Position: IT Director / CISO / Information & Cyber Security Lead
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

I have been holding various management roles within Information Security, IT Security / Compliance and IT Management. I was able to deliver the highest results and meet business expectations.

First CISO in one of the largest telecom operators in Ukraine. I was the first who implement some cutting-edge security and infrastructure projects in Ukraine that later was adapted in other telecom organisations.
Profile
Almost 20 years of experience in Information Security, Cyber Security and IT Management (industries: telecom, iGaming, SaaS & Product companies)

Strategy & Governance
- Development of cyber security strategy for an organization
- Development of policies and procedures
- Liaison with C-Level stakeholders on security matters
- Compliance with ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOX, SOC 2 and Data Privacy regulations, successful certifications
- Implementation of IT General Controls

Incident Response
- Deployment of SIEM systems
- Establishing IR processes and SOC operations

Product Security
- Secure architecture & design
- Management of internal and external penetration testing and bug bounty activities
- Application security and CI/CD security
- Business continuity and reliability 

Infrastructure security
- Protection of cloud and on-premise environments
- Patch & Vulnerability Management
- Identity and Access Management
- Security hardening & AWS secure configuration
- Network security, perimeter security, secure networks design

Business tools & systems:
- Corporate identity & access management (AD, Office365/Azure AD, GSuite)
- End-point devices protection and management
- Design of corporate VPN and remote working policies

Management
- Team building & management
- Budget management 


Technology stack: Cloud: AWS + native security services; On-prem: Linux, Docker, Oracle, Redis, etc; SIEM: Splunk, ELK, Ms Sentinel; Internal Directories: Office 365/Azure AD & G Suite, Anti-virus: Defender, F-Secure, MDM: Intune, ZoHo MDM; VM: Qualys, Nessus, Tenable IO; AWS Auditing: NCC ScouteSuite, Prowler, AquaWave; AppSec: SonarQube, Snyk; Source Code: GitLab, GitHub; Project management: Jira, Confluence, Ms Project.
Looking for challenging projects where I can add value and deliver results.

I am looking for C-level or management roles; consulting projects (including one-time projects); IT Director (CIO) or InfoSec (CISO) positions.