Jason Hawkins
Jersey City
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Security Engineer
Gitlab
08.2023 - Current
- Created automation to increase response time to user reported phishing emails
- Lead all efforts for implementation, alerting, documentation and communications for a new email security solution
- Created a detection library and alert pipeline from scratch for the FEDRAMP environment
- Implemented RBA (Risk Based Alerting) into the current detection pipeline
- Lead detection audits to reduce overall volume of FP alerting by 54%
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the team.
Senior Security Engineer, Cybersecurity Operations
Cruise
02.2023 - 07.2023
- Application owner for both EDR and email security solution.
- Lead all daily operations, configuration, tuning and troubleshooting efforts for both EDR and email security solution.
- Heavily supported blue-team efforts during multi-month red team operation: helped perform IR investigations, fully scoping incident impact, created documentation on findings, and created detections to detect future red team efforts.
- Helped design new threat detection road map for security organization.
- Provide tier 2/3 incident response as part of an on-call rotation.
- Helped scope deployment of EDR solution to ephemeral cloud resources.
Senior Cyber Security Threat Detection Engineer
Rivian
10.2021 - 01.2023
- Helped lead companies threat detection program with deploying and creating ~50+ internal use-cases in Splunk and creating data pipelines to bring in multiple 3rd party tools alerting.
- Technical expert on threat detection, acting as liaison between Rivian and third party vendors.
- Owner of SOAR program with 100+ automation workflows.
- Owner of two other tools that help with malware analysis and data enrichment.
- Helped maintain Splunk, and data pipeline.
- Created automations within SOAR to automate security tasks.
- Research and create threat detections for company environment. Including creating threat detections on new and emerging threats.
- Provided tier 2/3 incident response.
- Created technical documentation for tool design, SOPs, and articles on how to use certain security technologies.
- Reversed malware, and created documentation and threat detections based on TTPs.
Analyst, Security Operations Center
Ciena
08.2020 - 10.2021
- Provided tier 2 and 3 Incident Response (IR).
- Created multiple API scripts to automate security tasks.
- Built numerous dashboards within Splunk for various security monitoring tasks, and to report on company metrics.
- Tuned and created various security use cases within Splunk to detect malicious/unwanted activity within companies environment
- Reviewed and written runbooks and security documentation to help improve and streamline security investigations
- Conducted threat hunts within company environment
- Integrated third party threat intelligence into the SIEMs current threat intel framework
Security Analyst
ReliaQuest
08.2019 - 06.2020
Research Intern
Florida State University
05.2018 - 08.2018
Cyber Security Intern
Crescent Systems INC
06.2017 - 08.2017
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL2017
Technical Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, C++, C, Java, Powershell
- Skills: Incident Response, Splunk, SOAR, , Carbon Black, Crowdstrike, ProofPoint, Zscaler, Linux environments, Windows environments, Regex, Digital Forensics, TCP/IP, EDR, SIEM, Malware Analysis, Threat Hunting, Automation, Threat Intelligence, Log Analysis, Dashboard Creation, AWS, Pen Testing/Red Team, IDA pro, Wireshark, GCP
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+, Network+, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, GCFA, eLearning Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT), eLearning Certified Malware Analysis Professional (eCMAP)
- Project: Helped design a Botnet for a masters course
- Project: Created a data-mining model to help predict optimal time to remove a starting pitcher from a game. (Accepted to ICMLA 2019, and published by IEEE)
- Project: Analyzed a Ransomware sample, and made scripts for IDA Pro to help analysis
- CTF: Won FSU Cyber Forensics CTF (Capture the Flag) Competition Spring 2019.
Timeline
Senior Security Engineer
Gitlab
08.2023 - Current
Senior Security Engineer, Cybersecurity Operations
Cruise
02.2023 - 07.2023
Senior Cyber Security Threat Detection Engineer
Rivian
10.2021 - 01.2023
Analyst, Security Operations Center
Ciena
08.2020 - 10.2021
Security Analyst
ReliaQuest
08.2019 - 06.2020
Research Intern
Florida State University
05.2018 - 08.2018
Cyber Security Intern
Crescent Systems INC
06.2017 - 08.2017
Master of Science - Computer Science
Florida State University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Florida State University
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