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Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Timeline
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Makarand Mahalle

Senior Consultant - Azure Security
Pune

Summary

Productive employee with proven track record of successful project management and producing quality outcomes through leadership and team motivation. Works with clients to determine requirements and provide excellent service. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

5
years of professional experience
3
Certifications

Work History

Cruciallogics

Senior Consultant
06.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Performed End to End Project Deployment for Technologies related to Microsoft Azure Security.
  • Developed detailed project plans and performed Assessment, Design, Envision, Stabilization and Deployment for technologies like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Sentinel, Cloud Data and Identity Protection Services, DSC, Endpoint DLP and other Defender Technologies.
  • Performed Tenant and OS Hardening using various Security and Compliance Technologies.
  • Helping Organization achieve ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, also focused on CIS and STIG standards.
  • Worked as a L3 SOC for multiple clients, created analytical rules for Advanced Threat Detections and automated actions using Playbooks.
  • Created Power BI reports for Monthly Operational Reports and performed the Gap Analysis.
  • Provided strategic guidance to clients on best practices for business operations.
  • Deployed multiple Monitoring and Reporting Tools for Incident Management.
  • Identified the current Vulnerabilities and Improvement Scope and addressed them during the Change and Management Windows.
  • Worked as a End to End Consultant for clients assisting and resolving issues related to the solutions deployed.
  • Defined Monthly Operation/Improvement tasks for multiple clients.

Concentrix

Sr. Technical Lead
12.2019 - Current

Job overview

  • Worked as Senior Technical Lead for Microsoft EPS
  • Responsible for Azure Security Products like MDE (Defender for Endpoint) and MTP
  • Providing L3 support on escalations and high severity cases
  • Providing Product training for newly hired and tenured engineers
  • Conducting Operational Interviews for Azure Security domain
  • Proactively working with the Product Group team regarding the new features which are to be enrolled
  • Onboarding Servers like 2008R2, 2012R2, 2016, 2019 and Linux based servers
  • Integration of MDE with Microsoft Intune, Azure Security Center, MCAS, MDI
  • Deploying MDE policies using Intune
  • Managing RBAC configuration within MDE as per roles assigned on AAD
  • Specializing in performance monitoring, Telemetry data, Custom IOCs, Controlled Folder Access.

Vysnergize

Solutions Lead Executive
04.2019 - 12.2019

Job overview

  • Technical Sales/Account Management for Azure Services

Education

D.Y. Patil College of Engineering

BE from E&Tc

Cusrow Wadia Institute of Technology
Deemed

Diploma of Higher Education

S.M. Dr.D.Y.Patil Public School

SSC

Skills

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Microsoft Sentinel
Data Loss Prevention
Power BI
Microsoft Intune
Endpoint Detection and Response
Azure Active Directory Identity Protection
ISO 27001 Compliance
Tenant and OS Hardening Policies
XDR
Microsoft Defender for Office
SOC
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Information Protection
Insiders Risk Management/ Communication Compliance
Incident Management and Response
Identity and Access Management
Windows Defender
WD Exploit Guard Protection- Attack Surface Reduction, Network Protection, Controlled Folder Access
Web content Filtering
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Applications
Microsoft Defender for Office
Azure Key Vault

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Accomplishments

  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, AZ - 900
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, AZ - 104
  • Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate, AZ-500
  • Business Analyst - Dun & Bradstreet.

Certification

2X AZ-104

Timeline

Senior Consultant

Cruciallogics
06.2023 - Current

Sr. Technical Lead

Concentrix
12.2019 - Current

Solutions Lead Executive

Vysnergize
04.2019 - 12.2019

D.Y. Patil College of Engineering

BE from E&Tc

Cusrow Wadia Institute of Technology

Diploma of Higher Education

S.M. Dr.D.Y.Patil Public School

SSC

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