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ANALYST CAPABILITY PROFILE

Pramod Rodge

Cybersecurity Engineer & SOC Analyst
Pramod Rodge
Function
Blue team — SOC operations, detection engineering
Experience
2 years · 24x7 multi-tenant MSSP
Primary platform
CrowdStrike Falcon (enterprise fleet)
Location
Mumbai / Pune, India
Languages
English, Hindi, Marathi
Availability
Open to new roles
1.0SummaryKey judgements

Summary

Two years working the defensive side of a 24x7 multi-customer MSSP: working a high-volume alert queue a week, administering CrowdStrike Falcon across a fleet of more than 5,000 endpoints, and writing the detection rules and SOAR playbooks that keep the same alert from reaching a human twice.

The through-line is automation of the repetitive part of the job. Where a detection is reliable, it gets a playbook that enriches, decides and contains on its own — leaving analyst attention for the cases that genuinely need judgement. Detection logic lives in version control rather than a console, so changes are reviewable and attributable. Certified across the CrowdStrike stack, Microsoft security operations, and cloud blue team analysis.

2.0CapabilityDomain assessment

Capability assessment

Self-assessed against evidence from operational work. Confidence is highest where the work is daily and certified, lower where exposure is real but periodic.

DomainEvidenceConfidence
Endpoint security & EDRFalcon administration at enterprise scale; policy tuning; agent deployment and troubleshooting; CCFA certifiedHigh
SOAR automationFalcon Fusion SOAR playbooks for triage, isolation, notification and reporting; FALCON 114/115 certifiedHigh
Alert triage & escalationHigh-volume triage across endpoint and SIEM in multi-tenant environmentsHigh
Detection engineeringCustom SIEM rules authored and tuned; GitHub-backed rule repository deployed across client tenants; CrowdStrike SIEM EngineerHigh
Identity & access securityConditional access policy design across customer tenants; ITDR coverage; ITSEC 121/122Working
MITRE ATT&CK investigationIOC and threat intel correlation to technique level; coverage gap analysis across endpoint and cloudWorking
Stakeholder reportingRecurring incident and risk reports; root-cause documentation for audit and lessons-learnedWorking
Vulnerability assessmentNetwork and system assessments; penetration testing support during 2023–24 internshipFamiliar
AI-augmented operationsFalcon MCP Server lab/POC evaluation; CrowdStrike AIDR certifiedFamiliar
3.0EngagementsSelected work

Selected engagements

Four pieces of work that changed how the SOC runs, rather than closing a single ticket.

3.1 — SOAR AUTOMATION

End-to-end playbooks for recurring alert classes

Designed and deployed Falcon Fusion SOAR playbooks covering the full path from detection to closure: automated triage and enrichment, device isolation on confirmed true positives, analyst and customer notification, and generated reporting. Alert classes that previously consumed a queue slot now arrive as a summary rather than a task.

ASSESSED OUTCOMEMeasurable reduction in mean time to respond and in manual analyst intervention.
3.2 — DETECTION ENGINEERING

Version-controlled detection rules across client tenants

Stood up and maintained a GitHub repository for SIEM detection rules, replacing console-resident logic with reviewable history, rollback and a single source of truth. Authored and tuned the rules, deploying across multiple client environments with per-tenant tuning so one customer's noise never became the shared baseline.

ASSESSED OUTCOMEConsistent detection logic across clients, every change attributable to an author and a reason.
3.3 — IDENTITY SECURITY

Conditional access policy design across customer tenants

Designed and implemented identity-based conditional access policies to strengthen authentication controls at the point of sign-in, paired with ITDR coverage. Moves a class of credential-driven attacks from detect-and-respond to never-completed.

ASSESSED OUTCOMEReduced identity-driven attack surface; fewer credential-abuse escalations reaching the queue.
3.4 — AI-AUGMENTED OPERATIONS

Evaluation of agent-assisted triage

Lab and POC evaluation of CrowdStrike's Falcon MCP Server, querying detections and host data through natural-language prompts to establish where agent-assisted triage shortens an investigation and where analyst judgement remains necessary. Scoped deliberately as evaluation rather than production.

ASSESSED OUTCOMEA grounded view of where AI-assisted triage belongs in the workflow, and where it does not yet.
4.0HistoryOperational record

Operational history

Cybersecurity Engineer & SOC Analyst

Nov 2024 — Present
Amazure Technology Pvt Ltd
  • Triage and investigate a high-volume alert queue across endpoint and SIEM platforms in a 24x7 MSSP-style multi-customer environment, escalating confirmed incidents and reducing false-positive volume through refined Falcon detection policies.
  • Design and deploy Falcon Fusion SOAR playbooks automating alert triage, device isolation and analyst notification, directly lowering MTTR and analyst workload.
  • Administer and fine-tune CrowdStrike Falcon across an enterprise endpoint fleet, including agent installation, configuration and troubleshooting.
  • Maintain a GitHub repository of version-controlled SIEM detection rules enforced across multiple client environments.
  • Design and implement identity-based conditional access policies across customer environments.
  • Evaluate and onboard new security products, including WatchGuard and Kitecyber, into SOC monitoring and response workflows.
  • Author recurring incident and risk reports translating technical findings into remediation recommendations.
  • Correlate threat intelligence and IOCs against MITRE ATT&CK techniques to strengthen endpoint and cloud detection coverage.
  • Execute recurring security audits and document incident timelines and root-cause findings for compliance and lessons-learned review.

SOC Analyst (Intern)

Apr 2024 — Oct 2024
TechDefenceLabs Solutions Ltd
  • Monitored and triaged security alerts using SIEM tooling, correlating logs and network traffic patterns to identify anomalies.
  • Carried out initial triage and escalated confirmed incidents to senior analysts with supporting documentation.
  • Contributed to detection and response playbooks automating recurring threat scenarios.

Security Analyst (Intern)

Dec 2023 — Mar 2024
TechDefenceLabs Solutions Ltd
  • Performed vulnerability assessments across network and system infrastructure, identifying misconfigurations and exposed services.
  • Supported penetration testing engagements, validating findings and documenting exploitation paths.
  • Conducted SIEM log analysis to detect events and correlate indicators.

Lab Technician (Intern)

Nov 2022 — May 2023
Parul University
  • Set up, maintained and troubleshot networks, switches, routers and lab systems supporting practical cybersecurity sessions.
  • Supported OS installation, configuration and lab environment maintenance.
5.0ToolingPlatform inventory

Tooling inventory

Marked entries are daily drivers held under certification.

SIEM & MONITORING

  • CrowdStrike Falcon NG-SIEM
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Securonix
  • Splunk
  • Wazuh
  • FortiSIEM

ENDPOINT & EDR

  • CrowdStrike Falcon
  • TrendMicro Vision One
  • Trellix EDR/ENS
  • WatchGuard
  • Kitecyber

SOAR & AUTOMATION

  • Falcon Fusion SOAR
  • Playbook design
  • Automated remediation
  • Alert correlation

DETECTION ENGINEERING

  • Custom rule development
  • GitHub rule repository
  • Multi-client deployment
  • Rule tuning

IDENTITY & ACCESS

  • Conditional Access design
  • ITDR
  • IAM controls

INVESTIGATION

  • MITRE ATT&CK
  • IOC analysis
  • Threat hunting
  • Root cause analysis

AI-AUGMENTED OPS

  • Falcon MCP Server
  • CrowdStrike AIDR
  • Agent-assisted triage

NETWORKING & GOVERNANCE

  • TCP/IP · DNS · HTTP/HTTPS
  • Traffic analysis
  • Security policy development
  • Playbook documentation
6.0CredentialsVerified

Credentials

Multi-Cloud Blue Team Analyst (MCBTA)Cyber Warfare
Certified Falcon Administrator (CCFA)CrowdStrike
SIEM EngineerCrowdStrike
AIDRCrowdStrike
FALCON 114 & 115 — Fusion SOARCrowdStrike
ITSEC 121 & 122 — Identity ThreatCrowdStrike
SC-200 Security Operations Analyst AssociateMicrosoft
Network Defense Essentials (NDE)EC-Council
Network Security Essentials 1, 2, 3Fortinet
Cybersecurity EssentialsCisco

EDUCATION

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering (Cyber Security)Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat · 2021–2024 · GPA 7.00

LANGUAGES

English, Hindi and Marathi — professional working proficiency.

DEPLOYMENT

Mumbai / Pune, India. Available for rotating shift coverage and remote multi-tenant SOC work.

7.0ContactDistribution

Contact

Building a SOC, need detection engineering and SOAR automation, or hiring blue team analysts — get in touch. I reply to everything.

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