Rob U.

Rob U.

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Delay Beach, FL, United States of America
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About Me

Rob has extensive experience in DevSecOps and delivery roles, has demonstrated expertise across multiple domains. Notable achievements include leading complex infrastructure planning for AWS service enablement at Goldman Sachs, implementing Agile methodologies and cloud security measures, and developing automation solutions for CI/CD deployment processes. They have a proven track record of improving security posture, reducing costs, and streamlining processes across various organizations, ranging from startups to large enterprises like Microsoft and Goldman Sachs. Their skills encompass cloud infrastructure management, security compliance, automation, and strategic consultancy, making them a valuable asset in driving innovation and efficiency in DevOps practices.

Work history

Goldman Sachs (via Cognizant)
Goldman Sachs (via Cognizant)
Senior Consultant DevSecOps
2021 - 2024 (3 years)
Remote, United States of America
  • Worked with key stakeholders and tech risk security teams to plan complex infrastructure for AWS service enablement for their Cloud Fast Track Platform.

  • Delegated workloads via Kanban utilizing AGILE best practices including sprint planning and sprint retro utilizing various tools including Jira, Trello, and Azure DevOps tooling.

  • Reported regular progress made with sprint metrics to stakeholders to show weekly progress on service enablement and SoW items.

  • Provided cloud security expertise in the development and planning of key infrastructure components such as cloud networking requirements, API Gateway, and several AWS/GCP/Azure cloud components

DevOpsAWSAzure CI/CD
Fiserv (via Cognizant)
Fiserv (via Cognizant)
Senior Consultant DevSecOps
2021 - 2024 (3 years)
Remote, United States of America
  • Created several key Ansible roles for specific application needs of support infrastructure including CyberArk, Tenable, and Nessus.

  • Added automation to the CI/CD deployment regarding the licensing and automatic updating of Tenable/Nessus. Turns out .exe files for both applications are signed by certificates and when those certificates expire, new .exe files are required.

  • Elevated security posture of infrastructure by authoring Ansible roles and playbooks to include application container hardening.

Prevailion
Prevailion
SecDevOps Lead
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
Texas, United States of America
  • Ran a team of 4, 2 cloud engineers and two Systems Administrators essentially running the IT and Engineering departments

  • Liaison between developers and cloud engineers - solutioning business needs with infrastructure.

  • Designed and implemented new product offering using Terraform - Axis Intelligence. These data feeds allowed marketing teams to successfully sign a number of new clients with stricter security standards

CMB Networks
CMB Networks
Cloud Security Systems Engineer
2015 - 2020 (5 years)
Washington, United States of America
  • Developed secure web applications for numerous cloud environments including AWS, AWS Elasticache, Azure, and GPC adhering to OWASP’s Secure Coding Best Practices.

  • Collaborated with executive staff and senior stakeholders to gather technical requirements for the development of proprietary court reporting software suite.

  • Partnering with team leads across the organization to prioritize features, user stories, and development planning in all aspects of security; identity management, compliance, governance, utilizing Azure cloud security best practices.

DevOpsAWSAzure Amazon ElastiCache
Sentry Data Systems (Prev. Sentry Data Systems)
Sentry Data Systems (Prev. Sentry Data Systems)
Sr. Data Engineer
2010 - 2016 (6 years)
Florida, United States of America
  • Wrote numerous custom data parser sand CI/CD Data pipelines using Ruby, Python, and PHP languages for high-profile clients.

  • Oversaw the data ingestion of all our 6500+ client hospitals and pharmacies. Data ingestion averaged at 1.5 million records per day.

  • Drove new process implementation across multiple teams to ensure EHR medical record standards and 340B Government standards were met.

PAR Tech
PAR Tech
Lead Systems Engineer
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
New York, United States of America
  • Maintained a Hyper-V cluster for our PixelPoint customers including deploying software updates, windows updates, and monthly maintenance achieving 99.99% uptime.

  • Successfully architected and orchestrated a migration strategy for all PixelPoint clients into an AWS infrastructure from Hyper-V.

  • Utilizing AWS infrastructure, successfully designed and deployed cloud infrastructure (S3, RDS, Cloud Watch, Elastic Beanstalk (API), for our largest SureCheck client, Wegmans.

Microsoft
Microsoft
Systems Engineer
2005 - 2008 (3 years)
Redmond, United States of America
  • Participated in the construction and development of numerous internal Microsoft tools and utilities including an in-house ticketing system that integrated with SharePoint to track team metrics.

  • Responsible for planning, organizing and performing migrations to thousands of Live Meeting customers, including high profile clients such as Bank of America, AT&T, and many others

  • Developed the database schema for our knowledge base and troubleshooting guides – MOM Alert Tracking Tool (MATT).

Education

Computer Science
Computer Science
Utah Valley University
2001 - 2004 (3 years)