Lead It Cybersecurity/Infosec Specialist
Monterey County, California, United States
• Managed cybersecurity architecture, engineering, installation, operational planning, continuous monitoring, and risk remediation for an enterprise network within the Navy Higher Educational Information Technology Consortium (NHEITC) organizations.• Conducted risk assessments and consulted with internal and external stakeholders to ensure risk management and mitigation for critical business operations.• Performed ethical hacking, penetration testing, and certification and accreditation (C&A) tasks within a security operations center (SOC) environment.• Assessed SOC analyst knowledge gaps and designed tailored training plans for mission-essential tasks, including intelligence reporting, security, and compliance implementation.• Created technical diagrams, installation manuals, standard operating procedures, and incident response plans to enhance system security and disaster recovery documentation, while also producing compliance reports and information requests.• Architected, deployed, and onboarded a Splunk SIEM/SOAR solution supporting 1000GiB+ daily ingestion, integrating continuous monitoring solutions and handling user requests and data queries.• Maintained next-gen firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, endpoint detection and response, data encryption, cloud architecture, event management, public key infrastructure (PKI), ACL, MAC, and DAC following industry standards and requirements.• Served as the principal project manager for the conversion to NIST 800-207 zero-trust architecture standards.