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Manikandan T S

Manikandan T S

Madipakkam

Summary

To leverage my extensive experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Security Operations Center (SOC) to meet the challenges of the fast-evolving cybersecurity landscape, while continuously updating my skills and contributing to organizational success.

Professional Summary

• Overall 12+ years of experience in IAM and SOC in Cyber Security.

• 1.8 years as a Specialist – Cyber Security at LTIMindtree.

• 8+ years as a Sr. Security Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

• 2 years as a Security Analyst at DELL International Services.

• Expertise in Banking, Airlines, and Manufacturing projects.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Specialist - Cyber Security

LTIMindtree
08.2023 - Current
  • Leading IAM initiatives, including application onboarding and migration.
  • Managing Conditional Access policies and SCIM user provisioning, PIM and RBAC.
  • Lead the team, ensure smooth operations, and support P1/P2 incidents.

System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
04.2015 - 08.2023
  • Managed IAM and SOC operations, including SSO, MFA and application migration.
  • Led a team to ensure smooth operations and critical incident support.
  • Create and manage SOPs, PPTs, rule documents, investigations, and inventories.
  • Corporate Directory: Manage provisioning, de-provisioning, access reviews, and user roles/profiles for the entire project.

Data Entry & Cnv Sr. Representative

DELL International Services
12.2012 - 02.2015
  • Analyzed phishing emails and malicious URLs, reporting to the network team.
  • Investigating all types of alerts in Splunk, CrowdStrike, Shape and Akamai.

Education

B.Sc - Mathematics

Government Arts College of Kumbakonam
Kumbakonam
03-2011

HSC -

Banadurai Hr. Sec. School
04-2008

SSLC -

ARR Municipal Hr. Sec. School
03-2006

Skills

Identity and Access Management

  • Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
  • PingAccess
  • PingFederate
  • Corporate Directory
  • SSO
  • MFA
  • SAML
  • OAuth
  • OIDC
  • PIM
  • RBAC
  • MS Entra Role/Group management
  • OAM
  • OIF

SOC - Cyber Security

  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Splunk
  • Sumo-Logic
  • Dynatrace
  • CrowdStrike
  • McAfee ePO
  • Akamai
  • Shape
  • GroundLabs

Ticketing Tools

  • ServiceNow
  • Remedy
  • JIRA

Scripting

  • Groovy
  • OGNL
  • JavaScript

Professional Experience

IAM (2018 - Present):

 Onboarding & migrating applications in MS Entra ID, PingFederate & PingAccess., Extensive experience with Entra ID, PingFederate & PingAccess for SSO configurations & components (Policies, Fragments, Selectors, Adapters)., Managing Conditional Access policies, SCIM user provisioning, SAML Certificate Management, PIM, RBAC and MS Entra Role/Group management.

 

SOC - Cyber Security (2012 - 2017): 

Monitoring SIEM infrastructure and handling alerts using CrowdStrike, Splunk., Effective user management and deployment of Falcon sensors on servers., Configure, review, clean up deployment & prevention policies based on business risk.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/01/90
  • Gender: Male
  • Marital Status: Married

Disclaimer

I hereby confirm that all the details mentioned above are true to the best of my knowledge.

Certification

SC-300 - Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Associate

Languages

  • English
  • Tamil
  • Hindi
  • Sowrashtra

Timeline

Specialist - Cyber Security

LTIMindtree
08.2023 - Current

System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
04.2015 - 08.2023

Data Entry & Cnv Sr. Representative

DELL International Services
12.2012 - 02.2015

B.Sc - Mathematics

Government Arts College of Kumbakonam

HSC -

Banadurai Hr. Sec. School

SSLC -

ARR Municipal Hr. Sec. School
Manikandan T S