MuniKumar
Sr Consultant
Hyderabad,TS
Summary
Sr Consultant specializing in SOC operations, SIEM analysis, and incident response for enterprise security teams. Investigates alerts in Splunk, analyzes logs across firewalls, IDS/IPS, Windows, proxy, and server environments, and escalates confirmed threats with clear remediation detail. Strengthens detection and response by applying threat intelligence, network fundamentals, and rapid containment actions.
Overview
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11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Consultant
Capgemini
09.2022 - 05.2026
- - Possess over 10 years of IT experience, including 5 years specializing in Cyber Security, with a strong focus on Cyber Threat Detection, Threat Analysis, and SIEM technologies.
- - Demonstrate expertise in SIEM tools, including Splunk, to identify and report security breaches, attacks, malicious activities, and unauthorized access to relevant teams.
- - Responded promptly to security threats and notifications, ensuring timely mitigation and resolution of incidents.
- - Maintain solid a solid understanding of fundamental networking concepts, systems, servers, and network security protocols.
- - Proactively manage IT security measures to reduce the impact of security incidents and prevent system compromises for clients.
- - Analyze event logs and security data to recognize successful intrusions and system compromises through detailed review.
- - Analyzed event logs and security data to identify successful intrusions and system compromises through detailed review.
- - Managed IT security measures proactively, minimizing impact of security incidents and preventing client system compromises.
- - Possess foundational knowledge of Malware Analysis, Phishing Analysis, and log analysis from diverse security tools, leveraging defense-in-depth strategies involving Antivirus, Firewalls, and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions.
Consultant
Cognizant
06.2017 - 09.2022
- - Ensure timely application of software patches to safeguard systems against emerging threats
- - Provide comprehensive threat analysis and generate detailed security logs for security devices
- - Utilize advanced threat intelligence tools to enhance threat detection and response capabilities
- - Perform real-time log analysis across various network security devices, including Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Windows OS, Proxy Servers, Windows Servers, system applications, databases, and web servers to detect and respond to intrusions
- - Created and managed incident tickets by collaborating with device owners and coordinated resolution efforts across multiple teams
- - Develop and execute complex search queries in Splunk SIEM to identify and troubleshoot security issues efficiently
- - Conduct thorough technical analysis of impacted systems to assess the impact, scope, and facilitate recovery from cyber incidents
- - Documented cyber threat analysis findings and remediation efforts for clear future reference
- - Analyze email-based threats by identifying malicious tactics, techniques, and procedures to prevent phishing and malware attacks
- - Prepared detailed security reports and advisories on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to meet management and compliance requirements
- - Perform Level 1 and Level 2 SOC activities such as monitoring, triaging, investigating, and responding to security incidents
Associate
Oakton Global Technologies
11.2015 - 05.2017
- - Executed installation, configuration, deployment, troubleshooting, monitoring, and performance tuning of WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server to ensure system reliability and performance.
- - Installed WebSphere Application Server and Web Server on Linux and Windows platforms using both silent and GUI installation methods.
- - Resolved Level 1 and Level 2 issues across Development, Testing, UAT, and Production environments, minimizing downtime and enhancing operational continuity.
- - Created clusters and implemented workload management and high availability solutions, including horizontal and vertical clustering for optimal system performance.
- - Created clusters and implemented workload management and high availability solutions, including horizontal and vertical clustering, to optimize system performance and reliability.
Education
MCA - Computers
Sri Venkateshwara University (SVU)
Tirupati01-2007
Skills
SIEM
Threat Analysis
Log Analysis
Incident Response
Endpoint Detection and Response
Security event triage
Alert investigation
Security incident escalation
Case documentation
Threat hunting
Security reporting
Cross-team coordination
Root cause analysis
Stakeholder communication
Knowledge base documentation
Timeline
Sr Consultant
Capgemini
09.2022 - 05.2026
Consultant
Cognizant
06.2017 - 09.2022
Associate
Oakton Global Technologies
11.2015 - 05.2017
MCA - Computers
Sri Venkateshwara University (SVU)