Michalis Kyprianou

Nicosia, Cyprus

[email protected] 35799606680

linkedin.com/in/michalis-kyprianou-45710730

Summary

Oversees all technical aspects and technological resources of an organization. Establishes a

technological vision for an organization and leads the company's technological development. Training and

educating users on relevant cyber security procedures and preventative measures. Specialize in manage,

design, development, maintenance and monitoring computer infrastructure. Working to prevent cyber attacks

especially in business and corporate settings.

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IT management professional used to maintaining the delivery of IT services and technology projects. The

timelines and successful completion of the various tasks, required me to be versatile and have equipped me with

a number of essentials skills such as communication, presentation, training, management and general business

skills. Holding developed skills that have been expanded over establishing and developing full IT projects, I

consider myself an easily motivated and enthusiastic individual. Design, scope, timescales, process limitations,

and final tests until a successful implementation is achieved within the given budget, are just few of the standard

processes with which I handle any project assigned to me.

Experience

IT Manager

4xc.com

Feb 2022 - Present (1 year 1 month)

• Manage the design, development, maintenance and administration of the company IT.

• Contribute towards the company’s security, network, systems, development and cloud operations

strategy and roadmap.

• Leading the setup of the new offices.

• Lead the setup of the trading platform infrastructure MT4-5 watchdog and datacenters.

• Develop and enhance an information security management framework, risk assessment.

• Develop and maintain tools and processes that automate maintaining a minimum of 99.5% uptime

based on ITLI best practices.

• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.

• Experience with DevOps tools GitLab, bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira.

• Modern approach to managing server infra “Infrastructure as code” such as terraform, ansible,

dockers, kubernetes orchestration system.

• managing elastic stack, kibana, filebeat

• Provide database management, monitoring and support for postgresql,mysql.

• Managing Zabbix system, Prometheus, Grafana

• MT4/MT5 platforms health monitoring tool development.

Head of IT and Security

Skywind Group

Jun 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 5 months)

• Create automated workflow processes with CI/CD pipelines.

• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.

• Completing code and script updates.

• Implemented AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS,

EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Front, IAM, S3.

• Working with container systems such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Managing the installation and configuration of solutions for cloud native apps, experienced in

deploying Micro Services

• Knowledge of databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, mssql and Oracle.

• Expertise in VMware vSphere, VCenter, VMotion.

• Build scripts to automate deployment to UAT,prod environments.

• Collaborating with developers on software requirements.

• Develop strategies to handle security in CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with DevOps tools GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Bamboo, Sonarqube, Nexus.

• Expertise in setup Zabbix, Prometheus monitoring Systems.

• Change NOC to SOC and DevOps to DevSecOps

• Implementing Wazuh SIEM.

• Working with Dev team on new technologies.

• Manage Microservices architecture design with Dev’s for new projects.

Head Information Technology Infrastructure

Scope Markets

Nov 2017 - May 2020 (2 years 7 months)

• Manage the design, development, maintenance and administration of the company IT.

• Contribute towards the Company’s security, network, systems and cloud operations strategy and

roadmap, and optimise cloud based operations.

• Provide mentoring and training to junior staff.

• Assist the Lead Developers to provide suitable solutions that aid in scalability and security.

• Ensure our operations comply with Data Privacy (GDPR), PCI DSS and ISO27001 requirements, and

assist external auditors as required.

• Develop and maintain tools and processes that aid and automate maintaining a minimum of 99.5%

uptime based on ITLI best practices.

• Perform general Systems Administration duties of both core product and other systems that support

the business on Windows and Linux operating systems.

• Ensure the products meet the technical, functional and purposive requirements of the regulatory

environments.

• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.

• Modern approach to managing server infra “Infrastructure as code”.

• Provide database management, monitoring and support for postgresql,mysql.

• Managing Zabbix system, Telephony System, Vcenter.

• Familiar with MT4/MT5 platforms.

Senior CyberSecurity Engineer/Security Researcher

CIP Investigation Partner

Nov 2015 - Nov 2017 (2 years 1 month)

• Support the analysis, design, functional review and interpretation of requirements of security related

hardware and software. Design and develop infrastructure.

• Strong background in system administration in a Linux environment.

• Experience with virtualized environments such VMware, Hyper-V, KVM.

• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Bind, Apache, MySQL, OpenVPN,

postfix etc.

• Proficient with network tools such as iptables, Linux IPVS, HAProxy, tcpdump, etc

• performing IT audits, risk assessment and penetration test.

• In-depth knowledge of bash script.

• Vulnerability Assessments/Security.

• In-depth knowledge of cyber security threat detection.

• programming language (C#, C++, VB.NET,asm)

• Experience with reverse engineering tools (disassemblers, debuggers).

• tcp/ip protocol socket programming

• expert on rootkit and malware technologies

• Cyber security experimentation/testing.

• Familiarity with load balancing firewalls, etc.

• Strong background in Forensics, Intrusion Detection, Virus, Source Code, Penetration.

• Perform debugging, reverse engineering, decompiling, performance evaluation, and paper/document

writing.

• Work under extreme Pressure and Alone.

IT Manager

GAP Vassilopoulos Group

Mar 2004 - Dec 2015 (11 years 10 months)

• Responsible for the entire IT department infrastructure.

• Trade Service Level Agreement with software and hardware vendors.

• Hands-on experience setting up corporate network environment, setting up DMZs, configuring Routers

and NGFW.

• Hands-on experience in implementation and operation of security systems such as IPS, Anti-Virus,

Content Filtering, URL filtering and Authentication solutions.

• Hands-on Vmware skills – Vswitch deployment and administration.

• Experience with multiple SAN storage networks (Cisco, HP) and storage vendors (IBM, HP).

• Ability to implemented Windows & Linux operating systems to support business requirement.

• Plan and implement additional modifications to support local infrastructure.

• Manage and develop IT department innovation needs.

• Manage the purchase of hardware and software products.

• Manage and secure a high available platforms

• The Group encompasses of various business functions/operations such as: logistics,3pl, international

and local courier services (FedEx), Akis express, local and international money transfer services

(Western Union Cyprus, UK and Israel, insurance services. All these operations require online

web system, custom back-office software, CRM system, ERP system and major custom-made

implementation to establish and maintain the business requirements.

• Collaborate with international level corporations and deliver various projects in a timely manner.

Education

Frederick University

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering

2001 - 2005

Licenses & Certifications

Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server - Microsoft

Issued Jul 2015 - Expires Jul 2017

Backup Academy Certified Professionals - Veeam Software

Issued Feb 2015 - Expires Feb 2017

CloudU Certification - Rackspace Technology

Issued Feb 2015 - Expires Feb 2017

ITIL® v3 Foundation - APMG International

Issued Feb 2014 - Expires Feb 2018

CCNP - Cisco

Issued Jan 2011 - Expires Jan 2015

OSCP - Offensive Security

Issued Oct 2011 - Expires Oct 2015

CCSA - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd

Issued May 2009 - Expires May 2012

MCP - Microsoft

Issued Feb 2008 - Expires Feb 2012

VCP - VMware

Issued Nov 2008 - Expires Nov 2012

RTO: Malware Development

Issued Apr 2020 - Expires Apr 2022

AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions - Microsoft

Issued Apr 2022 - Expires Apr 2023

Skills

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)  •  Gitlab  •  Sonarqube  •  Jenkins  •  C#  •  Linux

 •  Amazon Web Services (AWS)  •  Microsoft Azure  •  Kubernetes  •  Fortinet