Zohaib Matloob
SOC Analyst | Security Operations & Incident Response
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About
Cybersecurity graduate (FAST-NUCES) with 2+ years in security engineering and incident response. Led the containment, forensic investigation, and eradication of a live Linux botnet compromise on a multi-tenant production server serving a financial-sector client. Deployed and led a full SOC stack (Wazuh, Suricata, Zeek, Elastic Stack, MISP, TheHive) covering log ingestion, detection rules, alert triage, and automated response. Available for on-site rotating SOC shifts.
Experience
Security Engineer - TechSwitch - Remote
(2026-06)
- Led end-to-end incident response on a compromised production MDM server hosting five tenant dashboards including a financial-sector client; triaged host and network telemetry to confirm an Outlaw Linux botnet infection and contained outbound SSH bruteforce abuse at the host firewall.
- Performed in-depth analysis of security events across a 10-week compromise window: process and socket triage, log correlation, 11 MB artefact capture with a 51-file hash manifest, C2 mapping, and IOC extraction for estate-wide sweeping.
- Eradicated all persistence — malicious crontabs, an attacker-installed SSH backdoor key, staging directories, live scanner and IRC backdoor processes — and verified the host in a full post-remediation pass.
- Hardened the host via firewall rule configuration and optimisation (default-deny ruleset, public listening ports cut from 13 to 4, source-restricted SSH, rebuilt fail2ban) and authored the formal incident report with root-cause analysis, credential-exposure assessment, and recommendations escalated to senior management.
MDM Deployment Engineer - TechSwitch - Remote
(2026-01 - 2026-05)
- Onboarded 1,000+ UBank endpoints onto the TechSwitch MDM platform, enforcing endpoint security policy at scale across a mixed fleet; performed full server installation, network integration, and production-readiness validation.
- Validated endpoint controls across enrolled devices: policy enforcement, application distribution, remote wipe, and compliance reporting for client audit requirements.
RPA Engineer - Agility and Innovation - Rawalpindi
(2024-04 - 2025-09)
- Deployed UiPath Orchestrator end-to-end for University of Chicago Medicine, a regulated healthcare environment: IIS/SSL configuration, dedicated application-pool service accounts, and four SQL Server databases under Windows Integrated Authentication.
- Implemented least-privilege access control across the tenant — user and role assignments, folder-level permissions, and Credential Store entries for secure domain-account execution — and supported 13 production automations across three unattended robots.
Education
Bachelor - Cybersecurity - FAST-NUCES (2022-08 - 2026-06)
