Brian Kofsky
Burlington
Summary
Results-driven management professional with a proven ability to lead teams to success, emphasizing team collaboration, operational efficiency, and achieving measurable outcomes. Adept at strategic planning, process improvement, and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence. Known for adaptability and consistently meeting changing organizational needs.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Manager
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
04.2022 - Current
- Leads a team of five geographically dispersed engineers responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the nation’s first real time gross payment system (FedNow) in the cloud (AWS).
- Utilizes tools such as Gitlab and Terraform to manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for multi-services applications.
- Implements, and leverages solution monitoring and tooling such as Grafana and OpenSearch to be used for capacity planning, utilization reporting, and scaling.
- Leads a team that uses open source and proprietary software to support Engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps tools, services, and solutions.
- Oversees responsibility for the design, management and execution of operations required to support the ongoing technical and delivery needs of the FedNow Program, as well as the transition to production support and operations.
- Interfaces with internal stakeholders, customers for planning, delivery, and service management.
- Owns ongoing ITIL processes, and the implementation and driving of continuous improvement initiatives.
- Works closely with Engineers and Architects of the FedNow program to maintain seamless automation across the entire platform.
Information Technology Specialist - 25B4O Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) NCOIC
United States Army National Guard
09.2003 - 04.2024
- Analyzes approved concepts and doctrine for the purpose of developing Army DCO related universal tasks and determining DCO capability gaps.
- Conducts research and analysis across multiple sources in order to establish the foundation for required DCO capability and architecture development, identify capability gaps, and generate DOTmLPF-P solutions such as doctrine (principles and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)) development, organizational design changes, training initiatives, materiel solutions, leadership and education requirements, personnel solutions, and facilities renovation and design.
- Participates in capability needs analyses (CNA) to assess the Army's ability to perform future DCO missions as defined by joint and Army concepts taking into account existing and programmed solutions.
- Identifies baseline joint and Army DCO capabilities; assesses and recommends priorities for capabilities based upon risk to mission success if not performed; assesses accommodation of DCO capabilities given programmed DOTmLPF-P solutions resourced over the budget years; assesses and recommends priorities for DOTmLPF-P solutions; and identifies, assesses, and recommends for priorities for macro-level gaps given the current level of funding. Coordinates results of analyses that support recommendations to key stakeholders and senior leadership.
Cyber Security Associate Manager
Lockheed Martin
05.2021 - 04.2022
- Led a team of 22 personnel responsible for overseeing cyber security execution for up to 15 programs of records (POR), to include all Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) programs for the United States Government (USG).
- Oversaw managing personnel resources in support of program surge requests.
- Leads a team that uses open source and proprietary software to support Engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps tools, services, and solutions.
- Built and maintained a staffing plan. Coordinated and forecasted new work for programs within area of responsibility.
- Responsible for all recruiting and hiring of qualified cybersecurity engineers.
- Experienced in managing an engineering skill set to achieve functional and programmatic requirements and goals.
- Responsible for overseeing all SSPs and POAMs.
Infrastructure Lead
SAIC
11.2020 - 05.2021
- Provided oversight over the IT infrastructure.
- Worked with engineers on the requirements and provides recommendations for improvements.
- Applied an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop, validate and verify IA solutions.
- Support risk assessment activities.
Information Assurance Engineer Stf (Cyber Security Kanban Lead)
Lockheed Martin
12.2019 - 11.2020
- Provided oversight over the IA/IT Backlogs for the product areas in concert with the Release Train Engineer and Product Manager to include: - Creating, Managing, Ensuring Definition of Done for products/work items - Acceptance Criteria for development/engineering features - Team Leadership and guidance for IT and IA domains.
- Developed and maintained all SSPs and POAMs for Government customers.
- Developed, evaluated and analyzed design constraints, trade-offs and detailed system and security design as they pertain to the RMF domain.
- Coordinated with ISSO/ISSM, architects and developers to provide IT/IA oversight in the development of solutions.
- Conducted test and evaluation of hardware and/or software designs to verify and validate compliance with defined USG specifications and requirements.
- Employ security processes, methods, techniques and tools and assure their consistent application.
- Train junior employees on RMF best practices/methodologies to ensure compliance.
Computer Systems Analyst Staff (SAP-F Admin Lead)
Lockheed Martin
08.2017 - 12.2019
- Provided guidance and direction in alignment with organizational goals.
- Implemented JIRA as a SAP program wide internal portal and collaboration tool for teams and projects.
- Provided training on core agile processes and procedures, both virtually and in-person (as appropriate).
- Reported on current status to RMS IT leadership and making recommendations on potential opportunities.
- Engaged with team stakeholders and RMS IT leadership to help better understand agile practices.
- Guided the team in delivering business commitments; aligning the team focus, priorities and accountabilities, managing complexities, minimizing risk, tracking progress/status and always aiming to maximize output value to the business.
- Led continuous process improvement and worked with internal teams to constantly create greater values for our end-users, customers, and stakeholders. provided engineering expertise in supporting development infrastructure for BMD and special development and Data analysis labs.
- Provided insight into all policy and technical decisions and supports meetings where cybersecurity representation is required.
- Assisted with Body of Evidence (BOE) documentation to include: SVD/SSAA/SRTM/CTP in preparation for C&A efforts for an IATT/IATO.
- Performed vulnerability testing and hardening for RHEL/Windows Server 2012 R2 utilizing Nessus/SCAP/STIG..
Systems Engineer – IT Sr.
Lockheed Martin
07.2016 - 08.2017
- Provided Information Assurance for IC-ITE AWS EC2 cloud environment for integration with next generation collection platform program of record.
- Provided Systems Administration for RHEL 6.X/Puppet Master/Puppet Client and Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 within the IC-ITE AWS EC2 cloud environment for Dev/Ops.
- Assisted with Body of Evidence (BOE) documentation to include: SVD/SSAA/SRTM/CTP in preparation for C&A efforts for an IATT/IATO. Performed vulnerability testing and hardening for RHEL/Windows Server 2012 R2 utilizing Nessus/SCAP/STIG.
- Led virtual team meetings when team lead was unable to.
- Led daily scrum meetings to keep team on track. Experience with Active Directory Administrations and troubleshooting.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer & Network Security
Wilmington University
New Castle, Delaware01.2016
Skills
- Multi-level security systems
- NIST 800-53
- RMF
- Special Access Programs (SAP)
- ACAS/STIG/SCAP Compliance
- System Security Plans (SSPs)
- Plan Of Action & Milestones (POAMs)
- AWS Security
- Agile Project Management
- Cloud Computing
- Scrum Master Experience
- System Engineering (Gov)
- Gitlab
- JIRA/Confluence Experience
- DevSecOps
- Customer service
- Team leadership
- Decision-making
- Operations management
- Cross-functional teamwork
Certification
CompTIA Security+ (June 2015)
SECURITY CLEARANCE
TS (CE 2019)
Timeline
DevOps Manager
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
04.2022 - Current
Cyber Security Associate Manager
Lockheed Martin
05.2021 - 04.2022
Infrastructure Lead
SAIC
11.2020 - 05.2021
Information Assurance Engineer Stf (Cyber Security Kanban Lead)
Lockheed Martin
12.2019 - 11.2020
Computer Systems Analyst Staff (SAP-F Admin Lead)
Lockheed Martin
08.2017 - 12.2019
Systems Engineer – IT Sr.
Lockheed Martin
07.2016 - 08.2017
Information Technology Specialist - 25B4O Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) NCOIC
United States Army National Guard
09.2003 - 04.2024
Bachelor of Science - Computer & Network Security
Wilmington University
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