🎯 Military veteran transitioning into IT/Cybersecurity | SysAdmin & SOC Analyst
🛡️ Building a production-grade enterprise SOC homelab: Fort Reign
📍 Colorado Springs, CO | Active Secret Clearance | Open to SysAdmin & Azure Admin roles
💼 Client Support Administrator @ Apex Systems → Amentum IRES (DoD)
Fort Reign is a fully operational enterprise-style infrastructure and security operations environment built on a 3-node Proxmox cluster. It mirrors real-world DoD and enterprise environments with hybrid identity, centralized SIEM, endpoint detection, threat intelligence, and automated infrastructure management.
| Component | Details |
|---|---|
| Hypervisors | 3-node Proxmox cluster — Dell T7810 (64GB), OptiPlex 7070 (32GB), OptiPlex 3050 (16GB) |
| Network | Ubiquiti ER-X router · Cisco SG300 managed switch · 4-VLAN design (Management, Enterprise, Attack, IoT) |
| Domain | Windows Server 2022 Active Directory · DNS · DHCP · Group Policy |
| Hybrid Identity | Microsoft Entra Connect · Password Hash Sync · MFA · DCSync attack path mapped via BloodHound |
| Automation | Ansible control node managing 6 Linux servers · Self-hosted Gitea version control |
| Tool | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Wazuh | ✅ Live | 3 agents · Sysmon integrated · DC01, FRG-W10-01, FRG-W10-02 |
| Splunk | ✅ Live | Wazuh forwarding pipeline · Detection dashboards in progress |
| Security Onion | ✅ Live | SPAN port monitoring · IDS · PCAP analysis |
| Tool | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Velociraptor | ✅ Live | Endpoint forensics & live response · 3 agents enrolled · VQL hunts running |
| MISP | ✅ Live | Threat intelligence platform · 5 active feeds (CIRCL, Feodo, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar, Phishtank) |
| BloodHound CE | ✅ Live | AD attack path analysis · DCSync rights mapped · MSOL sync account finding documented |
Enterprise infrastructure build — Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, VLAN segmentation, Proxmox cluster, Ansible automation, static IP management.
Key skills demonstrated:
- Windows Server 2022 AD deployment and hardening
- 4-VLAN network architecture with inter-VLAN routing
- Ansible playbooks for patch management and configuration
- Entra Connect hybrid identity with Password Hash Sync
- Self-hosted Git (Gitea) for infrastructure version control
Full SOC stack deployment — SIEM pipeline, endpoint detection, threat intelligence, and incident response.
Key skills demonstrated:
- Wazuh SIEM with Sysmon telemetry and Windows audit policies
- Splunk log aggregation with Wazuh Universal Forwarder
- Security Onion network security monitoring with SPAN port
- Velociraptor endpoint forensics — VQL hunts across all endpoints
- MISP threat intelligence with automated IOC feed ingestion
- BloodHound AD attack path analysis — DCSync exposure documented
- IR report writing (IR-2026-001: DCSync rights via Entra Connect)
Azure hybrid identity and cloud administration lab — extends on-prem Fort Reign into Azure.
Key skills demonstrated:
- Microsoft Entra ID tenant configuration
- Entra Connect hybrid identity synchronization
- MFA deployment and Conditional Access policy design
- RBAC and Azure resource management
Infrastructure & Systems
Proxmox Windows Server 2022 Active Directory DNS DHCP Group Policy Linux (Ubuntu 24.04) Rocky Linux
Security Operations
Wazuh Splunk Security Onion Velociraptor MISP BloodHound Sysmon IDS/IPS PCAP Analysis Threat Hunting Incident Response
Identity & Cloud
Microsoft Entra ID Entra Connect Hybrid Identity MFA Azure RBAC Conditional Access
Networking
VLANs Inter-VLAN routing Ubiquiti EdgeOS Cisco SG300 pfSense Wireshark nmap
Automation & DevOps
Ansible Bash PowerShell Python Gitea Git systemd Netplan
Frameworks & Compliance
NIST RMF MITRE ATT&CK NIST 800-53 DoD 8570 ITIL v4
| Certification | Status |
|---|---|
| CompTIA A+ | ✅ Earned |
| CompTIA Network+ | ✅ Earned |
| CompTIA Security+ CE | ✅ Earned |
| AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals | ✅ Earned |
| ITIL v4 Foundation | ✅ Earned |
| AZ-104 Azure Administrator | 🔄 In Progress |
| CompTIA Linux+ | 📅 Planned |
| RHCSA | 📅 Planned |
| CCNA | 📅 Planned |
4 years U.S. Military service as a Logistics Officer — supply chain management, resource allocation, mission planning, and leading teams under operational conditions. The same discipline applied to building Fort Reign: structured phases, documented SOPs, version-controlled configs, and operational logging.
Active Secret clearance.
Fort Reign is an ongoing build. New tools, attack simulations, and documentation added regularly.