Hi, I’m
Thota Sai Soumya
Senior Consultant
Hyderabad
Summary
A highly motivated and experienced professional seeking a challenging position to leverage my skills and experience in project management and team leadership. Committed to achieving business objectives and improving organizational efficiency
Senior Consultant with over 8.7 years of experience in IT support management. Hands-on experience on Windows AD, Azure Active Directory, SSO, Remote desktops, office365 and mobile devices management. Cloud Engineer in Microsoft Azure Identity and access management (Entra IAM)
Overview
9
years of professional experience
17
years of post-secondary education
9
Certifications
Work History
Deloitte
Senior Consultant
08.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Identity and Access Management in Windows AD & Azure AD, Administration
- Worked on Application proxy, integrating on-Premises application to Azure
- GPO policies in AD
- Proven track record of migrating on-premises Active Directory environments to Azure AD, ensuring seamless transitions and enhanced security.
- Skilled in configuring and managing Azure AD Connect, Application Proxy, and Pass-through Authentication.
- ADFS To OKTA migration
- Azure Active Directory (AD): Configuration, management, and troubleshooting.
- Azure AD Connect: Health monitoring, synchronization, and troubleshooting.
- Identity Access Management: Implementing policies and solutions for secure access.
- Managing user accounts, groups, and permissions in Active Directory.
- Implementing and managing Group Policies to control and secure the AD environment.
- Performing regular health checks and troubleshooting AD issues to ensure optimal performance.
- Monitoring and auditing directory services to maintain compliance with security policies.
- Collaborating with IT teams to support system integrations and migrations.
- Completed comprehensive coursework on AWS Identity and Access Management, covering key concepts and best practices.
- Gained hands-on experience with creating and managing IAM users, groups, roles, and policies.
- Learned to implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for enhanced security.
LTIMINDTREE
Subject Matter Expert
01.2021 - 07.2021
Job overview
- Identity and Access Management in Windows AD & Azure AD, Administration
- Active Directory, user objects, computer objects, OU's, policies
- Good Knowledge of Conditional access policy
- Deployment of Azure SAAS applications
- Basic knowledge of Active Directory as it related to migrations and troubleshooting
- Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), SAML, web Single Sign-on (SSO), OAuth, and related
- Good knowledge on Azure MFA, user level MFA, CA policy MFA, Security defaults
- Windows Hello for Business – Key trust, Cloud Kerberos Trust and certificate-based authentication
- AAD Pass Through Authentication, AAD Seamless single sign-on.
- Managing user and group and giving permission to Applications
- Worked on Application proxy, integrating on-Premises application to Azure
- Able to understand user sign-ins and Event logs.
- Conscious in client communication with excellent communication and diplomatic skills with ability to deliver tasks successfully and being capable in taking ownership of responsibilities when required.
- Worked on Enterprise application and App registration configuring SSO to the applications
- Worked on Device management, managing Azure AD join and Azure AD register and Hybrid CONTACT device
- Worked on PTA, PHS Authentication.
Cognizant India Pvt Ltd & Wipro Pvt Ltd
Azure Support Engineer/Teamlead
01.2018 - 01.2021
Job overview
- Worked to troubleshoot technical issues for end users
- Creating the Users Groups and troubleshooting Users and Groups
- Provided technical support for servers and back-end network systems
- Creating the Administrative units, creating OU’s
- User administration on AD and Premier case handling
- Creating the Users Groups and troubleshooting Users and Groups
- Provided access to the application using the security group
- Troubleshooting laptop and desktop issues and network connectivity issues.
- Worked as team lead
- Completed the AZ-900 certification as part of organizational training
- Giving the technical assistance for MAC related issues.
- Creating and managing Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units (OU), Group Policy Objects (GPO), and creating the users providing the Users Permissions, Configuring GPO'S.
- Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On - Premises AD to Windows Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions.
- Expertise in Active Directory Setup and troubleshooting for any deleted objects and AD Recycle Bin.
- Worked as team lead.
Unisys India Pvt Ltd
Technical Support Representative
01.2016 - 01.2017
Job overview
- Manage incoming queue of help desk tickets across globe
- Should Provide technical support to the users/customers via email, skype and phone
- Maintained queue of an average of 5-30 tickets per day.
- Escalated the issues to the business leaders through the Outage Bridge call as necessary
- Configuration of Outlook and skype for end users
- Should assist end users and perform troubleshooting steps related to O365 issues (SharePoint, Microsoft teams)
- Should Check Hardware related issues.
Education
Osmania UniversiyHyderabad, India
Master of Science
04.2001 - 01.2018
Skills
Azure Active Directory
System Administrator
SCCM
Intune
Fundamentals of IAM AWS
Azure Admin
Microsoft office 2016, DL, Shared mailbox, SharePoint
Technical Profile
Azure Active Directory, System Administrator, Azure Admin, SCCM, Microsoft Office 2016, SharePoint, Intune, Fundamentals of IAM, AWS, Azure Fundamentals, AZ-900, SC-300, Generative AI -101, Oracle AI, L100/200 certified by Microsoft., Azure Administrator associate certification, Entra premium certification, AWS Fundamentals
Certification
Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
08.2023 - Current
Subject Matter Expert
LTIMINDTREE
01.2021 - 07.2021
Azure Support Engineer/Teamlead
Cognizant India Pvt Ltd & Wipro Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 01.2021
Technical Support Representative
Unisys India Pvt Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2017
Osmania Universiy
Master of Science
04.2001 - 01.2018