Even though I’m not currently employed, I am still working on enhancing my skills by investigating the following in my home lab.
Proxmox:
For hosting of various flavours of Virtual Machines.
Terraform:
For efficient and replicable infrastructure deployment. (Ubuntu and Windows, now attempting Solaris 11).
Ansible:
For efficient, consistent host configuration and management.
Deploying DNS, OpenLDAP, MySQL, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, Pi-hole, Jellyfin.
Windows:
Windows Server Installation and Active Directory.
Now also using Ansible to setup AD Users/OUs/GPO.
Cisco:
Network switch configuration and management.
Templates for automated reporting and logging of security incidents.
Training:
Security Blue Team: Blue Team Level 1 (BTL1)
Junior Security Operations training and certification covers Phishing Analysis, Digital Forensics, Threat Intelligence, SIEM, and Incident Response
Oh yes – and looking for an actual job too !!!!