John Applebee
Summary
Experienced Cloud Security Architect with a strong track record in designing and implementing robust security solutions. Dedicated to enhancing organizations' security posture by conducting comprehensive security assessments, developing policies, and implementing cutting-edge technologies. Committed to delivering innovative and effective solutions that align with industry best practices. Bring strong analytical skills, strategic mindset, and collaborative approach to driving secure cloud environments and safeguarding critical assets.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Cloud Security Architect
Fannie Mae
10.2021 - Current
- Evaluate architecture for application migration/deployment to ensure it meets NIST compliance in addition to any restrictions by company policy
- Led the security design during migration from on-prem to cloud for both modern and legacy applications
- Led the process for evaluating new applications (SaaS and CoTS) to determine if they would pose a security risk if adopted
- Engaged in ad-hoc consultations with various teams to evaluate the security of proposed projects and proof of concepts
- Lead security for architecture in cloud infrastructure and data applications ensuring risk was acceptable, and standards have been met
- Evaluation and testing of GenAI guardrails with AWS bedrock
- Led technical interviews to new applicants
- Mentor new team members and develop documentation to assist in their onboarding
Sr Information Security Engineer
Wells Fargo
01.2020 - 10.2021
- Responsible for the creation of CI/CD pipelines, and the automation of security controls within cloud environments
- Responsible for the documentation of security controls, and ensure they comply with industry standards
- Monitor new security trends, and make recommendations on how new techniques can be applied to the current security strategy
- Provide insight on existing architecture documentation, and recommend improvement based on past experience, and new trends
- As part of planning sessions I provide recommendations on COTS and SaaS products that may fill in gaps in security tooling
- Mentored immediate team in my areas of expertise, and facilitated cross-functional skill sharing to external teams
Cloud Security Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
08.2019 - 01.2020
- Act as post sales engineering to our customers using Prisma Cloud
- Guide them through initial setup, configuration, and optimization of Prisma Cloud security monitoring into their cloud infrastructure
- Offer best practices, and help customize solutions to fit their use cases
- Also train their staff on the use of Prisma Cloud software, and general security best practices
- Provide resolution of technical issues the customer may have integrating their cloud platform with the Prisma Cloud software
- Replicating any issues to drive a resolution
Cloud Engineer
Amazon Web Services
05.2015 - 07.2019
- Engage customers to resolve technical issues in a variety of AWS services such as CloudFormation, ElasticBeanstalk, S3, IAM, ELB, EC2, ECS, Lambda and EBS
- Helped troubleshoot issues with some non AWS products such as Chef and Docker
- Review, correct, and test CloudFormation templates
- Review, correct, and write documentation
- Replicate customers architecture to reproduce errors and provide corrective actions
- Assist other engineers locally and remotely as needed
- Advise customers of best practices when their architecture may cause future problems
- Created training material for newer engineers on AWS services
- Test new services/features
- Familiarity with CI/CD, and some of the corresponding tooling to include CodePipeline, CodeCommit, and CodeDeploy
CyberSecurity Engineer
Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions
07.2011 - 04.2015
- Responsible for the installation and configuration of Linux based thin client hardware/software into existing/new customer facilities
- Responsible for the training of on-site staff in the use/administration of the new systems
- Assist the security testing and evaluation team with accrediting newly installed systems
- Performed tier 3 technical support
- Coordinated with onsite personnel to troubleshoot any technical issues that may arise during product installation at the customer's job site
- Assisted in the documentation of tasks/procedures that were implemented in newer versions of cross domain software
- Set up a lab environment for engineers to train on new versions of the cross domain software, and test customer implementations
- Assisted our product support team in testing new versions of our software
- As well as migration testing from older versions to the newest version
- Accustomed to working on tight deadlines in a group, or solo
- Extensive troubleshooting experience
UNIX Systems Administrator
Accenture
03.2010 - 07.2011
- Technical support of overall health and maintenance of the client's operating system environments in support of 24/7 operations
- Performed the day to day operations and support of the client's Red Hat and Sun Solaris server environments
- Assisted in the development of project documentation
- Assisted in the automation of tasks using shell scripts resulting in 75% less man hours in related tasks
- Used Vmware to build/maintain virtual servers
- Created/deleted/maintained user accounts
- Assisted in the scanning and hardening of production servers to DoD security standards using SRR scripts/STIG checklist
Education
Associates Degree - Aerospace control and warning systems
Community College of the Air Force
Hickam AFB, HI 01.2008 - 01.2010
Associate Degree - Computer Information Systems
Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
Rice Lake, WI 08.2000 - 05.2002
Skills
Vulnerability assessment
Access control
Cybersecurity strategy
Endpoint security
Compliance management
Identity management
Network security
Cloud security
Security risk assessment
Teamwork
Access control systems
Data protection
Timeline
Cloud Security Architect
Fannie Mae
10.2021 - Current
Sr Information Security Engineer
Wells Fargo
01.2020 - 10.2021
Cloud Security Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
08.2019 - 01.2020
Cloud Engineer
Amazon Web Services
05.2015 - 07.2019
CyberSecurity Engineer
Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions
07.2011 - 04.2015
UNIX Systems Administrator
Accenture
03.2010 - 07.2011
Associates Degree - Aerospace control and warning systems
Community College of the Air Force
01.2008 - 01.2010
Associate Degree - Computer Information Systems
Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
08.2000 - 05.2002
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