Aarpan Sahu

Cloud Engineer

India4 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Achieved 100% compliance in multi-cloud environments.
Led automation initiatives enhancing security visibility.
Developed cloud-agnostic VM inventory solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security and Management specialist with a focus on automation and compliance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityAutomationVulnerability RemediationCloud Management

Other Skills

AWSAWS CloudTrailAWS SecurityActive DirectoryAdobe PhotoshopAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleArtificial Intelligence (AI)AzureAzure Logic AppsBoto3C (Programming Language)C++CSSLP

About

As a Cloud Engineer at Ciena, within the SecOps team, I focus on securing and ensuring compliance of cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). I contributed to the multi-cloud vulnerability remediation (KEV/CVE) and developed automations for VM inventory (Python SDKs, Snowflake) and ownership identification (Cloud Logs, AD, Python, Boto3, CronJob), achieving 100% compliance across all clouds. I hold a Master's in Computer Applications (MCA) degree from JNU, New Delhi, and I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Data Science and Applications at IIT Madras. I am passionate about the world of cloud and data, and I thrive on exploring their transformative potential.

Experience

4 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Ciena

2 roles

Cloud SecOPS Engineer 1

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

# On Azure, led automation of critical security tool installations (Splunk, Rapid7, CrowdStrike) using Custom Script Extension, enhancing risk visibility for 600+ connected and isolated VMs (Windows and Linux) in production and non-production environments.
# On Azure, contributed to the Domain Join process for isolated Windows VMs. Developed Azure Logic Apps to identify eligible VMs and trigger the join. Created post-join configuration scripts (Python/Powershell) deployed via Custom Script Extension, automatically adding VM owners to the Administrators Group.
# Participated in a Proof of Concept (POC) for Qualys, evaluating its platform capabilities for enhancing the enterprise security posture.
# Contributed to a multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) VM vulnerability remediation processes, focusing on KEVs and CVEs. Successfully mitigated high-risk vulnerabilities with cumulative risk scores in the millions, utilizing Rapid7 for threat detection and monitoring.
# Developed an automation that creates a daily cloud-agnostic (AWS, Azure, GCP) virtual machine inventory with more than 15 parameters by scripting with Python SDKs, storing the structured data in Snowflake for reporting and analysis.
# Implemented a multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) VM ownership identification mechanism leveraging cloud logs and AD validation for automated tag updates. Deployed via CronJob, dramatically increasing VM ownership compliance from below 30% to 100% on all three clouds.

SecurityCloud ManagementPythonAzure Logic AppsAutomationVM Inventory+2

Cloud Engineer Intern

Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 · 5 mos · Remote

# Developed an automation using Python and Boto3 (AWS SDK for Python) to fetch the creator of the Amazon EC2 instances using the AWS CloudTrail logs.
# Validated the creator against the Active Directory (AD) status and set the owner tag on the EC2 instance.
# Deployed via Linux CronJob to get executed across all the accounts in AWS Organizations and in all AWS regions.
# Increased compliant Amazon EC2 instance owner coverage from 23% to 100%.

PythonBoto3AWSActive DirectoryLinuxCloud Management

Saarang, iit madras

Campus Ambassador

Aug 2022 – Feb 2023 · 6 mos

Placement cell, sc&ss jnu new delhi

Placement Coordinator

May 2022 – Feb 2023 · 9 mos

Managing the LinkedIn Team of the Placement Cell of the School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Technex, iit (bhu) varanasi

Internship Trainee

Oct 2021 – Nov 2021 · 1 mo

Learnt and practised various python libraries like NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, algorithms such as Regression analysis, Simple linear regression, Multi linear regression, Classification, Binary class classification, Support Vector Machine, KNN algorithm.
Applied data visualisation and machine learning techniques to Air Quality Index (AQI) of India.