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

Experience
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
Security assessments and penetration testing
- Network penetration testing
- Web penetration testing
- Mobile penetration testing
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 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
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 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 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