Yousef Fallaha
ABOUT

SOC LEAD · SECURITY OPERATIONS ENGINEER

I lead the SOC at Omarino IT Services, an MSSP running security operations across a multi-tenant client portfolio. Behind that, four-plus years of blue-team work in enterprise environments — security operations, incident response, and the data-protection controls underneath both.

The work is Microsoft-first: Sentinel, Defender XDR, Purview, Entra. I deploy the stack, write the detections that run on it, and lead the response when they fire. The part that matters most is the part people skip — tuning a rule until an analyst actually trusts it, and writing the runbook so the next person does not have to rediscover the investigation.

Before any of it I was a competitive athlete — swimming from the age of eight, then four years on Syria’s national triathlon team. I still officiate. The habit transferred further than the sport did: show up, measure, repeat until it holds under load.

NOW
SOC Lead, Omarino IT Services
BASED
Aleppo, Syria · Remote
EDUCATION
B.Sc. Computer Engineering, 2024
LANGUAGES
Arabic native · English professional
01EXPERIENCE3 ROLES · 4+ YEARS
FEB 2023
FEB 2026

Cyber Security Analyst

DEFENDLAB · REMOTE · UAE
INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

Monitored, investigated and responded to security incidents across SIEM and EDR platforms, consistently meeting SLA targets for triage and escalation.

VULNERABILITY & PATCH MANAGEMENT

Conducted comprehensive vulnerability assessments using Qualys and coordinated patching cycles to reduce organisational attack surface.

EMAIL THREAT ANALYSIS

Investigated and remediated phishing campaigns — analysing headers, sender reputation, malicious URLs and attachments to identify IOCs and prevent account takeover.

FEB 2026
MAY 2026

Security Operations Engineer

VCG MARKETS · REMOTE · UAE
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING

Managed end-to-end deployment and configuration of the Microsoft E5 Security Stack across Azure — endpoints, identities, cloud and email brought under one coverage model.

DATA PROTECTION & COMPLIANCE

Architected Microsoft Purview DLP policies and Insider Risk Management workflows to prevent unauthorised data exfiltration across cloud and endpoint channels.

RISK MANAGEMENT & REPORTING

Maintained the organisational risk register in line with ISO 27001, contributed to audit-readiness documentation, and produced executive-level incident reports.

MAY 2026
PRESENT

SOC Lead

OMARINO IT SERVICES · REMOTE · GERMANY

Lead SOC operations and security engineering for a multi-tenant portfolio inside a growing MSSP — setting the strategy and running the execution behind cyber defence, threat detection and incident response across client infrastructure.

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EDUCATION
B.Sc. Computer Engineering
University of Aleppo
ENROLLED — GRADUATED2018 — 2024
PROFESSIONAL5 HELD
Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)MICROSOFTSecurity EngineerTRYHACKMESOC Level 1TRYHACKMECyber Incident Response SpecializationINFOSEC INSTITUTE / COURSERAGoogle Cybersecurity Professional CertificateGOOGLE / COURSERA
SPORT & OFFICIATING5 HELD
Technical Officials Community E-SeminarINTERNATIONAL — WORLD TRIATHLON
Lifeguard CertificateLOCAL — SYRIA
Swimming Coach CertificateLOCAL — SYRIA
Swimming Referee CertificateLOCAL — SYRIA
Triathlon Referee CertificateLOCAL — SYRIA
01 · DETECT
Detection & Response
Where an alert is born, triaged and closed — SIEM, XDR and endpoint telemetry on one pane.
Microsoft SentinelSplunkDefender XDRDefender for EndpointCrowdStrike Falcon
02 · IDENTITY
Identity & Access
Who can reach what, and for how long. Standing privilege is the thing to remove.
Entra IDEntra ID ProtectionPrivileged Identity ManagementMicrosoft PAM
03 · DATA
Data Protection & Compliance
Keeping data where it belongs, and being able to prove it to an auditor.
Purview DLPInsider Risk ManagementDefender for Cloud AppsISO 27001
04 · ESTATE
Cloud & Endpoint
The estate itself — what runs, who manages it, and how exposed it is this week.
Microsoft AzureMicrosoft 365 SecurityIntuneQualysDefender Vulnerability Management
05 · PERIMETER
Network & Perimeter
Email, web and wire — the routes in, and the sensors that watch them.
Forcepoint ONE ESGForcepoint ONE WSGCloudflare WAFSuricataSnortWiresharkZeek
06 · OPERATIONS
Operations & Documentation
Tickets, runbooks and the paper trail. The unglamorous half that decides whether any of it holds.
Atlassian JiraAtlassian ConfluenceMicrosoft 365
04SPORT JOURNEY2004 — PRESENT

Twenty years in the water, four of them on Syria’s national triathlon team. I stopped competing; I never left the sport.

2004
Aleppo Swimming Team
In the water at eight, competing by nine.
2011
The Pause
The war began. Training stopped for about a year — not for good.
2014
Water Polo, Aleppo
The return — and the switch to a team sport.
2015
Triathlon — National Medal
Four years on the national team, representing Syria.
2018 →
Staying In The Game
Off the start line, on to the whistle — coach, referee, official. The same year, computer engineering at Aleppo.
STILL ACTIVE
Secretary
TRIATHLON TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, ALEPPO
Member
HIGH NATIONAL TEAMS COMMITTEE, SYRIA
05CONTACTALEPPO · UTC+3

That is the whole record.

No part of it is a claim I would not walk through line by line. If something here is relevant to what you are hiring for, say so and I will go deeper.

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OPEN TO ROLES
contact@yousef-fallaha.com
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WORKINGRemote · Aleppo
NOWSOC Lead, Omarino IT Services