Nihaz M N
Summary
Ambitious Security Engineer with total of 13 years IT experience in multiple platforms committed to formulating innovative solutions to challenges while optimizing processes. Polished in developing and implementing security plans and procedures and developing strategies to respond and recover from security breaches.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Enterprise-Cloud Security Engineer
NewsCorp India
05.2022 - Current
- Collaborate with the security Engineers/SMEs/Cloud Engineering team for better visibility in Enterprise and Cloud security
- Have an understanding of Cloud Governance, Regulatory and Compliances standards like CIS Benchmarks, NIST Framework, PCI-DSS, GDPR, etc.
- Hands-on Knowledge of AWS and GCP Security Related Services, Crowdstrike - EDR , Axonius- CSMP , Wiz - CSPM tools and Qualys-vulnerability scans
- Provide solutions and resolve tickets on areas in AWS WAF, Google Cloud Armor, AWS Macie, Google Data Loss Prevention, Cloud CDNs Akamai , Google Cloud CDN and AWS Cloud Front.
- Good Understanding and Working expertise in Terraform,Jenkins and Github
- Security Testing of Unapproved Software's as the request and provide the Recommendations to the users
- Working with Network operations team to review the firewall rules in Half yearly basis for identifying the security gaps
- Collaborated and Comfort with working with geographically distributed teams across multiple regions as we handle America, Europe, Australia and India
- Managing technical documentation and Maintaining inventory of equipment, software and software licenses. Ability to write documentation for all types of audiences, including documentation in code
Senior Systems Engineer
News Corp India
04.2017 - 05.2022
- Monitors and maintains availability, performance and security of systems software, hardware and related applications with basic Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management and ITIL framework .24/7 On-call rotational process with tool Opsgenie
- Monitors and maintains availability, performance and security of system software, hardware and related applications using Nagios, Cloud watch, New relic, Stack driver and Ticketing tools are Service now and Jira
- Managing Infrastructure with Atlassian Products as Wiki, JIRA, Stash
- Infra Configuration changes and Access Related Updates in GIT/SVN repository using Terraform and Jenkins Jobs
- Managing the DNS and URL redirection with Akamai CDN and AWS Route 53 Service
- Responsible for cost optimization on Cloud, Devops and Unix Platforms
- Automation system updates and configuration changes using Puppet and Red hat Satellite server
- Management and Admin Configuration in Atlassian Tools
- Orphan/unused servers Identification project: Identified and decommissioned 428 On premises and 320 AWS, GCP instances
- Migration of GCP Projects from different organizations to our organization “Newscorp.com”
- Domain Migrations: 480 Domains with DNS Updates and Website Redirection from different domain registrar to our Domain registrar CSC for Cost optimization in NAUS
- FTP and SFTP Migration: Migration of FTP and SFTP services to Cloud (Global SFTP) using AWS Transfer Family, Jenkins and Terraform
- Monitoring tools Nagios and Stack driver Configuration for Smooth Handling of Alerts and configurations
- Cost Optimization: Cleanup of Unused Workspaces which saved the cost of 18K Dollars on next month billing
Senior IT Consultant
ALLSTATE SOLUTIONS LTD
05.2013 - 04.2017
- Supporting over 4500 plus Unix/Linux servers of Red hat Linux, Centos and Sun Solaris 10 in Allstate Insurance Corporation, as a Part of the UNIX Fulfilment &Life Cycle team is responsible for the operation and delivery of servers
Server Engineer IMS
MINDTREE Limited
02.2011 - 05.2013
- Managing and Maintaining Linux/Windows Server Environments in the NOC team of Silicon Valley bank as on Daily BAU Tasks, troubleshooting for resolving the case as per the customer requirements
- Day-to-day operations Including Monitoring, Windows and Unix L2 Support
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Ghousia College of Engineering
Affliated To VTU10.2008
Skills
- Public Cloud: Google Cloud (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Cloud Security Posture Management : Wiz
- Cyber Security Asset management Platform : Axonius
- Endpoint Detection and Response : Crowdstrike
- Password Management : Lastpass
- Content Delivery Network: Akamai, AWS Cloudfront and Google CDN
- Ticketing and Collaboration: Service now, Remedy, Atlassian Jira, Slack, Google Services including Gmail, Hangouts, Google Docs, Sheets
- Source code Management: Github and SVN
- Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Red hat Satellite and Terraform
- Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux, Centos, Sun Solaris, Windows Server and Client Editions
- Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Mwatch, Stack Driver, New relic, Spunk, Cacti
- Configuration Management: Puppet with Foreman, Ansible
- Cloud Support tools: Cloud health, CPM, Sentry
- Job Scheduler Tool: Run deck
- Software and Tools: Atlassian Tools such as Wiki, Jira, Crowd
- Symantec Net Backup, CMDB, Tivoli work Scheduler, VMware Sphere Client, HP ILO Console, Dell Console, Cisco UCS Console
- Job Scheduler Tool: Run deck
- Documentation tool: Atlassian Wiki
- DNS, FTP and SFTP configuration, Website Redirection on Akamai and Apache
- Software and Tools: Atlassian Tools such as Wiki, Jira, Crowd
- Symantec Net Backup, CMDB, Tivoli work Scheduler, VMware Sphere Client, HP ILO Console, Dell Console, Cisco UCS Console
Certification
- ITIL Certification
- AWS Certified Security Speciality
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate
- GCP Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
- RHCE Certification in Red hat 5 and RedHat 6
- Microsoft Certification as System Engineer (MCSE) and MCITP
- Red hat Certification in Open stack
Accomplishments
- Team Spot Award on Jan 2022 for Cost Optimization Project in On- premises and Cloud Infrastructure
- Best Performer of the Month on July 2017 In News Technology services for the Exceptional Performance and Achievements
- Team Spot Award and Individual Award for Excellent performance in Allstate on 2013 and 2015
- Team Spot Award for excellent performance for meeting their expectations from SVB in Mind tree on 2011
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Malayalam
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Arabic
Upper intermediate (B2)
Tamil
Intermediate (B1)
Timeline
Senior Enterprise-Cloud Security Engineer
NewsCorp India
05.2022 - Current
Senior Systems Engineer
News Corp India
04.2017 - 05.2022
Senior IT Consultant
ALLSTATE SOLUTIONS LTD
05.2013 - 04.2017
Server Engineer IMS
MINDTREE Limited
02.2011 - 05.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Ghousia College of Engineering
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