Krishna Chaitanya Dhanekula
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Computer Science
University of Central Missouri
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Missouri-Kansas City
2022 : Present
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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (IAM)
Responsible for working with the vendor partners, security architecture, application architecture and business stakeholders to enable and integrate applications into the Cardinal Health suite of IAM capabilities.
Work with Forward engineering and stakeholders to provide solutions or address any gaps in the current implementation.
Work with Product owner and stakeholders to provide solutions that will integrate with current IAM implementations.
Accountable for verifying and ensuring the overall performance and stability of the applications built using the Identity and Access Management products.
Responsible for mentoring and providing guidance to the other team members
Subject Matter Expert for Identity Access Management within the Integrations Team
Publish knowledge articles for application teams to effectively integrate with Identity & Access Management solutions
Effective communication to project managers and customers to understand technical solutions
Self-motivated to identify potential areas of improvement within Identity & Access Management
2022 : 2022
Cardinal Health
Engr, Software Engineering - Identity & Access Management
Key member of the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team and responsible for implementation, operation, management, and support of IAM Systems Azure, Broadcom Siteminder & Siteminder Federation, Layer 7, RSA Adaptive Authentication, ADFS, Ping Federate. As a lead to IAM delivery team responsible for operational fitness of the system(s) through support, monitoring and response, and system lifecycle management. Participated in projects across the team to deliver new technologies, process improvements, and business value and Other responsibilities as assigned
2021 : 2022
Medtronic
Principal Cyber Information Assurance Analyst - IAM
• Technical Operations
o Operate, manage, and support IAM systems.
o Provide support for issues ranging from moderate to high complexity for IAM systems and related system integrations.
o Ensure system availability, capacity, and performance including ownership for logging, monitoring, and alerting standards, processes, and systems.
o Mentor / coach team members and provides technical guidance
o Plan and manage system upgrade and patching projects, in collaboration with local and offshore teams, and platform subject matter experts (SMEs)
o Participate and/or lead initiatives (examples of initiatives include : training, deployment, hardware review, integrations)
o Research and escalate open issues or recurring problems with applications/systems to determine root causes and resolutions
o Communicate with vendors as needed to understand and research open issues, new versions, or changes
• Process Improvement
o Identify, analyze, design, document, and implement technical or process improvements within current standards and architecture; partner with platform owners to advance improvement opportunities that may require more significant change
o Define and develop policies and procedures for system operations to ensure consistency, reduce rework, and improve quality
o Perform review of projects or support tickets to ensure standards are upheld and business needs are met
• Documentation
o Manage and improve technical documents for system operations and support
o Document SOPs, work instructions, and knowledge base articles as needed
o Participate in projects across the team to deliver new technologies, process improvements, and business value.
o Maintain current, relevant industry knowledge to understand evolutions and advancements in the marketplace which could bring value to the team or the company
o Other responsibilities as assigned
2020 : 2021
Medtronic
Senior IAM Cyber Info Assurance Analyst
2018 : 2020
Medtronic
Senior Systems Administrator - Identity & Access Management
Skills
Access, Access Control Management, Access Gateway, Accessibility, Account Management, Active Directory, ADFS, ADFS 2.0, Administering Okta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), API Access Management, Authentication, Authentication Protocols, Authentication Systems, Computer Security, Conditional Access, Conditional Access policies, Cybersecurity, Directory Integration, Geofencing, IAM, IDaas, Identity & Access Management (IAM), KERBEROS, LDAP, MFA, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, Multi-factor Authentication, NTLM, OAUTH, OIDC, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Oracle SQL Developer, Password Management, Project Management, RADIUS, Remote Access, REST API, SAML, SCIM, Secure Authentication, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Security Awareness, Shell Scripting, Single Sign-On (SSO), SSO, Two-factor Authentication, Virtual Directory
About
Role of Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (IAM)
• Demonstrated knowledge of the key principles of Identity Access Management.
• Effectively communicate with technical and executive audiences, both oral and written.
•Knowledge on software development techniques and application programming interfaces.
• Understanding of hardware/software platforms including but not limited to operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers and integration technologies.
• Subject Matter Expert for Identity Access Management within the Integrations Team
• Plan and execute system implementations that ensure success and minimize risk of system outages or other negative production impacts.
• Conceptual knowledge of architecture standards and database and operating systems.
• Ability that allows for effective and timely resolution of system issues including but not limited to production outages.
• Analyze production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance.
• Knowledge of software development, life cycle, modeling of business processes, application design patterns, business/functional documents. Estimates to high level business requirements and provide options analysis.
• Self-motivated to identify potential areas of improvement within Identity & Access Management
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