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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

🇺🇸Portland, United States$125/hr100% JSS5.00 (6)Since Jul 2025

Earnings and projects

MRR
$831

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#56,308 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#8,987 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$176

Last 6 months: $5k

World#84,227 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#10,607 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$27k

Billed in all: $30k

World#118,582 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#20,206 / 62.1k
Per project
$2.7k

$997 in the last 6 months

World#61,120 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#10,226 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
5
20% fixed80% hourly
World#41,746 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,872 / 62.1k
Projects in all
10

Across 11 contracts

36% fixed64% hourly
World#201,797 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#28,778 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$29.6k+$176 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$29.4k$29.5k$29.6k$29.7kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 8% in Digital Forensics

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  7. #30Cyber Threat Intelligence201 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #6Top 15%
  8. #39Malware Removal343 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #4Top 11%