electrical Engineering -
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering -
GITAM UNIVERSITY
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