Nitesh Saini

Product Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in multi-cloud security architecture and compliance.
  • Proven track record in disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
  • Strong background in vulnerability assessments and incident response.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security and Infrastructure Management expert with a focus on compliance and risk management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Information SecurityCloud SecurityInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

AWS SecurityAmazon Web Services (AWS)ApacheAutomationBurp SuiteCitrixComplianceCybersecurityCybersecurity Incident ManagementDatabasesDisaster RecoveryDockerDocumentationEthical HackingGit

About

DevOps, SecOps, GRC, Application Security and System administration enthusiast having hands on experience in Infrastructure designing, strategic planning with security, High Availability and Fault tolerance in mind, AWS Security Architecture, Automation with Infrastructure-as-code, Infrastructure Audit and readiness as per multiple standards like PCI-DSS, CIS etc. Mission critical activities like BIA, DIA, DR and BCP, Software Assurance Maturity Model and Application Security Verification Standard

Experience

Freelance

Cyber Security Consultant

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

Information Security ConsultingInformation Security

Infracloud technologies

Staff Security Engineer

Nov 2020Nov 2024 · 4 yrs · Remote

  • Multi cloud Security architecture as per NIST (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Threat Modelling of application and Infrastructure
  • Risk Management(Assessment, monitoring, response)
  • OWASP ASVS and SAMM for Application Security
  • Business Impact Analysis for BCDR
  • Data Impact Analysis for GDPR and Data Security
  • Security tools and SIEM implementation
  • Policy drafting for SOC2 and ISO 27001
  • Security Incident response planning
  • Helped multiple Organisations with SOC2 Type1 and Type2 , ISO 27001(end to end)
Disaster RecoveryHigh AvailabilityInformation SecurityInformation Security Management System (ISMS)Shell ScriptingSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)+6

Plivo

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Nov 2018Aug 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Vulnerability Assessment for AWS, Docker, Github and Public endpoints etc
  • HA and Fault Tolerance Readiness by performing BIA/DIA(Business/Data Impact Analysis), DR(Disaster Recovery) and BCP(Business Continuity Plan)
  • Checking readiness of organisation for ISO 27001:2013 and SOC-2, CSA star level
  • GAP filling for GDPR and working with multiple teams for data classification, categorisation and data security.
  • Application Pen testing for public endpoints
  • Information security awareness training for end users and internal blog series
  • Phishing attacks to check employee information security awareness
  • POC for security tools - Wazuh, AWS detective, Nessus, nexpose, AWS Inspector, Anchore Engine, CliarOS and docker-bench-security
  • VAPT ownership, dealing with vendors and collaboration with internal teams for resolution of reported vulnerabilities
  • Infrastructure-as-code with terraform and packer for creating Golden images, and terraform code security check with terrascan and checkov
  • Documentation of ISMS policies, Standards and Procedures for ISO 27001 readiness.
  • AWS central security architecture for multiple accounts
  • Security Incident & disclosures investigation and classification
  • Creation of golden images as per CIS level-1&2 for multiple OS with help of Hashicorp Packer
  • Execute regular vulnerability assessments, report the findings and drive the remediation (AWS, Docker, Github, Public endpoints)
Disaster RecoveryHigh AvailabilityInformation SecurityInformation Security Management System (ISMS)Shell ScriptingSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)+8

Intuit

Senior Application Engineer

Jun 2017Nov 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · India

  • On-Call support for various products
  • Infrastructure-as-code with terraform and packer
  • Deployments for various products
  • Helping dev team to migrate applications from legacy to public cloud by creating infrastructure
Disaster RecoveryHigh AvailabilityShell ScriptingProof of ConceptInfrastructure Management

Payu

3 roles

Principal Linux Administrator

Apr 2016Mar 2017 · 11 mos

  • Infrastructure Management across various Datacentres
  • Strategic-Planning and Infrastructure designing for application from scratch to achieve vertical and horizontal scaling.
  • Mysql and MariaDB administration (tuning and optimization, master-slave and master-master setup, multi-source replication, backup and restoration)
  • Automation of daily and repetitive tasks by shell scripts, backup management(application and DB)
  • Ensuring High availability of applications (Apache, tomcat, nginx, redis, mysql, Mongo, Cassandra, Kafka, Asterisk, Jboss and postfix mail server)
  • Configuration Management with Puppet (File management, patch management, custom packages)
  • Information Security(Server and Application security and hardening) according to PCI-DSS and ISO standards
  • Documentation of Projects, Architecture of Application, Application flow, Issues faced and their resolution
  • Ensuring patching for servers in scope for zero day and other critical bugs
  • Infrastructure scanning with Nessus and working on Alienvault Ossim for SIEM
  • Central log management for server and audit logs
  • Ossec hids as FIMS and IDS setup
  • Alienvault Ossim for SIEM
  • Central log management and its tuning (ELK setup)
  • Virtualization technologies (Citrix-xen)
  • Remote Installation server (Cobbler)
  • Disaster Recovery(DR) and DRP (Disaster Recovery Process) setup
  • Defining Process for making things less error prone.
  • Versioning (Git, Gitolite, Gitlab)
  • APM tool AppDynamics (Setup and configuration)
  • TrendMicro Deep Security Manager (Setup and configuration)
  • Central ClamAv, Central Ossec Hids
  • HSM Devices (Safenet and Luna)
Disaster RecoveryHigh AvailabilityInformation SecurityInformation Security Management System (ISMS)Shell ScriptingSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)+4

Tech Lead Linux

Promoted

Apr 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Infrastructure Management
  • Mysql and MariaDB administration (tuning and optimization, master-slave and master-master setup, multi-source replication, backup and restoration)
  • Automation of daily and repetitive tasks by shell scripts, backup management(application and DB)
  • Ensuring High availability of applications (Apache, tomcat, nginx, redis, mysql, Mongo, Cassandra, Kafka, Asterisk, Jboss and postfix mail server)
  • Configuration Management with Puppet (File management, patch management)
  • Information Security(Server and Application security and hardening) according to PCI-DSS and ISO standards
  • Documentation of Projects, Architecture of Application, Application flow, Issues faced and their resolution
  • Central log management (ELK setup)
  • Virtualization technologies (Citrix-xen)
  • Remote Installation server (Cobbler)
  • Disaster Recovery(DR) and DRP (Disaster Recovery Process) setup
  • Versioning (Git, Gitolite, Gitlab)
  • APM tool AppDynamics (Setup and configuration)
  • TrendMicro Deep Security Manager (Setup and configuration)
  • Central ClamAv, Central Ossec Hids
Disaster RecoveryHigh AvailabilityShell ScriptingSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)Cybersecurity Incident ManagementThreat Modeling+3

Senior System Administrator

Apr 2014Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Disaster RecoveryHigh AvailabilityShell ScriptingCybersecurity Incident ManagementThreat ModelingProof of Concept+1

Ibibo web pvt. ltd.

Linux System Administrator

Dec 2011Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Providing L1 - L3 Support on Linux based production, pre-prod and staging servers.
  • Installation, configuration, Backup and troubleshooting of Linux servers.
  • Server and application level hardening and security.
  • Patch Management using up2date and yum.
  • Mysql-administration(backup, restore and retention policy, master-slave and master-master)
  • Configuration of Tomcat with Apache server.
  • File sharing using NFS server
  • Load balancing using LVS(keepalived)
  • puppet modules for central configuration Management
  • shell scripts for automation
Disaster RecoveryHigh AvailabilityShell ScriptingCybersecurity Incident ManagementThreat ModelingProof of Concept

Mps technologies

System Administrator

May 2010Nov 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Provided Support on Linux/Unix and windows-2003 based live production, staging servers.
  • Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of AD
  • Installation, configuration, Backup and troubleshooting of Linux servers.
  • Installation and configuration of Tomcat with Apache servers using mod_jk.
  • Patch Management using up2date and yum.
  • Configured Jira and Nagios system/network monitoring tools.
Shell ScriptingProof of Concept

Education

Nitesh Saini

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2008

Rohtak

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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