
Baptiste Pellegrini
SOC Transformation Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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.
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 • Automated day-to-day operational tasks, including alert analysis and the detection of outdated code.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
Azure Data Explorer In-A-Day
Issued: Apr 2023
SC200 Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate
Issued: Aug 2021
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Issued: Sep 2020