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[ ok ] role :: soc shift lead @ precision cybertechnologies
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Cybersecurity & GRC. Built, not just studied.

SOC Shift Lead at Precision Cybertechnologies, running 24/7 security operations across multiple client environments. Around the SOC, I build the documented security programs small Caribbean organizations don't have yet. Detection through remediation. Risk through roadmap.

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I'm Jelani Maitland, a SOC Shift Lead at Precision Cybertechnologies, where I run 24/7 security operations across multiple client environments: SIEM investigations in Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Stack, incident response from detection through remediation, proactive threat hunting with MITRE ATT&CK, and mentoring the analysts on my shift.

Around the SOC work, I build open-source GRC programs aimed at a gap I keep seeing across the Caribbean. Small healthcare practices, law offices, and professional services firms run on Microsoft 365, handle sensitive data every day, and have one person managing all of IT, with no documented security program. My MedCaribe portfolio is the reference material to help close that gap, dual-mapped to NIST CSF 2.0 and CIS Controls v8.

I learn by building. I don't trust a control I haven't stood up myself, so I run the labs, map the frameworks at the source, and publish the work.

>role  SOC Shift Lead @ Precision Cybertechnologies
>portfolio  MedCaribe :: 5 published GRC projects
>certs  CySA+ / Security+ / SC-200 / CSAP / Fortinet FCA
>in progress  CCNA 200-301 / HarvardX Cyber Defense
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Current role

// precision cybertechnologies :: may 2025 to present

I lead a 24/7 SOC shift team.

Across multiple client environments, I own advanced alert triage, threat escalation, and end-to-end incident response. I direct SIEM investigations in Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Stack, run proactive threat hunts with MITRE ATT&CK, mentor junior analysts in detection engineering and forensics, and translate technical risk into business impact for executive and board-level stakeholders.

>Authored Precision's official SOC Shift Handover SOP, standardizing cross-shift context transfer and protecting SLA compliance
>Cut false-positive alerts by 20% through alert tuning and whitelisting
>Mentor junior analysts in detection engineering and forensic investigation
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MedCaribe GRC portfolio

Five interconnected projects building a complete security program for MedCaribe, a 55-person healthcare provider in Trinidad & Tobago. All published on GitHub.

Governance Program governance

A complete governance program dual-mapped to NIST CSF 2.0 and CIS Controls v8 IG1: a 20-risk register with quantitative scoring, five core security policies, and an incident response plan covering five incident types. Delivered with a board-level risk briefing and a phased 12-month remediation roadmap costed at TTD 15K to 37.5K and prioritized by risk reduction per dollar.

CIS v8 to Microsoft 365 Mapping m365

Mapped all 56 CIS Controls v8 IG1 safeguards to specific Microsoft 365 Business Premium features (Entra ID, Defender, Intune, Purview), finding that 82% of essential IG1 controls are fully addressable through existing licensing at zero additional cost. Flagged the three gaps M365 can't cover and sequenced a six-wave rollout.

Tabletop Exercise Kit tabletop

Three tabletop scenarios (business email compromise, insider threat, vendor breach) with facilitator guides, participant handouts, observer worksheets, and after-action templates. Each runs five escalating injects that force real decisions on containment, evidence preservation, and regulatory notification.

Vendor Risk Framework tprm

A third-party risk framework with two-factor tiering (data sensitivity x service criticality), weighted security questionnaires, and a scoring rubric. Includes a sample assessment of CloudMed, a cloud EHR provider holding 12,000 patient records, scored 67% (Medium Risk) with a documented risk acceptance and data-controller liability analysis under the T&T Data Protection Act.

Compliance Gap Assessment Tool assessment

A dual-framework gap assessment tool with cross-framework comparison templates and a completed report showing a 129% maturity improvement over eight weeks, from 1.05 to 2.4 on the NIST CSF scale, and 39% CIS Controls v8 IG1 implementation from a zero baseline.

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Technical labs

SOC Lab :: Network Defense blue team

An isolated enterprise SOC environment with pfSense (firewall/IDS/IPS), Windows Server 2022 (Active Directory, RBAC), and Windows 10 endpoints. Deployed CrowdSec and Sysmon with custom alerting and log analysis, achieving 30% faster incident resolution.

SIEM Lab :: Elastic Stack detection

Deployed Elastic Stack to centralize logs from Kali Linux and Windows systems, automating ingestion via Elastic Agents to cut manual collection by 40%. Built Kibana dashboards that surfaced 50+ simulated malicious events and visualized attacker TTPs.

Phishing Simulation :: Gophish red team

End-to-end social engineering campaigns built in Gophish, with realistic email templates and credential-harvesting landing pages to test user awareness and validate the technical email security controls behind them.

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How I work

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Map, don't memorize

A control only matters when you can trace it back to the risk it answers. I work from risk first, controls second.

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Build to understand

I don't trust a control I haven't stood up myself. The lab is where theory either survives or gets corrected.

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Make it operable

Security an analyst can't run is just paperwork. The win is people who can execute, not a binder.

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What I work with

frameworks / grc
NIST CSF 2.0CIS Controls v8MITRE ATT&CKRisk AssessmentPolicy DevelopmentGap AnalysisTPRMTabletop Design
siem / detection
Microsoft SentinelElastic StackSplunk (basic)M365 DefenderDefender for Endpoint
m365 security
Entra IDConditional AccessIntuneDefender for BusinessPurviewEOP
network / systems
pfSenseActive DirectoryTCP/IPVLANsWiresharkNmapKaliWindows
scripting / tooling
PythonSQLGophishSysmonCrowdSec
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Credentials

certifications
CompTIA CySA+Security+CSAPMicrosoft SC-200Fortinet FCALetsDefend SOC Analyst
in progress
CCNA 200-301HarvardX Advanced Cyber Defense and Risk
membership
Member, ISACA (Trinidad & Tobago Chapter)
education
BSc (Hons) Computing Information Systems, University of Greenwich, Upper Second Class Honours. HND Computing, Pearson BTEC. National Engineering Technician Diploma, University of Trinidad & Tobago.