Sascha P.

Cybersecurity Engineer & Architect

Mannheim, Germany

Experience

Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
9 months
Remote

Security Engineer SASE/SSE

Rolls Royce via Kyndryl

Operation and further development of a SASE infrastructure based on Netskope

Apr 2023 - Present
2 years 6 months
Hybrid

Founder & CEO

Retactic

  • At Retactic, we deliver Cybersecurity as a Service for SMBs and startups.
  • Our fully managed solution provides the same level of protection against cyber attacks that Fortune 500 and other large companies rely on - without breaking the bank or requiring expert knowledge.
Jan 2021 - Present
4 years 9 months
Hybrid

Co-Founder & CTO

Cyrrus Cloud

Since 2018, I have owned the company Cyrrus.Cloud - an official Google Cloud Partner focused on Google Workspace. We resell Workspace and support numerous SME clients across Europe. [link]

Focus areas:  Onboarding Google Workspace for new customers  Migrating from M365 to Google Workspace, including with third-party tools like CloudM  Managing existing customers and ongoing management of Google Workspace environments  Training and workshops for users and admins  Support for our customers  Close contact with Google for support and sales  Running a Google Partner community with about 30 other Google Partners

I have personally attended numerous Google trainings and am Google certified. This is a requirement for Google Partner status.

Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
2 years 6 months

Network Security Engineer

Ratiodata GmbH

  • Responsible for the rollout of new security technologies.
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
9 months

Network Security Engineer

Computacenter

  • Network and security operations for Deutsche Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR).
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
3 years 1 month

Network Security Engineer

Allianz Group

Jan 2014 - Oct 2015
1 year 10 months

Network Security Engineer

EY

  • Design and build of globally distributed security infrastructure: Provider-1 integrated Checkpoint firewalls and BlueCoat proxy systems, including URL-filtering and malware protection, documentation and handover to operations, third level support for operations.
  • Defined and documented standards.
May 2011 - Dec 2013
2 years 8 months

Network Security Consultant

VR Netze GmbH

  • Consulting in network security, migration of Cisco and Check Point firewalls to Juniper SRX.
  • Operations of large proxy infrastructure based on McAfee Web Gateway, project lead for transitioning to a major new version.
  • Many other tasks.
Mar 2011 - Jun 2011
4 months

Network Security Architect

Lufthansa Systems

  • Consulting for LH systems.
  • Large migration project, replacing Cisco ASA firewalls with Juniper SRX.
Feb 2011 - May 2015
4 years 4 months

Associate Consultant

Cypress Consult

Mar 2010 - Mar 2011
1 year 1 month

Security Engineer

TDS AG

  • Engineering and deploying a complex content security system, involving products from Blue Coat and McAfee as well as Microdasys.
Jan 2010 - Mar 2010
3 months

Network Engineer

GLOBALFOUNDRIES

  • Helped splitting the new Globalfoundries network off of the AMD network.
  • IP readressing of complete DMZ infrastructure.
Oct 2009 - Jan 2010
4 months

IT Infrastructure Architect & Project Lead

Volkswagen

Feb 2008 - Jul 2009
1 year 6 months

Network Security Engineer

Lufthansa Systems

  • Operations, network engineering (security), Check Point firewalls.
May 2007 - Dec 2007
8 months

Network Architect & Security Engineer

Accenture

Feb 2007 - May 2007
4 months

Network Security Engineer

Allianz

  • operations, Check Point firewalls.
Aug 2006 - Feb 2007
7 months

Network Security Engineer

Swisscom

  • I am an engineer for the managed security business unit and manage customer security infrastructure.
  • Mostly Checkpoint firewalls.
  • I deal with troubleshooting and change requests.
  • This is purely operating, only some design/architecture.
Mar 2006 - Jul 2006
5 months

Network Security Engineer

T-Systems

  • I was responsible to proof new network designs and recommend changes in case the new designs had flaws.
  • This involved a lot of organizational and project management work.
  • It was mostly network design and architecture.
  • If time permitted, I was also configuring Juniper Netscreen firewalls for some of the new networks.
Dec 2004 - Dec 2005
1 year 1 month

Network Security Architect

Accenture

  • I was working in the network security department of Accenture's outsourcing business unit.
  • I was responsible for design and architecture of new security infrastructure, change management, and daily operating.
  • I worked with a lot of different companies who were Accenture customers.
  • I worked in a lot of different projects and with a lot of different network and security equipment.
  • Please ask for details.
Jan 2003 - Jan 2023
20 years 1 month

Freelance Cyber Security Consultant

espique it.security

  • I have been a freelance consultant and engineer in the cybersecurity field for almost 20 years, before founding Retactic.
  • You can find a list of the clients and projects I worked for in the past below.
Jan 1996 - Dec 2003
8 years

Senior Network Manager

3C Internet Solutions

  • 3C was a startup ISP in the very early days of the Internet "rush".
  • I helped grow it's technical expertise.
  • I was responsible for design and management of the complete ISP technical infrastructure such as layer2 and layer3 networking (backbone) up to layer7 services such as email, DNS, webservers etc.
  • I was also head of a small team of 3-7 people.
  • Unfortunately the company was not successful and terminated it's business when the large ISPs became even larger and the smaller ISPs started to disappear.

Summary

Experienced Cybersecurity Engineer with a long-standing career. I have worked for companies like Accenture, EY, Lufthansa, Volkswagen, and many others.

My focus areas include defensive IT security, firewalls, VPNs, ZTNA, XDR/EDR, email security, as well as SASE and SSE. I have experience with many leading vendors in the industry.

Another main focus is the introduction and administration of Google Workspace, as well as other modern SaaS collaboration tools like Notion and Asana.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Certifications & licenses

G Suite Deployment Specialist

Google Workspace Deployment Specialist

Netskope Cloud Security Specialist

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