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Aidan M.AM

Aidan M.

Security Consultant and Engineer

€694/day
Glasgow, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Aidan

I'm a CISSP-certified security professional with extensive experience delivering enterprise security solutions across financial services, technology, and consulting sectors. I specialize in building scalable security architectures that protect organizations while enabling business growth.

Core Expertise:

🔒 Security Operations – Design and implementation of security monitoring and detection platforms, with proven ability to optimize operations and reduce false positives

☁️ Cloud Security – Multi-cloud security architecture across major platforms, from initial design through production deployment

🤖 Advanced Threat Detection – Development of automated detection capabilities using machine learning and data analytics to enhance security team effectiveness

⚡ Incident Response – Leadership of critical security incidents with experience managing cross-functional teams and stakeholder communication

💼 Strategic Advisory – Technical guidance for security leadership on compliance, architecture decisions, and security transformation initiatives

What I Bring:

I combine hands-on technical skills with strategic thinking to deliver security solutions that are both robust and practical. My background spans large-scale enterprise environments and fast-paced startups, giving me the flexibility to adapt to different organizational contexts and requirements.

Whether you need security architecture design, SIEM implementation, detection engineering, or strategic security consulting, I deliver results that strengthen your security posture while meeting business objectives.

Certifications: CISSP, BCS Cyber Intrusion Analyst

Ready to help companies build effective, scalable security programs.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • ORACLE
    Principal Security Engineer
    TECH
    October 2025 - Today (8 months)
    Glasgow, UK
    Continued responsibilities from Senior Security Engineer, now at the level of Principal. Steering strategic security initiatives. Continued building and scaling teams, acting as a senior mentor for analysts and engineers.
    IT-Security Cybersecurity Incident Management Python Incident Response Threat Intelligence
  • ORACLE
    Senior Security Engineer
    TECH
    May 2023 - October 2025 (2 years and 5 months)
    • Led critical incident response across Oracle Cloud infrastructure – Managed major incidents affecting global Oracle Cloud environments, directed cross-functional response teams, and delivered executive briefings on high profile security events
    • Redesigned enterprise security operations at scale – Led 200+ detection reviews and optimization project across Oracle Security Operations, presented strategic recommendations to SVP leadership resulting in organization-wide security practice adoption
    • Built enterprise security infrastructure and automation – Architected 100+ server security environment with integrated SIEM/EDR/IaC, developed Python OCI backup management system adopted enterprise-wide, and led OCI migrations and absorbing of other business units
    • Built new European security team from ground up – Led hiring and scaling of new SOC and security engineering teams across European operations, establishing regional security capabilities
  • NatWest Group
    Security Engineer
    November 2022 - May 2023 (6 months)
    Glasgow, UK
    • Delivered critical security operations build-out 25% ahead of schedule – Led in-sourcing of 4-year SOC development project within budget, architected 50+ detection rules with advanced data modeling across multi environment Splunk Enterprise deployment

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Education

  • ISC2
    ISC2
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
    2025
    Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

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