Nizar Saidi
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Nizar Saidi

Network & Systems TechnicianInfrastructure, Networking & Cybersecurity

Building reliable infrastructure and security systems across networks, systems, monitoring, automation, and cloud.

Meknès, Morocco

01 — About

About

Cybersecurity and infrastructure technician with a strong foundation in networking, systems administration, security monitoring, virtualization, and automation. Currently building toward a career in Cloud Security Engineering.

About

I am a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Technician with a strong foundation in networking, systems administration, security monitoring, virtualization, and automation.

I completed a Bac+2 DTS as a Technicien Spécialisé in Infrastructures Digitales, Option Cybersécurité, at OFPPT / ISTAG Bab Tizimi in Meknès.

My technical background is built around practical work with network infrastructure, Windows and Linux systems, Active Directory, virtualization, firewalls, VPNs, monitoring, SIEM, IDS/IPS, and security automation.

During my training, I spent two years working within the school's IT cellule, where I contributed to real infrastructure and security projects involving network equipment, virtualization, monitoring, Windows infrastructure, Active Directory, and security tooling.

Alongside this experience, I have developed and documented independent laboratory projects covering network security, SOC operations, incident response automation, traffic analysis, IDS development, firewalling, WAF testing, and infrastructure security.

My career direction is to continue strengthening my foundation in networking, infrastructure, systems, and cybersecurity before specializing further in Cloud Security Engineering.

I am particularly interested in environments where networking, infrastructure, security, automation, and cloud technologies intersect.

Career Direction

Networking → Infrastructure → Systems → Cybersecurity → SOC → Automation → Cloud → Cloud Security Engineering

Languages

  • English — Professional working proficiency
  • French — Good working proficiency
  • Arabic — Native

02 — Capabilities

Capabilities

The areas these documented projects move through, and the career arc they follow.

01

Networking

Routing, switching and segmented network foundations.

02

Systems & infrastructure

Servers, virtualization and the services that run on them.

03

Cybersecurity

Hardening, access control and defensive configuration.

04

Monitoring & incident response

Detection, log analysis and alert handling from the lab.

05

Cloud & automation

Scripted, repeatable configuration and cloud-oriented workflows.

Career pathNetworking → Infrastructure → Systems → Cybersecurity → SOC → Automation → Cloud Security

Drawn from the documented projects — no ratings, percentages or invented metrics.

04 — All projects

All projects

Every documented project — from network foundations to defensive tooling.

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  • Illustrative visualization of the project's lab structure — not a real screenshot.
    01Completed

    SOC-ITSM Security Platform

    A security operations and IT service management platform integrating security monitoring, incident management, automation, threat intelligence, and infrastructure services into a unified environment.

    Contribution

    Designed and implemented the platform architecture and integrated multiple security, infrastructure, automation, and application components.

    Focus

    InfrastructureSystemsCybersecurity

    Stack

    • FastAPI
    • React
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • +11
  • AI-generated illustration of the project's segmented security zones — not a real screenshot.
    02Completed

    Zero-Trust Enterprise Infrastructure Baseline

    Designed a segmented enterprise-style infrastructure baseline focused on network segmentation, security zones, identity management, endpoint controls, and centralized security monitoring.

    Focus

    NetworkingInfrastructureSystems

    Stack

    • pfSense
    • VLANs
    • Suricata IDS/IPS
    • pfBlockerNG
    • +6
  • AI-generated illustration of the project's virtualized home-lab network — not a real screenshot.
    03Completed

    First Homelab Network Infrastructure

    My first structured infrastructure laboratory focused on building network foundations using Proxmox, pfSense, VLANs, DNS, and multi-subnet DHCP.

    Focus

    NetworkingInfrastructureSystems

    Stack

    • Proxmox
    • pfSense
    • VLANs
    • 802.1Q
    • +5
  • Illustrative visualization of the project's lab structure — not a real screenshot.
    04Completed

    Automated SOC Incident Response

    Built an automated incident-response workflow connecting security alerts with enrichment, network controls, notifications, and structured incident information.

    Focus

    NetworkingSystemsCybersecurity

    Stack

    • Kali Linux
    • Wazuh
    • n8n
    • pfSense
    • +5
  • Illustrative visualization of the project's lab structure — not a real screenshot.
    05Completed

    End-to-End SOC & Threat Hunting Lab

    Built and tested a practical SOC laboratory for endpoint monitoring, network visibility, attack simulation, event analysis, and threat hunting.

    Focus

    NetworkingSystemsCybersecurity

    Stack

    • Wazuh
    • Sysmon
    • pfSense
    • Kali Linux
    • +2
  • Illustrative visualization of the project's lab structure — not a real screenshot.
    06Completed

    Wireless Security & Traffic Auditing

    Built an authorized wireless security laboratory for analyzing 802.11 management traffic, identifying abnormal behavior, and studying wireless network security.

    Focus

    NetworkingSystemsCybersecurity

    Stack

    • Linux
    • Scapy
    • 802.11
    • monitor mode
    • +1
  • Illustrative visualization of the project's lab structure — not a real screenshot.
    07Completed

    OpenVPN + PKI + MFA + Fail2ban

    Implemented a secure remote-access VPN environment combining OpenVPN, PKI-based certificates, PAM authentication, MFA, and Fail2ban.

    Focus

    InfrastructureSystemsCybersecurity

    Stack

    • OpenVPN
    • Easy-RSA
    • PKI
    • PAM
    • +3
  • AI-generated illustration of the project's stateful packet inspection — not a real screenshot.
    08Completed

    Custom Stateful IDS

    Developed a custom stateful intrusion-detection system to analyze network traffic and detect multiple attack patterns using packet inspection and state tracking.

    Focus

    NetworkingSystemsCybersecurity

    Stack

    • Python
    • Scapy
    • BPF
    • packet parsing
    • +2
  • Illustrative visualization of the project's lab structure — not a real screenshot.
    09Completed

    Python ARP Spoofing Detection Engine

    Developed a network-security detection engine for identifying ARP spoofing by tracking IP/MAC relationships and detecting changes from an established baseline.

    Focus

    NetworkingCybersecuritySOC

    Stack

    • Python
    • raw Ethernet sockets
    • Scapy
    • ARP
    • +1
  • AI-generated illustration of the project's L3/L4 packet inspection — not a real screenshot.
    10Completed

    Custom Network Traffic Analyzer

    Built a custom network traffic analyzer for inspecting packets and understanding network traffic at the Layer 3 and Layer 4 levels.

    Focus

    NetworkingInfrastructureSystems

    Stack

    • Python
    • Scapy
    • BPF
    • Linux networking
    • +2
  • AI-generated illustration of the project's TCP port sweep — not a real screenshot.
    11Completed

    Custom TCP Port Scanner

    Developed a custom TCP port-scanning tool to understand packet-level scanning and TCP connection behavior.

    Focus

    Networking

    Stack

    • Python
    • Scapy
    • TCP
    • multithreading.
  • AI-generated illustration of the project's firewall rule table and privilege separation — not a real screenshot.
    12Completed

    Custom Netfilter / iptables Firewall Appliance

    Built a custom firewall-management appliance that provides an application layer for managing Linux firewall rules while separating privileged operations from the main application.

    Focus

    NetworkingSystemsCybersecurity

    Stack

    • Node.js
    • Express
    • Linux iptables
    • subprocess execution
    • +2

06 — Education & certifications

Education & credentials

Education

  1. Sep 2024 – Jul 2026

    OFPPT / ISTAG Bab Tizimi

    Technicien Spécialisé — Infrastructures Digitales, Option Cybersécurité

    DTS / Bac+2
  2. 2023 – 2024

    Lycée Tarik Ibn Ziyad - Meknès

    Baccalauréat — Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre

Certifications

07 — Contact

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