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Kiranjit Raju

@kiranjitraju

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Experienced IT professional specializing in SOC, NOC and Windows infrastructure.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I am seeking a security- or infrastructure-focused role where I can apply SOC/NOC expertise, advance in IT security, work within ITIL processes and contribute to incident response and platform tuning.

I am a security-cleared IT professional with over 20 years hands-on experience across 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support, SOC and NOC operations, and Windows/virtualisation administration. I hold multiple Microsoft certifications (MCSA, MCSE Exchange), CCNA and recent SIEM fundamentals training, and I have supported multinational investment, financial and government clients.

I currently work as an L1 SOC Analyst monitoring, triaging and responding to alerts across SOAR/SIEM platforms and have led major-incident escalations and NOC duties including Hyper-V/vSphere, Azure, Intune, Exchange and various monitoring tools. I am customer-focused, methodical, ITIL-aware and keen to progress deeper into IT security and network infrastructure roles.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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L1 SOC Analyst

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Acora IT Managed Services

Jun 2023 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Monitor, triage and respond to SOC/NOC alerts for 20+ clients using SIEM/SOAR and EDR tools, lead out-of-hours escalations and produce MSR reports to close incidents within SLA.

SIEM SOAR SentinelOne Crowdstrike Incident Response PRTG Azure ServiceNow

Senior Shift Analyst

Daisy IT Corporate Services

Sep 2015 - Jun 2023 (7 years 9 months)

Provided 1st/2nd line 24/7 support for 5,000+ users across multiple contracts, monitored network alerts, administered Azure AD/Intune and led major incident escalations on ServiceNow.

Azure AD Intune Cisco Meraki Aruba LogicMonitor Citrix VMWare Office 365 ServiceNow

Senior Shift Analyst

Phoenix IT Group

Dec 2010 - Sep 2015 (4 years 9 months)

Delivered 2nd line support and AD/Exchange administration for security-cleared contracts and ~3,000 users, managing telephony and server alerts while performing user/account provisioning.

Active Directory Exchange VMWare Horizon Windows Server AD Provisioning Monitoring

2nd Line Endpoint Support

Santander Bank

Dec 2009 - Sep 2010 (9 months)

Provided 2nd line endpoint support for 10,000+ users across branches, performing remote rebuilds, profile repairs, VPN and Pointsec troubleshooting and AD account administration.

Dameware RDP Active Directory Pointsec Citrix Imaging

IMAC Administrator

Barclaycard

Oct 2008 - Apr 2009 (6 months)

Provided IMAC services for ~3,000 users including laptop reconfiguration, VPN and BES/BlackBerry setup, and remote software deployments and reporting.

IMAC R Active Directory VPN Deployment SafeBoot Software Packaging User Onboarding

3rd Line Server Support Engineer

EDS

Jan 2007 - Feb 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Supported 50–70 Wintel servers for GM UK in a Remote Server Management team, handling patching, backups (TSM) and server incident management across multiple sites.

Windows Server Remote Management Active Directory Patching Service Management

1st/2nd Line Migration Engineer

Primary Care Trust

Jun 2007 - Sep 2007 (3 months)

Led AD domain migration for ~2,000 users across 28 sites, performing profile migrations, AD administration and onsite support during a large NT-to-XP domain consolidation project.

User Profiles Desktop Support DNS DHCP

1st/2nd Line Helpdesk Analyst

BNP Paribas UK

Jan 2006 - May 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Delivered 1–2 line helpdesk support for ~6,000 users with ~80% FCR, administering Wintel and Citrix environments, Lotus Notes and Blackberry within an ITIL/Remedy framework.