# Joel Ayala

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## Person

- **Name**: Joel Ayala
- **Summary**: Lead cybersecurity engineer with 15+ years securing high-availability enterprise environments. Expertise spans cloud security architecture, IAM/PKI-related security, SIEM and detection engineering with Splunk, and security automation across AWS and Azure. Experience delivering SaaS and cloud posture management capabilities and creating security standards and training for large organizations.
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/user/joel-ayala>

### Skills

- **Python** — Group: Languages; Level: Staff; Since: 2013
- **PowerShell** — Group: Languages; Level: Staff; Since: 2013
- **SQL** — Group: Languages; Level: Not selected
- **Bash** — Group: Languages; Level: Not selected
- **AWS** — Group: DevOps; Level: Staff; Since: 2013
- **Linux** — Group: DevOps; Level: Staff; Since: 2013
- **Splunk** — Group: DevOps; Level: Staff; Since: 2013
- **Windows** — Group: DevOps; Level: Staff; Since: 2013
- **Azure** — Group: DevOps; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Amazon S3** — Group: DevOps; Level: Intern; Since: 2013
- **Docker** — Group: DevOps; Level: Middle; Since: 2013
- **API Gateway** — Group: DevOps; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **AWS Lambda** — Group: DevOps; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Kubernetes** — Group: DevOps; Level: Intern; Since: 2018
- **CI/CD** — Group: DevOps; Level: Staff; Since: 2018
- **Amazon EventBridge** — Group: DevOps; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Rest API** — Group: DevOps; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Azure DevOps** — Group: DevOps; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Bitbucket** — Group: DevOps; Level: Intern; Since: 2013
- **VPN** — Group: DevOps; Level: Staff; Since: 2013
- **Ansible** — Group: DevOps; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Jenkins** — Group: DevOps; Level: Intern; Since: 2013
- **Nginx** — Group: DevOps; Level: Intern; Since: 2013
- **IAM** — Group: DevOps; Level: Not selected
- **BGP** — Group: DevOps; Level: Not selected
- **VLAN** — Group: DevOps; Level: Not selected
- **Qualys Cloud Platform** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **SIEM** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Junior; Since: 2018
- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Nessus** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Intern; Since: 2013
- **CIS Benchmarks** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **PKI** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Crowdstrike** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Not selected
- **Microsoft Defender** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Not selected
- **Prisma Cloud** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Not selected
- **Zero Trust** — Group: Cybersecurity; Level: Not selected
- **Pandas** — Group: AI/ML; Level: Middle; Since: 2020
- **Copilot** — Group: AI/ML; Level: Not selected
- **RabbitMQ** — Group: Databases; Level: Intern; Since: 2013

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