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Zara El-Amin

Senior Security Engineer

email@example.com | (555) 123-4567 | New York, NY

Professional Summary

Security engineer with 6 years building defensive security systems and conducting offensive testing. Prevented $10M+ in potential breach costs and led security programs achieving SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP compliance.

Experience

Senior Security Engineer

2022 - Present

Cloudflare

  • Designed WAF rules blocking 50B+ malicious requests monthly across global CDN
  • Led penetration testing program identifying and remediating 200+ vulnerabilities before exploitation
  • Built automated secret scanning pipeline preventing 500+ credential leaks per quarter

Security Engineer

2019 - 2022

CrowdStrike

  • Developed threat detection rules reducing false positive rate by 60% while improving detection by 40%
  • Led SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification programs for 3 product lines
  • Built security automation framework reducing incident triage time from 30 minutes to 3 minutes

Skills

Application SecurityPenetration TestingPythonSIEMCloud Security (AWS/GCP)Threat ModelingSOC 2/ISO 27001Burp SuiteIncident ResponseZero Trust Architecture

Education

B.S. Cybersecurity

2019

Georgia Institute of Technology

Security Engineer Salary Overview

25th Percentile

$112,000

Median

$138,000

75th Percentile

$172,000

Job outlook: much faster than average

Based on US national salary data. Actual pay varies by location, experience, and company.

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