[ Place Headshot Base64 Here ]

Izzat Ala' Azizi

Cybersecurity Manager / Information Security Leader

📍 Palestine 📧 contact@izzat.me

Executive Summary

High-performance Cybersecurity Leader and Computer Engineer with over 7 years of professional experience driving infrastructure protection, cloud security transformation, and incident governance. Proven success steering information security programs within telecommunications, leveraging an extensive portfolio of advanced certifications (Fortinet, CrowdStrike, AWS, CompTIA, EC-Council) to mitigate complex enterprise risk profiles. Expert at aligning engineering execution with strategic corporate objectives to reduce the external attack surface and ensure operational resilience.

Core Leadership & Technical Matrix

Security Governance & Operations Vulnerability Management Governance, Risk Mitigation Strategy, Cloud Security Architecture (AWS), Incident Response Management, Technical Compliance & Auditing, Third-Party Vendor Security Reviews.
Defensive Engineering & Infrastructure Perimeter Security (Next-Gen Firewalls, WAF, IDS/IPS), SIEM Platform Operation & Optimization, Cloud DDoS Mitigation, EDR & Secure Internet Gateways (SIG), Privileged Access Management (PAM) & MFA Frameworks.

Professional Experience

Ooredoo Palestine

March 2021 — Present

Information Security Supervisor (Acting Manager Portfolio)

  • Govern and optimize the enterprise perimeter defenses, overseeing the continuous management of Next-Gen Firewalls, WAFs, load balancers, and IDS/IPS to safeguard critical telecommunications infrastructure.
  • Orchestrate the reduction of the external attack surface by instituting regular, systematic vulnerability assessments and coordinating fast-track cross-departmental remediation strategies.
  • Architected and deployed cloud-based DDoS prevention layers and Secure Internet Gateways (SIG) to protect high-availability consumer services and corporate internet workflows.
  • Manage the lifecycle and alerting logic of enterprise SIEM and cloud-based Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms to facilitate real-time threat isolation and incident containment.
  • Harkened internal security postures by deploying robust Identity and Access Management frameworks, including Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools and universal Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
  • Lead quarterly and annual security compliance audits, evaluating system design integrity to ensure alignment with internal security baselines and regulatory directives.
  • Collaborate with elite external penetration testing vendors to perform comprehensive threat modeling, prioritizing application vulnerabilities and driving remediation pipelines.

Professionals for Information Technology Services

Nov 2018 — March 2021

Network Security Engineer

  • Designed, integrated, and maintained enterprise networking and security footprints leveraging MikroTik routers, switches, secure VPN paths, and WAN acceleration modules.
  • Led infrastructure and application migration workflows to Amazon Web Services (AWS), architecting fault-tolerant, highly available virtual environments.
  • Authored, simulated, and deployed comprehensive disaster recovery and data encryption protocols to bolster client business continuity metrics.
  • Formulated network access control controls, establishing robust least-privilege matrix standards across client directory frameworks.

Mohammed Bawazir for Trading Co. Ltd. (Jeddah, KSA)

Sep 2015 — Oct 2018

Technical Account Manager & Systems Analyst

  • Managed technology partnerships and business development cycles with key distributors for tier-1 enterprises (Dell, HP, Cisco), matching computing and storage solutions to client business needs.
  • Formulated technical tender proposals and product comparative analyses for executive procurement reviews.
  • Oversaw the successful deployment and configuration of enterprise accounting and HRIS applications, providing Tier-3 diagnosis and resolution for system faults.

Professional Certifications

CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Administrator (CCFA) 2022
CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Responder (CCFR) 2022
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2022
Fortinet Network Security Professional (NSE4) 2021
CompTIA PenTest+ 2021
CompTIA Linux+ 2021
EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) 2020
MikroTik (MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE, MTCSE) 2019
Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) 2019
CompTIA Security+ 2018
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 2015

Education

Applied Science University — Amman, Jordan

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering | 2015

Industry Validation

TryHackMe: Ranked in the Top 1% Globally for hands-on labs covering enterprise threat modeling, offensive exploitation vectors, and defensive architectural blue-teaming.

fix: page layout indentation