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PRANITHA PENTA

Bridgewater,NJ

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

IAM Admin

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, monitor logs on daily, weekly, monthly bases 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, maintained SLA with tickets and service requests to complete tasks before deadlines
  • 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 and creating alerts, 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
  • Work with internal and external team to update and develop policies in Microsoft Azure
  • Collaborating with stakeholders, including clients, IT administrators, security teams, and application owners, to align IAM initiatives with their business objectives.

Cloud /System Admin

Optimal Answers
02.2017 - 02.2018
  • Managed active directory responsibilities using Azure, Created and Migrated virtual machines in Microsoft azure
  • Security threat detection and countermeasures, protect from enumeration and scanning
  • Cross forest/domain migration of users for acquisition and removal from the enterprise
  • 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
  • Monitored the performance of different resources including physical and virtual machines using log analytics
  • Worked on configuration of VM automatic shutdown and restart using PowerShell scripting
  • Migrate VMWare VM servers to Azure and automated VM deployment through scripting.

Active Directory Specialist

Spica Computers LLC
09.2016 - 01.2017
  • 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
  • Group policy Management like Cleanup of the stale GPO's and Deploying the GPO's
  • Worked on AD Hardening project like Cleaning Impersonation Accounts, Upgrading Domain controller
  • Designed Sysvol migration from FRS to DFSR in production environments
  • 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
  • Worked on Active Directory design and support (GPOs, AD Schema, OUs, LDAP, Sites, Replication, etc.) Experience in Migrating Group and Exception Policies from one domain to another domain in AD forest using Quest Migration Manager Tool for Active Directory
  • 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
  • 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.

Education

Masters of Business Administration in Cybersecurity -

NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE
Henniker, New Hampshire

Masters in Electrical Engineering -

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
San Antonio, Texas

Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering -

GITAM UNIVERSITY
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

Skills

  • Splunk
  • Powershell
  • PAM for securities
  • CyberArk
  • ActiveDirectory
  • Microsoft Purview
  • Varonis
  • Netwrix
  • ServiceNow
  • QRadar
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Web Services AP
  • Distributed File System (DFS)
  • Domain Name System (DNS)
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • Domain Controller
  • Sysvol
  • GPO
  • 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

Interpersonal Strengths

  • Hardworking
  • Optimism
  • Eagerness to learn new things

Timeline

IAM Admin

Bausch Health Companies
03.2018 - Current

Cloud /System Admin

Optimal Answers
02.2017 - 02.2018

Active Directory Specialist

Spica Computers LLC
09.2016 - 01.2017

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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