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Zubairuddin Mohammed

Bloomington,USA

Summary

  • A Cloud Security Engineer with significant experience working at State Farm Insurance possesses expertise in effectively overseeing cloud security protocols and conducting comprehensive risk assessments.
  • Led the implementation of Prisma Cloud to improve security compliance in various cloud environments.
  • I can lead teams and develop new ideas to keep corporate networks and data safe.
  • Flexible information security engineer, experienced in creating and installing strong security systems to protect digital assets.
  • Understand network design, encryption methods, and handling threats thoroughly.
  • Experienced in creating strong security rules and procedures to improve a company's ability to resist cyber attacks.
  • Helped lower security breaches by carrying out vulnerability assessments, and using proactive risk management tactics.
  • Experienced Cloud Security Engineer who designs and sets up safe cloud systems.
  • Key skills are expertise in cybersecurity principles, cloud computing technologies, and risk management.
  • In the past, the focus was on improving network security and creating strong plans to recover from disasters, in order to keep the business running smoothly.
  • I am good at planning, solving problems, and bringing IT and business teams together to achieve organizational goals efficiently.
  • Experienced Cloud Security Engineer who excels at getting tasks done quickly and efficiently.
  • Have expertise in cloud security architecture, identifying threats, and managing user access.
  • Succeed in solving problems, communicating well, and working with a team to ensure cloud security solutions are implemented and managed effectively.
  • Experienced Cloud Engineer who is skilled at building cloud systems efficiently.
  • Utilizes effective management abilities to engage in negotiations with suppliers, and collaborate closely with colleagues within the IT team.
  • Uses recommended methods to develop cloud functions, applications, and databases.
  • Dedicated worker, capable of customer service, handling multiple tasks, and managing time effectively.
  • Committed to providing each customer with a great, unforgettable experience.
  • Skilled expert with extensive experience in technology positions.
  • Skilled in creating software, managing systems, and providing technical assistance.
  • Experienced in solving problems and improving performance.
  • Able to lead projects and work well with others in a team.
  • Dedicated to constantly learning and keeping up with industry trends to help the organization succeed.
  • A hardworking student who is enthusiastic about applying the knowledge gained from their education to a future employment opportunity.
  • Has strong technical skills in software and applications, can tackle difficult tasks, and excels at managing time effectively.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Cloud Security Engineer

STATE FARM INSURANCE
Bloomington, IL
03.2019 - Current
  • Create, maintain, and drive technology strategies and roadmaps within the area of responsibility, e.g., Network Security.
  • Monitored cloud environments using tools like CloudWatch and Prometheus to ensure SLAs are met.
  • Evaluated firewalls and monitored threats to establish secure cloud environments.
  • Responded to security incidents by conducting investigations, analyzing logs, and mitigating threats.
  • As part of the Security group, plan and drive the implementation of the technology and its capabilities.
  • Responsible for the architecture of the technology, e.g., Firewall, Proxy, IDS, etc.
  • Set up best practices, and provide directions and guidance on how to utilize the technology and its capabilities.
  • Drive the development of security specifications, standards, and processes to ensure adequate protection of the corporate network.
  • Planning and designing for security-owned systems, as well as consulting with other groups and third parties.
  • Positions in this function develop and implement information security policies, standards, and procedures to secure and protect data residing on systems.
  • Performs static/dynamic code testing, manual code inspection, threat modeling, design reviews and penetration testing of internal web applications and external partner applications to identify vulnerabilities and security defects
  • Conducting Technical Assurance Reviews which include infrastructure, application, OS, database assessment and web scanning
  • Deployed and managed Prisma Cloud for a multi-cloud environment, ensuring compliance with industry standards
  • Developed and implemented custom Prisma Cloud policies using RQL to enforce security best practices
  • Reviewing and evaluating IT operations, physical security, hardware/software configurations, IT systems, and operating procedures in use throughout Humana for compliance with established controls, policies, standards, and procedures.
  • Evaluating technical tools and technology solutions.
  • Conducting web vulnerability, static, and dynamic code, and database scanning.
  • Conducting Application Security Reviews.
  • Perform focused risk assessments of existing or new services and technologies.
  • Establishes and maintains a framework to ensure that information security policies, technologies, and processes are aligned with the business regulations of the organization.
  • Identifies and applies innovative practices in security to enhance the global operations of the organizations.
  • Performs risk assessments and defines strategies to address the identified risks.
  • Provides leadership to a team of information security consultants.
  • Develop CI/CD services with Jenkins for the internal engineering teams.
  • Use Python, Bash, and PowerShell to create automation scripts for different applications and monitoring purposes.
  • Responsible for managing all customer traffic through the API gateway, supporting every other team with onboarding and configuration changes, as well as implementing gateway and authentication features.
  • Developed tools to automatically monitor security in the cloud and identify harmful activities.
  • Data was protected by using firewalls and encryption programs.
  • Studied new cloud technologies and trends to ensure that IT strategies stay up to date with industry norms.
  • Set up firewalls and other network controls to safeguard data stored in the cloud.
  • Stayed informed about the latest trends and technologies in cloud computing security.
  • Created cloud storage options that adhere to regulations for data location and legal requirements.
  • Examined products from external vendors for security implications before adding them to the current system.
  • Performed risk assessment tasks and conducted system tests.
  • Managed the transfer of in-house systems to cloud services, making sure there was little disruption.
  • Installed software to manage and restrict user access to cloud resources.
  • Evaluated weaknesses found in web applications hosted on public clouds.
  • Assessed the organization's assets using risk assessment criteria.
  • I offered advice on how to securely set up services in public clouds, like AWS and Azure.

Sr. Technology Assistant (hadoop admin/Linux/Information security)

STATE FARM INSURANCE
Bloomington, IL
03.2015 - 03.2019
  • Designed, implemented and supported Hadoop solutions with multiple Cloudera and Hortonworks clusters hosting more than 20 Petabytes of data
  • Provided Hadoop solution design consultation, optimized performance for multiple large scale projects and implementations
  • Developed, deployed and supported Java MapReduce applications
  • Provisioning, installing, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining HDFS, Yarn, HBase, Hive, Impala, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, Pig, Hive, Keyhsm, Keytrustee, Sentry, Kafka Sqoop, Spark, Zoo Keeper and MapReduce
  • Implemented Kerberos for authenticating all the services in Hadoop Cluster
  • Providing expertise in data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing
  • Translating numbers and facts to inform strategic business decisions
  • Analyzing sales figures, market research, logistics, or transport data
  • Creating and following processes to keep data confidential
  • Coming up with solutions to costly business problems
  • Research existing database methods and create study for suggested changes
  • Foster and maintain key relationships with local business, product, and technology leaders to ensure transparency and alignment around key priorities, milestones and integrations
  • Liaise with Global Information Security, Finance and SOX IT compliance teams to ensure compliant change management
  • Managed end-to-end process for updating and verifying special orders data
  • Analyzed inventory usage reports to avoid backordering
  • Ensured data accuracy through the creation and implementation of data integrity queries
  • Developed mass update system to avoid manual updates to data warehouse
  • Trained other users on the program

Senior UNIX Consultant

Arete Systems
Rolling Meadows, IL
01.2013 - 03.2015
  • Administration of RHEL 4, 5 and Solaris 9, 10 which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting server issues
  • Installed and Configured Oracle on Solaris 9/10 and Redhat Linux Environment
  • Jumpstart Solaris servers, custom configure, install packages, patches
  • Creating LDOMs, installing Solaris, creating volumes & installing packages
  • Cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5 and migrating servers across ESX hosts
  • SAN migrations at host level using LVM mirroring and SVM Mirroring
  • Custom building Oracle RAC 11g and preparing servers for database installation which includes adding kernel parameters, software installation, permissions etc
  • Environment: Red-Hat Linux Enterprise servers 4/5/6, (HP ProLiant DL, ML Series, IBM p series, x series, Dell Poweredge Servers R610, R710), Solaris 8/9/10/11, ASR, Opsware, VMWare, SAN(EMC, Hitachi), NAS (Netapp), BladeLogic, Veritas Volume Manager 4.1, Sun Enterprise Server M4000, M5000, T2k, T3k

Education

PHD - Computer Science

Judson University
Chicago, IL
03.2025

MBA -

Campbellsville University
KY
01.2019

Masters - Computer Science

Herguan University
CA
01.2014

Bachelor - Electrical and Electronics

JNTU Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India
01.2007

Skills

  • Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
  • Cloud Workload Protection (CWP)
  • Prisma Cloud Enterprise
  • Linux RHEL
  • Ubuntu
  • CentOS
  • Python
  • Shell Scripting
  • SQL
  • PL/SQL
  • HTML
  • XML
  • Kerberos
  • TCP/IP
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • Cloudera Manager
  • Hadoop Frame Work
  • Ambari
  • Navigator
  • Prisma
  • Palo Alto
  • System safeguarding
  • Scripting languages
  • NPAV
  • Active Memory Sharing
  • Oracle RAC
  • Active Directory
  • Cloud security
  • Risk assessment
  • Project management
  • Data analysis
  • Technical documentation
  • Incident response
  • Cloud security architecture
  • API security
  • Network security
  • Intrusion detection
  • Firewall management
  • Security incident response
  • Compliance management
  • Security policy development
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • AWS security
  • Patch management
  • Data encryption
  • Identity and Access management
  • Cloud security monitoring
  • Secure devops
  • Application security
  • Cloud architecture design
  • Monitoring tools
  • Cost optimization
  • Continuous deployment
  • AWS expertise
  • Critical thinking
  • Linux security
  • Malware analysis

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Timeline

Sr. Cloud Security Engineer

STATE FARM INSURANCE
03.2019 - Current

Sr. Technology Assistant (hadoop admin/Linux/Information security)

STATE FARM INSURANCE
03.2015 - 03.2019

Senior UNIX Consultant

Arete Systems
01.2013 - 03.2015

PHD - Computer Science

Judson University

MBA -

Campbellsville University

Masters - Computer Science

Herguan University

Bachelor - Electrical and Electronics

JNTU Hyderabad
Zubairuddin Mohammed