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Utkarsh Singh

@utkarshsingh16

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I lead cybersecurity assurance, risk, and vulnerability programmes that improve enterprise security posture.

United Arab Emirates

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead cybersecurity assurance, GRC, vulnerability management, and secure-by-design programmes where I can improve security posture, translate risk for senior stakeholders, and build scalable, proactive security practices.

At Dell Technologies, I coordinate security assurance across enterprise, Fortune 500, and telecom portfolios, connecting governance, secure coding, threat intelligence, and architecture into a single risk view. My work improved customer security posture by 60% across the managed portfolio.

I own assurance from control design and effectiveness reviews through risk tracking, remediation validation, and audit evidence for ISO/IEC 27001, PCI-DSS, NIST, and CIS Controls. I translate material findings into clear decisions for senior leadership, C-suite, boards, and technical teams.

I lead risk-based vulnerability and threat management, CAASM, purple-team exercises, and control validation using platforms including Tenable Security Center, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Qualys VMDR, Nessus, and Burp Suite Pro. I reduced incident response time by 30% and helped improve threat-detection accuracy by 50% through application security architecture redesign.

Earlier, I led vulnerability management for enterprise and telecom customers at SecurityHQ, built automated patching for more than 500 servers at Qualys, and designed resilient network infrastructure for BBC and University of Birmingham clients. I also mentor junior consultants and build practical, risk-aware security cultures.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Security Consultant

Current

Dell Technologies

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 8 months)

Coordinates security assurance across enterprise and telecom portfolios, integrating outputs from specialist teams and tracking risks to closure. Improved customer security posture by 60% and reduced incident response time by 30%.

Lead, Vulnerability and Threat Management

SecurityHQ

Dec 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 1 month)

Led vulnerability and threat management for enterprise and telecom customers, including DU Telecom, mitigating over 5,000 threats annually and cutting incident response times by 30%. Achieved full PCI-DSS compliance and ran security audits.

Vulnerability Management Threat Management Detection and Response (VMDR) Platforms Nessus Burp suite PCI DSS Incident Response Security Audits Risk Prioritization Asset Identification remediation

Data Centre Architect (Part-Time)

IPGlobal Tech

Oct 2019 - Jun 2020 (8 months)

Engineered and deployed scalable network architectures achieving 99.9% uptime for clients including the BBC and the University of Birmingham. Configured and troubleshot Cisco routers and switches and maintained data centre hygiene standards.

Network Architecture Cisco Routers Cisco Switches Data Centre Management Troubleshooting High Availability

Cloud Infrastructure Patch Management Engineer

Qualys

Jul 2017 - Sep 2019 (2 years 2 months)

Built an automated patch management pipeline across 500+ servers using Ansible and Jenkins, improving efficiency by 50% and maintaining FedRAMP compliance. Automated VMware ESXi and Dell PowerEdge patching and owned server architecture and performance tuning.

Patch Management Ansible Jenkins VMware ESXi Dell PowerEdge IDRAC Vulnerability Analysis FedRAMP Server Architecture Performance Optimization

Network Engineer

SecurView

Aug 2015 - Jul 2017 (1 year 11 months)

Delivered Level I and II support for over a dozen clients, monitoring network devices and servers within SLAs. Implemented firewall and network changes, stabilized Cisco ASA firewalls, and produced performance reports.

Network Support Cisco ASA Firewall Configuration Network Monitoring Troubleshooting Cisco TAC Reporting

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Completed the Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity course on LinkedIn in 2024.

Google Cloud

Industrial IoT on Google Cloud, Industrial IoT on Google Cloud

Completed the Industrial IoT on Google Cloud course in 2023.

ISO/IEC 27001:2013

Information Security Awareness, Information Security Awareness

Completed the Information Security Awareness training based on ISO/IEC 27001:2013 in 2022.

Risk Management for Cybersecurity and IT Managers

Risk Management for Cybersecurity and IT Managers, Risk Management for Cybersecurity and IT Managers

Completed the Risk Management for Cybersecurity and IT Managers course in 2022.

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure, Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Completed the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course in 2022.

Microsoft

SC-900, Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals

Completed the SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals certification in 2022.

Securing Containers and the Kubernetes Ecosystem, Securing Containers and the Kubernetes Ecosystem

Completed the Securing Containers and the Kubernetes Ecosystem course on LinkedIn in 2021.

Qualys

Qualys FIM, File Integrity Monitoring

Completed the Qualys File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) certification in 2021.

Penetration Testing: Advanced Web Testing, Penetration Testing: Advanced Web Testing

Completed the Penetration Testing: Advanced Web Testing course on LinkedIn in 2021.

Qualys

Qualys VMDR, Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response

Completed the Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) certification in 2021.

Coventry University

Master of Science, Cyber Security

MSc in Cyber Security from Coventry University, UK, completed in 2020. Dissertation focused on the design and delivery of a production-grade Cyber Range for immersive security training.