Ismael Jimenez

Cloud Security Architect

About Me

Hi, my name is Ismael and I’m a cloud security architect, with extensive experience in the design and deployment of security solutions in on-premises and cloud environments for compliance with standards such as PCIDSS and ISO27001. I have worked at a number of companies gaining teamwork and leadership skills.

I am most skilled in: AWS and Eating Chanchamitos

Certifications

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Experience

Lead DevOps Security Engineer

EPAM Systems

October 2020 - Present

epam.com

Lead cloud migration projects for biggest entertainment company in the world

  • Fleet Lead DevOps
  • Cloud Security Architecting
  • Kubernetes operation management
  • GitLab CI/CD pipeline development
  • Jenkins pipeline management
  • Projects migration to microservices
  • Application containerization
  • Chef server management
  • Cloud infrastructure management and automation
  • ElasticSearch Internal Mentor
  • Technical Interviewer
  • First party data project
  • AWS SM integration with EKS

Pentester

GMSECTEC

February 2020 - October 2020

gmsectec.com

Security assessments and penetration testing

  • Network penetration testing
  • Web penetration testing
  • Mobile penetration testing

DevOps Engineer L2

PriceTravel Holding

2019 - February 2020

pricetravel.com

Security and observability automation for cloud environments

  • Centralized logging project (Loki)
  • Deploy OpenTracing project for cloud applications (Jaeger)
  • Cloud infrastructure administration (AWS)
  • EKS cluster deploy through terraform
  • JenkinsX Project on AWS

Security Analyst

PriceTravel Holding

2015 - 2019

pricetravel.com

Security services design and deployment for PCIDSS compliance

  • Security events monitoring
  • Vulnerability Scans and Analysis
  • Penetration Test
  • IDS/IPS installation and configuration
  • Servers implementation in Docker
  • Servers and network devices hardening
  • Security policies and procedures development
  • Projects
  • ELK implementation
  • Fortiauthenticator + TFA implementation
  • PCI DSS v3.2.1 compliance

Sysadmin L3 DevOps

PriceTravel Holding

2014 - 2015

pricetravel.com

Systems administration and infrastructure automation

  • Telecomunications Network administration and maintenance
  • Hyper-V infraesctructure administration
  • HAProxy administration
  • Web server administration (IIS, Apache, nginx)
  • Security tasks
  • Vulnerability scan and analysis
  • Penetration test
  • Web server stress test
  • Network traffic monitoring
  • Server updates and patch
  • Event correlation implementation
  • Firewall and servers hardening
  • Users network support
  • Projects
    • PtP link 40km implementation
    • Backup server implementation (Bacula)
    • VPN IPSEC service implementation
    • WiFi fast roaming
    • Datacenter Expansion (USA).

Database Administrator

Dolphin Discovery

2012 - 2014

dolphindiscovery.com

Database and systems administration

  • Telecomm network administration and maintenance
  • Server administration SQL Server
  • Database tuning and monitoring
  • Database backup and maintenance tasks
  • Mail server admininstration
  • Intranet administration
  • Photo system support
  • Backup server administration
  • VMWare administration
  • Network support to users
  • Network support and installation in Grand Cayman, Tortola y Anguila, B.V.I.
  • Security tasks
  • Server vulnerability scans and analysis.
  • Server penetration test.
  • Network monitoring
  • Server update.
  • Firewall and server hardening
  • Security policies and procedures development (Password, email and Internet use)

Network Administrator

Dolphin Discovery

2007 - 2012

dolphindiscovery.com

Network and systems administration

  • Network maintenance and administration
  • Servers maintenance
  • Network services administration (FTP, Mail, VPN, Proxy, Web)
  • WiFi devices administration
  • Web tools development to administer network services
  • Network users support
  • Network monitoring
  • Intranet administration
  • Internal web sites administration

Education

Universidad del Sur

PHD degree

2022 - 2024

Computer Systems Engineering PHD

Universidad del Sur

Master's degree

2014 - 2015

Master in telecommunications

Instituto Tecnológico de Cancún

Engineer's degree

2002 - 2007

Computer systems engineering with networking and telecommunications specialty