Alaa Elsayed

SOC Manager | MSSP & Enterprise Security Operations | DFIR | Threat Hunting

Doha, Qatar

About

Cybersecurity professional with 12+ years across IT and cybersecurity, currently leading an MSSP-based SOC serving major enterprise clients in Qatar across financial services, government, and critical infrastructure. My work sits at the intersection of hands-on security and operational leadership, I've run DFIR engagements, hunted threats across Sentinel, Splunk, and ELK, and built the playbooks and escalation frameworks that make a SOC function under pressure.

Experience

  • Techpace ()
    • Security Operations Manager
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

      Leading SOC operations, incident escalation, threat hunting and security governance across enterprise client environments.

    • Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
      Nov 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Focused on DFIR, threat hunting, client advisory, and SOC capability enhancements

  • IT Engineer at Al Jazeera Media Network
    Aug 2015 - Nov 2022 · 7 yrs 4 mos

  • Technical Support Engineer at Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB)
    Dec 2014 - Jul 2015 · 8 mos

  • Network Engineer at Ooredoo Qatar
    Jul 2013 - Nov 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos