Sudhakar S

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. iamsudhakar49@gmail.com

Senior Security Engineer with over of experience specializing in Identity Governance & Administration(IGA). Proficient in Identity Management(IDM) and Governance concepts, delivering robust security solutions to mitigate enterprise risks. SailPoint Certified Identity Security Leader and ISO 27001:2022 Lead Implementer, with hands-on experience in industry-leading tools including SailPoint IdentityIQ(6.*|7.*|8.*), CyberArk(12.6), Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and RSA via Identity Governance & Lifecycle(7.0|7.1). Skilled in Core Java, SQL/RDBMS, and LDAP with development experience, and a solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines using Git and Jenkins. Passionate about exploring and adopting new technologies to enhance security postures and streamline identity solutions.


Experience

Sr Security Engineer - IAM

CME India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru

Currently employed with CME India as Sr Security Engineer, part of Identity & Access Management team managing all workforce identities, their access and governance. The key responsibilities are to implement and customize functionalities in Sailpoint IdentityIQ and support operations in CyberArk. The IIQ implementation and customization includes but not limited to account provisioning/deprovisioning, Business Process, Certification, Policies and Custom Reports. Integration of multiplex and logiplex connectors for JDBC and directory based applications. CyberArk operations include creation and managing of applications, accounts and safes.

February 2024 - Present

Sr Engineer, Information Security

Lowe's Services India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru

Employed at Lowe's as Security Sr.Engineer, part of Identity Governance & Administration team managing user's lifecycle by provisioning and deprovisioning accounts to multiple and different target systems using SailPoint IdentityIQ. Hands-on experience in commonly used connectors like Active Directory - Direct, LDAP, Delimited, JDBC, etc. Also working in creation|customization of Workflows, Certifications, Reports, Roles and managing them. Have setup multiple non-prod and prod environments with automated build and deployment through Jenkins.

September 2020 - January 2024
3 years and 5 months

Security Senior Analyst

Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru

Employed at Accenture as Security Sr.Analyst in developing and managing entitlement governance for an international banking client using RSA IGL. Hands-on experience in applications like Qlikview, Autosys and GIT for development and management of code in both Windows and Unix environment. Also worked in Java's JNDI API to communicate with LDAP to read and transform data as required. DevOps implementation is in progress using Jenkins.

January 2017 - September 2020
3 years and 8 months

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Kochi

Joined Cognizant as fresher in July 2014 and undergone four months of training in C, MySQL and Advanced Java. I was then deployed to Identity and Access Management team of Security domain where I gained in-depth knowledge about the domain concepts and completed an internal certification in 'Level 0: Digital Security'. Later I was introduced to different IAM projects and tools like Sailpoint IIQ, Microsoft FIM. I also acquired knowledge in other technologies like SQL, Directory Server, LDAP and Selenium.

July 2014 - December 2016
2 years and 6 months

Education

Info Institute of Engineering

Bachelor of Technology
Information Technology

CGPA: 8.0

August 2010 - April 2014

Ramnagar Suburban High School

Higher Secondary
Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Science

Percentage: 74

April 2010


Victory Vidhyalaya Matric School

Secondary School

Percentage: 86

April 2008

Skills

Tools & Programming Languagues
  • Sailpoint Identity IQ
    90%
  • CyberArk
    25%
  • RSA IGL
    50%
  • Microsoft FIM
    65%
  • Core Java
    95%
  • Database
    75%
  • Directories
    25%
  • QlikView
    75%
  • Autosys
    95%
  • GIT
    95%
  • Jenkins
    65%
Other Tools & Technologies
  • Selenium Web Driver
  • DevOps CI\CD
  • Basic UI
  • Unix
  • Service Now
  • Remedy
  • Pentaho Data Integration (PDI)
Interests
  • DevSecOps
  • Penetration Testing
  • Federation

Projects

Identity & Access Management

SailPoint IdentityIQ, Beanshell and CyberArk
  • On-boarding applications of different connector types and enabling provisioning, deprovisioning and certification for the connected application.
  • Managing User Access to provision and deprovision non day 1 requestable roles with multi level approval.
  • Creating and managing policies.
  • Integration of multiplex and logiplex connectors for JDBC and directory based applications.
  • Involved in creating and customizing workflows for JML events and custom quick links.
  • Involved in creating different Certifications, custom Reports, Roles and managing them.
  • Supported in moving all on-perm VMs to GCP by installing, configuring and deploying Sailpoint IdentityIQ resources and artifacts.
  • Supporting CyberArk operations by creating and managing application ids, accounts and safes.
  • Coordinating with multiple teams across timezone to develop and provide solutions, knowledge transfers and handovers.
February 2024 - Present

Identity Governance & Administration

SailPoint IdentityIQ, Beanshell and Jenkins
  • On-boarding different types of authoritative and non-authoritative applications.
  • Managing automated provisioning and deprovisioning of user accounts and groups to multiple and different target systems.
  • Involved in creating and managing workflows for life cycle events like Joiner, Mover, Leaver and custom quick links for various business needs.
  • Involved in creating different Certifications, custom Reports, Roles and managing them.
  • Single handedly built multiple non-prod and prod environments from scratch and worked on upgrading, patching and applying efixes.
  • Coordinating with multiple teams in requirement gathering, design or setting up environment for smooth transition with no incident.
September 2020 - January 2024

Entitlement Governance

RSA IGL, DevOps, QlikView, Java
  • On-boarding applications to RSA IGL and creating Reviews.
  • Creating qlikview script to fetch entitlements from different unstructured data files and java code to create monitor and reviewer coverage files from sources like DBs, Directories and delimited files.
  • Automated release and deployment using Jenkins.
  • Creating HTML\CSS email notification templates and also creating JIL files and managing autosys jobs.
January 2017 - September 2020

Identity Management Support

Microsoft FIM 2010, AD, Service Now
  • Worked on shift basis to support the environment by covering 16x5 and provided on-call support during third shift and weekends.
  • Involved in monitoring Microsoft FIM environment including all SQL, Sync Engine and Portal servers\services, sync jobs are up and running on a daily basis.
June 2016 - December 2016

Identity Lifecycle Management

Sailpoint IIQ, Microsoft AD, SQL Server, Core Java
  • On boarded applications of different sources like AD, Delimited and JDBC.
  • Involved in customization of workflows for various life cycle events like Joiner, Leaver, Transfer and Attribute Change.
  • Involved in writing rules for various business logics and also created Business and IT System roles.
  • Created Manager Certifications for different applications.
February 2015 - May 2016

IAM Testing

Aveksa (a) RSA IGL, Selenium Web Driver, Core Java
  • Involved in end-to-end functional testing of the identities.
  • Involved in automating test cases using Selenium Web driver and Core Java.
December 2014 - January 2015

Learnings, Certifications & Awards