Andrey Umnov

Senior Active Directory Specialist

Salary / Daily rate

Prague, Czechia

Freelance

Remote only

Skills

System & Network AdministrationAzureCybersecurityWindows

Languages

CzechEnglish

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.

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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

Certified by Microsoft

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Issued: Nov 2014

Certified by EXIN

MCSA: Windows Server 2008

Issued: Mar 2012

Certified by Microsoft

MCSE - Windows Server 2003

Issued: Apr 2007

Certified by Microsoft

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