SHUCHI MINHAS
Melbourne,Australia
Summary
Seasoned Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with focus on developing and implementing cybersecurity measures for high-risk projects. Brings extensive knowledge in various security frameworks, risk management, and incident response planning. Strengths include problem-solving skills, ability to adapt quickly to new technologies, and strong communication skills. Notable contributions include leading teams in identifying vulnerabilities and implementing effective countermeasures to mitigate risks.
Overview
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Work History
Senior Cyber Security Consultant
Skyhigh Security (McAfee)
- Successfully handled strategic accounts such as Westpac Bank, ANZ Bank, Coles,NAB,Australian Unity,and OCBC /Great Eastern Life in both Singapore and Malaysia & Singapore Exchange.
- Analyzed security breaches and other related incidents, identifying root causes and assessing systems changes. Escalated potential breaches to IT Risk & Compliance Manager.
- Supported the daily management of IT security operations throughout the business (BAU). This led to identifying, investigating, and diagnosing vulnerabilities caused by users or automated systems. Provided guidance and implemented industry best practices for the team to resolve issues.
- Assisting the Security Team by actively monitoring systems, offering responsive support, and documenting security incidents to maintain compliance with configuration management standards.
- Generating reports for IT administrators and business managers to evaluate the efficacy of the security policies in place and support continuous improvement security initiatives.
- Delivered expert guidance to clients in optimizing their investments in cutting-edge Zero Trust SSE platform.
- Configured and supported security solutions including firewalls, EDR, and SIEM. Fine-tuned and optimized for effective threat detection and response.
- Manage requirements tools and methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, JIRA or Confluence.
- Demonstrated expertise in incident management, technical forensics, root cause analysis and proposing effective remediation strategies for cybersecurity incidents.
- Ensure strong governance of risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle in line with the Project methodology, in particular Adherence to the requirements of the respective project stage gates
- Strong understanding of cloud services, architecture and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and the security considerations associated with them.
- Conducting Tech know-to sessions and webinars on products and their features based on customer requirements
System Engineer
Dell
- As Security Consultant role I work closely with the IT Operations team and greater IT Team
- Analysing security breaches and other security related incidents to identify root causes and ensure systems changes are identified and assessed while escalating potential breaches to the IT Risk & Compliance Manger Collaborate with Enterprise Infrastructure teams on driving automation in setup, configuration and the operations of environments across the stack from hardware, OS , virtualizations, firewall, load balancers etc
- Collaborate with the test automation and release management to embed best practises into the CI/CD process
- Supporting the day-to-day management of IT security operations across the business (BAU), which lead to discovery, investigation, diagnosis of vulnerabilities generated by users or automated systems, providing direction and best industry procedures to the team to remediate
- Allocation of test environments to teams as per requirement
- (Demand management)
- Develop and test automation solutions and configuration management using PowerShell.
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Microsoft
- Working on Critical Situation cases or production down issues worked as support engineer, majorly concerning the technologies of Active Directory, Authentication, Hyper V, Network protocols, Remote Desktop Gateway and Application Services
- Support includes troubleshooting Microsoft technologies majorly Active Directory and Networks besides an email archiving application, which is based on Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, and SQL, database with the DNS and DHCP troubleshooting
- Support includes troubleshooting and consultation on Microsoft technologies for Premier Customer Majorly Active Directory, Networks & Cloud Technologies (Azure)
- Delivering world-class services with partners, satisfying the customers by improving the overall customer & partner experience, serving as the customer advocates within Microsoft and driving customer-centric product improvement
- Identify any training/knowledge needs for clients and colleagues
- Responsible for undertaking project work across the team as required
System Analyst
Hewlett Packard
- Provided Tier-2 support for firewall, web & email gateways
- Handled Security incidents for Global customers while conducting incident analysis for high severity issues.
Analyst
Accenture
- Technical Support for Desktops, Laptops and Wireless networks for US Home Consumers
- Includes Low Level and Advanced OS Support including User profile issues and Password issues Networking wired and Wireless, responsibility of establishing communication to the default.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering Technology
Gautam Buddha University
Public University In Greater Noida, India07-2011
Skills
- Application Security
- Data Privacy, Data Loss Prevention
- Vulnerability & Risk Management
- Network Security
- SASE,Zero Trust SSE Platform
- Identity Access Management (IAM-SSO,SAML)
Certification
- CCNA
- CISSP Trained
- Computer Network Management
- Certified ITIL Version 2 and 3
- AWS Foundation course organized by Amazon.
- Agile Management and Scrum 4
Accomplishments
- McAfee: Awarded as “Ransomware Warrior” in May’2017.
- Awarded with ACE award for migration of 1400 sites.
- Team Player Award.
- Dell: Insta Spot award for successfully handling client project and delivering timely solutions.
- Microsoft: Power Player Award by Director. October’2015.
- Power Player Award by Manger. December’2014.
- Success Award Solution Delivery nominated by Technical Account managers.
- Awarded by the respective leads with Performance points for hard work.
Resides
Melbourne, Australia
References
Available upon Request
Timeline
Senior Cyber Security Consultant
Skyhigh Security (McAfee)
System Engineer
Dell
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Microsoft
System Analyst
Hewlett Packard
Analyst
Accenture
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering Technology
Gautam Buddha University
- CCNA
- CISSP Trained
- Computer Network Management
- Certified ITIL Version 2 and 3
- AWS Foundation course organized by Amazon.
- Agile Management and Scrum 4
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