Curriculum vitae

Lawal Alabe

Platform Security Engineer / DevSecOps

Australia ยท Remote

Experience

Nexon

Professional Services Engineer

January 2026 to present

  • Manage hybrid-cloud environments spanning on-premises and cloud-hosted production servers; plan hybrid AD-to-cloud identity synchronisation, defining attribute scope and sync rules.
  • Diagnose multi-layered connectivity failures across VPN, firewall and secure web gateway platforms through systematic log analysis, reconfiguring cloud Zero Trust access policies to restore secure client application access.
  • Design and enforce compliance-driven security configurations, including data retention and litigation hold, aligned with regulatory audit and data-governance obligations.
  • Diagnose and resolve endpoint web-protection blocks by analysing Windows Defender Exploit Guard logs and Cloud Discovery policy conflicts, implementing sanctioning exceptions in Defender for Cloud Apps.
  • Track Endpoint Detection and Response alerts, perform risk assessments, and execute patching routines for server CVE vectors.
  • Investigate and respond to security incidents involving compromised credentials, diagnosing broken secure-channel configurations and remediating legacy authentication vulnerabilities.
  • End-to-end database provisioning and decommissioning across client environments, including configuration, access setup, and lifecycle compliance.
  • Harden production access through authorised jumpboxes and manage RMM-escalated endpoint compliance alerts.
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts to support identity lifecycle management, system health monitoring, and administrative efficiency across cloud services.
  • Resolve enterprise email delivery failures across hybrid mail environments by analysing DNS SPF and DMARC records, mail routing paths and third-party gateway configurations.
  • Configure NPS and RADIUS, VPN profiles, routing, ACLs and VLANs to client segmentation and compliance requirements; resolve multi-platform network faults via LogicMonitor, Meraki and Fortinet.
  • Implement federated authentication (SAML 2.0 SSO), managing metadata configurations and token validation keys.

Pukyong National University, QCL Lab

Research Assistant

September 2021 to August 2023

  • Spearheaded end-to-end development of embedded monitoring systems across the full software engineering lifecycle.
  • Designed, architected and deployed real-time software applications for industrial platforms, aligning technical specifications with strict reliability and scalability standards.
  • Optimised Python and C++ algorithms for low-latency predictive modelling across real-time data streams.
  • Built low-level APIs and hardware abstraction interfaces to enable communication between data acquisition hardware and embedded systems.
  • Established unit and integration testing frameworks to automate QA validation, boost code reliability and maintain accuracy benchmarks.
  • Partnered with multidisciplinary teams to integrate cloud and on-premises backends for high-accuracy fault detection models.
  • Created custom diagnostic and analytical tools to evaluate system performance and generate actionable operational insights.
  • Authored technical documentation covering system architecture and algorithm design to streamline onboarding and ensure project reproducibility.

Highlighted projects: EPS Defect Monitoring Software, Eyewear Display Controller

Olamax Associates LTD

Infrastructure Engineer

July 2020 to June 2021

  • Designed and delivered the AWS infrastructure for the Fast Trade digital financial-services platform, supporting secure, highly available card and fiat-wallet purchasing and trading.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline; automated cloud resource provisioning with Terraform for consistent development, testing and production environments.
  • Architected VPC network segmentation, security-group rules and AWS WAF policies protecting compliance and audit portals; performed periodic AWS security reviews across IAM, exposed services and encryption, remediating findings.
  • Secured payment-provider API credentials via a managed secrets process with scheduled rotation and least-privilege service access.
  • Integrated dependency and vulnerability scanning into the release pipeline, triaging and remediating issues before deployment.
  • Automated KMS-encrypted backups, TLS certificate renewals and pre-release checks; implemented disaster recovery with automated failover for critical accounts databases.
  • Deployment architecture and automation for real-time airtime and data services across MTN, Glo, Airtel and 9mobile; defined database schema conventions with multiple teams for AR and AP systems.
  • Advised business stakeholders on system strategy; authored standard operating procedures covering environment setup, network configuration and secure-configuration baselines.

Olamax Associates LTD

IT Systems Engineer

June 2019 to June 2020

  • Managed and upgraded on-premises ICT infrastructure including VMware virtualisation environments and physical servers, overseeing SSL certificate lifecycle management and DNS record maintenance within the MainOne datacentre.
  • Administered Active Directory, Group Policy, Azure AD Connect and Microsoft 365 (Exchange, SCCM, SharePoint, Teams), enforcing identity governance and least-privilege access.
  • Deployed and configured Fortinet appliances to secure the network perimeter, establishing site-to-site and remote-access VPN tunnels and enforcing traffic inspection policies.
  • Designed and deployed network failover solutions leveraging Spectranet connectivity, configuring hardware load balancers to ensure consistent traffic distribution and sustained redundancy.
  • Integrated PRTG Network Monitor and WhatsUp Gold to deliver continuous visibility into network traffic patterns, capacity utilisation and overall network health.
  • Responded to and contained security incidents including malware infections and unauthorised access attempts, documenting each resolution.
  • Delivered Tier-3 support during critical network outages, conducting root cause analysis and coordinating technical escalations with ISPs.
  • Assessed existing infrastructure to define a forward-looking technical roadmap, maintaining documentation of ICT assets, incident records and fault resolutions.

Education

  • MSc Cyber Security Engineering

    University of Technology SydneyExcellence Scholarship

  • MSc AI Convergence Engineering

    Pukyong National UniversityKorean Govt Scholarship

  • BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering

    Kwara State University

Certifications

Publications

Technical skills

Cloud and infrastructure

aws
VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, WAF
azure
Azure VNet, Azure Monitor, Entra application proxy
iac and devops
Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
architecture
Hybrid cloud, cloud migration, multi-AZ architecture, disaster recovery planning
automation
Python, C++, PowerShell, Bash

Security, networking and compliance

frameworks
Essential 8, ISO 27001, NIST 800-171 and 177, PCI DSS, GDPR
perimeter
Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Checkpoint, WAF, security groups, network ACLs
identity
IAM and RBAC, MFA, Active Directory, Group Policy, access control systems
networking
TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, Cisco, Aruba, Meraki
threat protection
Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Endpoint, Windows Defender Exploit Guard
monitoring
PRTG, WhatsUp Gold, Cacti

Systems and virtualisation

operating systems
Linux (Ubuntu and RHEL), Windows Server 2016 to 2022
virtualisation
VMware vSphere and ESXi, Hyper-V, virtual desktop infrastructure
endpoint
SCCM, MDM
ticketing
ServiceNow, Jira, Spiceworks