Firas Ajjuri

Cyber security engineer

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London, Greater LondonMember since March 12, 2023

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About

Looking to move into the cyber securtity domain. Experienced infrastructure of 15 years.

Experience

June 2022 to present. Avanade – Cloud Engineer, Senior Analyst. London, UKWorking as a cloud engineer on various projects for clients in different business sectors including:

Migration of Linux servers into Azure using Azure Site Recovery
Installation of LAMP stack on an Ubuntu Linux server and using this as a template within a gallery
Migration of various Azure resources between subscriptions
Peering of VNets

January 2020 to June 2022. The Royal Household – Projects System Engineer. London, UKWorked as a systems engineer on various projects for the Royal Household, including:

Technical lead of the finance systems upgrade, which included, building the infrastructure in the cloud, working with 3rd party on application installation, being responsible for training and pilot testing of the upgrade with a finance team of 50 users, ensuring communication was given to senior stake holders such as, the Master of the Household and the Keeper of the Privy Purse
Worked on VMWare upgrades and updating
The sole engineer working on penetration testing remediation
Audited entire IT staff and management access and translated current on-prem access to be done via Azure RBAC

November 2019 to January 2020. McLaren Group – Senior Engineer. London, UKAll work was focused on the internal infrastructure, which was primarily a Hyper-V virtualised server environment. Role included:

Updating the Hyper-V infrastructure as per internal patching schedules
Building Hyper-V infrastructure with high availability
Designed and implemented SCVMM 2019 infrastructure

August 2017 to June 2019. Glint Pay – Senior Infrastructure Engineer. London, UKWorked in a very busy financial start up as the sole infrastructure and security engineer, where the responsibilities included:

Configuring access to servers and resources using AWS IAM
Responsible for all new user onboarding and leaver offboarding
Worked alongside the Chief Compliance Officer to devise and implement phishing tests using the “knowbe4” product
Conducted investigation into senior member of staff with the support of the Chief Compliance Officer
Implemented policies within Mimecast to catch “hot words” related to financial illegal activity
Administrated Office 365 access ensure anything that had sensitive data was managed according to financial regulatory laws

June 2016 to August 2017. Doherty Associates – Senior Engineer. London, UKWorked for multiple clients within this managed service provider as a senior engineer, where responsibilities included:

Deploying changes into Hyper-V, VMWare and Citrix virtualised environments
Building Hyper-V and VMWare infrastructure
Designing and implementing group policies for various clients
Being the technical lead on a Windows 10 migration project

November 2013 to April 2016. Hitachi Consulting – Infrastructure Engineer. London, UKWorking as an infrastructure engineer in a very busy environment and working on various projects reporting to the IT manager and Chief Operations Officer. Responsibilities included:

Implementing a sandbox environment in Azure for a prestigious financial client of 12 servers, SQL instances in each server and configuring the necessary NSG’s for the network connectivity between the servers
Firewall administration and network monitoring and troubleshooting
Project work, including, building virtual servers using Hyper-V and Azure. Building Hyper-V hosts, Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager design and deployment, Microsoft Data Protection Manager server build with SQL backend setup and connecting the server to disk pool and the design, deployment of laptop image building using Microsoft MDT 2013.
Administrating all company backups

July 2013 to November 2013. Connect Personal Computing – 2nd Line Engineer. London, UK2nd Line IT engineer reporting to Chief Operations Officer, responsibilities included:

SonicWALL firewall administration
Hyper-V and VMware administration
Dealing with escalations from 1st level team

October 2011 to November 2012. Ergo IT Solutions Provider – IT Engineer. Dublin, IrelandIT Engineer working on infrastructure issues for over 150 internal staff and multiple external clients, where responsibilities included:

Perform daily and weekly system security and backup checks and produce reports
Troubleshooting, diagnosing and resolving all IT issues remotely and in person
Document procedures and complex resolutions/process on internal SharePoint
Provide technical training to customers and internal staff as necessary

August 2010 to October 2011. Decision Support Systems – 3rd Line Engineer. Dublin, IrelandIT Engineer working on infrastructure issues for over 150 internal staff and multiple external clients. Responsibilities included:

Daily SCOM monitoring of machines and resolving all issues which arise in critical alerts
HP Command view monitoring of SAN replication
IIS 6 and 7 – Troubleshooting and resolving website and application issues
Exchange 2007/2010 – creating mailboxes and verifying exchange services are running

July 2008 to August 2010. General Delegation of Palestine – IT Support. Dublin, IrelandProvided onsite support to the General Delegation of Palestine, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Responsibilities included:

Operating systems installations
Backups
Router installation
Network installation

February 2007 to July 2008. Hewlett Packard – 1st/2nd Line Support. Dublin, IrelandWorked under Hewett Packard supporting two of their clients - Thames Water and Citizens Advice. Responsibilities included: