Shahab Aghaei

Experience

Where I've worked

• Group Head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure · PGPICJuly 2026 – Present▸

  Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Group

  Lead group-wide cybersecurity and infrastructure governance for the holding company and its subsidiaries.

  • Lead the NOC, SOC, and infrastructure teams.
  • Set policies and oversee their implementation across subsidiary companies.
• Infrastructure Manager · Daal2023 – July 2026▸

  Led infrastructure reliability and modernization for a business-critical fintech platform.

  • Improved average internal service uptime from 99.981% to 99.993% through software-defined storage and high-availability operations.
  • Established cross-city disaster recovery with a 60-second RPO and a 3-minute RTO for critical services.
  • Led the move from standalone Docker deployments to Kubernetes and upgraded multi-site VDI resilience.
  • Standardized infrastructure documentation and network topology records using NetBox.

  High AvailabilityDisaster RecoveryKubernetesNetBox
• ICT Manager · SECO2019 – 2023▸

  Sepehr Energy Petrochemical Holding

  Led ICT infrastructure and security improvements across headquarters and industrial sites.

  • Raised enterprise and industrial ICT service uptime from 99.71% to 99.93%.
  • Designed high-availability networking and deployed SD-WAN between headquarters and remote plants.
  • Improved critical platform load times by up to 40% through storage optimization.
  • Strengthened privileged access, MFA, log management, anomaly detection, and secure data ingress.

  Enterprise NetworkingOT/ITSD-WANPAM
• IT Manager · Iran Insurance University2017 – 2019▸

  Managed infrastructure supporting nationwide virtual education and online examinations.

  • Designed centralized ICT services for training and remote education.
  • Supported high-availability examination platforms and reliable connectivity across distributed branches.

Skills

What I work with