Brian Ristig
Cloud Engineer
St. Johns,FL
Summary
Security focused cloud/software engineer with experience automating AWS cloud resources, working with the Code AWS tool suite (CodePipeline, Codebuild, etc.) in a CI/CD pipeline, and hardening cloud components and applications. Extensive experience developing and testing security framework for cloud-based software.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate
Work History
DevOps Automation Engineer
Stelligent Systems LLC
Reston, Virginia
01.2019 - 08.2021
- Established company automation methodology, frameworks and tools.
- Configured automation of sales process.
- Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.
- Developed and implemented cost-effective strategies for updating existing applications.
- Successfully developed command line interface that automates 100% of build, update and removal of any and all stages in Pipedrive.
- Utilized AWS core services to automate entire structure of internal sales processes.
- Completed test automation of project (unit, integration and end-to-end test methodologies) before initial deployment.
- Maintained, debugged and optimized automation programs.
- Management experience training new hires.
DevOps Automation Engineer
AQR
Greenwich, CT
07.2019 - 03.2020
- Performed vulnerability and security testing on Jenkins servers using ec2 instances with Metasploit framework.
- Primary duties included building, updating/versioning updates and removing various CloudFormation stacks in CI/CD pipeline.
- Tested, automated and whitelisted software to be used in secure environments.
- Monitored data on system functionality and reported to senior staff.
- Migrated all appstacks/packages to pull from artifactory, previously pulling from GIT.
- Constructed python cli, via click, which interacted with all facets of AWS resources. Capable of discovering and removing all depreciated resources and provide confidence ratings of any customer managed keys that could safely be removed and then schedule them for deletion.
- Kept on track with deadlines for development cycle times.
Threat Analyst
CyberSight LLC
Falls Church, Virginia
05.2015 - 09.2017
- Primary duties centered around threat analysis.
- Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
- Worked with threat intrusion and detection systems.
- Researched and developed 100% of all new computer forensic tools.
- Exposure to network-based attack methodologies and tools.
- Performed Penetration testing on external IDS’s.
- Participated in creation of device hardening techniques and protocols.
- Completed network health and performance scans.
- Practiced data security through encryption.
- Monitored use of data files and regulated access to protect secure information.
- Developed strong understanding for various hashing techniques.
- Collaborated with target audiences using thorough knowledge and interactive demonstration skills.
- Displayed critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and ability to work with minimal supervision.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology (Networking & Cybersecurity)
Marymount University
Arlington, VA 08.2017 - 05.2019
Database Specialist Career Studies Certificate -
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA 01.2016 - 12.2016
Career Studies Certificate in Cyber Security -
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA 01.2015 - 12.2015
Associates of Applied Science - Information Technology
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA 06.2014 - 12.2015
Associates of Applied Science - Cyber Security
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA 01.2013 - 05.2014
Skills
Automation
Security Design
Agile- JIRA
DevOps
Infrastructure as Code
Security Best Practices
Vulnerability Assessment
Malware Analysis
Data Security
Monitoring
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Additional Information
- AWS Infrastructure Scripting - CloudFormation
- AWS Core Services - S3, EC2, Auto-Scaling Groups, CloudWatch, Parameter Store, SSM, SQS, SNS, CloudTrail
- AWS Networking Services - VPC, Route53, Security Groups, ELB, CloudFront, API Gateway
- AWS Code Services - CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit, Cloud9
- AWS Security Services - KMS, Config, Secrets Manager, IAM, Cognito, WAF
- AWS Serverless Services - Lambda, API Gateway
- AWS Database Services - RDS, DynamoDB
- AWS Compute/Container Services - EC2, ECS
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
11-2024
DevOps Automation Engineer
AQR
07.2019 - 03.2020
DevOps Automation Engineer
Stelligent Systems LLC
01.2019 - 08.2021
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology (Networking & Cybersecurity)
Marymount University
08.2017 - 05.2019
Database Specialist Career Studies Certificate -
Northern Virginia Community College
01.2016 - 12.2016
Threat Analyst
CyberSight LLC
05.2015 - 09.2017
Career Studies Certificate in Cyber Security -
Northern Virginia Community College
01.2015 - 12.2015
Associates of Applied Science - Information Technology
Northern Virginia Community College
06.2014 - 12.2015
Associates of Applied Science - Cyber Security
Northern Virginia Community College
01.2013 - 05.2014
Languages
- PowerShell
- Python
- BASH
- C#
- C++
- JSON
- SQL
- Ruby
- VB.net
- YAML
Tooling, Services & Libraries
- Boto3
- Git
- GitHub
- Click
- Jenkins
- Splunk
Databases
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
Operating Systems
- Cisco Ios Cent/OS
- Kali Linux
- Linux Mint
- Mac
- Ubuntu
- VMWare
- Windows
- Windows Server (2008r2&2012r2)