ALMARTINEX.COM · SOC ANALYST
SOC → CLOUD SECURITY → IAM
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Career Path: SOC → Cloud Security → IAM

Alex Martin

SOC Analyst · Cybersecurity Analyst

Building a SOC foundation through hands-on SIEM and detection work as the first step of a deliberate career path — SOC experience first, then cloud security, with identity and access management as the long-term goal. SailPoint's Identity Security Leader credential is already complete and Microsoft SC-300 is in progress, laying early groundwork for that direction. Three years of QA and compliance-audit experience underpins the path throughout.

SOC Current focus — security operations foundation    IAM Long-term goal — identity & access management
Summary

Professional Summary

Cybersecurity professional with a SOC analyst foundation — hands-on experience in SIEM deployment (Wazuh), log analysis, and incident detection. Career goal is a deliberate three-stage path: build SOC experience first, move into cloud security, and ultimately specialize in Identity & Access Management. Early groundwork for that long-term direction is already underway through Microsoft SC-300 (in progress) and SailPoint's Identity Security Leader credential. Three years of construction experience in QA, compliance documentation, and audit-style inspection across large-scale project environments underpins the path throughout: directly applicable to SOC triage and incident reporting today, and equally transferable to access certification, entitlement review, and governance workflows central to IAM operations further down the line.

Skills

Technical Skills

// Identity & Access Concepts IAM
Identity Governance Access Lifecycle Management RBAC Entitlement / Access Review Joiner-Mover-Leaver SSO MFA Conditional Access
// Security Fundamentals SOCIAM
Network Security TCP/IP DNS HTTP VPNs Firewalls SIEM Monitoring
// Offensive Security SOC
Nmap Recon-ng Metasploit Burp Suite OWASP Top 10 Hydra John the Ripper Hashcat
// Defensive Security SOC
Log Analysis Intrusion Detection Honeypot Deployment (Cowrie) Threat Intelligence System Hardening (Windows & Linux)
// Platforms (In Progress) IAM
Microsoft Entra ID (SC-300) SailPoint Identity Security Cloud
// Tools & Platforms SOC
Parrot Security OS Splunk Wazuh Wireshark VirtualBox
// Scripting SOC
PowerShell
Certifications

Certification Log

2026
SailPoint Identity Security Leader IAM
SailPoint Identity University — identity governance strategy, access management fundamentals
VERIFIED
2026
Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) IAM
Microsoft Certified — expected completion 2026
IN PROGRESS
2025
Certified Information & Cyber Security Analyst (CICSA) SOC
Red Team Hacker Academy — training program completion, IT Infrastructure & Cyber SOC Analyst track
VERIFIED
—
Certified SOC Analyst (CSA) SOC
EC-Council
VERIFIED
2026
CompTIA Security+ SOCIAM
CompTIA
VERIFIED
—
Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900) SOCIAM
Microsoft Certified
VERIFIED
—
ICS-100 / ICS-200 — Industrial Control Systems Security SOC
CISA
IN PROGRESS
Experience

Experience

In progress
Identity Administration Lab (Self-Directed) IAM
Microsoft Entra ID
  • Building a trial Entra ID tenant to configure conditional access policies, MFA enforcement, and role-based access assignments as part of SC-300 preparation.
  • Documenting access review and entitlement management workflows to reinforce identity governance concepts from the SailPoint Identity Security Leader curriculum.
Mar 2026 – Present
Cybersecurity Trainee Associate SOC
TeknoGenX
  • Completing structured technical training across SIEM, endpoint security, and threat detection product lines as part of an active cybersecurity solutions practice.
  • Supporting client-facing product demonstrations and technical pre-sales discussions, translating security monitoring and detection concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
Self-directed lab
SIEM Deployment & Log Forwarding — Wazuh SOC
Debian Linux environment
  • Installed and configured Wazuh Manager, Indexer, and Dashboard in a Debian-based environment.
  • Deployed Wazuh agents across client systems to collect and forward security and system logs.
  • Performed log correlation, alert tuning, and event visualization to support real-time monitoring.
  • Built hands-on fluency in Linux administration and SIEM architecture end-to-end.
Self-directed lab
Honeypot Deployment & Attack Analysis — Cowrie SOC
Parrot Security OS environment
  • Deployed and configured a Cowrie SSH honeypot on an isolated VMware host-only lab network, simulating a vulnerable server to capture credential-guessing and post-login attacker behavior.
  • Ran controlled brute-force and interactive-session attacks from a Parrot Security OS VM, capturing credential harvesting attempts and post-login command execution.
  • Reviewed structured JSON session logs to correlate login attempts, executed commands, and simulated file downloads, verifying full-chain event capture end to end.
2019 – 2026 · 3 yrs employed
QA, Project & Site Engineering SOCIAM
DAMAC Properties · Alps Star Electromechanical · Al Hattan Tents & Shades · District One Villa (UAE)
  • Three years progressing through QA, project, and site engineering roles on large-scale UAE developments, managing quality assurance, compliance documentation, and multi-stakeholder coordination across projects totaling 1,000+ residential units.
  • Conducted structured inspections and issue documentation, coordinating root-cause resolution across contractors and cross-functional teams — directly translatable to SOC-style triage and ticketing, and equally analogous to periodic access certifications and entitlement audits in IAM governance.
  • Managed project schedules and verified compliance against technical specifications under continuous deadline pressure, building the process discipline required in 24x7 security operations environments.
  • Acted as primary liaison between clients, consultants, and delivery teams — coordinating multi-stakeholder sign-off directly analogous to joiner-mover-leaver approval chains and access request workflows in IAM.
Education

Education

MSc in Construction Project Management
University of Bolton, RAK Campus, Dubai
2020
B.Tech in Civil Engineering
Karunya University, India
2017