Gowri Sankar Pavani
Identity And Access Management Engineer
Banglore
Summary
Offering 7+ years of Experience in Identity & Access Management, Information Security, Privileged Access Management and Governance Risk & Controls working at top global firms, Including ExxonMobil, Wells Fargo and HCL Technologies. Aiming to enhance information security and data privacy by implementing an all-encompassing risk management framework and governance practice that is ideal for the organization.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Application Authentication Engineer
Contractor to ExxonMobil (Payroll - Pantheon)
05.2024 - Current
- Managed the seamless integration of enterprise applications with Okta, ensuring secure authentication, authorization, and identity federation for external users to enhance access control and user experience.
- Managed the lifecycle of SSL/TLS certificates across the enterprise, ensuring secure communications by overseeing creation, renewal, and compliance with security standards.
- Implemented Agile best practices at the infrastructure level, optimizing workflows, enhancing collaboration, and ensuring efficient sprint deliverables to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Conducted comprehensive reviews of risk assessments and control measures within the defined scope, ensuring alignment with security policies, compliance standards, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Playing a Key role in Configuring the Okta Access Gateway (OAG) to enable secure authentication and authorization, enhancing access control in the current enterprise environment.
Information Security Analyst
Wells Fargo
04.2021 - 05.2024
- Implementing a comprehensive IAM application on-boarding sunrise process, aimed at reducing onboarding time and ensuring compliance with corporate IAM policies and control requirements.
- Responsible for application onboarding for various environments, Managing the Authentication for SAML,OAUTH, OIDC Assertion, enabling seamless cloud based identity management and Single sign-on (SSO).
- Taking lead for supporting the ServiceNow Change Management under IAM Governance - Application Onboarding.
- Creating and maintaining internal process documents to improve stakeholder understanding and support compliance with control requirements.
- Led entitlement remediation efforts within IAM, ensuring compliance with security policies and regulatory standards by identifying and correcting excessive, outdated, or misconfigured access rights across critical systems.
Senior Analyst
HCL Technologies
11.2017 - 03.2021
- Administered and maintained Active Directory (AD) infrastructure, including user accounts, security groups, organizational units (OUs) and Group policy objects
- Collaborated with security and IT teams to implement role-based access control (RBAC), ensuring appropriate access levels for users and reducing security risks.
- Ensure overall security and integrity of their managed OU hierarchy. Supported as Subject Matter Expert for migration of confidential users as a part of Identity and Access Management.
- Involved in mailbox migration with help of existing PowerShell scripts and ownership transfer of users.
- Provided training and support to IT staff on Active Directory and IAM best practices, enhancing the team's ability to manage access controls and user lifecycle management effectively.
- Supported PAM operations using Delinea Secret server for creating/vaulting of new service and functional accounts under application folder structures as per organization policy.
- Co-ordination with Application teams to get the existing privileged accounts from them for onboarding into Secret server.
- Conducting daily health checks on secret server components & maintaining the Thycotic services and audit logs.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
RSR Engineering College
Skills
- Active Directory, Access Management, Identity Management, Privileged Access Management, Application onboarding, Change Management, Exchange & Skype Support, ServiceNow Change Manager, BMC Remedy, Pac 2000, ITSM, DNS, Quality Analyst, Privileged Identity Management, Multi Factor Authentication, LDAP, IDFC, Cloud Foundry, SAML Assertion, OIDC, Okta Access Gateway
Timeline
Application Authentication Engineer
Contractor to ExxonMobil (Payroll - Pantheon)
05.2024 - Current
Information Security Analyst
Wells Fargo
04.2021 - 05.2024
Senior Analyst
HCL Technologies
11.2017 - 03.2021
B.Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
RSR Engineering College
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