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Mahmoud B.MB

Mahmoud B.

SecOps & SOC Engineer | Azure Cloud | DevSecOps

€750/day
Paris, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Mahmoud

Infrastructure Engineer specializing in SecOps/SysOps and Azure Cloud, with significant experience in implementing secure and high-performance solutions for complex environments.

Expert in securing hybrid infrastructures (Azure / VMware): vulnerability detection and remediation, system hardening, patch management, secure CI/CD, and active monitoring with tools like CrowdStrike, Tenable, Defender, and Sentinel.
My expertise extends to managing cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure), virtualization (VMware, Nutanix), and securing systems through DevSecOps practices and identity and access management. I have contributed to large-scale international projects, bringing technical mastery in system administration, automation (Terraform, PowerShell, Ansible), and security management (PKI, vulnerabilities, EDR, IAM).
Key Skills:

SecOps: Vulnerability Management, Remediation, Patch Management, Hardening

SOC: Alert Monitoring, Incident Analysis, Detection Rules (Splunk, Sentinel)

PKI: Internal and External Certificate Management, ADCS, Evertrust CLM

IAM/PIM: Access Governance, Zero Trust, Role Management

DevSecOps: Secure CI/CD SAST/SCA with NexusIQ, Snyk, Fortify



  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • KPMG
    Senior SecOps Engineer
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    November 2024 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
    Courbevoie, France
    SecOps Engineer :
    • Monitoring of IS security supervision services
    • Client support in defining their operational security strategy (Organization, Technical IS Supervision)
    • SOC incident analysis and response.
    • Creation of detection rules on Azure Sentinel
    • Security solution benchmarking
    • Maintenance of detection matrix
    • Implementation and architecture of Qualys
    • Ensure vulnerability monitoring (via Qualys, Microsoft Defender, or pentest results): detection, qualification, action plan, patch management coordination.
    • Implement and configure hardening measures on Windows and Linux systems
    • Lead cross-functional security projects (hardening, security onboarding, technical evolutions)
    • Implementation of Microsoft Defender: MDE, MDI, and MDC
    • Participate in machine onboarding into security tools (EDR MDE, log management) and maintain asset inventory
    • Identify trends, anomalies, correlations, or potential incidents
    • Analyze information from internal sources (SOC, CTI, VOC)
    Azure Sentinel Qualys Patch Management Vulnerability Management Splunk
  • TF1 SA
    Cloud/SecOps Engineer
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    July 2023 - October 2024 (1 year and 3 months)
    Boulogne-Billancourt, France
    Context :
    Contribution to the implementation of Security best practices

    Mission :
    🔹 SecOps :
    • Vulnerability detection and management using Tenable and CrowdStrike CSPM.
    • Development of remediation action plans and follow-up with IT teams for vulnerability correction.
    • Implementation of Zero Trust best practices and monitoring of critical access.
    • Participation in security reviews to ensure effective remediation and prevent vulnerability exploitation.
    • Management and Administration of Crowdstrike (Agent installation, IOC, IOA)
    • Management of internal and external certificates (PKI).
    • Incident and request response
    • Development of the Patch Management process and reporting.
    • Administration of identities and access (IAM, PIM) in Azure to ensure strict privilege control.
    • AD, System Hardening
    🔹 Collaboration with the SOC team and risk assessment
    • Monitoring of security alerts and incidents in collaboration with the SOC.
    • Threat analysis and updating SIEM correlation rules for proactive detection.
    • Participation in audits and risk assessments to identify areas for improvement in cybersecurity.
    🔹 Hybrid infrastructure management and administration

    • Monitoring of VMware, Linux, and Windows environments.
    • Server administration and virtualization management.
    • Patch Management and update monitoring to ensure system stability and resilience.
    🔹 Automation & DevSecOps
    • Automation of security policy deployments with Terraform.
    • Securing CI/CD pipelines with Snyk to prevent vulnerability-related risks.
    • Implementation of security policies integrated into the development cycle to ensure compliance from design.

    Technical Environment :VMware, Windows, Linux, Acunetix, SCCM, DevOps, SecOps, Azure AD, PKI, EDR, Infrastructure, AD, Tanium, Tenable, SOC
    Cybersecurity Crowdstrike PKI Tanium EDR
  • Huawei Technologies France
    Senior Cloud Engineer
    TECH
    March 2022 - July 2023 (1 year and 4 months)
    Boulogne-Billancourt, France
    Context :

    Mission :

    Security :

    ✓ PKI project for internal and external certificate management
    ✓ Patch Management via SCCM
    ✓ Vulnerability Management via Tenable
    ✓ Contributes, in close collaboration with the CISO, to the application and evolution of cybersecurity rules for development teams
    ✓ Regular evaluation of existing systems and proposals for improvements.

    Cloud Infrastructures :
    ✓ Deploy and manage environments in the Cloud (AWS, Azure)
    ✓ Ensure the security, performance, and evolution of infrastructures
    ✓ Identify, analyze, and remediate vulnerabilities and issues in infrastructures and applications.


    DevSecOps :
    ✓ Integrate security from the design phase via SonarQube & Acunetix
    ✓ Automate security tests and vulnerability detection
    ✓ Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance
    ✓ Support developers and monitor remediation of SAST and SCA vulnerabilities

    Administration :
    ✓ Windows and Linux System Administration
    ✓ Deployment and administration of VMware environments
    ✓ Automation of deployments via Powershell
    ✓ Writing of Technical Design Documents, Test Plans, Low-Level Designs

    Technical Environment : VMware, Windows, Linux, Terraform, Jenkins, Acunetix, SCCM, DevOps, SecOps, Azure AD, Azure IaaS and PaaS.
    EDR Linux Active Directory Microsoft Defender SecOps

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Education

  • State Engineer in Telecoms and Networks
    National School of Applied Sciences
    2018
    Ingénieur d'état en Télécoms et Réseaux

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