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Colin Tufts

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Profile

Linux Systems / DevSecOps Engineering / Information Security Engineering


About me

I am a security enthusiast with a passion for automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and site reliability. I got my start in the early 2000s, learning pentesting with BackTrack Linux (since renamed Kali). I consider myself experienced with Linux, Networking, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Metasploit and all things in between. Current OSCP Candidate.

Colin Tufts

Details

Name:
Colin Tufts
Location:
Remote, Ontario, Canada, Earth

I deployed this resume via Python Flask and Jinja2 framework using Twitter Bootstrap. Deployed in a kubernetes cluster via Gitlab CI/CD.

Recent Experiences

“Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”
- Bill Bryson, A short history of nearly everything


Career

Firmex

July 2023 - Current

Cloud Security Engineer Responsible for the day-to-day delivery of Security Operations for Firmex. Leading the security vision and strategy around cloud-based applications including IaaS/PaaS/SaaS.

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  • Actively monitor and research cyber threats impacting business operations or technology infrastructure
  • Handle Incident Management and Incident Response, leading the organization in cyber threat management.
  • Conduct Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing, and ensure compliance with PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC
  • Work collaboratively within a team of security professionals across the organization on security best practices and product support
  • Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure services, and application development to integrate technology solutions
  • Develop subject matter expertise on assigned security technologies for efficient delivery of security services
  • Implement custom software solutions using python and applicable scripting languages, including writing scripts in PowerShell/Bash
  • Configure, automate and actively monitor threats within AWS using SecurityHub and GuardDuty
  • Develop standards in partnership with other teams
  • Create, Implement, advance security posture and status via CI/CD pipelines
  • Make use of Kali linux and security tools such as Burpsuite, Wireshark to find and test vulnerabilities in our applications
  • Make use of the Microsoft Azure suite of tooling, including Microsoft Sentinel, Defender Security Platform, to analyze the environment for threats as well as triage incidents
  • Contribute to the Development of Standards, Technical Security Specifications, and Operating Procedures
  • Provide support to various IT, IT Security, and Business projects with insights on security technologies
  • Manage and configure AWS services, including writing Cloudformation templates
  • Work extensively with Windows, Linux infrastructure, and SaaS/PaaS environments in a 24x7 production environment across multiple data centers and Public Cloud providers
Toronto, Canada | http://firmex.com

Industrious

March 2022 - February 2023

DevSecOps Engineer Part of a large DevSecOps team implementing best practices in IaC, CI/CD pipelines and promoting good workflows and development operations.

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  • Working with Github actions and other build tools such as CircleCI in a CI/CD process to build and deploy to AWS cloud environment
  • Maintain, update ACLs, VPC environments, to keep all systems secure.
  • Containerize and upgrade legacy applications to provide better adaptability and provide continuous delivery of the applications.
  • Deploying/implementing Grafana, Prometheus, and other monitoring tools for observability of traditional services and micro-services.
  • Monitoring all environments (via tools like Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail) acting preemptively to prevent system failures and outages
  • Implement systems architecture and data strategy projects while minimizing impact on internal teams and members
  • Architect, implement and build deployment solutions for downstream consumption.
  • Increase reliability, maintainability, scalability of existing and future stacks
Montreal, QC | http://industriousoffice.com

Deluxe

November 2020 - March 2022

Cloud Administrator Support team member maintaining log ingestion, site reliability, primary resource implementing application performance management.

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  • Member of the production SRE team during incidents and outages with investigation of stack / node / container failures.
  • Grafana dashboard and Observability SME.
  • Container triage and management SME.
  • Turbonomic (Application Performance Management) SME.
  • Incident responder, including threat and vulnerability management.
  • Built dashboards for both executive management and production support consumption for insight into deeper environmental stability.
  • Regularly contributes to our internal tooling to manage administrative operations across the environment.
  • Heavy usage of scripting (ansible, bash, powershell, powercli) to automate and create tooling to increases operation effectiveness.
  • Responsible for the overall support, maintenance, and deployment of Private and Public cloud infrastructure.
  • Instructing junior staff with incident management tasks, operational tasks, and administrative tasks some examples are server level restorations, tool development, application deployment, vulnerability remediation.
  • Provisioning, configuring, operating, maintaining, patching, and backing up all infrastructure through manual and automated processes.
  • Responsible for Bare metal through all levels of virtualization and containerization.
  • Senior escalation point for incident response.
Minneapolis, MN | http://deluxe.com

IMS

August 2019 - November 2020

Systems Administrator Worked in a cross-discipline devops team managing everything bare metal and up, including multiple types of virtualization and containerization. Used best security practices in a strict IS027001 environment, while maintaining ease of use.

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  • Created and Implemented auditing system, reducing auditing timeline from 3 weeks to 30 minutes.
  • Configured Nagios and Centreon monitoring scripts for production systems.
  • Liason to executive leadership team for monitoring and observability.
  • Worked with management and external customers to establish and evaluate SLAs and SLOs
  • AWS SME for multi-cloud environment.
  • Lead VMware cluster upgrade, requiring the management and distribution of work to multiple departments and resources.
  • Lead Stakeholder in Data-Center Infrastructure & Maintenance
  • Cassandra SME, lead all efforts related to maintenance and integration with Cassandra
  • Trained and evaluated new-hires and upskilling employees for the Operations Team
  • Implemented changes following ITIL best practices and encouraged others to do so.
  • VMware SME, lead for all things virtual.
Waterloo, ON | http://ims.tech

Abilities

“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”
- Charlotte Whitton


Hypervisors/Virtualization

  • VMWare ESXi
  • VMWare vCenter
  • Bash/Shell
  • AWS ec2
  • AWS ecs
  • XenServer
  • KVM
  • MaaS
  • YAML
  • vROps
  • vRA
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Openstack

Devops Tools

  • Turbonomic
  • Terraform/HCL
  • AWS Cloudwatch
  • Docker-Compose
  • Puppet
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Chef
  • Vagrant

Build / CI Tools

  • Gitlab
  • Jenkins
  • CircleCI
  • Github Actions

Skills

  • Python
  • Ansible
  • MySQL
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Nginx
  • Apache
  • JSON
  • Wordpress
  • Kubernetes
  • MongoDB
  • XML
  • DNS
  • Git (SCM)
  • Nagios
  • Redis
  • Networking
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • HTML(5)
  • Postgres
  • SMTP
  • Postfix
  • ChatGPT
  • LLM
  • Prompt Engineering
  • ElasticSearch
  • PHP
  • Cassandra
  • Splunk
  • Kibana
  • GuardDuty
  • SecurityHub
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • jira
  • Wazuh
  • REST Frameworks
  • CSS(3)
  • Observium
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • Bootstrap Framework
  • Tomcat
  • Ruby
  • Perl
  • C/C++
  • Golang
  • Oracle
  • JQuery
  • Java

Pentesting Skills

  • nmap
  • Metasploit
  • Forensics
  • Vulnerability Research
  • Enumeration
  • BurpSuite
  • Reverse Engineering
  • PoC Development

Languages

  • English

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