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Munirathnakumar Sivaramakrishnan

Munirathnakumar Sivaramakrishnan

Kuala Lumpur

Summary

  • Highly accomplished Lead Product Security Engineer with 17.5 years of IT experience in the financial services industry.
  • Recognized CNCF Kubestronaut, a title awarded to individuals who have successfully passed all 5 CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA, KCSA), demonstrating deep expertise in Cloud & Container Security, SRE, DevOps, Production Engineering, and Solutions Architecture.
  • Currently leading product security initiatives, including the development of an automated threat modeling tool to proactively identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Actively building a solution to validate security controls of software components within the pipeline, ensuring compliance through a shift-left approach.
  • Serving as a trusted Cloud & Container Security Advisor across Corporate and Retail Banking domains, driving secure cloud adoption aligned with the bank's Agile, Digital transformation, and Cloud-first strategy.
  • Possesses hands-on technical skills in Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Azure, and AWS platforms.
  • Experienced in ensuring the stability, 99.99% application availability, blue-green deployments, and overall resiliency of containerized components as a Certified Kubernetes Professional and System Reliability Engineer.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
17
17
Certifications

Work History

Lead Product Security Engineer

Standard Chartered Global Business Services Sdn.Bh
07.2024 - Current
  • Engineered and implemented an in-house solution for automated security control validation within the software pipeline, ensuring continuous compliance and fostering a shift-left security approach.
  • Designed and developed an automated tool for threat modeling, improving early detection and mitigation of security risks in software development.
  • Architected and deployed a secure jump host solution to enable privileged activities within data center foundation services, strengthening overall infrastructure security posture.
  • Provided expert guidance and architectural oversight to ensure secure integration of security principles within product development initiatives.
  • Contributed to the establishment of secure development practices by building and implementing tools for pipeline security and compliance.
  • Collaborated with development and operations teams to embed security seamlessly into the software development lifecycle.

Principal Cyber Security Consultant

Standard Chartered Global Business Services Sdn.Bhd
12.2020 - 06.2024
  • As part of Bank's Agile, Digital transformation and Cloud first strategy, acting as Cloud & Container Security Advisory across Corporate banking and Retail Banking Domains to securely migrate solutions onto public Cloud and Container platforms
  • Responsible for Cloud workload security assessments, internal process audits, Cloud platform level operational risk assessments, streamlining Cloud security governance, Security review of Technical Implementation Procedures of newly on-boarded cloud and container services with Bank wide ICS governance policies
  • Setting up Runbook and patterns for IaaS / Container solution security reviews
  • Implementing DevSecOps practices to secure Infrastructure as Code pipelines, Container deployment pipelines, defence-in-depth container security Implementation
  • Threat Modelling of applications and Cloud services that are on-boarded using MITRE ATT&CK framework
  • Security Monitoring Detective, Preventive and Corrective controls Implementation and proposals for Public cloud and Container platforms and applications
  • Cloud solutions Risk assessment using Bank wide Operational Risk assessment, GRAM scale rating by considering threat likelihood and financial loss incurred
  • Management reporting on overall security posture, Stakeholder management with Internal 2nd Line of Defense HICS , BSO, CISRO, internal audit teams and External Cloud Service Providers.

Site Reliability Engineer

Standard Chartered Global Business Services Sdn.Bhd
09.2016 - 11.2020
  • Developed automation self-healing scripts in Talend, shell & python to maintain application resilience
  • Manage stability, operation, capacity ,DR capability and resilience of API Banking Application
  • Responsible for configuring monitoring for all application components
  • Developed single end to end dashboard to detect anomalies in application
  • Analyzing the data on Kibana, Grafana and ITRS and deriving performance of the products
  • Stabilizing the servers
  • Responsible for setting up ELK platform, parsing unstructured logs using regular expressions to structured JSON format
  • Identify the root cause of various system alarms/alerts
  • Recommend changes to avoid their recurrence
  • Review of application architecture on every release in terms of resilience, capacity and application high availability

Production Support Engineer

Scope International Ltd
03.2013 - 08.2016
  • Resolving high Severity Incidents
  • Performed root cause analysis and implemented corrective actions
  • Discuss all production support aspects with application development management
  • Interact with infrastructure, release management, change management, DBA and application teams
  • Provide regular status reports to management on application status and other metrics
  • Prioritize issues raised and resolve it accordingly.

Senior Software Engineer

HCL AXON Sdn Bhd
09.2010 - 03.2013
  • Design production support procedures, policies and documentation
  • Organize multiple production issues, customer requests and inquiries from other sources
  • Delegate resolving issues, requests when required
  • Installs, configures, troubleshoot, monitor and maintain software
  • Fine tuning SQL queries

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2007 - 08.2010
  • Design production support procedures, policies and documentation
  • Delegate resolving issues, requests when required
  • Installs, configures, troubleshoot, monitor and maintain software.

Education

B-Tech - EEE

SASTRA UNIVERSITY
06.2003 - 05.2007

Skills

DevOps/DevSecOps

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Timeline

Lead Product Security Engineer

Standard Chartered Global Business Services Sdn.Bh
07.2024 - Current

Principal Cyber Security Consultant

Standard Chartered Global Business Services Sdn.Bhd
12.2020 - 06.2024

Site Reliability Engineer

Standard Chartered Global Business Services Sdn.Bhd
09.2016 - 11.2020

Production Support Engineer

Scope International Ltd
03.2013 - 08.2016

Senior Software Engineer

HCL AXON Sdn Bhd
09.2010 - 03.2013

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2007 - 08.2010

B-Tech - EEE

SASTRA UNIVERSITY
06.2003 - 05.2007
Munirathnakumar Sivaramakrishnan