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Responsible for identifying and managing system vulnerabilities and cyber threats to the business.Architected a Tenable deployment to identify and track vulnerabilities across nearly 2000 systems.Worked with multiple teams, from developers, to system administrators and architects to diagnose and plan remediation strategies based on security findings.Lead hardening of HAProxy load balancer and Apache configurations to minimise attack vectors.Auditing and tightening rules on Cisco ASA firewalls.Improving security within Active Directory infrastructure by implementing automated monitoring and management of machine and user accounts and developing more controlled Group Policies,Identified weaknesses in processes and designed solutions to mitigate and eliminate them.Implementing secure-by-design principles based around Security Advisor as part of expansion to Azure cloud.Other main tools used include nmap & wireshark for network forensics and PowerShell & bash scripting for network information gathering and mass staged deployment of fixes and improvements.

3rd Line Engineer.Maintenance and support of numerous platforms, running on Windows and Linux in VMware.Microsoft Certified support for MSSQL databases plus MySQL and PostgreSQL.Network support and analysis.Firewall management on Cisco ASA and Juniper firewalls.Design and maintenance of HAProxy-based load-balancing solutions.Development and support of in house tools to automate tasks and bring together and provide information to improve efficiency, mostly using PowerShell and PHP.DevOps work utilising Chef based CI infrastructure.Active member of the Information Security team working to identify, analyse and proactively prevent security breaches and virus intrusions.In house digital forensics specialist with CHFI training for security best practise guidance.

IT support and server administration.Single-handedly ran the department for 8 months.Maintenance and development of a mixed environment of 10 Windows, Linux and UNIX servers and approximately 80 Windows and Linux desktops across 3 sites.Securing and testing the various computer systems, applications and networks for vulnerabilities.Design and deployment of user VPN via a Cisco PIX and site to site VPNs.Development of in-house document management system.Deployment of Squid proxy and caching server.Built platform monitoring solution.Migration of full infrastructure to VMware.Management of users, files and security via Active Directory on Server 2003.Administration and deployment of backup solutions for all systems and users.Main products used include MS Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 2003 & 2008), Linux (RedHat, SuSE and Debian), SCO UNIX, VMware, Acronis Trueimage, Backup Exec, CrashPlan Pro, Progress, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Squid, Apache, VPOP3, Exchange, MS Office, OpenOffice and Cisco IOS, Draytek routers.

Setup of site-to-site VPN.Implementation of firewall and network monitoring.Support and maintenance of Windows servers and desktops.Main products used include MS Windows (NT, 2000 & 2003), RedHat Linux, MS Office, ZoneAlarm Pro, NetScreen firewalls, Sophos anti-virus and Citrix.

Freelance web development.Wrote web-based property management system for client’s website.

General assistant in the IT department.Tasks included system audit, technical assistance, setting up workstations and servers.