Jeffrey Samuel A D
AWS Dev-Sec-Ops Consultant
Regina,Saskatchewan
Summary
Experienced business and systems analyst with 8 years of IT experience with emphasis in Dev-Sec-Ops Practices in AWS. Demonstrated strengths include process analysis, technical troubleshooting, project leadership, program management and communication skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Associate
Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
02.2022 - 08.2023
- Analyze open vulnerabilities reported in public portals and understand their potential impact on applications used by firm and support them to create mitigation plan.
- Perform periodic scans using GitLab on existing security controls and prepare evidences for internal security audits
- Oversee development & implementation of custom rules and baselines for software composition analysis and Infrastructure as Code initiatives for enabling security gating
- Analyze rule coverage and improve detection capabilities for ensuring security guard-rails on Infrastructure as Code whereby true positivity improved to above 94%.
- Managed program for security guard-rails development across DAST, SAST and IAC scanners
- Managed end user relations through communication and helpful interactions to improve Dev-EX and formulated process for raising queries and feedbacks easily for security scanners.
Consultant
Virtusa
Chennai
04.2018 - 02.2022
- Designed, scaled up & managed Client's AWS infrastructure.
- Mentoring team members across multiple projects on Dev Sec Ops initiatives and best practices
- Forecast risks and potential opportunities based on business directives, developed POCs & planned future investments on DevOps practices where by several new practices have been implemented to achieve vision of organization.
- Implemented automated CICD processes in self hosted GitLab and Jenkins /SVN with industry leading 3rd party tools like SAST scanners, Terraform executions and Checkov scanners
- Analyze vulnerability reports from industry leading SAST scanners and developed mitigation plan to bring down findings from 14k to 2k.
- Aligned closely with business owners and employees to gather information and gain operational insight.
- Setup Developer Onboarding and user management process for new hires to boost productivity in remote working landscape
Analyst - System Development
Verizon Data Services India
Chennai
06.2015 - 04.2018
- Analyzed multiple vendor products, created user stories and built POC for in house collection application.
- Improved User Experience by reducing clicks per page from 7 to 2 on major collection application
- Developed APIs and batch scripts to mask sensitive data to reduce scope of PCI DSS applications.
- Conducted SAST scan on legacy applications, analyzed reports and implemented mitigation plan for reduction of vulnerability from 100k to 17k in 30 applications.
Education
B. E - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Anna University
Chennai 08.2011 - 04.2015
Skills
CI/CD
DevOps
Terraform
OWASP Code Security standards & SAST
AWS
Agile
Jira
Project Management
Performance improvement
Accomplishments
- Above and Beyond Award in TMT East Q4 - FY21 for contribution to DevOps Initiatives and best practices implementation, Virtusa Consultancy
- Above and Beyond Award in TMT East Q1 – FY21 for contribution to GitLab Cutover for a client, Virtusa Consultancy
- Certificate of Recognition from Tom Madsen, VP, CFO IT, Verizon for contribution to POC on Collection's portal
- Collaborated with team of 2 in the development of complete AWS infrastructure for client.
Timeline
Associate
Goldman Sachs
02.2022 - 08.2023
Consultant
Virtusa
04.2018 - 02.2022
Analyst - System Development
Verizon Data Services India
06.2015 - 04.2018
B. E - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Anna University
08.2011 - 04.2015