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Prashant Bahroos

Prashant Bahroos

Summary

Deep Understanding of cloud security frameworks and security offerings by Microsoft.


  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint / Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps)
  • Microsoft Intune
  • Azure Monitoring Services
  • NIST Framework
  • Cloud Adoption Framework
  • Well Architected Frameworks
  • Zero Trust Network Access


Excellent hands-on experience in the following technologies:


Azure Active Directory Authentication and Synchronization


  • Azure AD Connect / Azure AD Cloud Sync
  • AD FS and Web Application Proxy (WAP)
  • Azure AD Kerberos
  • Password Hash Sync (PHS) and Pass-Through Authentication (PTA)
  • Azure Web Application Proxy
  • Oauth2 / OpenID Connect / SAML Authentication
  • Azure AD Identity Protection
  • Conditional Access Policies
  • Azure AD Device Registration
  • Windows Hello for Business and FIDO 2 (Password less Authentication)


Azure Active Directory Account Management


  • Azure AD Managed Identities
  • Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
  • Azure AD User Management and Group Management
  • Azure AD Domain Services (AADDS)
  • Azure AD B2C (Custom Policy and User Flows)
  • Azure AD Entitlement Management
  • Azure AD Access Reviews
  • Microsoft Entra Permissions Management


Windows Active Directory


  • Group Policy
  • Public Key Infrastructure
  • DFSR
  • Kerberos
  • AD Replication


Windows Networking


  • DHCP
  • DNS
  • IPSec
  • Wireless
  • RADIUS (NPS)
  • 802.1x Auth
  • RRAS / VPN


Azure Networking


  • Virtual Network Gateways
  • Azure Load Balancer
  • Azure Traffic Manager
  • Network Security Groups


Azure VM


  • VM Configuration and Setup
  • VMSS (Virtual Machine Scale Set)
  • VM Storage and Disk
  • VM Networking
  • VM Boot Diagnostics


I am currently increasing my competency on the following topics via online courses in addition to my current work experience.


  • HDInsight on Azure
  • Big Data and Hadoop Administration (Training and Certification)
  • PIG / Hive / Spark / HBase / Sqoop / Yarn / Flume / Python

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate

Work history

Support Escalation Engineer (Azure Cloud Identity)

Microsoft R & D India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, Telangana
05.2015 - Current

● Handling issues that are politically charged because of technical complexity or financial importance.


● Directly engage and support top security customers to resolve technically complex and critical technical issues in a 24x7x365 global support team.


● Go technically deep across multiple Microsoft Azure Security technologies and actively seek solutions to customer needs.


● Develop and deliver training sessions for Azure AD Cloud Identity and Hybrid Auth Flow for IAM Services.


● Leverage knowledge and experience to mentor, model customer engagement skills, and contribute to technical growth of a global team.


● Engage with Product Managers, Account Managers, and customers directly to understand their architecture, and operations to improve their overall support experience.


● Define and implement proactive customer health monitoring leveraging service monitoring tools (SIEM, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Sentinel, etc)


● Share support insights and recommendations with engineering, customers, and account teams to prevent repetition of similar issues.


● Collaborate with engineering on new feature designs and testing to ensure customer success.

Senior Technical Specialist

Tieto Software Technologies Ltd
Pune, India
10.2013 - 04.2015

● Participate in building Enterprise and Technical Architecture for IT Outsourcing and Managed Services (ITOMS) business.


● Steering the development projects to follow the architecture rules and disciplines.


● Evaluate the potential impact of system modifications or enhancements.


● Develop and conduct service integration mechanisms with the service management workflows and framework.


● Research, Develop and design service delivery process adaptation with the service architecture.


● Create and conduct knowledge transformation for counterparts in Nordic Region


● Research, create and maintain an understanding of the technology capabilities and applied implementation framework.


● Design and conduct feasibility Assessments (Technical, Operational and Cost) for key technological undertakings.


● Develop content to incorporate knowledge of current and future business requirements.

Sr. Technical Lead

Convergys India Services
Pune, India
02.2009 - 10.2013
  • Lead a team of 8-12 support engineers and helped them resolve technically complex Widnows Networking or Windows Active Directory issues for customer.
  • Measure productivity to identify bottlenecks and implement improvements.
  • Built knowledge base to improve access to technical information for Windows Networking and Windows Active Directory team.
  • Created action plans for timely resolution of technical risks, issues and conflicts.
  • Developed technical solutions to diverse operational problems.
  • Trained new and junior staff in Windows Networking and Windows Active Directory concepts.
  • Nurtured team's technical skills and knowledge by offering ongoing training.
  • Devised full-scale technical plans to inform team members of project specifications, milestones and gateways.
  • Delivered technical strategy in line with agreed project roadmap.

Supp. Officer

Symantec Software Ind Ltd
Pune, India
02.2008 - 05.2008
  • Technical Router (Contract Job)
  • Assist the customers at the initial stages to ensure the right engineer is aligned with them to resolve their issues.

Technical Support Engineer

vCustomer
Pune, India
11.2006 - 09.2007
  • Worked as an engineer for Linksys (subsidiary of Cisco)
  • Assist home user to setup wireless networking at home and small offices.
  • Worked extensively on a variety of networking devices manufactured by Linksys for home and small offices.


Sr. Associate

Convergys India Services
Pune, India
05.2006 - 10.2006
  • Frontline support for Fedex to assist customer on technical issues

Customer Service Associate

Wipro BPO
01.2005 - 10.2005

Education

M.Com - Business Administration / Marketing / Financial Management / Industrial Economics

University of Pune University of Pune
Pune, Maharashtra
05.2007 - 04.2009

B. Com - Marketing / Corporate Accounting / Economics / Auditing and Taxation

University of Pune University of Pune
Pune, Maharashtra
05.2004 - 04.2007

12th - Physics / Chemistry / Maths / English / Hindi

U.P. Board SMH Inter College
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
05.2001 - 04.2002

10th - Physics / Chemistry / Maths / English / Hindi / Music

ICSE Board Seth Anand Ram Jaipuria
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
2000

Skills

  • 14 years of experience divided into Support, Training, Readiness, and Infrastructure Planning and Process development
  • Azure Cloud Infrastructure
  • Windows Security technologies / Firewalls and endpoint security
  • Network configuration / Troubleshooting network issues
  • Technical infrastructure migration
  • Security planning

Accomplishments

  • Presenter at Microsoft Ready (Winter Session) in Seattle (Feb 2020)
  • Global Subject Matter Expert in Enterprise State Roaming (Mar 2020)

Certification

Microsoft

o AZ 500 - Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

o SC100 - Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (in progress)

o SC 300 - Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

o AZ 104 - Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

o AZ 304 - Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (in progress)

o AZ 900 - Microsoft® Certified: Azure Fundamentals

o Microsoft® Certified Solutions Associate:

o MCSA: Windows Server 2012

Other Certifications

o ITIL Foundational Level Certified

o BigData Hadoop Administration

o PMP (in progress)

Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Native

Timeline

Support Escalation Engineer (Azure Cloud Identity)

Microsoft R & D India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - Current

Senior Technical Specialist

Tieto Software Technologies Ltd
10.2013 - 04.2015

Sr. Technical Lead

Convergys India Services
02.2009 - 10.2013

Supp. Officer

Symantec Software Ind Ltd
02.2008 - 05.2008

M.Com - Business Administration / Marketing / Financial Management / Industrial Economics

University of Pune University of Pune
05.2007 - 04.2009

Technical Support Engineer

vCustomer
11.2006 - 09.2007

Sr. Associate

Convergys India Services
05.2006 - 10.2006

Customer Service Associate

Wipro BPO
01.2005 - 10.2005

B. Com - Marketing / Corporate Accounting / Economics / Auditing and Taxation

University of Pune University of Pune
05.2004 - 04.2007

12th - Physics / Chemistry / Maths / English / Hindi

U.P. Board SMH Inter College
05.2001 - 04.2002

10th - Physics / Chemistry / Maths / English / Hindi / Music

ICSE Board Seth Anand Ram Jaipuria

Interests

Hobbies: , Golf / Badminton / Table Tennis / Football / Binge Watching

Interests

Hobbies: , Golf / Badminton / Table Tennis / Football / Binge Watching

Interests

Hobbies: , Golf / Badminton / Table Tennis / Football / Binge Watching

Prashant Bahroos