Vasileios Keramydas
Salford,Manchester
Summary
Knowledgeable about security operations (more than 12 years of experience in SOCs) with strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Offering experience in team leadership and excellent communication, combined with building solid relationships with team members and clients. Ready to use and develop skills in risk assessment, incident management, and team coordination in the SOC manager role.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
SOC Team Lead
ANS
Manchester
11.2022 - Current
- Led team of 22 to achieve SLA and KPI targets and successfully complete assigned projects.
- Led team through growth period when customer base quadrupled with the same team size via streamlining and optimizing our onboarding processes.
- Provided leadership and direction for employees, supervising activities to drive productivity and efficiency.
- Monitored staff performance levels, implementing necessary changes to improve productivity and meet targets.
- Coached team members through new or difficult workflows.
- Supported new hires through onboarding process for speedy and successful training.
Senior Security Operations Centre Analyst
Content + Cloud
Manchester
02.2019 - 11.2022
- Senior analyst of the C+C CSOC team, escalation point for the triaging and investigations of security incidents in and out of hours, taking part of the day-to-day running of a team of people spanning two different sites and running onboarding projects for new customers
- Escalation point for incident triaging and investigation for a team of 10 analysts, using the Microsoft family of products spearheaded by Azure Sentinel.
- Member of the vulnerability management service offering within the CSOC, aiming at the vulnerability scan, assessment, prioritization, and management of the vulnerabilities of our CSOC customers using Qualys and previously Nessus, intended for both customer internal and 3rd party teams.
- Aspiring to move into SOC management, being part of the day to day running and managing a team of 10 analysts and another 10 specialists, such as task scheduling, internal project management, team appraisal, mentoring and training, investigation quality assurance and audits.
- Taking part in the onboarding process of new customers, new tool assessments, new analysts, interviewing and initial candidate assessment.
- Reporting directly to senior management and to customer stakeholders on the KPIs and the C+C CSOC service performance.
24x7 Security Operations Officer
BBC North
Salford Quays
01.2016 - 02.2019
- Senior member of the 24/7 SOC team, responsible of the protection of BBC infrastructure, data systems, networks, physical and primarily digital assets as well as preserving the integrity and availability of BBC's key systems and data
- Discover, identify, triage and counteract threats and attack vectors to BBC systems, networks and assets both digital and physical (sources, journalists, archives, sites and more) using our primary SIEM/log aggregation tool Splunk.
- Varonis and Cylance tool internal SME, creating and maintaining the internal SOC runbooks and designing and onboarding the new processes for the rest of the SOC members.
- Develop and document new processes which cover the internal operation of the SOC relating to Incident Handling, external teams, threat assessment, triaging, onboarding new
- Vulnerability scanning and initial assessment of the generated reports before forwarding them to the responsible teams to rectify the issues discovered.
- Technical support and assistance in the handling of Serious and Severe Incidents occurring within the BBC estate, as well as during the Lessons Learnt phase.
Security Operations Specialist
ATOS
Birmingham Business Park
11.2014 - 01.2016
- Member of the 24/7 ARI SOC team, responsible of the safeguarding of ATOS infrastructure and data systems and preserving the security of ATOS' customer's information
- Identified new and sophisticated methods of detecting evolving cyber threats across ATOS customers’ IT estates.
- Performed audits for network/system security and risk management.
- Supported research, analysis and testing of network, systems and industrial controls to mitigate risk to the infrastructure and ATOS’ customers.
Senior Security Operations Centre Analyst
ECS
Edinburgh
05.2013 - 11.2014
- Monitored use of data files and regulated access to protect secure information.
- Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures.
- Promoted and trained systems users in security awareness to maintain system security.
- Monitored computer virus reports to determine when to update virus protection systems.
- Maintained system compliance with legal requirements and company security standards.
- Oversaw network architecture and security, defining policies and procedures for successful operations.
Forensics Internship
Strathclyde Forensics
Glasgow
05.2012 - 08.2012
Sales Manager
Vodafone Greece
Messini
03.2009 - 09.2010
Education
1st Honours, B.Eng. Computer Engineering - Engineering of Information and Communication Systems
University of Aegean
09.2002 - 09.2008
MSc in Computer Forensics & E-Discovery - Computer Forensics
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Glasgow City 09.2011 - 09.2012
Skills
- Azure Sentinel
- Defender for X
- O365
- Incident Handling
- RSA monitoring
- KPI management
- Leadership skills
- Strategic planning
- Process Improvement
- Operational support
- Issue resolution
- Customer relationship building
- Process adept
- Excellent communication
- Crowdstrike
- Qualys
- Nessus
- Varonis
- Splunk
- Q-Radar
- CyberArk
- Jira
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Languages
Greek
Native
English
Fluent
French
Intermediate
Affiliations
- Reading, board games
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
SOC Team Lead
ANS
11.2022 - Current
Senior Security Operations Centre Analyst
Content + Cloud
02.2019 - 11.2022
24x7 Security Operations Officer
BBC North
01.2016 - 02.2019
Security Operations Specialist
ATOS
11.2014 - 01.2016
Senior Security Operations Centre Analyst
ECS
05.2013 - 11.2014
Forensics Internship
Strathclyde Forensics
05.2012 - 08.2012
MSc in Computer Forensics & E-Discovery - Computer Forensics
University of Glasgow
09.2011 - 09.2012
Sales Manager
Vodafone Greece
03.2009 - 09.2010
1st Honours, B.Eng. Computer Engineering - Engineering of Information and Communication Systems
University of Aegean
09.2002 - 09.2008
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