Jordan Rash
Verified Expert in Engineering
Continuous Monitoring Developer
Denver, CO, United States
Toptal member since May 26, 2020
Jordan is a highly motivated and passionate reliability engineer that started his career in the United States Navy. It was there he learned no matter what time of day, be prepared to solve a problem. Later in his career, he had the desire to lean in on his computer science degree and entered the security field as a SOC manager, and, more recently, he has been a developer/SRE leveraging the power of Kubernetes. Every day as an SRE brings a new problem, and he is excited about the opportunities.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 10 years
- Continuous Monitoring - 9 years
- Python - 8 years
- Continuous Delivery (CD) - 5 years
- Go - 5 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 5 years
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linkerd, Gloo, DigitalOcean, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Go
The most amazing...
...thing that I have developed is an implementation of the VirusTotal interface that allowed similar workflows to be done internally.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Dockerized, documented, and deployed four suites of existing St. Jude-developed software to the Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud platform.
- Developed custom GitHub Actions (CI-CD) for developing applications in the Cancer Genomics Cloud.
- Consulted on best practices for maturing organizations' SDLC and DevOps programs.
- Developed custom monitoring for deployed applications that warned the team early about potential failures.
Lead Software Developer/Operations Engineer
CapitalOne Financial
- Designed the plan to deploy OSQuery to all enterprise endpoints in the organization. Responsible for developing a technology stack that ensured no data loss, minimal time from the endpoint to SIEM.
- Designed and developed an internal file hash indexer (written in Go), that allowed SOC analysts to easily answer the question “has this file had ever been seen in our network” The project is an internal representation of an API similar to VirusTotal.
- Worked closely with the application team to support stress testing of multi-cloud and 3rd party CNCF application integration of CapitalOne container orchestration platform, CriticalStack.
- Migrated multiple legacy applications to the Kubernetes platform in support of the effort to utilize a methodology focused on mutability and elasticity.
SOC Manager and Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
InfoReliance
- Managed team of two developers, three analysts, and one infrastructure personnel responsible for customer security platform. Defined SLAs and identified SLOs to support the company's priorities.
- Designed and implemented network engineering plans to determine the best location for McAfee and open-source sensors and data collectors.
- Led development of an open-source, “serverless” incident management system that utilizes many of AWS technologies.
- Interfaced daily with customers to ensure maximum communication and on-time deliverables.
- Utilized the McAfee SIEM stack to develop analytics and correlation rules against real time endpoint and network data.
Surface Warfare Officer and Computer Network Defense Analyst
United States Navy
- Handled the personal and professional growth of 14 employees ranging from continued education training to managing timesheets and leave requests.
- Developed Python-based software to extract event-based data from various sources for analysis, automating the formerly manual process of moving data from collection sources to analysis platforms to include Splunk.
- Created, tested, and deployed custom analytics to identify malicious activity and misconfigurations on enterprise networks.
- Maintained technician level knowledge on networking equipment and advanced external RF communications equipment.
- Served as the head network administrator of a medium-sized Windows domain. The network consisted of two domain controllers, 100 endpoints, 2 RHEL servers, 14 networking devices, and supported 150 personnel.
- Identified systemic security issues with UNIX/Linux systems and provided recommendations for mitigating those issues.
- Conducted vulnerability assessment teams focusing on identifying attack vectors and analysis of intrusions, and worked with partner organizations to expand the analysis.
- Managed development and deployment of five software development efforts that supported data analysis and synchronous global operations.
Experience
Micro Focused QA — Ephemeral Environments
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
United States Naval Academy - Annapolis, MD
Certifications
GIAC Continuous Monitoring Certification (GMON)
SANs
GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
SANs
GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
SANs
GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
SANs
Skills
Tools
VPN, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), GitHub, Docker Compose, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Terraform, AWS ELB, AWS CLI, Jira, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Azure Key Vault, OpenVPN, GitLab CI/CD, Docker Swarm, HashiCorp, Auth0, Ansible, Codecov, Istio, McAfee, Basecamp, Git, Splunk, GoLand
Languages
Go, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Java, Dart, TypeScript
Paradigms
DevOps, DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Asynchronous Programming, Continuous Development (CD)
Platforms
Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Azure, Kubernetes, Linux, Codefresh, DigitalOcean, Rancher, Google Cloud Engine, Gloo, Unix, PostHog
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Datadog, Amazon DynamoDB
Frameworks
Angular
Other
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Continuous Monitoring, AWS DevOps, Lambda Functions, Containerization, Containers, CI/CD Pipelines, Security, Infrastructure, Networking, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS VPN, GitHub Actions, Architecture, APIs, Cloud Monitoring, Site Reliability, IT Security, Monitoring, Go Buffalo, Fintech, API Gateways, SOC 2, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Vulnerability Assessment, Cloudflare, Single Sign-on (SSO), Drones, Linkerd, Healthcare IT, NIST, ISO 27002, ISO 27001
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