Sourav Bose

Product Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Extensive experience in Security Information and Event Management.
Proficient in managing HCL BigFix for patch management.
Strong background in Linux system administration and automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and IT Management professional with strong expertise in system administration and security solutions.

Contact

souravbose4u@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Linux ServerSecurity Information And Event Management (siem)Ibm BigfixLinux

Other Skills

AnsibeSecurity InformationEvent Management (SIEM)IBM SIEMAnsibleLinux System AdministrationBashComputer HardwarePatch ManagementCISTenable.scTenable.ioTenable NessusWindows ServerWide Area Network (WAN)

About

Always seeking innovative and challenging career in the professionally managed and dynamic organization, which provides the best opportunities for the development and greater responsibilities to contribute towards organization.

Experience

9 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Ibm

3 roles

Back End Developer

Feb 2025 – Jun 2025 · 4 mos · Hybrid

Platform Administration: Administer and maintain the QRadar SIEM platform, managing core components for high-availability and disaster recovery.
Proactive Threat Detection: Design custom rules and use AQL for proactive threat hunting and identifying complex attack patterns.
Data Integration: Lead the onboarding of new log sources, ensuring proper data normalization and quality.
Content Management: Deploy security content and use cases to expand threat detection capabilities.
Agile & Collaboration: Actively participate in Agile processes and serve as an intermediary between security, IT, and audit teams to ensure alignment with business and compliance requirements.

Security InformationEvent Management (SIEM)IBM SIEMSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Research And Development Engineer

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Hybrid

AnsibeLinux Server

Software Developer

May 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hybrid

Installation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance of HCL BigFix root servers, including patching, backup/restore procedures, and disaster recovery planning, ensuring optimal performance and availability.
Developed and implemented robust processes to control the release of CIS Benchmark updates within BigFix, involving detailed comparison and redesign of content from new CIS Benchmark releases to ensure controlled deployment and minimize operational impact.
Managed comprehensive patch deployment cycles for Windows, Linux, and third-party applications across diverse endpoint environments using BigFix, ensuring timely application of security updates and bug fixes.
Designed and executed large-scale software distribution campaigns and application deployments via BigFix, optimizing delivery mechanisms for efficiency and reliability.
Utilized BigFix Compliance to define, monitor, and enforce security baselines and configurations across endpoints, ensuring adherence to organizational policies and regulatory requirements.
Configured and maintained BigFix relay infrastructure for efficient content delivery and client communication, including troubleshooting client registration and communication issues.
Created custom Fixlets, Tasks, and Analyses using BigFix Relevance language and ActionScript to address specific organizational needs, automate routine tasks, and gather critical endpoint data.
Developed and customized BigFix Web Reports and dashboards to provide actionable insights into patch compliance, software inventory, security posture, and system health for various stakeholders.
Performed regular performance tuning of BigFix components and actively troubleshot complex issues related to server, relay, and client operations to maintain system stability and efficiency.

IBM BigFixLinux Server

Wipro technologies

2 roles

Unix Infrastructure Administrator

Aug 2016 – May 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Chennai Area, India · Hybrid

Comfortable with install, configure and maintain various Solaris, Linux flavors (RedHat, CentOS, Suse, Ubuntu etc.) and associated applications
Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration and for performing daily/weekly/startup tasks.
Managing Oracle HW and Solaris environment – HW like M4000, M5000, Sparc T5 – OS Solaris 9, 10,11 with containers, zone experience & Vendor coordination.
Management of RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Solaris 9/10/11 along with Zones/Containers, VxVM/VCS, ZFS File management. & Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP). File system creation and maintenance for regular (partition based), Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
Setup and configure cross-platform authentication (Linux with AD) – Vintella.
Installs, configures and maintains system applications including SSH, TCP/IP, FTP, NIS, NFS, CIFS and Samba
Experience on Virtualization technologies like Solaris Containers, VMware, ESXi host infrastructure, KVM / RHEV Administration and Nutanix.
Apply OS/Kernel patches and upgrades on a regular basis. Configure / add new services as necessary – both virtual and physical.
Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
Experience in RHEL Satellite server version (5 & 6).
Knowledge on Managing Data Centers and related services.
Collaboratively work with SPGI division and business unit application development teams, and perform product maintenance activities, such as service packs, patch management and Release testing.
Worked as cohesive team member and work within a team-environment to achieve organizational goals
Created KBs/SOPs for all processes involved with scripts, enabling their reuse, effectively saving the company cost annually.
Working experience on Ansible
Infoblox - Grid Management Administrator
NAS/SAN file system administration
Server / OS Crash analysis

LinuxAnsible

Internship

Feb 2016 – May 2016 · 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

Monitor real-time environment and provided technical solutions to problems and user requests through an IT ticketing system (ITSM). Joined war rooms for any critical issues and fix the same to avoid any impact. Analyzing and resolving issues within given time frame along with root cause Analysis for the same. Change Management: Participates in Change Advisory Board decisions, approving changes to the services they own.
To deal with maintenance and configurations challenges are being experienced in live production systems for OS or hardware related issues.
Gained on Knowledge Backup & Storage, Introduction to ITIL, Monitoring Tools, Network Voice and Telecom, Perl, Power Shell, RDBMS, UNIX, Networking Basics, Overview of Virtualization, Wintel.
Hands-on VMware Vcenter Server, VSphere Client, VMware Virtualization, SQL Server Management, Install Manage ESXi Host.
Gained Hand on Knowledge on Monitoring and Managing Server/ Client for alert about Ping, CPU, Memory, Disk Space on through HP SiteScope, HP Operations Manager, Nagios XI, BMC Remedy, HP Network Node Manager, SCOM, SCCM.
For creating Incident, change management through Service Now.
Developing Process Models and streamline.
Being a part of Demonstration Team for the client.
Understanding and analyzing the requirements and risks.
Capacity Management
Change management
Configuration management
Shell/Perl Scripting
o OS hardening
o Automation and reduction of manual efforts thru Scripting/tools

Linux System AdministrationBash

Afcons infrastructure limited - a shapoorji pallonji group company

Internship

Jun 2014 – Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Kolkata Area, India

Gained Hand on Knowledge on Monitoring and Managing LAN/WAN, CPU, Memory, Disk Space and reporting issues.
Installing Upgrades, security patches and maintaining Server Policy
Perform Routine audits of systems and software.

Computer HardwarePatch Management