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Cybersecurity Engineer
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Professional summary
Cybersecurity Engineer with 6 years protecting cloud and hybrid environments in fintech and healthcare. Built Splunk detections that cut mean time to detect from 9 hours to 40 minutes, led a vulnerability management program that reduced critical findings by 80%, and rolled out phishing-resistant MFA to 3,000 employees. CISSP and AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
Skills
Network security · IAM · SIEM · Vulnerability management · Incident response basics · Cloud security · Hardening · Risk assessment · Scripting · Compliance awareness · Git · Linux
Experience
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer — Company Name
2021 – Present
- Built 60+ Splunk detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, cutting mean time to detect from 9 hours to 40 minutes.
- Led a vulnerability management program with Tenable and patch SLAs, reducing open critical vulnerabilities by 80% in 6 months.
- Rolled out phishing-resistant MFA and conditional access in Microsoft Entra ID to 3,000 employees, reaching 98% enrollment in 8 weeks.
- Hardened 400 Linux and Windows servers against CIS Benchmarks, raising average compliance scores from 61% to 92%.
- Led response to a ransomware attempt, isolating affected hosts within 30 minutes and restoring services from backups with no data loss.
Projects
Home SOC Lab | Wazuh, Sysmon, Active Directory, Kali Linux, Python
- Built a Windows Active Directory lab with Sysmon logging forwarded to a Wazuh SIEM.
- Simulated Kerberoasting and brute-force attacks from Kali Linux and wrote 15 custom detection rules.
- Automated alert enrichment with a Python script querying the VirusTotal API and documented each investigation as an incident report.