Bikkumalla Ravi
Cybersecurity Engineer
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Results-driven Cybersecurity Engineer with 11+ years of overall IT experience, including 3+ years of expertise in Tanium, Qualys VMDR, SIEM administration, threat hunting, incident response, vulnerability management, Linux administration, and cloud operations. Experienced in log onboarding, analytics rules, watchlists, RAD, SGP and security monitoring.
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Cybersecurity Engineer
VIL (Vodafone Idea Limited)
Sep 2022 - Present
Run scans, analyze results, and generate comprehensive reports. Monitor critical vulnerabilities and security alerts. Configure and deploy Qualys agents; run network discovery scans. Maintain asset inventory (servers, endpoints, applications, cloud assets) and tag assets by environment (production, dev, critical servers, etc.). Review scan results and prioritize vulnerabilities based on CVSS score, asset criticality, threat level (exploit available / zero-day), and patch availability. Validate critical CVEs and false positives; track remediation progress and verify fixes via re-scans. Generate vulnerability reports (weekly/monthly), executive dashboards for management, and patch compliance reports. Perform regular asset purging in Qualys to remove inactive systems and maintain accurate asset inventory. Oversaw the complete infrastructure vulnerability management lifecycle, from discovery through closure. Took swift action on threat intelligence-reported vulnerabilities, triaged environments, analyzed impact, and engaged stakeholders for remediation within defined SLAs. Generated weekly reports for remote and agent-based scans with comprehensive remediation plans. Scoped vulnerabilities, created weekly remediation change requests for Windows OS vulnerabilities, and deployed using Tanium. Deployed monthly Patch Tuesday patches for Windows servers via WSUS and the Tanium patch module. Implemented third-party application patches for Linux, Windows workstations, and servers using the Tanium deploy module. Developed high-level dashboards for vulnerabilities and remediation activities in Tanium/Qualys. Handled emergency change requests and deployed patches for weaponized vulnerabilities. Monitored assets reporting to the Tanium console and troubleshot agent issues. Resolved issues with Windows servers that failed to patch. Created high-level dashboards in ServiceNow for tickets across remediation teams, showcasing trends and high-priority SLA-due tickets. Gathered required KBs from Microsoft Catalog and applied them to servers based on operating system. Identified and patched Linux-related vulnerabilities using appropriate commands. Monitored decommissioned servers, maintained accurate asset inventory, and tagged by environment. Automated vulnerability management tickets and escalated based on defined SLAs. Collaborated with Workstation, Server, Network, and Application owners on patching and vulnerability detection queries. Tracked security exception tickets and ensured remediation within approved exception timelines. Worked on RAD process. Worked on SGP process.
Build/Release Engineer
TCS
Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
Worked on Jenkins administration, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible automation, Azure environments, Linux administration, deployments, monitoring, and release management.
Backup Administrator
Infosys
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Managed backup and restore operations, backup policies, server health checks, and troubleshooting using NetBackup and EMC Avamar.
Backup Administrator
IBM
May 2015 - Jun 2018
Administered backup and restore operations on Windows and Linux environments, monitored backup jobs, and handled tape and disk management.
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