Punnary Menon
Verified Expert in Engineering
Senior Platform Architect and Developer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal member since December 31, 2020
Punnary is a cloud security and cloud solutions architect with proven architectural, training, and technical project management skills. He is an MS Certified Trainer, Azure Security Engineer Associate, and Azure Architect Expert AZ-305. Punnary has expert knowledge and exposure in Azure Cloud Security, Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Identity and Access, Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and MS 365 solutions. Also exposed to AWS Cloud and Terraform IaaC tools.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Sentinel, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Azure Active Directory, Cloud Security, Azure, Active Directory Federation, MCSE | Data Platforms, AWS Cloud Architecture, Terraform
The most amazing...
...project was successfully migrating a large enterprise workload setup to Azure and implementing cloud security around them.
Work Experience
Senior Manager
Cognizant
- Designed and developed a landing zone in Microsoft Cloud to onboard the non-integrated acquired entities.
- Migrated Windows devices from one Intune tenant to another Intune tenant.
- Designed and developed a lifecycle process around the onboarding activities of the acquired entities.
Senior Technical Architect
Mindtree Limited
- Worked for an American/Dutch information services company called Wolters Kluwer, migrating the identity and access to Azure Cloud and strengthening the overall identity and access management and cloud security.
- Contributed to multiple Windows 10 client migrations for a German-based building materials company called Knauf.
- Worked within an internal team of architects on various proofs of concepts, requests for proposals (RFP), and client presentations for Mindtree, an IT service provider.
Associate Architect
Happiest Minds Technologies
- Worked within an internal team of architects on various proofs of concepts, requests for proposals (RFP), and client presentations for Mindtree, an IT service provider.
- Migrated an MDM solution from Air Watch to Microsoft Intune for the client TMF Group, which provides accounting, tax, HR, and payroll services to businesses.
- Worked within an internal architect team, designing solutions, writing proposals, giving demos to the clients of Happiest Minds Technologies (an IT service provider).
Cloud Specialist
Experis IT Limited for MIcrosoft
- Worked as part of the Microsoft Enterprise team and successfully supported enterprise customers in Office 365 onboarding as a part of the fast-track team for Experis IT, a manpower group and resourcing partner to Microsoft.
- Supported the Azure Infrastructure setup and provided onboarding assistance.
- Supported enterprise customers in Office 365 migrations.
System Administrator
Electronics for Imaging
- Helped with Office 365 migrations and provided support as part of the internal IT team of Electronics for Imaging, which is an international company based in Silicon Valley that specializes in digital printing technology.
- Supported the internal Windows Server, Active Directory, ADFS, Exchange Server, and the Office 365 environment.
- Delivered training for the Office 365 environment and migration.
Technical Engineer
Convergys Limited
- Worked as part of the Microsoft Enterprise support team and supported exchange online migrations for enterprise customers from on-premise exchange servers for Convergys, an ITES provider and resource partner to Microsoft.
- Supported Exchange Online support issues for enterprise customers.
- Supported the Azure Active Directory infrastructure for enterprise-level customers.
Technical Engineer
Sutherland Global Services
- Supported individual customers as part of the ATT Connect Tech program for Windows Client issues on behalf of Sutherland, a business process transformation company. It supported individual customers and enterprise customers.
- Supported customers for internet connectivity modem issues.
- Provided support to customers concerning DVR and printer issues.
Senior Technical Analyst
Allianz Technology
- Worked as part of the internal IT support team by supporting end-users' issues regarding their PC, mailboxes, and so on for Allianz Cornhill Information Services, a business-process-and-solution company.
- Supported Windows Active Directory Forest, domains, and Exchange Servers.
- Oversaw ITIL methodologies, IT incident management, and IT change management.
Experience
Identity and Access Management Project
After migrating the identities to Azure, they needed governance so we implemented an identity lifecycle using access reviews, entitlement management, and the entire security was designed as per Zero Trust Security principles using Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and access reviews.
Application Migration to the Cloud
Strengthening Office 365 Security
Migration of a Mobile Device Management Solution to Microsoft Intune
Mailbox Migration from Exchange Server 2007 to Office 365
Azure Onboarding Assistance
Windows 10 Migration
SCi MAr One Project
• Designed the Azure infrastructure from scratch.
• Provisioned workloads and services in Azure and got the apps working.
• Created the security baseline for the workloads deployed in Azure.
• Developed the app service and Azure functions.
• Setup the workflows using Azure Logic Apps.
• Optimized the compute platform.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering
University of Calicut, Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram - Sreekrishnapuram, Kerala, India
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
Microsoft
AZ 304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Microsoft
Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA)
Microsoft
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
ITIL
Skills
Tools
Sentinel, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange Online, ADFS, Microsoft Intune, Terraform
Platforms
Azure, Azure PaaS, Azure, Windows Development, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Development, AWS
Storage
Azure, Microsoft Exchange Server, Azure
Languages
C++
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell
Other
Cloud Monitoring, MDM Intune Services, Technical Training, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Office 365, Monitoring, Cloud Security, Cloud Engineering, MCSE | Data Platforms, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Windows 10, DvaJS, Migration Methods, Cloud Migration, Cloud Architecture, Azure AD Application Proxy, Migration Engineering, Security, Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure, Compliance, Identity, AWS Cloud
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