***This document is generated by a Kubernetes sidecar running Pandoc.***

***This is all [self hosted](https://colintufts.com) and the full stack is maintained and run myself.***


# Colin  Tufts 

> E-Mail: [colin@colintufts.com ](mailto:colin@colintufts.com)
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> Website: [https://colintufts.com/](https://colintufts.com/)
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> LinkedIn: [https://linkedin.com/in/colintufts/](https://linkedin.com/in/colintufts/)
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> Keybase Proof: [https://keybase.io/colintufts](https://keybase.io/colintufts)


# Employment History

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[¶](https://colintufts.com/#firmex-cloud-security-engineer) **Firmex** (Cloud Security Engineer)

July 2023 - Current

* 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
	
[¶](https://colintufts.com/#industrious-devsecops-engineer) **Industrious** (DevSecOps Engineer)

March 2022 - February 2023

* 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
	
[¶](https://colintufts.com/#deluxe-cloud-administrator) **Deluxe** (Cloud Administrator)

November 2020 - March 2022

* 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.
	
[¶](https://colintufts.com/#ims-systems-administrator) **IMS** (Systems Administrator)

August 2019 - November 2020

* 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.

# Code Portfolio

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#### [python_resume]()
A showcase of Python/Flask/Jinja2/HTML(5)/Bootstrap/JQuery used to both generate colintufts.com and my hardcopy resume.



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