Damien HOTZ

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer And Architect

Salary / Daily rate

78990 Élancourt, France

Mobility: Paris, Yokohama

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

CybersecurityDesign SystemConsulting CybersecurityClean ArchitectureSplunk

Languages

French (Native)EnglishJapanese

About me

Intro

Cybersecurity Engineer with 8+ years of SOC architecture and cyber defense expertise. Led security operations from design to deployment at Airbus Defence and major enterprises, specializing in incident response and forensic investigations. Ready to architect robust security solutions and manage cyber crisis for your organization.

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Work experience

Cybersecurity Engineer and Architect

ConfidentialFreelance

Jun 2020 - Present

6 years 5 months

Remote

• Team Leader MCO/MCS - CAC40 o Management of the MCO/MCS team SplunkCloud, o Prepare for SplunkCloud migration, o Create a compliance baseline for the SOC. o Technical environment: Splunk Cloud, Azure, CrowdStrike • System compliance mission - Confidential o Define security measures to comply with French border requirements, o Technical environment: Azure, Intune • Mission to build SOC and general security - +1Bn€ o SOC architecture, o Security system deployment, o Define rules and security for hybrid structure on-premise and cloud structure, o Hardening, o Technical environment: Splunk Cloud, SentinelOne, ATP, InTune, Azure, Redhat, Windows, Cortex, PaloAlto, Fortigate. • Mission for Splunk compliance - +9Bn€ o Splunk CIM compliance. o Technical environment: Splunk Cloud, Azure, CrowdStrike • Mission for insurance broker - +250Million€ o Security project review o Network and NAC redesign o Editing of technical documentation o Technical environment: Azure, Microsoft Cloud/On-Premise, EDR Harfang, Elastic SIEM, Fortigate, Rapid7 • Mission for International Logistics and Transport - +2Bn€ o Network review worldwide physical location o Define NAC system - ZeroTrust o Security appliance Hardening o SDWAN o Centralised firewall management o Technical environment: Elastic SIEM, Fortigate, Azure, Sophos EDR, CrowdStrike • Mission for France insurance broker +1Bn€ o Network review worldwide physical location o Audit Firewall o Risk analysis – EBIOS RM o Technical environment: Azure, Fortigate, Checkpoint • Mission for Confidential - +15Bn€ o Working for NIS approval o Check security documentation for exploitation o Verification of subcontract execution and compliance • Mission for ISP o Cyber Crisis exercice – 2024 and 2025 o Build and Design the attack and the system

Integration Engineer in cybersecurity

Airbus Defence and Space Cyber Security Unit

Mar 2017 - Jul 2022

5 years 5 months

Paris, France

o Definition of a complex SOC architecture, o Definition of features and costs, o Build Tactical SOC, o Content design and production for Airbus Cybersecurity’s CyberRange, o Content design and production of complex scenario, o Content design of national crisis, o Content design and production of customers support, o Build Online cloud sandbox, o Define IT and OT attack scenario, o Creation of a live, realistic environment for the RedTeam/BlueTeam crisis exercise, o Honeypot design, o Security test for supervisory testing, o VMwareVSAN deployment.

Security Analyst / SOC

Intrinsec Sécurité

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

1 year 1 month

92000 Nanterre, France

In the SOC INTRINSEC and of the CERT-INTRINSEC - > Participation in: - Surveillance of the scopes customers through the security solutions of the SOC - Maintaining in operational condition of tools - Analyses of the vulnerabilities - Analyses and treatments of security events - Reaction to failure (intrusions,...) - Investigations / Forensic - Watch over security (threats, vulnerabilities, IOC) - Training security operatives - Communication and support - > participation in the development of the offer (R*D, improvement) and in communication actions (articles, conferences)

Intrinsec

Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

1 year

92000 Nanterre, France

System and Network engineer

Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

3 months

92000 Nanterre, France

In a team of outsourcing. Our pole is specialized in the Open-source technologies and on the network, Web infrastructure Linux and Microsoft.

System and Network engineer at l'ANDRA for Intrinsec

Jan 2015 - Oct 2015

10 months

92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France

With an on-site team of 2 people + a site manager. Management of the whole information system of the ANDRA (Agency national in the management of radioactive waste) Environment: - Storage: HP EVA, HP 3PAR - Network: HP: Switch, Heart, Switch SAN, Fiber Channel. - System: Windows Linux: Debian, Redhat, CentOS VMware - Backup: HP Dataprotector, Veeam, LTO bookshop. - Security: Syslog-ng, Checkpoint, Sophos, Proxy Appliance Cisco.

intrinsec

Sep 2012 - Jan 2015

2 years 5 months

92000 Nanterre, France

System and Network engineer

Aug 2013 - Jan 2015

1 year 6 months

92000 Nanterre, France

The creation and the follow-up of the orders of works. The regular review of the backlog. Working on platforms to diagnose, handle and solve incidents and requests of services.. Load with the control of the good realization of the automatic recurring activities (supervision, backup). - Technical skills: Networks: TCP / IP - LAN / WAN - Firewall ( Fortinet) - DNS-DHCP - VPN SSL (Juniper, SonicWall) Languages: PowerShell, Batch. Systems: Windows 2003/2008/2012 - Linux Virtualisation: VMware - VCenter Server - vSphere WEB: IIS / Apache / JBoss / Tomcat BDD: MSSQL / PostgreSQL / MYSQL Security: Kaspersky 8, Security Center 9, 10.

Helpdesk Technician

Sep 2012 - Aug 2013

1 year

Hotline users level 1. From little company to large VDI structures.


Education

Bonjour France Japon Japanese School

2019 - 2024

6 years

AFTI Orsay

Expert in Engineering and Development of Software option Cybersecurity

2016 - 2016

1 year

AFTI Orsay (Université de Thalès)

Préventeur en cybersécurité des systèmes d'information aka FORCYS (FORmation en CYberSécurité)

2016 - 2016

1 year

AFTI Orsay (Thales University)

Master 1 (M1), Admin System and network (ERE)

2014 - 2015

2 years

ecole d'informatique ESIC

BAC + 2

2012 - 2014

3 years

DUT Informatique Lannion

2011 - 2012

1 year 1 month

Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)

2010 - 2011

1 year 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Hacking et Sécurité, l'essentiel

Issued: Apr 2016

Certified by Alphorm

Hacking & Sécurité, Avancé

Issued: Apr 2016

Certified by Alphorm

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