HAYDAR C. AKYOL
Ankara,06
Summary
Security Engineer +7 with years of experience
- Providing leadership by developing security architectures of on-prem and cloud environments with experience on the customer and corporate side.
- Implementation of nearly 50,000 endpoints/clients and nearly 1000 services with best practices, thanks to multi-layered experience such as web, network, endpoint and system.
- In order to provide uninterrupted and secure service to 90+ Million daily visitors and a total of 30 Million customers, the vulnerabilities in Cloud environments were eliminated, security improvements were made and new technologies were implemented in 3 different cloud providers.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
8
8
Certification
Personal Information
- Total Experience: 7 years
- Place of Birth: TURKEY
- Date of Birth: 10/05/93
- Nationality: Republic of Turkey
- Marital Status: Married
Work History
Cloud Security Engineer
Trendyol / Alibaba Group
11.2023 - Current
- Taken automatic action by making assessments with tools such as Prisma Cloud and SkyHigh CASB on 7 cloud accounts.
- Resolved more than 1000 findings in 6 months thanks to IAM (SSO, SailPoint integration), Container, Bucket, BigQuery and Image hardenings in cloud environments. Improved security posture by 37% in AWS, GCP and Alibaba Cloud environments.
- Automation in cloud environments through Cloudflare and Apache Airflow integration with 8 Python scripts.
- Designing non-disruptive and highly available infrastructure by applying end-to-end multi-layered security best practices across more than 10,000 cloud projects.
Senior Cloud Security Engineer
N11
03.2022 - 11.2023
- Contributing to Cloud Transformation and security. Making security design and operational activities of cloud (GCP) and on-prem infrastructures for over 700 microservices.
- Carrying out design and operational activities of security solutions such as SSL VPN (Pulse Secure), NAC, Firewall (PaloAlto, Fortinet) and security, Certificate management, IPS in on-premises and cloud environments for 600 client and 15 VPC.
- Providing distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Web Application Firewall (WAF), Bot Management and DNS services using Cloudflare and Citrix for more then 100 domains.
Cloud Security Engineer
Ciceksepeti / Mizu
02.2021 - 03.2022
- Safeguarding information system assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems.
- Creating, maintaining, contributing to corporate security policies, standards, guidelines, procedures with the cross teams.
- 3 times Contributing to audit processes such as PCI DSS, KVKK/GDPR.
- Creation and continuous improvement of Cloud Network Architecture, Operational activities of infrastructure components such as Firewall (PaloAlto, Fortinet), Antivirus (SentinelOne), EDR (CrowdStrike), WAF (Akamai), SSL VPN (FortiClient), PAM (Delinea).
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and remediate potential security risks within the cloud environment 2 times of year.
Cyber Security Specialist
TurkTelekom
08.2018 - 02.2022
- Management of End Point Security products, the operation of the PoC process, the writing of the specifications and responding to the relevant events within the SLA period less than 1 to 3 days.
- Managing tools like NAC (Forescout), SSL VPN (Pulse Secure), WAF (F5) and Firewall (PaloAlto, Fortinet).
- Planning, installation and operation SSLVPN infrastructures in 36 hours for 2000 active client on pandemic.
- Planning, installation and operation of redundant & geo-redundant network security infrastructures on 3 zones.
- Planning, installation and operation of NAC (Network Access Control) infrastructures on 81 province with over 30,000 endpoint.
Cyber Security Support Engineer
Labris Networks
08.2017 - 08.2018
- Providing remote or on-site Firewall, Log Manager or DDoS support to customers within SLA period.
- Project installations in 15 provinces of Turkey in projects belonging to the Ministry of National Defense, Naval Forces Command and Ministry of Internal Affairs.
- Preparation of feature requests related to the developed product to the R&D team.
Education
Bachelor Degree - Electronic and Communication Engineering
Suleyman Demirel University
Isparta, 3208.2016
Additional Information
Formula 1, Mushroom Hunting, Fishing, I do not use cigarettes and alcohol.
Skills
- GCP, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Cloud Security Engineer, Cloud Data Engineer,Cloud Risk Assessment, Cloud Architecture Design, Cloud Security Posture Management (Prisma Cloud, SkyHigh)
- WAF (Cloudflarei Akamai, Citrix NetScaler), Content Delivery Networking (Cloudflare,Akamai CDN)
- Data Leak Prevention (GTB, SkyHigh, McAfee, Trellix, Google DLP), Privileged Access Management (Delinea PAM, Centrify RAS), SSL-VPN (Pulse Secure, FortiClinet), NAC (Forescout), Antivirus (Symantec, SentinelOne),Single Sign-On
- Zero Trust Technology (FortiEMS), PRTG Network Monitor, Zabbix
- SIEM tool management (Rapid7, FortiSIEM, Splunk, Chronicle), Firewall (Palo Alto, Fortigate)
- PCI-DSS, ISO-27001
- Python, Troubleshooting, Automation
- Vulnerability Assessment, Threat Intelligence and Security Testing Tools (Nessus, SOCradar, SecFusion)
Certification
Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Google Professional Data Engineer, ISO-27001 Certification, FSCA, CEH V10, Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud, 2019 Certified Specialist Oracle, CCNA R&S
Timeline
Cloud Security Engineer
Trendyol / Alibaba Group
11.2023 - Current
Senior Cloud Security Engineer
N11
03.2022 - 11.2023
Cloud Security Engineer
Ciceksepeti / Mizu
02.2021 - 03.2022
Cyber Security Specialist
TurkTelekom
08.2018 - 02.2022
Cyber Security Support Engineer
Labris Networks
08.2017 - 08.2018
Bachelor Degree - Electronic and Communication Engineering
Suleyman Demirel University