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Iben Rodriguez
remote cloud security consulting AWS, Azure, GCP
Security Consultant
London, England, United Kingdom
Permanent, contract & ad-hoc work
Remote work
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Security Consultant
remote cloud security consulting AWS, Azure, GCP (via SJULTRA): IT Security
Consultancy & Professional Services company
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Aug 2018 - Present, Global

About the role

  • Travelling to customer locations in Europe and Asia for assessment, planning, and design for data centre and cloud migration projects. Assist FinServ companies to adapt their audit reporting needs to work with cloud technology.

  • Work with Security Risk Management teams to define threats. Then dev teams to establish controls to mitigate.

  • Customizing security benchmarks and hardening guides for VMware vSphere ESX, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Convert security standards info code based policy and mentor teams on cloud methods.

  • This allows us to build a DevSecOps Pipeline for Infrastructure Security using: (1) Inspec on Hashicorp Terraform code for Preventative Security Controls and (2) a combination of Qualys, Splunk, Forseti, Cloud Security Command Center, and Palo Alto Networks Prisma (RedLock) for detective, (3) integrated with Vault for secrets management using Gitlab for CI/CD.

Skills
DevOps Technical Skills
  • Continuous Integration / Deployment (CI/CD)
  • DevSecOps
IT Infrastructure Products
  • Amazon AWS
  • ESX vSphere
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Hashicorp Vault
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Splunk
  • SPLUNK Splunk E/S App
  • VMware vSphere
Software Development Tools
  • Terraform
SDN Delivery Architect – US Navy NPS Monterey
Brocade: IT Infrastructure, DevOps, IT Networks, IT Security
Consultancy & Professional Services company
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Jan 2016 - Jan 2018, USA

About the role

  • Built an integration environment to test out software-defined networking solutions for data centre and campus.

  • Design processes to verify each solution in a real-world environment while working with operations for end-user pilot testing.

  • Deliver Proof of Concepts and Pilot test projects into Sustaining Operations (Production) with Agile DevOps processes using automation to reduce IT CapEx and OpEx while improving security and the end-user customer experience. e.g. PEAP to TLS Migration for 802.1x network device authentication and access control.

  • Subject Matter Expert for AWS, VMware, OpenStack, NetConf, OpenDayLight based Lumina SDN Controller, NFV technology implementations: Palo Alto, Cloudpath, NSX, Horizon View, Airwatch, Workspace One, ADC/VTM Load Balancers, TFTP, NTP, DHCP, DNS, SSL Certificate, Ruckus Wireless Controllers and Virtual Dataplane PCI Direct IO Performance Optimization, Access Points, ICX MLX Switches, Event Logging ELK RSyslog, DISA STIG hardening and audit policy compliance reporting.

  • Presented customer success stories at ​VMworld​ and CENIC conferences for Military EDU network security use cases.

Skills
Environments
  • Software Defined Networks (SDN)
IT Infrastructure Products
  • Amazon AWS
  • Openstack
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • Ruckus Wireless
  • VMware
  • VMware NSX
IT Infrastructure Technologies & Protocols
  • 802.1x
  • Cloudpath
  • Netconf
  • NFV
  • TLS
IT Security Expertise
  • PEAP
Principal Architect, Virtualization and Cloud
Spirent Communications: IT Infrastructure, IT Networks, DevOps, IT Security
Consultancy & Professional Services company
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Jan 2014 - Dec 2015, USA

About the role

  • Consulting projects to integrate with ​OPNFV​ Architecture both Internally to Sales and Services team members as well as to the OpenStack Open Source Community at large.

  • Participated in external marketing activities: POCs, Pilot tests, Conferences, Public Speaking, etc.

  • Work with Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to promote the business and drive opportunities using SFDC.

  • Managed a consulting team to build and operate a hosted multi-hypervisor OpenStack virtual test lab.

  • Solutions included: IPv6, DPDK, SR-IOV, vSwitch Performance, Saltstack, MaaS, Juju, Puppet, Powershell, Python, Mist.IO, Jenkins, Splunk, Confluence, JIRA, Logstash, Arpwatch, multiple hypervisors with OpenStack support: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM as well as Azure and Amazon. Integrating these technologies with Spirent’s virtual products: TeMeVa, Landslide, Test Center, and Avalanche.

Skills
IT Infrastructure Products
  • Amazon AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Openstack
  • Splunk
  • VMware vSphere
IT Infrastructure Technologies & Protocols
  • Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
  • IPv6
  • NFV
Programming Languages & Frameworks
  • Python
Software Development Tools
  • Salt Stack
Workflow & Collaboration Tools
  • Atlassian Jira
Director of Virtualisation and Cloud Testing
NSS Labs: IT Networks, IT Infrastructure, DevOps, IT Security
Consultancy & Professional Services company
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Jan 2013 - Dec 2014, USA

About the role

  • Consulting project to develop and deploy initial reference architecture and testing methodologies.

  • Work with Engineering, Product Management, Sales, and Marketing to promote the business and drive opportunities.

  • Built a team to test SDN and NFV solutions for enterprise customers. Leveraged software like Python, Libcloud API, Jenkins, Splunk, Confluence, JIRA, and STASH/Git for multiple hypervisors with OpenStack support: VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, RedHat KVM.

  • Established a hybrid internal private and external public cloud testing and security research platform. Network testing tools used include Spirent Test Center, Avalanche, Landslide, ​Ixia​, and Open Source solutions.

  • Perform duties as an ​Analyst at Press Events​ to lead industry efforts to establish test methodologies for Secure Cloud Infrastructure SDN NFV Solutions. VMworld, RSA, NetEvents, Layer123. Produced Analysts Briefs and ​Blog Posts​.

Skills
Environments
  • Software Defined Networks (SDN)
IT Infrastructure Products
  • Citrix XenApp
  • Ixia
  • Splunk
  • VMware vSphere
IT Infrastructure Technologies & Protocols
  • NFV
Programming Languages & Frameworks
  • Python
Software Development Tools
  • Jenkins
  • Stash
Workflow & Collaboration Tools
  • Atlassian Confluence

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