🖥️ System Administration#

Core Infrastructure#

  • Windows Server administration (2012/2016/2019/2022)
  • Linux server administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL)
  • Active Directory design, Group Policy (GPO), and OU structure
  • DNS, DHCP, and NTP service configuration and troubleshooting
  • File server and print server management
  • Local and domain user account provisioning
  • Role-based access control (RBAC) implementation
  • Remote desktop and terminal services configuration
  • Task scheduling and service monitoring

Security and Compliance#

  • Patch management and WSUS/SCCM automation
  • Antivirus/EDR deployment and baseline enforcement
  • Secure baseline hardening (CIS/NIST benchmarks)
  • Audit policy and log retention setup
  • LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution)
  • Disk encryption with BitLocker and LUKS

Virtualization and Storage#

  • VMware vSphere and ESXi administration
  • Hyper-V configuration and clustering
  • Snapshot, cloning, and VM migration tasks
  • iSCSI, NFS, and SMB storage configuration
  • RAID array monitoring and diagnostics

Scripting & Automation#

  • PowerShell scripting for AD and patching tasks
  • Bash scripts for backups, logs, and crons
  • Python for file system monitoring and API integration
  • Scheduled task and cron job automation
  • Remote command execution and orchestration

📋 Project & Technical Leadership#

Project Planning & Oversight#

  • Defining scope, goals, and deliverables aligned with business objectives
  • Developing project charters and technical roadmaps
  • Work breakdown structure (WBS) creation and milestone tracking
  • Risk assessment and mitigation planning
  • Budget estimation and resource planning
  • Change management and approval workflows

Leadership & Cross-Team Coordination#

  • Leading cross-functional teams of engineers, analysts, and stakeholders
  • Facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
  • Driving stakeholder engagement and executive alignment
  • Conflict resolution and team morale building
  • Mentoring junior staff and developing training material

Technical Execution & Oversight#

  • Overseeing implementation of Windows and Linux server solutions
  • Ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards
  • Managing deployments, migrations, and infrastructure rollouts
  • Coordinating patching, hardening, and remediation efforts
  • Aligning engineering work with GRC and security architecture requirements

Monitoring & Reporting#

  • Tracking KPIs and project health metrics
  • Status reporting to leadership and project sponsors
  • SLA management and service improvement planning
  • Post-implementation review and RCA facilitation

🔐 Cybersecurity Skills#

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)#

  • Security and risk management
  • Legal, regulatory, and privacy compliance
  • Risk assessment and mitigation
  • Security governance principles
  • Security policy development
  • Data classification and handling

Cloud Security#

  • Cloud architecture and design

Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR)#

  • Incident handling and response
  • Memory and disk forensics
  • Timeline and file system analysis
  • Malware analysis fundamentals
  • Evidence collection and preservation
  • Chain of custody and legal hold
  • Log analysis and correlation
  • Network flow and packet analysis

Threat Detection & Monitoring#

  • SIEM use
  • Packet capture and analysis
  • Intrusion detection systems (IDS)
  • NetFlow and protocol analysis
  • Logging and monitoring configuration

Offensive Security (Red Team)#

  • Penetration testing methodologies
  • Exploitation techniques
  • Post-exploitation techniques
  • Password cracking and credential attacks
  • Web application testing
  • Reconnaissance and footprinting
  • Bypassing security controls
  • Adversary emulation

Identity and Access Management (IAM)#

  • Authentication methods
  • Authorization models
  • Federation and single sign-on (SSO)
  • Privileged access management
  • Multi-factor authentication integration

Security Architecture and Engineering#

  • Secure design principles
  • Cryptographic concepts and applications
  • Secure network architecture
  • Systems hardening and configuration
  • Application of zero-trust principles

Security Operations#

  • Security operations and administration
  • Business continuity and disaster recovery
  • Incident management lifecycle
  • Ticketing and escalation workflows
  • Log retention and audit policy enforcement

Network Security#

  • TCP/IP stack analysis
  • Firewall and VPN configuration
  • Intrusion detection and prevention systems
  • Network protocol forensics
  • Network segmentation and access control

System Administration & Automation#

  • Windows Server administration
  • Linux system administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL)
  • Active Directory configuration and management
  • Group Policy Object (GPO) implementation
  • Patch management and system hardening
  • User and permissions management
  • Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox)

Scripting & Automation#

  • Python scripting for automation and analysis
  • PowerShell for Windows management
  • Bash scripting for Unix/Linux automation
  • Task scheduling and automation pipelines
  • Log parsing and report generation scripts
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) fundamentals

Firewall & Perimeter Defense#

  • Stateful and stateless firewall configuration
  • NAT, port forwarding, and DMZ setup
  • Ruleset optimization and access control lists (ACLs)
  • VPN setup (IPSec, SSL VPN)
  • Traffic inspection and logging

Infrastructure & Platform Security#

  • Network segmentation and microsegmentation
  • DNS security and sinkholing
  • Email security (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
  • Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
  • Asset inventory and network visibility

AWS Security#

  • IAM Policies, Roles, and Permission Boundaries
  • VPC security groups, NACLs, and flow logs
  • CloudTrail configuration and alerting
  • AWS Config rules and compliance tracking
  • GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Detective
  • Identity Federation and AWS SSO
  • AWS WAF and Shield configuration
  • Secrets Manager and parameter store usage

🧰 Tools & Platforms#

Forensics & Investigation#

  • Volatility (memory forensics)
  • Autopsy / The Sleuth Kit (disk forensics)
  • FTK Imager (evidence acquisition)
  • Plaso / log2timeline (timeline creation)
  • Rekall (memory analysis)
  • RegRipper (Windows Registry analysis)
  • Bulk Extractor (data carving)
  • BinText / Strings (static file analysis)
  • X-Ways Forensics (advanced disk analysis)
  • USBDeview (USB device analysis)

Network & Traffic Analysis#

  • Wireshark (packet inspection)
  • tcpdump (CLI packet capture)
  • tshark (CLI version of Wireshark)
  • Zeek (formerly Bro, network security monitoring)
  • NetFlow (flow-based network analysis)
  • NetworkMiner (packet reconstruction)
  • Moloch / Arkime (pcap indexing and searching)
  • Suricata / Snort (IDS/IPS)
  • Ettercap (MITM/sniffing)
  • Tcpreplay (pcap traffic replay)
  • Ngrep (packet content search)
  • Nmap (host discovery & port scanning)

Malware Analysis & Reverse Engineering#

  • Procmon (process monitoring)
  • Autoruns (startup inspection)
  • PEStudio (binary inspection)
  • IDA Free / Ghidra (disassembler)
  • Cuckoo Sandbox (automated malware analysis)
  • Strings (ASCII & Unicode detection in binaries)
  • Hybrid Analysis / Any.Run (cloud sandboxing)

Offensive Security (GPEN / Red Team)#

  • Metasploit Framework (exploit dev and post-exploitation)
  • Burp Suite (web application testing)
  • OWASP ZAP (web scanner)
  • SQLMap (SQL injection automation)
  • Hydra (brute-forcing credentials)
  • Nikto (web server vulnerability scanner)
  • Dirbuster / Gobuster (directory brute-forcing)
  • Responder (LLMNR/NBNS spoofing)
  • John the Ripper / Hashcat (password cracking)
  • Mimikatz (credential dumping)
  • Netcat / Socat (reverse shells and pivoting)
  • Empire / Covenant (post-exploitation frameworks)
  • CrackMapExec (lateral movement in Windows)

Host & Endpoint Tools#

  • Sysinternals Suite (Procmon, PsExec, Tcpview, etc.)
  • Sysmon (Windows logging for DFIR)
  • OSQuery (endpoint querying)
  • Velociraptor (remote investigation and hunting)
  • GRR Rapid Response (Google’s forensic tool)

SIEM & Logging#

  • Splunk (log aggregation, search, alerting)
  • Microsoft Sentinel (cloud-native SIEM)
  • Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • Graylog (log management)
  • Log2timeline (event timeline generation)

General Utilities#

  • CyberChef (data transformation & decoding)
  • Hashcalc / MD5sum / SHA256sum (hash generation)
  • File (Linux tool for identifying file types)
  • ExifTool (metadata extraction)
  • Gpg4win / GnuPG (encryption and digital signing)
  • Wireshark dissector plugins
  • Regshot (registry diffing)