Robin Huston

Systems Engineering & Security Operations

Building resilient infrastructure. Hardening security posture.

With over 13 years of experience in IT systems engineering and security operations, I specialize in optimizing enterprise systems, deploying robust telemetry architectures, and managing complex network infrastructures.

Debian / RHEL SIEM & Telemetry Wazuh Virtualization & Core Networking

Professional Credentials

Validated technical expertise in core security principles and cloud environments.

CompTIA
Security+ CE
Microsoft
SC-500 Track

Featured Homelab Deployments

Active environments built for testing, security simulation, and network hardening.

SIEM / SecOps

Wazuh SIEM Integration

Centralized telemetry architecture using a dedicated Wazuh manager and distributed agents across local endpoints.

Wazuh Debian XML Decoders
DNS / Hardening

Pi-hole Telemetry Pipeline

Configured custom XML decoders to forward local DNS query logs into SIEM for anomaly detection and egress tracking.

Pi-hole Syslog SIEM
Infrastructure

Hybrid Core Virtualization

Enterprise simulation lab running mixed RHEL and Debian environments on bare-metal hypervisors backed by Cisco routing hardware.

RHEL Debian 13 Cisco iOS

Professional Experience

A history of engineering stable, secure infrastructure platforms.

Senior Systems Engineer & Security Analyst

Present

Leading deployment, hardening, and modernization across enterprise-level systems infrastructure. Driving incident response architectures, continuous logging optimization, and endpoint monitoring strategy.

Systems Engineer / Infrastructure Lead

13+ Years Total IT Track

Designed, scaled, and operationalized core directory networks, directory services, and Linux systems infrastructure. Established standard procedures for continuous backup strategies, identity management, and compliance enforcement.