Christian P.
Security Operations Engineer
Do you want it done right the first time? Do you want senior guidance that isn't just copy-paste AI responses? My specialties include: Incident Response & Threat Hunting • Senior level (T3) threat hunting services (CrowdStrike EDR and NG-SIEM, SentinelOne, Defender for Endpoint/Identity/Cloud Apps, Microsoft Sentinel, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, AWS) • P0 capable incident commander, active ransomeware, data exfil, ransomware negotiations • Rapid triage, scoping, containment, and root-cause analysis • Building high-fidelity detection logic + tuning noisy SIEMs • Automating repetitive analysis with SOAR/SIEM workflows Web Application & WordPress Security • Full compromise triage and cleanup of hacked WordPress sites • Removing injected malware, backdoors, malicious redirects, and spam payloads • Hardening themes/plugins, locking down admin access, and securing hosting • Continuous monitoring, WAF tuning, and patching workflows for long-term stability Security Engineering & Architecture • Designing scalable, resilient security controls across cloud and endpoint • Engineering detection pipelines, log architectures, and event normalization • Building Zero Trust patterns (network segmentation, identity-first access) • Integrating security tooling (EDR, SIEM, CSPM, SSPM, SAST/DAST) into dev and ops workflows Cloud & Identity Security (AWS • Azure • M365/Entra) • Hardening cloud tenants, IAM/Entra configurations, Conditional Access • Closing privilege-escalation paths and identity misconfigurations • Securing CI/CD, supply chain, and containerized workloads SOC Enablement & Security Program Uplift • Building SOC playbooks, IR runbooks, and triage workflows • Training SOC Tier 1–2 analysts to handle alerts confidently • Designing processes for detection review, alerting quality, and escalation Red/Purple Teaming & Attack Path Analysis • End-to-end assessments with clear PoCs, screenshots, and remediation • Threat modeling, external surface analysis, OSINT investigations • Purple-team sessions with your engineers to validate defensive coverage
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $5k
Billed in all: $29,632$30k
$997 in the last 6 months
Across 11 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 8% in Digital Forensics
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- #6Incident Response Readiness Assessment26 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 23%🇺🇸#2 of 8
- #7Red Team Assessment61 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 11%🇺🇸#1 of 9
- #8Threat Detection61 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #3Top 13%🇺🇸#3 of 16
- #8CrowdStrike25 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #3Top 32%🇺🇸#3 of 8
- #12Digital Forensics158 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #3Top 8%🇺🇸#3 of 31
- #22Incident Response Plan120 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #10Top 18%🇺🇸#10 of 36
- #30Cyber Threat Intelligence201 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #6Top 15%🇺🇸#6 of 47
- #39Malware Removal343 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #4Top 11%🇺🇸#4 of 23