Kalid Okabbad

Security Strategy: Define and implement confidentiality, integrity, and availability measures (MFA, encryption, least privilege, backups), zero trust model implementation Risk Management: Identify and mitigate threats through regular audits, patch management, and proactive monitoring. Employee Training: Conduct security awareness campaigns and technical training (e.g., phishing prevention, best practices). Business Continuity: Develop and test disaster recovery and incident response plans for system resilience. Compliance & Innovation: Ensure adherence to regulations (GDPR, ISO 27001) and stay updated on emerging threats and technologies. Incident Response: Mitigate impacts, apply fixes, and analyze incidents to improve processes. Executive Reporting: Provide security insights, risk assessments, and justify investments aligned with business goals. Architecture and application pentest using standard tools like maltego, nmap, zap proxy, burp suite, etc.

Implement efficient monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, integrated with PagerDuty for alerting. Build and deploy applications using GitHub Actions. Ensure infrastructure security through Cloudflare, IDP/IDS, and continuous penetration testing.

Led onboarding for various blockchain networks, including Axelar, Acrechain, Archway, AssetMantle, Bitsong, Carbon, Celestia, Chain4Energy, Chihuahua, Comdex, Dymension, Evmos, Fetch.ai, Function X, Haqq, IXO, KI, Lava, Neutron, Nolus, Ojo, Persistence, Provenance, Rebus, Regen, Saga, Secret, Sei, Sommelier, Stargaze, Teritori, Umee, White Whale, Xion, and XPLA.

As a DevOps Engineer and Kubernetes Administrator for the EMEA region, I have extensive experience managing and optimizing infrastructure across various cloud platforms and automation tools.

Technical Environment:

Kubernetes (Cluster management, Helm charts, deployments)

Helm (Packaging and deploying applications)

Ansible AWX/Tower (Automation and configuration management)

Jenkins (CI/CD pipelines)

HashiCorp Vault (Secrets management)

Bitbucket (Version control and collaboration)

Artifactory (Artifact management)

Managed Splunk & Splunk Connect for Kubernetes (SIEM) for log monitoring, performance analysis, and security incident detection

Built dashboards and correlation rules for real-time threat detection

Jira & Confluence (Project tracking and documentation)

Flowdock & Rallye (Team collaboration and agile project management)

Clouds:

AWS (Cloud infrastructure, scalability, and cost optimization)

IBM Cloud Private (ICP) (Private cloud management)

OpenShift (RedHat) (Containerized application orchestration)

I leverage these tools to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure solutions, ensuring high availability and seamless deployment for large-scale organizations across the EMEA region.