Benjamin Baldus Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Texas, United States

Westlake, Texas, Us

At Charles Schwab, my tenure as Senior Manager in Security Development & Engineering has been marked by leading the charge in DevSecOps and Security Engineering. As the Azure Security Domain Lead Engineer I empowered our team to deploy robust security solutions that safeguard our digital assets and maintain the trust of our clients. Guiding a secure-by-design approach in a multi-cloud environment ensuring cloud security control alignment over Schwab Public Cloud Providers.

Utrecht, Nl

Mclean, Va, Us

Network Security and Architecture in AWS - Perimeter Protection Team Cloud Security Engineer focusing on Perimeter Cloud Security design and development. Responsible for continuous improvement of Web Application Security Posture and Adoption through Leadership and Mentorship. Designed and developed multiple solutions to increase adoption and usage of automation and security best practices, while improving analysis of log data, resulting in decreasing Mean Time to Detect and Mean Time to Repair. Co-Authored multiple Security Standards, Policy Reviews, Identity and Access Policies, and Security Group Policies, resulting in organizational changes, leading to an increase in cloud security posture and simplification of perimeter security mechanisms. Lead in cross collaboration efforts between Vendors, Governance, Compliance, and multiple development teams to ensure adoption of key services and increasing trust in the security organization. Key AccomplishmentsDeveloped Cloud WAF pipeline automated deployment design and improved operational support(DevOps) Produced, improved, or simplified complex training documents that resulted in faster adoption by new team membersTeam Champion and Mentor on agile methodology adoption and usageProvided training, mentorship, and leadership on best practices and designs for perimeter protection, resulting in overall increased awareness of challenges associated with web application security, and faster adoption of security services, by empathizing with the development community and improving team collaboration. Improved efficiencies in logs obtained from perimeter security mechanisms resulting in decreased time to identify security incidents.Improved the overall security posture on 90+ customer facing applications.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Management of WAN Infrastructure for North and South America. Design, configure, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain network devices. Juniper, Cisco, HP Procurve, and Digi Consoles. Key AccomplishmentsDesigned and Implemented monitoring mechanisms to identify early indications of network instability, resulting in proactive fault identification and repair.Collaborated with Juniper vendor to lead research, design, and implement a secure infrastructure for 40+ global corporate offices. Documentation for all WAN sites including network diagrams(Visio) and monitoring tools(Orion/Nagios)

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Mobile Device ManagementEmail support for mobile devices including Blackberry, Goodlink, DME, and Exchange ActiveSync

Ames, Ia, Us

Management of all technical functions such as database, security, phones, Active Directory, Exchange, server management, and general IT support

Centennial, Colorado, Us

Provided support to end-users in the acquisition, implementation and operation of end-user applications and hardware. Managed user accounts through Active Directory and Exchange System Manager.