Rahul Gautam
Raipur
Summary
Highly motivated and skilled Identity Access Management Engineer with experience in designing, developing and deploying highly available and scalable enterprise solutions for Access Management, Identity lifecycle and Enterprise Single-Sign On. In-depth knowledge of IAM modules like Certifications, SAML and Role Management. Pundit at multitasking, held several leadership positions(Senior Software Engineer, Technical lead) while securing academic awards at the undergraduate level. Have excellent problem-solving, communication and organizational skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior IAM Engineer
Optiv
09.2022 - Current
- Overall 8+ years of strong experience in administration, deploying, configuration and troubleshooting of Okta, Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, ADFS on production environments.
- Managing User Onboarding, User life cycle, provisioning and de-provisioning critical access for applications integrated through LDAP Active Directory & SSO Azure Active Directory.
- Writing custom powershell scripts, deploying analytic controls to help the team interact with the Active Directory & Exchange database and to update/retrieve vital information they need in to provide to end user.
- Provide operational guidance and serve as a central escalation point for all Microsoft server related technologies such as : Active Directory, Group Policy, AD Trusts, AD Sites and Services, Microsoft Identity Manager, PowerShell Scripting, DNS.
- Expertise in implementing, integrating and supporting Okta csloud SSO, MFA and enterprise SaaS technologies into complex IT environments
- Experience with SSO and federation using SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OpenID connect (OIDC).
- Worked on day to day activities creating and managing OKTA policies and creating and managing OKTA application provisioning and user provisioning.
- Setup multi-factor authentication and made conguration changes as required - such as password policy updates
- Gathering requirements from the client and working closely with the product and engineering team to integrate custom solutions for the client’s environment
- Experience in supporting Identity Management (SailPoint IdentityIQ), Provisioning and De-Provisioning/Identity Workflows, Access Management, RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), Certification, Compliance and Auditing Technologies, User Acceptance Testing in Enterprise System Architecture.
- Having Experience Conguring and managing AzureAD Connect, AzureAD Connect health, Microsoft Azure Active Directory
- Leading a team of 22 members supporting 60 clients for the Midwest/Central region as a Technical Lead.
- Creating and managing Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units (OU), Group Policy Objects (GPO), and creating the users providing the Users Permissions, Conguring GPO'S.
- Having Experience of Creating conditional Access policies Multifactor authentication (MFA), Resetting MFA and Resolving the MFA issues.
- Assisted in the scripting of AD user and contact object updates using PowerShell to facilitate synchronization to Azure AD.Having expericne with Various Powershell module (Azure ad, Active Directory and exchange online)
- Managing Access Request System to ensure smooth functioning of account creation, access approvals and rejections.
- Setting up SSO using SAML for IDPs like AD/LDAP, OKTA.
- Keystore management and renewal of certs based on the expiry.
- Configuring technical/UserUpdate rules to manage Birthright access and removal.
- Monitoring the environment.
- Writing KB articles after finding the RCAs for future references
- Working on Freshdesk tickets and handling escalations by reverting to the customer, resolving the tickets and providing updates in a timely manner.
- Interviewing potential IAM engineers for the Operations team in the Central/Midwest region.
Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
07.2019 - 09.2022
- The goal of this analysis was to predict the value of total victims based upon the values of one or more independent variables using R studio.
- Performed statistical analysis over the dataset (last 50 years) to predict the value of victims.
- Performed data visualization.
- Designed and enhanced mathematical models to improve data analysis.
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2016 - 06.2019
- This project focused on reducing the tedious work of booking, managing, and modifying a flight
- This project was made in JAVA/MySQL
- The team consisted of 5 members
- In my role as a back-end developer, I developed the logic and code for the application.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer And Information Sciences
Shri Shankaracharya Engineering College
Bhilai, India07-2016
Skills
- Project Management
- Active Directory
- Azure Active Directory
- Okta
- PowerShell Scripting
- SailPoint
- SQL Database
- Exchange Administrator
- PAM
- Client / Escalation Management
- Application Integration / Customization
- Team Lead Management
- ITIL
- Change Management
Certification
- Certified Administrator - Okta
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ900) - Microsoft
- Certified Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) - Microsoft
- Certified Professional - Okta
- Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900) - Microsoft
Accomplishments
- Recognized as Employee of the year(2021) for outstanding performance and team contributions.
- Presented with Employee of the month twice in the year 2021.
- Made it to the 2022 Saviynt Winners list along with Managers, Directors and VPs across the board.
- Led the team into winning Project Overdrive(Maximum amount of tickets closed in a week) held across 5 different regions, earning recognition from upper management and financial reward.
- Consistently maintained high customer satisfaction ratings.
- Promoted from Sr. Operations Engineer to Technical Lead, in less than 12-months.
Timeline
Senior IAM Engineer
Optiv
09.2022 - Current
Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
07.2019 - 09.2022
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2016 - 06.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer And Information Sciences
Shri Shankaracharya Engineering College
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