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Aishwarya Srinivasan

Chennai

Summary

Dedicated Cloud Security professional with experience in achieving tangible results and cross-team collaboration. Proactive and excited to partner with like-minded individuals to achieve goals.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Cloud Security Engineer

Cognizant
3 2021 - Current

Client: World’s Leading provider of Reinsurance

Responsibilities:

  • Akamai Kona - Fast DNS, Edge Redirector, CPS, CPcodes, Property Manager, EdgeHostnames, Global Traffic Management, CDN configurations, WAF, DDOS, Bot Protection.
  • Create and Manage New Azure VNET,NSGs, site to site VPN connections and Peerings.
  • Create and Manage Traffic Managers.
  • Create and Manage Azure Key Vaults – perform yearly key rotation as a security best practice.
  • Performing Regulatory compliance checks in Microsoft Azure Defender and fix all Minimum mandatory safeguards. (Based on industry standards)
  • Cloudflare WAF configurations.
  • Perform Security Validations before and after major project releases.
  • SSL certificate Procurement and management.
  • Perform Review on Microsoft Defender Recommendations and thereby improving security score.
  • Review and close security alerts in Defender periodically.
  • Review and Report Common Vulnerabilities reported in client owned sensor platform
  • Security operations on kubernetes, apim, azure active directory, logic apps, container registries.
  • Incident management using Logging and monitoring of web traffic and metrics.

Cloud and Network Security Administrator

Accenture
07.2016 - 03.2021

Client: Leading Oil and Gas Manufacturer

Responsibilities:

  • Managed Security Infrastructure across Client Datacenter hosted in a Microsoft Azure Cloud and Century Link cloud.
  • Design and implementation of security infrastructure for new website launches( IP, SSL, DNS, WAF, LB and CDN setup).
  • Managed Firewalls in Azure Cloud/CLC as per Client request. Configured NSG rules in Azure cloud VENTs and Subnets. (Allow only required IPs and Ports for secure communication between VNETs.
  • Configured Azure Traffic Manager to route traffic between two Data Centers located in different Geo location.
  • Established new Site to Site VPN connections from Azure VPN gateway to Client Firewall.
  • Integrated Powershell script for monitoring Site to Site VPN Tunnel, VNET Peering and Azure Traffic manager status using Run Books.
  • Configured VNET peering and Azure Load balancer based on requirement.
  • Create/Modify LTM (Local Traffic manager), APM (Access policy manager) and ASM (Application security Manager) profiles in Big IP F5 based on requirement.
  • Managed URL redirects by using I-Rule service in BIG IP F5.
  • Configured F5 to perform SSL offload, session affinity, high availability using health probes.
  • Managed SSL certificate for websites hosted in project by coordinating with Third Party Certificate Authorities like DigiCert.
  • Managed Client websites in Akamai Property/CDN setup and using Akamai Fast DNS configuration for faster resolution and improved performance.
  • Performed Firmware upgrade and Hardening of firewalls periodically.

Education

B.E - ECE

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
Chennai
06.2012 - 04.2016

Skills

Azure Cloud ( Network and Security)

Akamai – CDN, WAF, GTM, Fast DNS

Cloudflare WAF

Big IP F5 – ASM, APM and LTM

Endpoint Security : Mcafee EPo

SSL certificate Management

Powershell Scripting

Monitoring Tools – Site24x7, Azure Monitor

Vulnerability Scanning Tools – Sensor Platform, ( Integrated with Aqua scan and azure Defender)

Incident and Change management

Standard operation procedure documentation

Certification

Microsoft Certified Azure Security Associate

Automations

  • PowerShell script to clear Akamai Cache and integrated it with Azure Deployment Pipeline.
  • Script for DC/Server isolation from the LB and integrated it with Azure Deployment Pipeline.
  • Azure Runbook script created to monitor the S2S connection status and Azure traffic manager endpoint status.
  • Participated in Accenture CODE contest to showcase the Automations and Best practices followed in our project.
  • Powershell scripts to perform Key rotation

Timeline

Cloud and Network Security Administrator

Accenture
07.2016 - 03.2021

B.E - ECE

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
06.2012 - 04.2016

Cloud Security Engineer

Cognizant
3 2021 - Current
Aishwarya Srinivasan