Baptiste Pellegrini

SOC Transformation Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

CybersecurityAzurePythonSecurity EngineerAWSSQL Queries

Languages

English (Native)French (Native)ChineseGerman

About me

Intro

I bring 10 years of cybersecurity experience, with 9 years in enterprise SOC environments within major corporations. My core focus are detection engineering, SOC build projects, incident response, and investigations. I'm specialized in Microsoft Sentinel with experience in Arcsight, RSA Netwiness, and QRadar. I worked across both on-premises and cloud environments (Azure, AWS) and hold the Microsoft SC-200 certification.

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Work experience

AXA Group Operations

Jan 2020 - May 2026

6 years 5 months

Paris, France

SOC Transformation Engineer

Feb 2022 - May 2026

4 years 4 months

Paris, France

• Expanded SOC coverage by creating detection rules for Microsoft Defender and AWS GuardDuty. • Developed alert investigation playbooks for Defender for Cloud and AWS GuardDuty. • Rewrote the entire detection catalog to enable alerting rule deployment through a new CI/CD process. • Onboarded new AXA subsidiaries into the SOC. • Designed the SOC’s MITRE ATT&CK heat map to track detection gaps. • Supervised and mentored an apprentice focused on automating the documentation of detection rules. • Technical context: Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Azure DevOps, AWS GuardDuty, Python, KQL.

SOC Analyst

Jan 2020 - May 2026

6 years 5 months

Paris, France

• Drove continuous improvement of processes and detection capabilities. • Mentored and provided technical escalation support for L1 SOC analysts. • Collaborated closely with international local teams across the globe. • Automated day-to-day operational tasks, including alert analysis and the detection of outdated code. • Technical context: Microsoft Sentinel, Cybereason, Python, KQL, ArcSight.

Sopra Steria

Oct 2015 - Dec 2019

4 years 3 months

SOC Analyst

Jan 2017 - Dec 2019

3 years

• Triaged security alerts and led incident response. • Drove continuous improvement of processes and detection capabilities. • Monitored business specific risks : power grid blackout, fraud. • Analyzed suspicious emails and malware files.

Cybersecurity Consultant

Oct 2015 - Jan 2017

1 year 4 months

Software Development Internship

FIME

Mar 2015 - Aug 2015

6 months

14000 Caen, France

Sofware Development Internship

Bosch

May 2014 - Aug 2014

4 months

74 Abstatt, Germany

Eclipse plug-ins development related to tests of the ESP (Electronic Stability Program)


Education

Université de Caen Normandie

Master E-SECURE, Cryptography, Biometrics

2014 - 2015

1 year 1 month

ENSICAEN - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen

Software engineering, E-banking

2012 - 2015

3 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Kusto Detective Agency - Call of the Cyber Duty - Case 10

Issued: Jun 2025

Certified by Microsoft

Azure Data Explorer In-A-Day

Issued: Apr 2023

Certified by Microsoft

SC200 Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate

Issued: Aug 2021

Certified by Microsoft

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Issued: Sep 2020

Certified by Microsoft

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