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Aliakber Y.
Cyber Security | Cloud | Windows | Linux
Houston, TX, United States
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Education:
Master's degree
Computer Science
University of Houston
2018 : 2019
Bachelor’s Degree
Management Information Systems, General
University of Houston
2012 : 2016
Computer Science
University of Houston
2018 : 2019
Bachelor’s Degree
Management Information Systems, General
University of Houston
2012 : 2016
Experience:
•Working with diverse set of IT security subject areas such as vulnerability and risk management, security & privacy, Identity and access management, SSO/MFA, disaster recovery preparedness, e-discovery support, PCI, SOX, PIE data protection and security operations.
•Champion security improvements, and facilitate remediation in partnership with cross functional teams
•Perform risk assessments and execute tests of data recommendations
•Deployment of security software and tooling to stay in security compliance using various tools
•Handling of CCPA requests and manage the day-to-day operation of tickets and making sure we stay compliant
•Advanced knowledge and skillset used for vulnerability management using tools such as Nessus & Qualys to secure our sensitive data and critical assets from current and emerging threats
•Troubleshoot and quickly resolve escalated incidents. Also suggest corrective actions for team.
•Apply knowledge of software development principles, best practices and technologies to the design, development and maintenance of the company's information technology security systems
•Improving security posture by detecting and remediating security threats using SCCM, PDQ, Group Policy and Windows Registry Keys
•Design, build, configure, maintain, monitor cybersecurity threat defense capabilities and user access management
• Engineer SSO, MFA integration and management of Duo within our environment
• Coordinate integration and collaboration with managed security providers
•Providing security guidance and best practices
•Investigate and Remediate Cyber Security Incidents
•Troubleshoot various systems problems such as application related issues, network related issues and infrastructure related issues
•Work on implementing preventative and detective information security controls to secure the company’s data, information and resources
•Perform security specific project tasks
2019 : Present
The Home Depot
CyberSecurity Systems Engineer II
2019 : 2021
The Home Depot
IT CyberSecurity Analyst
•Working knowledge of AWS Services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and coming trends in the Cloud space
•Monitor performance levels on all systems : Microsoft Dynamics AX, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, SharePoint, Microsoft Core Office Products and Citrix
•Provide high-level architectural guidance on AWS and Improved Cloud computing and Infrastructure by leveraging AWS services.
• Configured AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) Group and users for improved login authentication
• Participated in development, testing and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Also suggested tweaks in architecture which could potentially save a lot of money
• Work as part of a team, to design and develop cloud data solutions
• Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services
• Work on Day to Day Server maintenance task using commands like nslookup, ping, top, vmstat, IOStat and tcpdump
• Troubleshoot various systems problems such as application related issues, network related issues and infrastructure related issues
• Create scripts to automate common tasks
• Created nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups
• Analyze and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance
2016 : 2018
Mattress Firm
ITS Systems/ Cloud Engineer II
• Day to Day troubleshooting on Network, Disk space, file system, related issue on Red Hat Linux.
• Teach and train faculty/ students in proper usage of the Engineering college computer systems in classroom setting.
• Performed new hardware and Linux OS installations, patching and upgrades.
• Monitor and test network performance and provide network performance statistics
• Performed routine LVM tasks like replacing failed drives, adding new volume groups, extending volume groups/LVM/file system, exporting and importing volume group for hardware migration.
• Performed routine and preventative maintenance such as general computer tasks, application loads, disk utilization, system loading and system monitoring
• Maintain onsite SAS and NAS Storage units using RAID to ensure reliability and redundancy.
• Performed troubleshooting of CPU and Memory bottle necks and gave suggestions to the team on performance improvements using PERFMON on Windows Server
• Automated system jobs using bash shell scripts for system services and incremental backups of client data.
2014 : 2015
University of Houston, Houston,TX
System Administrator
•Champion security improvements, and facilitate remediation in partnership with cross functional teams
•Perform risk assessments and execute tests of data recommendations
•Deployment of security software and tooling to stay in security compliance using various tools
•Handling of CCPA requests and manage the day-to-day operation of tickets and making sure we stay compliant
•Advanced knowledge and skillset used for vulnerability management using tools such as Nessus & Qualys to secure our sensitive data and critical assets from current and emerging threats
•Troubleshoot and quickly resolve escalated incidents. Also suggest corrective actions for team.
•Apply knowledge of software development principles, best practices and technologies to the design, development and maintenance of the company's information technology security systems
•Improving security posture by detecting and remediating security threats using SCCM, PDQ, Group Policy and Windows Registry Keys
•Design, build, configure, maintain, monitor cybersecurity threat defense capabilities and user access management
• Engineer SSO, MFA integration and management of Duo within our environment
• Coordinate integration and collaboration with managed security providers
•Providing security guidance and best practices
•Investigate and Remediate Cyber Security Incidents
•Troubleshoot various systems problems such as application related issues, network related issues and infrastructure related issues
•Work on implementing preventative and detective information security controls to secure the company’s data, information and resources
•Perform security specific project tasks
2019 : Present
The Home Depot
CyberSecurity Systems Engineer II
2019 : 2021
The Home Depot
IT CyberSecurity Analyst
•Working knowledge of AWS Services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and coming trends in the Cloud space
•Monitor performance levels on all systems : Microsoft Dynamics AX, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, SharePoint, Microsoft Core Office Products and Citrix
•Provide high-level architectural guidance on AWS and Improved Cloud computing and Infrastructure by leveraging AWS services.
• Configured AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) Group and users for improved login authentication
• Participated in development, testing and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Also suggested tweaks in architecture which could potentially save a lot of money
• Work as part of a team, to design and develop cloud data solutions
• Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services
• Work on Day to Day Server maintenance task using commands like nslookup, ping, top, vmstat, IOStat and tcpdump
• Troubleshoot various systems problems such as application related issues, network related issues and infrastructure related issues
• Create scripts to automate common tasks
• Created nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups
• Analyze and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance
2016 : 2018
Mattress Firm
ITS Systems/ Cloud Engineer II
• Day to Day troubleshooting on Network, Disk space, file system, related issue on Red Hat Linux.
• Teach and train faculty/ students in proper usage of the Engineering college computer systems in classroom setting.
• Performed new hardware and Linux OS installations, patching and upgrades.
• Monitor and test network performance and provide network performance statistics
• Performed routine LVM tasks like replacing failed drives, adding new volume groups, extending volume groups/LVM/file system, exporting and importing volume group for hardware migration.
• Performed routine and preventative maintenance such as general computer tasks, application loads, disk utilization, system loading and system monitoring
• Maintain onsite SAS and NAS Storage units using RAID to ensure reliability and redundancy.
• Performed troubleshooting of CPU and Memory bottle necks and gave suggestions to the team on performance improvements using PERFMON on Windows Server
• Automated system jobs using bash shell scripts for system services and incremental backups of client data.
2014 : 2015
University of Houston, Houston,TX
System Administrator
Company:
The Home Depot
Years of Experience:
8
Skills
Active Directory, Amazon Web Services (AWS), chef, cmd, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Data protection, Docker, Duo, Endpoint Security, git, High Availability, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Information Security, Java, Kubernetes, Linux, Management, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Networking, Patch Management, PDQ, Puppet, Python, Qualys, Red Hat Linux, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Testing, Sophos, Tenable Nessus, Threat & Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning
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