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Kundankumar Saraf

@kundankumarsaraf

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Cybersecurity Program Manager building and optimizing 24×7 remote SOC operations.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m actively seeking remote leadership roles combining SOC people management and deep technical involvement—building, scaling, and stabilizing SOC operations while optimizing cost and driving strong incident response, SLAs, and client satisfaction.

I’m a Cyber Security Program Manager with 15+ years of experience leading GLOBAL REMOTE SOC operations and large-scale cyber transformation programs across US, EU, and APAC clients. I specialize in building SOC from scratch, stabilizing operations within Q1–Q2, and transitioning to BAU with high client satisfaction.

I lead globally distributed 24×7 SOC teams, drive incident response and escalation management, and improve MTTD/MTTR and SOC efficiency through automation and process optimization. I’ve delivered measurable impact by reducing alert noise (~70/day to ~30/day) and cutting delivery cost by 30% using strategic resource pyramid models, while guiding SOC assessments, SIEM engineering (Splunk, Sentinel, Securonix), and compliance requirements like SOC2, HIPAA, and GDPR.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Freelance Security Consultant

String Head Technologies

Feb 2016 - Jul 2020 (4 years 5 months)

Developed Splunk apps and add-ons for diverse data sources, optimizing alerts, dashboards, and knowledge objects to improve detection quality. Supported cyber kill-chain and threat landscape analysis to design actionable detection strategies.

Splunk Enterprise SIEM Engineering Alert Tuning Detection Engineering Threat Hunting Threat Intelligence