Satheesh Balaji

Security Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India12 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in security initiatives.
  • Expert in bridging Red, Blue, and Product Engineering teams.
  • Designed enterprise-grade automation workflows.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in security operations and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Security OperationsIncident Response

Other Skills

APT huntingAndroidApache KafkaArduinoAutomationAzure Cosmos DBAzure KustoBashBlue teamCCorrelation AnalysisCybersecurityDOSEmbedded CHome Automation

About

Seasoned Security Researcher & Security Operations Engineer with over a decade of experience driving high‑impact security initiatives across offensive security, automation engineering, SOC operations, detection engineering, and large‑scale threat analytics. I specialize in bridging Red, Blue, and Product Engineering teams to elevate organizational security posture through deep technical research, enterprise automation, and end‑to‑end incident response. My work spans offensive security research, exploit development, cloud security assessments, CI/CD attack simulations, malware analysis, detection gap hunting, and MITRE ATT&CK–aligned adversary emulations. I have designed and deployed enterprise‑grade automation workflows, authored security SOPs, built offensive/detection tooling, and contributed to major Microsoft security ecosystems including Defender, Azure, Sentinel, DevOps, MDE, and internal SIEM platforms. Recognized for identifying security weakness, optimizing SOC processes through automation, and designing scalable hunting, enrichment, and response systems. Passionate about building secure engineering cultures, mentoring teams, and leveraging emerging technologies to advance global security capabilities. Core Strengths: Offensive Research • Threat Detection Engineering • Automation & Workflow Design • SOC Operations • SIEM/EDR • Cloud Security • CI/CD Security • Red/Blue/Purple Teaming • Exploit Development • Python/PowerShell/C#/KQL • Azure Security • Threat Hunting • Malware Triage • Security Architecture

Experience

12 yrs
Total Experience
4 yrs
Average Tenure
8 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Security Ops Engineer

Promoted

May 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Security Researcher 2

Jan 2022May 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Escalation Security Analyst II

Promoted

Jul 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Security Analyst

Sep 2017Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Netsurion

Senior Information Security Analyst

Sep 2015Sep 2017 · 2 yrs · Bangalore, India

  • Analyse logs from various devices (Firewall, IDS, IPS, Servers, etc.) over the network for any security breaches using SIEM tool (EventTracker).
  • Use RegEx to create configuration files for the Reports and Alerts in EventTracker.
  • Manage the SIEM infrastructure.
  • Monitor the security of critical systems (mail servers, database servers, web servers, etc.) and changes to highly sensitive computer security controls to ensure appropriate system administrative actions, investigate and report on noted irregularities.
  • Identify vulnerabilities, recommend corrective measures and ensure the adequacy of existing information security controls.
  • Investigate potential or actual security violations or incidents in an effort to identify issues and areas that require new security measures or policy changes.
  • Deploy and configure OpenVAS, Snort (IDS).
  • Conduct network vulnerability assessments using tools to evaluate attack vectors, identify system vulnerabilities and develop remediation plans and security procedures.
  • Create, deploy PowerShell and bash scripts for scheduling and automating tasks.
SIEMLog AnalysisRegExOpenVASSnortPowerShell+3

Emtec inc.

Associate Software Engineer

May 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore, India

Education

CDAC

Pg Diploma — IT Infrastructure Systems and Security

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Jerusalem college of engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Holy family convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School

10+2 — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2008

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