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Manish Dubey

Manish Dubey

Solution Architect Infra Security

Summary

I have been working in IT for over 22 years and working experience in cross-industry, strong multi-cultural collaborative environment with a specialized focus in ISMS, infrastructure security, Hybrid model operations and security, a trusted advisor to security and operations teams and ability to simultaneously complete multiple tasks using solid analytical, technical and project management skills. Proven leadership quality and exceptional relationship building skills.

Strong critical, outside-the-box thinking mindset apply knowledge, experience, and efforts in security in defense, Cybersecurity and solution architecture, design, Implementation, documentation. Proven track in operations, security, project management ability worked on multiple accounts geographically.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
6
6
Certificates
3
3
Languages

Work History

Solution Architect Infrastructure Practice Lead

Tech Mahindra
Hyderabad
04.2005 - Current

Project Start Date: Sept 2017 – April 2023 Customer: Matiq, Norway, onsite (Norway) and offshore (India).

  • Assist in design, implement security architecture posture for hybrid-based solutions and demonstrate the concept, ideas, and principles of strategic advantages.
  • Document and address organization's information security, cybersecurity challenges and systems security in accordance with CIA and cybersecurity frameworks.
  • Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
  • Worked with customer, architects, system owners on security and privacy frameworks, defense in depth strategy, integration challenges and conflict of interest.
  • Segmentation and effective use of network, devices, applications with coordination of system owners, common control providers, and system security team.
  • Control of identity and detection of threats with integrative capability of Identity-focused Microsoft Identity and Management solutions like Azure AD, M365, PAM (decommissioned), SailPoint, Azure Sentinel, SOAR, PKI, ADFS and other network layer components integration (Firewall, Managed XDR, ISE, Radius, Infoblox).
  • Adopt Zero Trust principle, optimize digital ecosystem model with efficient use of least privilege access, multi-factor authentication using existing asset with minimal CAPEX investment transformed to agility, minimized complexity, and improved measurability.
  • Analyze plans of action periodically and milestones to determine organizational security weaknesses and deficiencies which has helped to reduce the threat actor(s) exposure.
  • Periodic assessment of Zero day and known vulnerability tin system, application, and discussion with third party, security teams, application and system owners for effective remediation and measures.
  • Participate in formal configuration management, system, application, Domain Controllers upgrades, systems, OS, group policies hardening.
  • Work with Agile, developers, security and operations teams on backlogs using Jira.
  • Work with different units and governance teams on Control, Data and Management platforms ensure confidentiality, Integrity and availability maintained.
  • Up-to-date with known and emerging cybersecurity threats and associated risks and plan to counter the attack vectors.
  • Access infrastructure resource capacity and discuss with units on procurements, optimization, migration to Azure cloud.
  • Work with network and SIEM monitoring and Pentest team and analyze the vulnerability, user entity behavior, DDOS, malware detection.
  • Assessment and remediation of vulnerable unpatched systems, End Device compliance management and Data encryption and ensure the resiliency is maintained.

Delivery Lead

Tech Mahindra
Hyderabad
04.2005 - Current

Project Start Date: Jan 2013 - July 2017. Customer: BASF
Worked at onsite (Sau Paulo, Brazil) and offshore (India).

  • Performing infrastructure design, strategy, and services and participating in the implementation of computer system, network, storage, and security infrastructure.
  • Access and review server, SAN storage and backup infrastructure and improve the capacity utilization.
  • Work with customer technical representatives and advice and guide on the overall solution.
  • Work closely with project management , SMO and development teams assisting in planning and review of project tasks schedule, project reviews and gap analysis.
  • Identify and support new service opportunities
  • Oversee staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, and performance management.
  • Tracking client on-boarding as per SOW and arranging KT for respective Tower Leads.
  • Supervised & directed Infrastructure resourcing alignment which includes Solution design, Scale Up or Out process.
  • Design solution, application assessment, migration, server decommission and DC optimization.
  • Knowledge transferred to offshore delivery team in India
  • Worked on AWS hybrid platform, provision instances.
  • Prepared technical documentation, Risk document, SOP manual and measure SLA & KPI.
  • Data Center server infra, Storage and Backup management and hands on experience on IBM V7000, net app 3250.
  • Providing guidance, leadership and coaching towards effective planning and communication of business objectives to employees, ensuring staff understands the current environment and its boundaries as well as facilitating future change.
  • Work on VMAX 5876, VNX (5500, 5700), Clariion CX4, LUN provision, migration, Time Finder snapshots, backup using Data Domain, and Zoning.
  • Work with SAP application team on SAP system landscape.
  • Communicate effectively with business partners and stakeholders to assess functional needs, design solution and assist in the identification of data information needs.
  • Improved TCO and reduced SAN storage cost with thin provisioning and deduplication implementation lowering CAPEX, saving on power cooling, eliminating redundant data, transformed to cost-benefit realization and increased life span of storage devices.
  • Providing guidance, leadership and coaching towards effective planning and communication of business objectives to employees, ensuring staff understands the current environment and its boundaries.

SAN Storage and Virtualization Team Lead

TECH MAHINDRA
Hyderabad
04.2005 - Current

Project Start Date: Sept 2010 – Oct 2012

Customer and Work Location : Microsoft, Hyderabad offshore (India).


  • Architecture, design, install, configure, monitoring and maintenance all storage appliances including SAN, NAS, Replication and Backup storage appliances.
  • Thin provisioning, Implement FAST VP on Virtual Provisioning thin devices, storage group, Pool capacity management using GUI and SYMCLIs.
  • Reduced Capex and Opex and storage capacity underutilized issues and reclaim storage and achieved ROI in storage capacity provisioned and efficient use of resources.
  • Server Virtualization, clustering and migration using SCVMM, migration to host.
  • Demonstrate skills including the ability to understand and address client challenges.

Operations Lead

Tech Mahindra
Pune
04.2005 - Current

Project Start Date: Feb 2009 - Oct 2009.

Customer: Etisalat, Mumbai, India

  • Responsible for the physical and logistical layout of the resources and equipment within a data center facility.
  • Layout of server, storage network, rack and stack, data center resources, arranging of physical and logical security workflows.
  • Play an active role in validating the technical requirements and associated architecture.
  • Work in collaboration with the other departments to develop proposals, BOM and software application requirements.
  • Hands-on experience on blade servers and enclosures configuration and OS image deployment.
  • SAN storage LUN provisioning, and backup using Data Domain.
  • Work with vendor on product support and License.

Operations Lead

Tech Mahindra
Pune
04.2005 - Current

Project Start Date: Nov 2009 – Oct 2010

Customer: AT&T, Location: Pune

  • Customer engagement, requirement gathering, analysis and formulate execution plan.
  • Work with SMO on change, incident and problem management.
  • Prioritize changes and allocate resources.
  • Collect relevant information and prepare SOP.
  • Server Windows 2003, Windows 2008, and SAN storage administration on DMX4, VMAX, clarion CX4.
  • SLA management and tracking for respective domains.

Project Lead

Tech Mahindra (Satyam Computer)
Frankfurt
04.2005 - Current

Project start Date: June 2006 - Oct 2008

Customer: Gillette (P&G).

Location: Frankfurt, Germany).

  • Addressed customer requirements, formulate plan against milestones and prioritized defined tasks.
  • Client meeting and establish project parameters, feasibility study of tasks, team building.
  • Resource onboarding, communicate with cross functional team about defined scope of work, deadlines, SLA, communication channels.
  • Breakdown project tasks and assigned ownership.
  • Work on KPI and reporting matrix.
  • Prepare all the necessary information they need to get started and work towards the project goals.
  • Provide comprehensive technical and procedural advice and guidance to team members.
  • Worked with service delivery and support team and mange cross functional team at onsite.
  • Connect with key stakeholders and share the status report about operational activities.
  • Resolved complex issues and create resolution knowledge base.
  • Provide support for incremental business growth.
  • Provide the technical expertise and direction for decisions over systems.
  • Hands-on experience in SAN storage, tape library, Novel directory, Windows servers provisioning, application support.
  • Work with monitoring team and worked on issue resolution.
  • Best practice for client infrastructure to ensure infrastructure, support deliverables and components are consistent with agreed designs and address applicable risk and security considerations.
  • Identify, analyze, and solve problems, review RCA.
  • Create plan for asset decommission and application sunset.
  • Liaison with vendors to get hardware and logistic support.
  • Involved with data center team in enclosures blades, storage backup configuration.
  • Storage provisioning on EMC CLARiiON CX4, DMX-4

IT Security Engineer

Tech Mahindra (Satyam Computer)
Frankfurt
04.2005 - Current

Start Date: Sept 2005 - May 2006.

Customer: Gillette (P&G).

Location: Frankfurt, Germany

· Novell accounts, files and folders access management.

· Install and configure VPN and Netscape proxy and provision DSL.

· Distribute security Token to end users across European, APAC regions.

· Worked on clarify ticketing tool and share status report.

Support Engineer

Microland
Bangalore
01.2004 - 03.2005
  • Provided technical Patch management solution using WSUS and SMS to Microsoft's customers.

EDP Officer

SPL Industry
Faridabad
01.2003 - 02.2004
  • Installed, configured, and managed Windows server infrastructure, DNS, DHCP, printers.

Tech Support

Alpha Technet Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi
05.2000 - 12.2002
  • Duties and Responsibilities: Managed Windows servers infra, and network configuration.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Engineering

Institute of Engineering And Management
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
05.1996 - 2000.05

Skills

    Project management, Risk Management, ITSM, Agile, Leadership, problem solving, Communicative, Influencing

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Certification

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Accomplishments

  • Received recognition from customers and internal stakeholders for resolving security and integration challenges.
  • Identify security loopholes and collaboratively redesigned approach.
  • Configure ADFS integration with ISE, single sign-on, security enhancement.
  • Analyze security threats and incidents, Zero day vulnerability improve core layers.
  • PKI upgrade and security improvement.

Affiliations

  • Certified Project Management Professional from PMI.
  • Certified ITIL Foundation.
  • Certified AWS sysops.
  • Certified SAN Storage EMCISA.
  • Kali Linux PEN Tester Certificate of Achievement from EC-Council.
  • Threat Modelling in Agile and DevSecOps Certificate of Achievement from EC-Council.
  • Azure Security operations analyst Certificate of Achievement from Udemy.
  • Azure security technology Certificate of Achievement from Udemy.
  • Practical Data Privacy Certificate of Achievement from EC-Council.
  • Full-Stack Attacks on Modern Web Applications Certificate of Achievement From EC-Council.

Timeline

Kali Linux PEN tester certificate of achievement from EC council
01-2023
AWS SysOps administrator
04-2022
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
03-2022

Solution Architect Infrastructure Practice Lead

Tech Mahindra
04.2005 - Current

Delivery Lead

Tech Mahindra
04.2005 - Current

SAN Storage and Virtualization Team Lead

TECH MAHINDRA
04.2005 - Current

Operations Lead

Tech Mahindra
04.2005 - Current

Operations Lead

Tech Mahindra
04.2005 - Current

Project Lead

Tech Mahindra (Satyam Computer)
04.2005 - Current

IT Security Engineer

Tech Mahindra (Satyam Computer)
04.2005 - Current

Support Engineer

Microland
01.2004 - 03.2005

EDP Officer

SPL Industry
01.2003 - 02.2004

Tech Support

Alpha Technet Pvt. Ltd.
05.2000 - 12.2002

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Engineering

Institute of Engineering And Management
05.1996 - 2000.05

Additional Information

  • & Virtualization – Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 2008/2012/2016 Hyper-V, Kali Linux. Collaboration & Productivity- Skype for business 2015 administration, SharePoint, MS-exchange, portals. SAP ERP – SAP ECC PP, SD, Hana. DevOps & Automation (basic knowledge)– PowerShell, knowledge on ansible, JSON, Python, CI/CD, Kubernetes, docker. Cybersecurity – CIA defense in depth, Azure sentinel SEIM, SOAR, endpoint security solutions, cybersecurity standards, threat modeling, drive security education and awareness activities and social connect, security assessment, and effective use of tools, OWASP Penetration test, defense in depth security measures, PAM/MIM, application security, infrastructure and applications security, firewall, IDS, IDPS inspection and vulnerabilities assessment, Risk identification, mitigation, and response planning and assessment, follow cybersecurity standard and Governance framework. Up to date with best security practices, Introduce and encourage new ideas and motivate team to implement. Develop security policy, procedures in line with best practices with CISO and security senior staff members. Co-ordinate with IT security compliance audit and work collaboratively to meet the certification requirements in compliance with GDPR. Database & Backup - EMC Data Domain (420, 440, 2500), MS DPM 2016, SQL, Oracle Autonomous DB. VMware–VMware V sphere (5.5). System Management/Virtualization - SCCM 2012, SCVMM 2012. Cisco and Brocade switches - Cisco MDS, Brocade5100. Enclosure Blade – Dell, IBM, Hitachi. Core infra, Network & Security: Cisco ISE, mideye-Radius configuration, Cisco and brocade switches, Data center build and business continuity. Monitoring tools: ServiceNow, Remedy, clarify, IPcenter. CLOUD EXPOSURE Azure AD, defender for EndPoint, Sentinel, M365, Office 365, SOAR, logs management, threats hunting, assessment, investigation, response Azure log analytics, create playbooks, and rules, review incidents tickets in Service Now. Investigate incidents, assessment of security vulnerabilities and prepare response plan. Design Backups, Business Continuity, and Infrastructure strategy. Knowledge of DevOps tools and methodologies - release and build management, automation scripts and PowerShell. Maintain Azure Storage, Implement Azure storage blobs and Azure files, manage access.
Manish DubeySolution Architect Infra Security