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Mihran Tepeli

Senior Network Security Architect / Engineer

€700/day
Bruxelles, BE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Mihran

With 25 years of experience running & securing critical infrastructures, I specialise in operationalising security. I bridge the gap between audit requirements and technical reality by implementing high-resiliency architectures, robust segmentation, and comploiancy-aligned remediation projects.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Dutch

    Fluent

  • Turkish

    Basic

  • Armenian

    Basic

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

Experience

  • Ypto
    Network/Security Coordination Engineer
    TRANSPORTATION
    January 2020 - January 2024 (4 years)
    Bruxelles, Belgium
    • - Liaising with stakeholders (service providers, internal clients and external vendors (Managed Supply Chain Security and vendor risk))
    • - Ensure continuous operational governance through the daily operations
    • - Act as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Network/Security Operations (incidents, problems) to ensure alignment with ISO 27001 Annex A controls
    • - Project coordination following "Directed 'Security by Design' initiatives: migrations (proxy, remote access : reenforcing Identity and Access Management (IAM) through MFA, dc switches, large-scale segmentation), lifecycle management
    • - Collaborating with Information System Security Officer on Change Management : assessment / creation / support of Network/Firewall Changes + Risk & related impact analysis
    • - Patch Management & CVE Response : Reviewing on a regular basis the Vulnerability Management Lifecycle by Managed Service Provider & against cve.org /
    • - Policy Drafting & Compliance (AlgoSec) : performing periodic reviews to eliminate redundant or 'shadow' rules, thereby enforcing the Principle of Least Privilege across the network infrastructure hence keeping Firewalls audit ready.
    • - Chaired technical risk assessments within the Change Advisory Board (CAB), evaluating the security impact of firewall and network modifications to prevent unauthorised access and maintain audit-ready compliance
  • EUROCONTROL BE
    Network and Security Engineer & Coordinator
    AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
    January 2018 - January 2020 (2 years)
    • - Network : Governed the security architecture of Enterprise Asset Management across WLAN, LAN, WAN, and Data Center environments, enforcing network segmentation controls to protect critical business information assets
    • - Security : Managed the end-to-end lifecycle of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and network security controls (NAC 802.1X, S2S VPN, Firewalls), ensuring compliant and secure Remote Access for internal and external stakeholders
    • - Project : Led the Security Integration of new business partners and site expansions, implementing Security by Design principles during the rollout and lifecycle management of network services to mitigate Third-Party Risk
    • - Business Continuity Management : Architected and validated Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) frameworks; designed and tested redundancy strategies for Campus and Partner environments to meet NIS2 Availability and Resilience requirements
    • - Patch Management & CVE Response : Managed the Vulnerability Management Lifecycle, prioritising remediation efforts based on and business impact to ensure continuous compliance and organisational risk thresholds + Reduced the corporate attack surface by implementing a proactive patch management program, aligning technical remediation with documented SLA requirements for critical security updates
    • - Policy Drafting & Compliance (AlgoSec) : performing periodic reviews to eliminate redundant or 'shadow' rules, thereby enforcing the Principle of Least Privilege across the network infrastructure hence keeping Firewalls audit ready.
    • - Represented the Security function at the Change Advisory Board (CAB), conducting Technical Risk Assessments for major infrastructure changes to ensure alignment with the organisation's Risk Appetite and regulatory obligations
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    EMEA Telecom Engineer
    January 2007 - January 2010 (3 years)
    • - Regional Infrastructure & Support : Defined EMEA-wide system requirements and security baselines for campus and partner telecommunication network & Tier-3 incident and problem management for remote and on-site infrastructures, ensuring high-availability connectivity
    • - Global Strategic Coordination : Synchronised regional deployments with global WAN architecture teams to align EMEA operations with corporate backbone standard & orchestrate with cross-functional managers and engineers to large-scale technology refreshes and global change window
    • - Operational Resilience (BCM) : Architected and implemented redundancy solutions for campus and partner sites to eliminate single points of network failure & Directed Disaster Recovery (DR) design and validation drills, optimising failover convergence and documented recovery objectives (RTO)

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Education

  • Industrial Engineering in Electronics (Telecom)
    Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles (ISIB)
    1996
    Industrial Engineering in Electronics (Telecom)
  • Business Continuity Management Professional Certified Risk Management Professional (CRMP) Cyber Security Risk Management Cyber Security Professional (CCS-PRO) PRINCE2
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    Business Continuity Management Professional Certified Risk Management Professional (CRMP) Cyber Security Risk Management Cyber Security Professional (CCS-PRO) PRINCE2

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