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Work History
Education
Timeline
Skills
Accomplishments
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Gowtham A

Senior Technical Support Engineer
Chennai,Tamilnadu

Summary

Have 9 years of experience, with over 7 years in managing and defending against cyber threats, conducting risk assessments, and working in security operations. Hands-on experience with Enterprise products such as McAfee EPO (On-Prem), Agent, MVision, EPO (SaaS), ENS, Symantec – SEP, DLP, and ATP. Proven ability to develop and implement secure systems and processes to protect sensitive data.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Customer Success Engineer / TSE

McAfee Software India Private Limited, Trellix
Bengaluru
2021.02 - Current
  • Managing service requests of enterprise security (McAfee) and providing remote support within internal SLA for clients
  • Responding to end-user support requests and patiently walking individuals through basic troubleshooting tasks.
  • Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
  • Train and mentor L1 technicians and new joiners.
  • Assist team members technical/process vise on difficult cases to move them forward.
  • Troubleshooting on McAfee applications such as EPO, Agent, ENS, and EPO (SaaS)
  • Analyze threat to determine techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) of Threat Actors, including detailed technical analysis of the TTPs.
  • Handling security vulnerabilities and threat outbreaks and managing AV clients.
  • Debugging communication issue between Endpoint and EPO Console
  • Assist customers in automating various administrative tasks and trigger alert/notification emails for suspicious activity.
  • Performing restore activities on McAfee EPO server down, critical issues, SQL Database restore, and Backup and Migration activity.
  • Recommend solutions to customers and follow through to resolution or escalate the case in a timely manner if no resolution can be found.
  • Work with Advanced engineering team for bug fixing and product enhancement.
  • Accountable for customer escalations and drive them internally to a speedy resolution while ensuring that customers are kept fully informed of progress throughout the escalation.

Senior Technical Support Engineer

CONCENTRIX TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD, SYNNEX CORPORATION
Chennai
2016.08 - 2021.02
  • Managing tickets of enterprise security (Symantec Endpoint Protection) and providing remote support within internal SLA for clients
  • Handling host & server-based security concerns with virus outbreaks
  • Guiding customers in designing SEP architecture, deployment of SEP clients, configuration of security policies and security event analysis
  • Research client's issues in timely manner and follow up with customer with recommendations and action plans
  • Experienced in Providing security fundamentals and preventing threat like virus, malware, Spywares, Trojans, DDOS attack in customer's environment
  • Blacklisting and Whitelisting the files based on File fingerprint, cert and file location
  • Experienced in identifying, containing, eradicating and recovering from security incidents
  • Provide security monitoring, events analysis, mitigation suggestions and working with Security Response team for RCA.
  • Experienced in Installing, configuring & maintaining the Symantec endpoint protection Anti-virus software.

Technical Support Agent

SUTHERLAND GLOBAL SERVICES, DLF IT Park
Chennai
2015.06 - 2016.08
  • I possess abundance of experience dealing with inbound and outbound calls to aid UK-based customers with their technical difficulties. Furthermore, I have effectively overseen email queue to offer assistance to Acer team. My expertise in managing different types of queues is exceptional.

Customer Relation Officer

HGS – HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
Chennai
2013.07 - 2014.06


  • Responsible for dealing with customer relevant queries, complaints and request for information on products and services.
  • Managed over 150+ customer calls per day

Education

B.E - Electronic & Communication Engineering

P.R.Engineering College
Tanjore
2008.01 - 2012.04

Timeline

Customer Success Engineer / TSE

McAfee Software India Private Limited, Trellix
2021.02 - Current

Senior Technical Support Engineer

CONCENTRIX TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD, SYNNEX CORPORATION
2016.08 - 2021.02

Technical Support Agent

SUTHERLAND GLOBAL SERVICES, DLF IT Park
2015.06 - 2016.08

Customer Relation Officer

HGS – HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
2013.07 - 2014.06

B.E - Electronic & Communication Engineering

P.R.Engineering College
2008.01 - 2012.04

Skills

    Hands-on experience with Enterprise products such as McAfee EPO (On-Prem), Agent, MVision, EPO (SaaS), ENS, SIEM & Symantec – SEP, DLP, and ATP.

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Accomplishments

  • Supervised team of 10 staff members
  • Acting Subject-matter expert
  • Provided dedicated support for Escalations
  • I have been awarded the Best Employee in all of the companies I have worked for.
  • Best Performer of the Quarter (McAfee)

Interests

Playing Badminton, Gardening , Watching Tech and Entertainment videos on Youtube, Listening to music

Gowtham ASenior Technical Support Engineer