Austin Burkeen
MI
Summary
Results-driven Engineer with a 10-year track record of successfully identifying and eliminating cybersecurity threats in production-level environments. Experienced with utilizing and managing big-data to understand trends & efficiently develop plans to tackle area’s of concern. Very efficient communicator of technical information to stakeholders at all levels.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Offensive Security Engineer 3
United Wholesale Mortgage
Pontiac, MI
02.2023 - Current
- Threat Detection Engineering
- SIEM Management (Splunk)
- Avaserial Simulation
- Event Triage
- Incident Response Training
- Security Operations Development
Security Engineer 3 - Splunk Development
Comcast (Contract)
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Use case development and tuning in Splunk and Databricks
- Assisted with runbook design in xSOAR solution (Palo Alo Cortex)
- Security content development
- Threat analysis and correlation
- Detection as code
- Build, test, deploy content and perform enrichment
- Event/Incident Analytics
- SIEM management/platform support
- Data normalization
- Documentation
- Collaborate with other developers and teams to complete projects
Cyber Security Analyst
Dominos (Contract)
Remote, MI
02.2021 - 12.2021
- Triage & investigate alerts (phishing, IDS/IPS, end-point)
- Assist with DDOS attack mitigation processes & monitoring
- Monitor, report & blocked fake order campaigns.
- Threat hunting
- Used threat intelligence sources to understand potential risks and proper detection/remediation.
- Program/workflow enhancement.
- Alert tuning & new alert generation.
- Manage application installation requests (Bit9)
- Worked within Microsoft Azure & MCAS to analyze events.
Resident Engineer (Contractor)
Sempra Energy
Remote, CA
12.2019 - 05.2020
- Security Platform Management & Operations (Tanium)
- Assisted with Desktop & Server Patching while working alongside other teams to assist with gaps in scope.
- Assisted with management and leadership within NetOps teams
- Worked alongside vendor to report and work through software & hardware defects
- Platform updates & custom content/scripting
- Managed 3rd party application upgrading and deployment processes
- Provided relevant advice into streamlining outside teams integration with tools & modules.
- 99% success rate with 3rd party tool upgrades
Senior Security Engineer
Molina Healthcare
Troy, Michigan & Remote
10.2016 - 05.2019
- Provide documentation for security processes and procedures.
- Manage Incident response platform and automation within various different licensed modules(Tanium & RSA Netwitness/Splunk)
- Manage security controls for enterprise level environment including support for content/email filters, IPS/IDS, & end-point protection platforms (Ironport, FireEye, Bluecoat, Sourcefire, SEP)
- RSA Netwitness ESA rule management and development
- Administration of SIEM platform (RSA Netwitness Logs & Packets)
- Open-source security platform administration.
- Provide support for roughly 22,000 end-users & 9,000+ servers.
- Manage asset recovery/control.
- Security Architecture (design, test & deployment)
- Incident Response & Remediation
- Network Forensics/Packet Analysis
- Threat Intelligence (Custom rule integration & management of Feeds)
- Used Splunk & RSA Netwitness ESA to triage, correlate, investigate & document suspicious events across a multitude of potential attack surfaces
- Tested Carbon Black against Tanium and worked with vendors on product demonstrations & deployment
- Threat hunting
Data Migration Engineer
Barracuda Networks
Ann Arbor, Michigan
05.2014 - 10.2016
- Troubleshooting and provided support for enterprise level customers as well as product resellers.
- Worked closely with Development Teams to report bugs in software, apply patches and troubleshoot new technologies as they are being implemented.
- Provide training for new hires and work as a escalation point for difficult cases.
- Perform data migrations for returned & upgraded devices. Delegate duties to other trainees.
Education
Master of Professional Studies in Information Sciences - Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Penn State University
2021
Bachelor of Science - Information Assurance
Eastern Michigan University
2015
Skills
- Strong analytical & collaborative skills
- Business development & leadership
- Customer service oriented
- Linux administration
- Network Forensics (Using packet reconstruction techniques & analysis using Wireshark)
- Information Security
- MySQL / MariaDB / Postres
- Attack surface knowledge
- Pentesting
- RSA Netwitness, Splunk, Tanium, Carbon-Black, Sourcefire, FireEye, Palo Alto
- Event triage experience
- Script Development (Bash, Python, Powershell)
- Analytics
- Use-case tuning & development
- MITRE
- Microsoft Azure & MCAS
Certification
+ GIAC GPEN
+ AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Associate
Timeline
Offensive Security Engineer 3
United Wholesale Mortgage
02.2023 - Current
Security Engineer 3 - Splunk Development
Comcast (Contract)
11.2021 - 11.2022
Cyber Security Analyst
Dominos (Contract)
02.2021 - 12.2021
Resident Engineer (Contractor)
Sempra Energy
12.2019 - 05.2020
Senior Security Engineer
Molina Healthcare
10.2016 - 05.2019
Data Migration Engineer
Barracuda Networks
05.2014 - 10.2016
Master of Professional Studies in Information Sciences - Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Penn State University
Bachelor of Science - Information Assurance
Eastern Michigan University