Are you on LinkedIn? Any lead is a good lead. I recently re-wrote my LinkedIn and am getting some positive traction. Here is what I've currently got. Feel free to use it as a template of sorts.
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@lowracer's thread on free courses & grab what interests you, even if you do not look at it now. I would suggest you pick 2-3 area's of interest and focus on them. Perhaps AWS / Azure - this covers cloud ; Windows Active Directory / Azure AD - covers onsite & cloud ; Network Security - covers onsite + cloud / hybrid).
"I am an experienced, highly passionate & motivated IT Network Engineer & Security Analyst with 15years of professional experiance in providing commercial services and support across multiple industries including finance, medical, legal, industrial, automotive repair & retail.
General Duties:
- Security & Vulnerability Management using various Open-Source & commercial products, for both workstations, Windows Server, email, websites, local networks & cloud infrastructure.
- Email server hardening (Reverse proxy ; DKIM / DMARC / SPF)
- Firewalls (Untangle, PFSense, FortiGate, Mikrotik, Ubiquiti).
- Docker deployments.
- Canary deployments & monitoring.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) setup, hardening & analysis.
- Load balancing solutions.
- Network Security scans, reporting & remediation.
- Hardening various infrastructure using NIST, CIS, O-WASP & Mitre security framework.
- Network troubleshooting (onsite, remote & telephonically).
- Custom Security Dashboards for log monitoring (Application XYZ -> Log system -> Grafana)
- Business Grade End-Point Anti-Virus.
- Constantly monitoring cyber-threat channels for emerging threats.
- Veeam based Data Backup Solutions (Full systems & file based).
- Communicating between clients, internal & external stakeholders to gain clarity into issues & resolution times IEISP / VoIP provider / internal escalation /contractors, etc.
- Office 365 / Exchange Online / Sharepoint (setup ; config ; documentation ; troubleshooting ; backups).
- Secure & easy Password management.
- Daily IT maintenance and support.
- VPN (IPSEC / L2TP / Zero Tier / OpenVPN).
- Network installations, upgrades, optimization & living documentation .
- IT Asset & Inventory reports (hardware & software) as well as
- Amazon Cloud Services (AWS) - Setup, Migrations, Security, Solution Architecture, Cost Savings, associated documentation, EC2, Elastic IPβs, VPC, S3 Storage, Glacier Storage, Web Application Firewall rules, IAM user roles, Route 53 / DNS, networking, VM patch management etc.
- Uptime monitors (Monitoring of website, VoIP server, email server etc for loss of communication).
- Internet connection troubleshooting.
- Blue-Screen-of-Death (BSOD) remote analysis & resolution (where hardware has not failed).
- Data Backups (Onsite, Offsite & Cloud).
- Data Recovery (Hardware & Software-based; NAS Recovery; RAID Recovery ).
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