
Andrey Umnov
Senior Active Directory Specialist
Salary / Daily rate
Prague, Czechia
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Infrastructure Engineer with 10+ years in enterprise Active Directory and Identity Security. Expert in hardening, securing, and automating hybrid AD environments (200k+ users) across pharma and finance sectors. Experienced in threat mitigation, PowerShell automation, and Zero Trust identity principles using Entra ID and Microsoft Defender for Identity and enterprise-grade security tools.
Work experience
Active Directory Specialist
AdeccoFreelance
Apr 2021 - Oct 2025
4 years 7 months
Prague, Czechia
• Provided L3 technical support for AD and dependent services. • PowerShell automation of key IAM processes • Set up tiered AD environments and conducted knowledge transfer to operations teams.
Active Directory Specialist
SandozFreelance
Jan 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year 7 months
Remote
•Supported corporate spin-off project through AD migration and schema modernization. •Strengthened AD security by implementing tiered administration and regular PingCastle and Qualys audits. •Collaborated with security teams to implement MS Defender and endpoint protection tools on DC servers. •Delivered PowerShell automation for provisioning, auditing, and reporting. •Managed Group Policy creation, design, troubleshooting, and documentation. •Implemented Quest Recovery Manager for AD backups with disaster recovery (DR) solution. •Automated privileged account reviews and password rotations using PowerShell, cutting incidents by 30%.
Active Directory Specialist
Novartis
Jan 2019 - Dec 2023
5 years
Prague, Czechia
•Maintained multi-forest AD infrastructure (500K+ objects) with full policy compliance (L2/L3 support). •Executed AD upgrades, migrations, and security hardening in accordance with enterprise policies. •Integrated McAfee/Trellix and Cortex XDR solutions for DC server protection. •Conducted incident investigations and log analysis using Splunk and Guardicore. •Resolved complex AD issues, such as authentication problems, replication failures, and DNS config errors.
Security Analyst
ING
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
7 months
Prague, Czechia
• Take a part in the 'IT Risk within Risk Appetite' (ITRwRA) programme. Project covers following IT Risk areas: Foundation, Identity & Access Management, Platform Security, Change Management, IT Resilience, and Security Monitoring. • Creation of the Operational Security Guidelines (OSG) and Risk Assessment (RA) documents for critical applications. • Collaboration with application owners and business parts for gathering required information for OSG and RA. • Building reports for Steering committee.
Database Administrator
UEFA
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 7 months
1260 Nyon, Switzerland
• Database Administration (installation, maintenance, configuration, and provisioning tasks for MS SQL clusters) • Match Night Live Support by monitoring of database performance and quick solving issues. • Optimize hardware configuration and SQL licenses (migration DEV instances to free licence). • Technical support of the web site www.uefafoundation.org (LAMP stack).
Technical Support Engineer
Barclays
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
2 years 3 months
Prague, Czechia
Software Development Environments Management and Configuration Management: • New environments setup DEV/UAT/SIT/TEST (bCloud, VMWare, AWS, F5 Load Balancers, DNS tools, HCE MS SQL databases) • Maintenance, configuration, and monitoring of existing environments (Netcool Internet Service Monitoring, PowerShell scripts writing) • Deployment applications on Windows servers (CA Release Automation, Nolio Agents) • Environment documentation management, issues troubleshooting (CMDB, Jira, Confluence) • Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management (ServiceNow)
Application Support Specialist
DHL IT Services Europe
Apr 2008 - Jul 2015
7 years 4 months
Prague, Czechia
Responsibilities/Daily tasks: • Act as ‘Service owner’ for a set of applications, monitoring and reporting on service levels attained for these applications • Collaborate with specialists of other applications and developers. • Solve service issues in cooperation with database administrators, Wintel/Linux support teams, network team • Participate in monthly service performance review, yearly vendor management process
Windows System Administrator
IBM
Dec 2005 - Dec 2007
2 years 1 month
Brno, Czechia
Responsibilities/Daily tasks: • Provide technical support of customer’s IT infrastructure by implementing IBM software tools for security compliance and centralized server management • Implementation of IBM software tools for security compliance and centralized server management. • Perform OS patching Updating operating systems security patches, antivirus protection, services and accounts management, vulnerability and attack detection, event log analyzing. • Problem and Change Management according to ITIL methodology. Technologies, tools and methodologies used: Windows, ITIL, WSUS, IBM ManageNow, IBM Tivoli, Bugzilla.
Education
Samara State Aerospace University
Master's degree, Electronics Engineering
1990 - 1996
5 years 7 months
Licenses & certifications
MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration - Certified 2018
Issued: Apr 2018
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Issued: Nov 2014
MCSA: Windows Server 2008
Issued: Mar 2012
MCSE - Windows Server 2003
Issued: Apr 2007