05/22/2024 updated

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Development Security Operations Engineer, Development and Operations Engineer, Operations Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Only remote
Computer science with Cyber security
London, United Kingdom
Only remote
Computer science with Cyber security

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CV - James Pinnock
James_CV-2024.pdf

Artificial IntelligenceAmazon Web ServicesBackup DevicesUnixCommand-Line InterfaceCloud ComputingCluster AnalysisCode ReviewCompTIA Network+CompTIA Security+Computer SecurityContinuous DeliveryContinuous IntegrationDevOpsGitHubPython (Programming Language)Object-Oriented Software DevelopmentPCI Data Security StandardsSystems Development Life CycleAnsibleSecure CodingDatadogCircleCIPlexBackendHome NetworkingGitContainerizationKubernetesCloudwatchTerraformSplunkDevSecOpsDockerPagerDutyStatic Application Security TestingVulnerability AnalysisMicroservicesDynamic Application Security Testing
AWS, AWS services, Ansible, AI, backend, Backing up, CIRCLECI, Cloud, cloud operations, CloudWatch, clustering, code reviews, Command Line Interface, CompTIA Network, CompTIA Security, SecOps, Security Operations, Infosec, Cyber Security, containerisation, continuous delivery, CI/CD, DataDog, DevOps, DevSecOps, Docker, DAST, Git, GitHub, home network, Computer Science, Kubernetes, Micro service, OOP, PCI DSS, PagerDuty, plex, PYTHON, secure coding, Splunk, SAST, SDLC, Terraform, Unix, Vulnerability Assessment, vulnerability assessments

Experience

Professional experience0 - 5 years
Freelancer since2024

Languages

EnglishNative speaker

Project history

Development Security Operations Engineer

Boohoo Group
A Fashion company.
Key Responsibilities
* Project Leadership: Provide technical guidance for front and
backend developers in adopting secure practices/standards
(NIST) and fostering a culture of security - allowing it to be
seamlessly integrating to not be a blocker.
* Subject Matter Expertise: Demonstrate expertise in secure
practice before project starts and through to the acquisition of
new security related tools.
* Tooling Implementation: Implement tooling for SAST and DAST,
use to guide best practices and improve Secure Software
Development Lifecycle policies and procedures.
* Vulnerability Assessment: Performing vulnerability assessments
with our CDR/DSPM to ensure the identification and mitigation
of security threats and compliance with PCI DSS.
* Incident Management: Carry out working parties and incident
management to address security issues promptly.
* Shift Left Integration: Integrating security tooling early into the
continuous delivery pipeline, focus on shift left.
* Security Monitoring: Analysing security monitoring outputs and
coordinating Remediation Patching using tools like Orca.
* Education Initiatives: Establish educational sessions on OWASP
Top Ten to raise awareness of InfoSec objectives throughout the
business.
* Cloud Environment Protection: Improving deployment tools and
processes to enhance cloud environment protection, focusing
on AWS working with trusted parties. AWS services such as
WAF, Security Hub and GuardDuty.
* Vulnerability Review: Reviewing and analysing vulnerabilities
linked with data, to identify security risks within the organisation's
cloud network, infrastructure, and applications, including
identifying false positives; to subsequently add to the Infosec
Risk Register.
* CI/CD Integration: Integration of security tools (Zed Attack
Proxy) into CI/CD pipelines.
* Secure DevOps Automation: Strong focus on Secure DevOps
Automation to streamline operations. (Making security seamless
and not a bottleneck)

Development and Operations Engineer

What3Words
A Geolocation company using 3-word addresses.
Key Responsibilities

* Working with Product and Development teams to build and
maintain infrastructure, deploy systems, and deploy new
services.
* Strong communication skills, Bridging the Tech team with
Infosec to ensure Secure Development Lifecycle is adhered to
in a Micro service environment.
* Being Proficient in AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Git and GitHub,
Terraform.
* Building/owning, supporting and maintaining, IAC driven
environments; using pipelines (CircleCI)
* Supporting Front and Back End teams with internal requests
* Setting up monitoring (DataDog) and alarms using CloudWatch
and PagerDuty integration.
* Collaborating with InfoSec to implement SDLC and secure ways
of working, through Administrative and technical controls.
o Creating and enforcing policies.
* Initiating initiatives to create infrastructure using a standardised
approach
* Researching vendors and implementing POCs to demonstrate
how a technology serves a business need and accessing risk
inheritance.
* Creating custom re-usable CircleCI orbs to deploy containers to
multiple accounts and regions in AWS
* Automating the deployment of clusters and code using Fluxv2
and CircleCI
* Backing up code base in a repeatable, automated and visible
way
* Reducing cost and "tech debt"

Tutor

Lucan Education
* Tutoring in Python, teaching OOP concepts, Command Line Interface/Unix and various other concepts to
students aged 9 - 15
* Organising multiple students with different work and finding creative ways of conceptualising abstract
ideas
* Providing a patient and interactive teaching style to motivate students
* Achieved successfully teaching one of my student from beginner, they managed to secure a place
and attend cs50.harvard summer AI course.

Operations Engineer

Moo Print LTD
A business card printing company.
* Supporting development teams in writing and amending gitlab-ci.yaml files (CI/CD systems)
* Provisioning, configuring and managing deployment tooling and resources using Ansible and Terraform
in AWS
* Identifying and reducing costs by consolidating resources and removing deprecated or unused ones
* Investigating and resolving unexpected EBS AWS costs, resulting in savings of £2.4k per month
* Experience with Docker containerisation and clustering
* Developing code to allow teams to self-provision commonly used resources in AWS
* Migrating services from self-hosted KOPs cluster to EKS and removing deprecated tests/jobs from
pipeline
* Moving PagerDuty representation to Terraform to improve offboarding efficiency

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