# Anirudh Chandran Anirudh Chandran is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Security Consultant at Apar Technologies, based in India. Source: https://himalayas.app/@anirudhchandran ```text I’m a Senior Security Engineer and SOC Lead delivering threat detection, vulnerability management, and network security service . ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | India | | Authorized to work in | India | | Job categories | Security Operations Engineer, Network Security Engineer, SOC Lead, Threat Analyst, Security Operations, Vulnerability Manager, Incident Response, Senior Information Security Engineer, Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Senior Principal Security Engineer, Senior Security Engineering Manager, Senior Security Operations Engineer, Lead Security Engineer, Security Engineer | | Skills | Security Operations, Network Security, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, NIST CSF, Digital Forensics, EDR, XDR, NDR Systeme, SIEM, SOAR, ServiceNow ITSM, Fortinet, FortiAnalyzer, Fortimanager, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA, Cisco Identity Services Engine, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Umbrella, Swimlane, Exabeam, Solarwinds, QRadar, Splunk, Tenable.Sc, Tenable, Qualys, Bandits, Snyk, Burp suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Metasploit, Python, BASH, Perl, PowerShell, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS IAM, Akamai, Crowdstrike, Falcon, GitHub, HTML5, Hex, JSON, JavaScript, Prisma, SQL, ServiceNow, Wireshark, XML, ZAP, John The Ripper | | Portfolio | https://github.com/Anirudh-Chandran | | LinkedIn | https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirudh-chandran-4b023531 | ## What I'm looking for ```text I want a senior SOC/security role where I can lead threat hunting and vulnerability remediation, automate intelligence with Python/SOAR, and improve SLAs/MTTR in a global, compliance-focused environment. ``` ## About ```text I’m a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Security Operations, Network Security, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response across global environments. I lead threat intelligence and remediation workflows using EDR/XDR/NDR, SIEM, SOAR, and next‑generation firewalls (Fortinet, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA), grounding investigations in MITRE ATT&CK and NIST CSF. In my recent role, I led enterprise vulnerability management across 10,000+ endpoints and thousands of containers, coordinating cross‑functional remediation to reach 95% SLA compliance for critical CVEs. I also automate manual threat intelligence collection to reduce analyst effort by 50% and improve detection and response outcomes—achieving 30% fewer recurring high-severity findings in my prior engagement and reducing MTTR by 25% with enterprise detection tooling. ``` ## Experience ### Senior Security Consultant (current) Apar Technologies. Aug 2025 - Present ```text Led enterprise vulnerability management across 10,000+ endpoints, 500+ servers, and thousands of containers, monitoring emerging threats and coordinating remediation with cross-functional teams. Tracked global threat intelligence and processed thousands of CVEs, issuing 200+ security bulletins and achieving 95% SLA compliance for critical CVE remediation. ``` Skills: Vulnerability-Management, CVE, Threat-Intelligence, Patch-Management, ServiceNow-ITSM, SLA ### Cyber Security Engineer Smarttech247. Dec 2023 - Aug 2025 ```text Owned endpoint security, vulnerability management, threat monitoring, and incident response for global infrastructure spanning 10,000+ endpoints and 500+ servers. Reduced recurring high-severity findings by 30%, improved detection coverage by 40%, and decreased MTTR by 25% using EDR/XDR/NDR and SOAR/SIEM tooling. ``` Skills: Endpoint-Security, Cisco-Umbrella ### Vulnerability Analyst [Wipro](https://himalayas.app/companies/wipro-limited). Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 ```text Performed vulnerability scans across global environments and maintained threat dashboards while coordinating mitigation with internal teams. Reduced report creation time by 50% via Python scripting and decreased security incidents by 25% by identifying and remediating critical/high-risk vulnerabilities. ``` Skills: Tenable.Sc, Vulnerability-Assessment, Threat-Dashboards, Python, Report-Automation, Scheduled-Scanning ### Firewall Administrator [Wipro](https://himalayas.app/companies/wipro-limited). Apr 2017 - Dec 2021 ```text Managed and administered next-generation firewalls for a global network, responding to live incidents in a 24x7 environment and protecting domains from emerging threats. Resolved Priority 3/4 tickets within 2 hours, improved ServiceNow data provisioning accuracy to 95%, and increased efficiency by 90% through script-based automation. ``` Skills: Cisco-ASA, ServiceNow, DDoS-Related-Change-Handling ## Education ### Dublin Business School M.Sc in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity. 2022 - 2023 ```text M.Sc in Cybersecurity at Dublin Business School from September 2022 to October 2023. ``` ### Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Integrated M.Tech in VLSI, VLSI. 2017 - 2021 ```text Integrated M.Tech in VLSI at Vellore Institute of Technology from April 2017 to March 2021. ``` ### Prajyoti Niketan College B.Sc in Electronics, Electronics. 2013 - 2016 ```text B.Sc in Electronics at Prajyoti Niketan College from April 2013 to March 2016. ``` ## Tech stack - Splunk - AWS IAM - GitHub - Akamai - Gmail - JavaScript - HTML5 - JSON - Perl - PowerShell - XML - Solarwinds - Wireshark - ZAP - Prisma - Qualys - CrowdStrike - Cisco ASA - Tenable.sc - Cisco Umbrella - FortiAnalyzer - P2 - Zap - SQL - ServiceNow - Snyk - Burp Suite - Nmap - Metasploit - Hex - OWASP ZAP - Bash - Exabeam - Enhance - Swimlane - Falcon To contact Anirudh, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [vivek ahuja](https://himalayas.app/@vivekahuja): Senior SOC Engineer, Tech Mahindra Allyis Ltd. - [Anup Maurya](https://himalayas.app/@anupmaurya): Security Engineer, Tektronix (Connexials) - [Nikhil Kumar](https://himalayas.app/@nikhilkumar12): Lead IT & Information Security, Allianz Technology - [Subash Muthu](https://himalayas.app/@subashmuthu): Information Security Specialist, HCLTech - [Abhinay Yadav](https://himalayas.app/@abhinayyadav): Security Delivery Lead, Accenture - [Karthik Ranga](https://himalayas.app/@karthikranga): Founder & Security Architect, The Aegis - [Abhinash Koppula](https://himalayas.app/@abhinashkoppula1): Sr Cyber Security Engineer, NextBee Media Corporation - [Tejo User](https://himalayas.app/@tejouser): Senior Security Analyst, Comcast India Engineering Centre - [Sparsh Bhatia](https://himalayas.app/@sparshbhatia): Professional Security Engineer L2, Ingram Micro - [Tushar Agarwal](https://himalayas.app/@tusharagarwal2): Senior Security Engineer, Naviga Global