Apurva Bhardwaj

Security Engineer | Detection Engineering • SIEM/SOAR • Security Analytics

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GurgaonMember since September 30, 2026

Google SecOps (Chronicle SIEM/SOAR)YARA-L detection rulesSOAR playbook automationAlert tuning & false-positive reductionLog source onboarding & ingestion validationPalo Alto NetworksBusiness Continuity PlanningDisaster Recovery & tabletop exercisesIT Contingency Planning (ITCP)Third-Party Risk ManagementRisk & impact assessmentRecovery objectivesPythonPandasNumPyScikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowKerasSQLMySQLPL/SQLETL pipelinesData modellingMongoDBGitPower BIQlik SenseTableauAdvanced Excel

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Google SecOps (Chronicle SIEM/SOAR)YARA-L detection rulesSOAR playbook automationAlert tuning & false-positive reductionLog source onboarding & ingestion validation

About

Security Engineer at Deloitte USI (Cyber Defense & Resilience) with 1 year of experience delivering security operations and resilience engagements for banking, insurance and healthcare clients. Hands-on in detection engineering on Google SecOps (Chronicle SIEM/SOAR) (YARA-L rules, SOAR playbooks, SIEM log onboarding), plus BCP/DR and third-party risk work. B.Tech in Data Science Engineering with strong Python, SQL and machine learning skills applied to alert tuning, log data quality and security analytics.

Experience

Security Engineer at Deloitte USI (2025-09 – Present)

Cyber Defence & Resilience (Security Operations)

Detection engineering: Built and tuned custom YARA-L detection rules in Google SecOps (Chronicle SIEM/SOAR) for a major banking client and automated incident response playbooks, reducing false-positive alert volume by ~20% for targeted threats.
SIEM log onboarding: Validated and documented the onboarding of 15+ firewall log sources into a centralised logging architecture for a global insurance client, running ingestion checks for log completeness, consistency and SIEM correlation readiness.
Third-party risk & BCP: Performed data-driven risk analysis of 10+ critical third-party processes for a banking client; facilitated resilience workshops with application owners on likelihood, impact and mitigation readiness, and converted findings into application-specific Business Continuity Plans with proportionate recovery objectives.
Disaster recovery: Reviewing and validating ITCP and DR plans for 20+ applications in an ongoing healthcare spin-off migration, partnering with the DR team to assess plans against application risk profiles and verify recoverability through tabletop simulations.

Business Intelligence & Analytics Intern at Escorts Kubota Ltd. (2024-05 – 2025-07)

Built ETL pipelines integrating 300K+ records from ERP, dealer systems and manual logs, cutting data preparation time by ~30%; added deduplication logic to fix duplicate dealer entries inflating volume figures.
Delivered 4+ interactive Qlik Sense dashboards on sales performance, dealer trends and production KPIs for sales, manufacturing and supply chain teams.
Built a Total Industry Volume (TIV) dashboard across 10+ product segments for senior leadership benchmarking and scripted its monthly refresh, reducing effort from ~2 days to under 4 hours.