Anil chowdary Kata
Cloud Security Operations Engineer
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Cloud Security Operations Engineer with 2+ years of experience supporting SIEM/SOAR platforms, security telemetry onboarding, and cloud monitoring across Google Cloud environments. Skilled in validating log pipelines, troubleshooting ingestion issues, documenting operational workflows, and assisting with automation testing. Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, authentication mechanisms, common security logs, and scripting. Looking to contribute to a SecOps team with hands-on experience in Google Cloud, security tooling, and incident operation.
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Cloud Security Operations Engineer
VSM Infotech Pvt Ltd
Present - Present
Performed daily operational checks on SIEM/SOAR pipelines, dashboards, and integrations ensuring consistent health of data flows and event processing. Validated onboarding and ingestion of multiple log sources including Windows event logs, DNS, proxy, firewall, and EDR telemetry. Investigated and resolved connectivity failures, authentication errors, API token issues, and source misconfigurations affecting pipeline reliability. Assisted senior engineers in SOAR connector testing, workflow execution checks, and automation rule improvements. Reviewed parsing patterns and mapped fields to ensure data normalization across multiple log sources. Prepared periodic reports summarizing ingestion status, integration success, event volume patterns, missing logs, and configuration deviations. Maintained operational runbooks, onboarding checklists, SOP documents, and troubleshooting guides for SecOps teams. Supported integration of new assets into Chronicle SIEM by validating metadata, asset identifiers, and event attributes. Used Google Cloud tools such as Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, IAM, service accounts, VPC components, and network utilities for environment validation. Performed basic scripting in Python and PowerShell for automating data checks, extracting logs, and generating daily reports. Coordinated with network, application, and platform teams to validate connectivity (ports, protocols, NAT, DNS resolution). Provided L1 support during incidents by pulling logs, verifying event timelines, correlating indicators, and escalating with complete summaries. Monitored uptime, resource behaviour, and alerts of GCP workloads; verified diagnostic settings and monitoring configurations. Assisted with access reviews, service account audits, API permission verification, and identity troubleshooting.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering - Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research
2020 - 2024 · Afghanistan
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