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Professional Statement
Seasoned IT professional with 30 years experience delivering technical solutions in the corporate, start-up and higher-ed fields. I bring a strong background and track-record for solving technical problems by reducing complexity, increasing automation and scalability with a focus on security and reliability. My experience working in small teams and the large enterprise provides me confidence to evaluate a scenario and implement a reliable solution no matter the scale.
Contact
Curry Searle
Denton, TX
+1 (940) 597-1183
currance@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/curry-searle
Skills
Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, Linode
Tools:
Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR (Demisto), Prisma Cloud (TwistLock / RedLock), Mimecast, CyberArk, Akamai, Rapid7, Microsoft Defender ATP, TripWire Enterprise, DataDog, Jenkins, Saltstack, Terraform, Okta, Docker, Git, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, ServiceNow, Zabbix, SCCM
Scripting: Python, BASH, PowerShell, CMD
Operating Systems: Debian, Ubuntu & RedHat Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2012
Certifications & Training:
Cloudbees Certified Jenkins Engineer - Sep. 2016
TripWire 8.x training - Nov. 2019
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Experience
GameStop, HQ (Remote)
Sr. Security Engineer - Security Automation Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
- Experience developing in Palo Alto's XSOAR tool (formerly Demisto) creating Automations & Playbooks to automate handling of incidents reported to the CIRT. Work included various 3rd-party plugins as well as custom automations (Python).
- Monitored and responded to security incidents as part of the CIRT by reviewing incoming alerts, analyzing data across multiple platforms to correlate behaviors, identifying suspicious and malicious activities, and taking action to contain threats.
- Acted as a principle CIRT engineer including after hours and on-call support requiring the ability to act as a stand-alone responder.
- Technical lead for on-boarding to Mimecast platform managing DMARC (SPF & DKIM) for all GameStop domestic and International properties.
- Configured and managed Platforms & Safes in CyberArk including on-premise Active Directory, cloud and federated systems running Windows and Linux.
- SIEM migration from IBM QRadar to Rapid7 InsightIDR. Configured Log Sources (syslog, S3 bucket, WMI, tail file, etc.) for ingestion by the SIEM including custom scripting solutions for non-traditional log source ingestion.
- Configured RedLock & TwistLock monitoring and scanning of on-premise, cloud and container workloads. Migration from hosted solutions to Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud and associated reconfiguration of scanning and alert policies.
- Upgrade TripWire from 8.1 to 8.7.. Configured monitoring packs and alerts providing protection for all systems in PCI scope.
- Technical lead for ThinkGeek infrastructure and services migration from Fairfax to Grapevine. Migration of on-premise services to AWS cloud. Troubleshooting custom warehouse and order management system written in Perl with MySQL back-end. Migrate VirtualBox Enterprise virtualization systems to AWS EC2 and RDS instances. Export and integrate OpenLDAP and SAMBA services to GameStop's enterprise Active Directory forest.
Bloomreach, Inc. (Remote)
Head of Internal IT Operations November 2017 - April 2018
- Upgrade and consolidate multiple Atlassian Confluence instances to one providing a unified intranet for internal collaboration and documentation. Impact was global across all nine geographies of the company.
- Consolidate across all geographies our mixed environment of Google Hangouts and WebEx to the Zoom platform. This included evaluating and designing specifications for 25 Zoom Rooms with Google GSuite integration.
- Amazon AWS technologies including EC2, EBS, RDS & ELB in Classic and VPC instances
- Terraform and SaltCloud for AWS automated deployments of Ubuntu Linux EC2 instances and other AWS platform components
- Data migrations from local MySQL & PostgreSQL to Amazon RDS
- Manage secure web applications (Java, Python, Go) in Amazon ELB reverse-proxy configurations (Nginx, Apache)
- Administrator of multiple Single Sign On and authentication & authorization platforms (Okta, Auth0, LDAP, Active Directory)
- Work with staff counsel on GDPR compliance documentation for internal IT systems and processes.
University of North Texas System - IT Shared Services
Enterprise Communications Team October 2016 - November 2017
- Postmaster, architect and SysAdmin for 12-node RedHat Linux/Postfix cluster servicing mail for all on-premise production systems for the UNT System and distributed campuses.
- Experience with Azure site-to-site VPN for connecting Azure AD with on-premise Active Directory
IT Service Management Team July 2014 - September 2016
- Extensive experience with Saltstack, Jenkins and Microsoft SCCM
- Certified Jenkins Engineer - Invited to present at Jenkins World 2016; Jenkins for Smarter Operations (https://youtu.be/QAxfoyxBuZM)
- Lead the team to consolidate multiple departmental SCCM instances to one centralized instance supporting OS and application deployments for all of UNT System and child institutions
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