Uday Nagendra Vithanala
Cyber Security Engineer (SOC)
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Security Engineer with 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations and overall IT experience, specializing in security monitoring, alert triage, and incident response within SOC environments. Skilled in collaborating with SOC, MSSP, and cross-functional teams to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise information assets. Proficient in cyber security operations execution, and continuous security improvement.
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Security Engineer
Sify Technologies Pvt Ltd
Nov 2022 - Oct 2025
Security Engineer with 3+ years of experience at Sify Technologies Pvt Ltd, delivering 24/7 SOC monitoring, alert triage, and incident response across enterprise environments handling P1, P2, and P3 incidents. Hands-on experience with SIEM and SOC platforms including McAfee ESM, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and EDR tools such as CrowdStrike and Microsoft Defender for threat detection and response. Conducted in-depth security event analysis and intrusion detection using logs from firewalls, routers, servers, databases, and other security appliances to identify and mitigate potential threats. Investigations into phishing, malware, ransomware, brute-force, and intrusion attempts, performing root cause analysis and implementing containment and eradication measures and Recovery. Performed email threat analysis by examining headers, attachments, URLs, and validating SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, providing remediation recommendations and proactively blocking malicious IOCs. Supported SIEM implementation and troubleshooting, including log source integration, IP’S configuration, resolving log visibility issues, and ensuring continuous monitoring the logs from Windows, Linux, Nutanix, HCI, and production servers. Managed security incidents using ServiceNow/ITSM ticketing, ensuring proper documentation, SLA adherence, and escalation handling. Prepared and delivered incident reports, RCA documentation, and operational dashboards, while maintaining security metrics and shift handover documentation including MOM reports. Utilized Threat Intelligence platforms such as Virus-Total, Cisco Talos, IP-Void, URL-Void, and MX-Toolbox to enrich investigations and improve detection capabilities. Prepared incident reports, dashboards, and shift handover documentation, ensuring effective communication across SOC teams.
Education
BTECH in Mechanical Engineering - Aditya College of Engineering and Technology (JNTUK)
2014 - 2018 · Afghanistan
Certifications
CompTIA Security+
· 2024
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