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Miguel Chaves

@miguelchaves1

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CISSP cybersecurity engineer specializing in SOC, incident response, and IAM.

Portugal

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior cybersecurity roles focusing on SOC leadership, incident response, and IAM/cloud security in organizations that value proactive risk reduction and cross-team collaboration.

I am a CISSP-certified cybersecurity engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in threat detection, incident response, and securing large-scale enterprise environments. I have implemented security automation and identity management solutions that reduced incident response time by 30% and protected over 3,000 endpoints.

In senior SOC roles I have designed and operated security dashboards and tooling, led incident response and threat-hunting activities, and collaborated with cross-functional teams and leadership to align security operations with organizational goals. I have deployed and tuned SIEM, SOAR, EDR systems, and supported IAM and cloud security initiatives across AWS and Azure.

I am committed to fostering a security-first culture through proactive risk mitigation, awareness programs, and continuous improvement, and I bring practical experience consulting with security leadership and delivering measurable operational improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

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Skydance

Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Operated within the SOC to ensure high availability and rapid incident response, led incident response and threat hunting efforts, and designed security dashboards and tooling to improve detection and remediation across global operations.

SOC Incident Response Threat Hunting SIEM SOAR Security Dashboards Endpoint Security Cross Functional Collaboration

Cybersecurity Engineer

Humn

Jun 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 3 months)

Executed daily SOC activities including email and endpoint security assessments, led cross-functional security workshops and awareness campaigns, and enhanced IAM via SSO and credential management improvements.

SOC Email Security Endpoint Security IAM SSO Security Awareness

Senior Cybersecurity Consultant

A2Secure

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 months)

Deployed and tuned SOC, SIEM, SOAR, and EDR systems to reduce client incident response times by 30%, and led incident response for major accounts while advising senior security leadership on risk-aligned controls.

SIEM SOAR EDR Incident Response Security Consulting Client Engagement Risk Frameworks

Cybersecurity Engineer Analyst

EY Portugal

Sep 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 4 months)

Provided endpoint and email security operations for a major Portuguese bank, conducted penetration testing, and implemented governance, risk and compliance systems using Kubernetes across EMEA.

Endpoint Security Email Security Penetration Testing GRC Kubernetes Risk Assessment