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Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Sriram S

Lead Security Engineer
Chennai

Summary

Experienced, accomplished and result oriented CISSP certified Security Expert with over 13+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing robust security solutions predominantly in Identity Access and Governance domain with proven track record of leading,managing and coaching high-performance teams in designing and implementing robust security solutions, modernizing and re-architecting both in-house and vendor product capabilities. Expertise in leading efforts in architecting Novel In-house IDM solution with market leading best-in-class technologies and open-source solutions, operational excellence efforts with CICD for IAM Infra and deployment builds, various IGA products migrations and major version upgrades, BCP and DR planning and implementation, partnering for GRC risk assessments and various cross-functional efforts across security spaces on DLP device control, Network monitoring and security.

As part of Security Ninja / Champion, drove and motivated cross-portfolio product teams to cultivate and understand different organization product security initiatives and strategies on DevSecOps, vulnerability management, Incident response and security awareness and facilitated numerous Threat Modelling exercises with product teams to imbibe Security culture.

Seeking a challenging role to leverage my Security expertise in managing and optimizing security operations, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring the highest standards of information security.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates

Work History

Lead Security Engineer

Target Corporations
Bengaluru
05.2020 - Current
  • Spearheading design and implementation of unique and novel in-house solution for Identity access and governance using various open source products for connector framework, workflow orchestration with best-in-class newer technologies and platform
  • Leading a team in maintaining existing Broadcom IGA vendor product operations and product upgrades
  • Led and worked on key Automations and multiple process enhancements for existing IAG vendor product to improve operational cost and excellence using Java and Spring framework
  • Drove and worked on multiple collaboration efforts in various cyber spaces like in-house OAuth and password services in Authentication, custom integrations for CrowdStrike product
  • Partnered and worked as product SME on cyber risk efforts leading Risk assessment auditing both internal and external on SOX and PCI from IAM
  • Involved in leading Disaster recovery process development for the product as part of overall BCP programme

Security Ninja (Organisation Level Role)

Target Corporations
Bengaluru
12.2019 - Current
  • As a security ninja for security India team, Advocating and educating product teams on their security posture in terms of various product security strategies and improving their security health
  • Driving and motivating different organisation product security initiatives and strategies on DevSecOps, Vulnerability management, Incident response and security awareness, trainings and programs
  • Facilitated numerous Threat Modelling sessions with multiple product teams to help identifying and resolving various potential risks / vulnerabilities in their products with STRIDE methodology using TM tools like Threat dragon and able to realise actionable outcomes

Senior Security Engineer

Target Corporations
Bengaluru
12.2016 - 05.2020
  • Led CICD efforts and developed solutions to automate infra, deployment builds, measurement and monitoring for BI using Jenkins and chef as part of process improvement and operational excellence
  • Worked on OIM to CA IAG migration; led SOT process and SME for AD Connector and various custom functional requirements for CA IGA product
  • Involved in development of REST services on various functionalities for IAM Custom user interface.

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
03.2014 - 12.2016
  • Led and developed Various custom connectors like Generic Web service connectors using SOA and Generic DB connector framework for high volume of DB application onboarding and management
  • TIM to OIM 11gR1 migration and OIM 11gR2PS2 upgrade
  • OIA to OIG Migration
  • Customizations and enhancements in connectors and plugin dev in certification process

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
06.2011 - 05.2014
  • Worked in various development activities on Scheduled Tasks, Event Handlers and connector customizations
  • Involved in automation development operation activities using Java and structs
  • Support of connectors implemented in OIM 9i

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Comminucation

Sri Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College
Chennai, India
06.2006 - 05.2010

Skills

Security Domain / Technologies: Identity Access and Governance, SOA, Threat Modelling, Risk Assessment and Auditing, SAML, OAuth, OpenID, PAM, SIEM, Product Security, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security

Management: Team Management and Leadership, Team building and coaching, Conflict resolution, delegation, problem solving

Product Lifecycle: Secure Design and Architecture, Implementation, Operational excellence

Security tools: OIM, Broadcom (CA) IGA, Password Vault, CyberArk, Threat Dragon, In-house SIEM, CrowdStrike, ZScalar, Chef and HashiCorp Vault

Programming / Scripting Languages: Java, Python, shell, Spring framework, structs, SQL

CICD tools: Docker, Artifactory, Jenkins, Chef, Chef vault and HashiCorp Vault

Compliance: SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA

Business Domains worked: Healthcare, Banking, Retail

Certification

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Accomplishments

  • Received Employee of the Year, Quarter and month awards at various years in Target Security Team
  • Recognition for Threat Modelling sessions by product teams as Security Ninja
  • Got promoted to Senior Associate from Associate in 1.5 years as a token of skill recognition
  • Received appreciations throughout the projects from the clients for delivering quality work and received Annual Comet Award, Associate of the quarter and Associate of the month awards in Cognizant Technology Solutions.

References

Available upon request

Timeline

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

03-2024

ISMS Lead Auditor / Implementer

11-2021

Lead Security Engineer

Target Corporations
05.2020 - Current

Security Ninja (Organisation Level Role)

Target Corporations
12.2019 - Current

Senior Security Engineer

Target Corporations
12.2016 - 05.2020

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2014 - 12.2016

Oracle certified Core Java and Web developer

01-2012

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2011 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Comminucation

Sri Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College
06.2006 - 05.2010
Sriram SLead Security Engineer