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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Evaluate architecture for application migration/deployment to ensure it meets NIST compliance in addition to any restrictions by company policy. Led the process for evaluating new applications (SaaS and CoTS) to determine if they would pose a security risk if adopted.Engaged in ad-hoc consultations with various teams to evaluate the security of proposed projects and proof of concepts.Lead security for architecture in cloud infrastructure and data applications ensuring risk was acceptable, and standards have been met.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for the creation of CI/CD pipelines, and the automation of security controlswithin cloud environments.Responsible for the documentation of security controls, and ensure they comply withindustry standards.Monitor new security trends, and make recommendations on how new techniques can beapplied to the current security strategy.Provide insight on existing architecture documentation, and recommend improvementbased on past experience, and new trends.As part of planning sessions I provide recommendations on COTS and SaaS products thatmay fill in gaps in security tooling.Mentored immediate team in my areas of expertise, and facilitated cross-functional skillsharing to external teams.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Act as post sales engineering to our customers using Prisma Cloud. Guide them through initial setup, configuration, and optimization of Prisma Cloud security monitoring into their cloud infrastructure. Offer best practices, and help customize solutions to fit their use cases. Also train their staff on the use of Prisma Cloud software, and general security best practices.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Engage customers to resolve technical issues primarily in EC2, but includes many other services such as CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, S3, IAM, ELB, ECS, Lambda and EBS.Helped troubleshoot issues with some non AWS products such as Chef and DockerCreate, and debug CloudFormation templates.Developed company wide training for OpsWorksServed as an escalation point for Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation.Review, correct, and write documentation.Replicating architecture to confirm errors, and find a path to remediation.Assist other engineers locally and remotely as needed.Test new services/featuresRegularly troubleshoot problems with application and web servers.

Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Responsible for the installation and configuration of Linux based thin client hardware/software into existing/new customer facilities.Responsible for the training of on-site staff in the use/administration of the new systems.Assist the security testing and evaluation team with accrediting newly installed systemsPerformed tier 3 technical supportCoordinated with onsite personnel to troubleshoot any technical issues that may arise during product installation at the customer’s job site. Assisted in the documentation of tasks/procedures that were implemented in newer versions of cross domain software. Assisted in setting up a lab environment for the engineers to train on new versions of the cross domain software, and test customer implementations.Assisted our product support team in testing new versions of our software. As well as migration testing from older versions to the newest version.

Technical support of overall health and maintenance of the client’s operating system environments in support of 24/7 operations.Performed the day to day operations and support of the client’s Red Hat and Sun Solaris server environments.Assisted in the development of project documentation.Assisted in the automation of tasks using shell scripts resulting in 75% less man hours in related tasks.Performed tier-2 escalation support.Used Vmware to build/maintain virtual servers.Used Dell Idrac to maintain/monitor physical servers.Created/deleted/maintained user accounts.Used Remedy to track change/problem/incident management to their resolutions.Assisted in the scanning and hardening of production servers to DoD security standards using SRR scripts/STIG checklist.Used Altiris to deploy scripts for task automation.Familiar with remote administration via secure shell.

Assisted in the maintenance/troubleshooting of mission critical databases in a UNIX based environment.Regularly compiled and filtered relevant data to produce daily/weekly operational reports.Instructed 20+ hours of software/operational training in a classroom environment.Instructed 100+ hours of software/operational training to US/foreign technicians.Authored technical operational related checklists, increasing team efficiency by 33%. Coordinated with planning agencies for the dissemination of mission documents.Performed shift work regularly with a fast paced operations tempo.

Associate'S Degree, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science And Technology, General

Associate Degree, Computer Information Systems