Personal Details
Address: Tolsteho 19, 04001, Kosice, Slovakia
Phone: +421 902 196 845
Date of Birth: 28 September 1992
E-mail: severinsimko@gmail.com
Skype: simko.simko2
Education
Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan
2017 - 2018, Exchange Program
Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Brno, Czech Republic
2016 - 2018, Master's Degree in Service Science, Management, and Engineering
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2016 - 2016, Erasmus Exchange Program
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
2013 - 2014, Erasmus Exchange Program
Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Brno, Czech Republic
2012 - 2016, Bachelor's degree in Applied Informatics
Courses & Training
IBM
03/2018 - 03/2020, IBM Security QRadar Technical Sales Foundations -
Level 100
Flowmon Networks
01/2016 - 01/2018, INVEA-TECH FlowMon Consultant
Projects
03/2020 - yet - SIRANGA - Platform for automatic setup and management of private cloud servers - Goldinger IT GmbH, Switzerland
The platform is a Django application from which customers can automatically set up and manage their own private cloud, the application is integrated with a payment gateway (Stripe) and Ansible AWX which is used as a core system for automation.
Technologies:
- Automation: Ansible AWX
- Development: Python, Django, Stripe
- Others: Proxmox, Samba, Kopano, OPNSense, HAProxy
Learn More: siranga.com
01/2018 - yet - SimkoLab
Complex CyberSecurity platform in which potential clients can try the services and different open-source technologies that we are offering at Severin Simko IT Services. SimkoLab is the CyberSecurity portfolio consisting of multiple open-source technologies focusing on different CyberSecurity fields.
Technologies:
- Infrastructure Monitoring - Centreon, Zabbix, Icinga2
- Log Management - ELK Stack, Graylog, Splunk
- Log Daemons - syslog-ng, rsyslog, filebeats
- Intrusion Prevention Systems - Suricata
- Intrusion Detection and Host-Intrusion Detection Sytems - OSSEC/Wazzuh, Proxy: HAProxy, Squid
- Configuration Management/Automation - Ansible/AWX
- Firewalling - pfSense
Learn More: simkolab.com
Jul 2019 – Oct 2020 - Long Term Support for Log Management and Infrastructure Monitoring - Cinoware, Austria
Long term support of Graylog and Zabbix and technical training for the internal team.
Technologies: Graylog, Zabbix
06/2020 - 09/2020 - Implementation of Centralized Infrastructure Monitoring System - Vivanet, Switzerland
Design and implementation of an SNMP-based centralized infrastructure monitoring system using Centreon.
Technologies: Centreon
05/2018 - Log Management & Intrusion Detection using Graylog and OSSEC - Value-Ad, Australia
Implementation of best-practice Intrusion Detection rules and Centralized Log Management installation and configuration using Graylog, OSSEC, and syslog-ng as the log shipper. Ansible used for deployment automation.
11/2017 - Customized Configuration of Graylog - Dial-Once, France
Log Analysis Optimization for easier and more efficient analysis, creation, and deployment of custom decorators and plugins to increase the readability and custom alerting.
09/2017 - Real-Time Data Streaming Platform Evaluation - Wallaroo Labs, U.S.A.
Deployment and Testing of the Real-Time Data Streaming Platform and the Design & Implementation of the Real-Time Network Security Monitoring Use-Cases.
08/2017 - Graylog - OSSEC Integration Project - Paisaease, India
Intrusion Detection installation and configuration using OSSEC and integration with Graylog. Implementation of best-practice detection methods and alerting.
07/2017 - Infrastructure Monitoring Integration REST-API - Daniel Goldinger IT, Switzerland
Implementation and testing of the API capable of fetching and processing the data from the Zabbix monitoring system.
02/2015 - 09/2015 Performance Testing of Apache Storm Framework (JAVA SE)
Employment History
Siemplify 10/2019 - yet
Software Development Team Lead
AXENTA a.s. 10/2015 - 10/2019
IT Security Engineer and Team Leader
Design, implementation, and maintenance of Security Operations Center (SOC), general system and network administration related to log management and monitoring
Experience:
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Linux server maintenance and administration
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Network Administration
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Log Management
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Syslog-ng, syslog-ng Store Box, Graylog
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NetFlow Monitoring - Flowmon
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Infrastructure Monitoring - Centreon/Nagios
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Scripting in PERL/SHELL/BASH
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VMware Virtualization Technology
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Request Tracker - Ticket tracking system implementation and configuration
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OSSEC - Host-based Intrusion Detection System configuration
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Graylog - Open Source Log Management System
Projects:
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O2 Security Expert Center (SOC)
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Krajské operační centrum - Jihomoravský kraj (SOC)
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Axenta CyberSOC (SOC)
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Teplárny Brno (Log Management)
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Veřejný ochránce práv, Brno ( Log Management)
Security Operations Center Design, Implementation & Maintenance. SOC is a facility that houses an IT Security Team responsible for monitoring & analyzing an organization's security and the goal is to detect, analyze and respond to cybersecurity incidents using a combination of technologies, such as Log Management, SIEM, Network-based and Host-based Intrusion Detection.
LightFoot Media, Inc. 12/2017 - 10/2019
Lead Generation & Optimization Specialist
Experience:
- Lead tracking platforms - Leadspedia, HasOffers
- Data management and processing - MongoDB, Python (pandas, database access packages), PowerBI
- Mean Stack Development - Node JS, MongoDB, Express & PHP
- Front End & Network Optimization
- DNS Networking - Amazon Route53, Dnsimple, Cloudflare
- System & Network Administration
NXLog Ltd 12/2017 - 05/2018
DevOps Engineer
Development and Testing of NxLog Log Management Tool and Technical Writing
Experience:
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Log Management
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NxLog Comunity Edition. NxLog Enterprise Edition
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NxLog Integration with SIEM
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GDPR, PCI-DSS
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Technical Writing
CSIRT at Masaryk University 09/2016 - 11/2017
Full Stack Python Developer
Development of the framework for IP flow analysis by using technologies for real-time data processing, network traffic monitoring, and visualization - Stream4Flow
Experience:
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HTML/ CSS/ JAVASCRIPT
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Web2py and Bootstrap Frameworks
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Splunk REST-API
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Python programming
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Bash/Python scripting
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Apache Spark