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Derek Higgins
Senior Principal Information Security Architect
Milwaukee, WI, United States
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Education:
BS
Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1998 : 2003
Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1998 : 2003
Experience:
As s Sr. Principal Information Security Architect I provide architectural and technical leadership in the security and cloud domains to a wide variety of teams.
2022 : Present
iRobot
Senior Principal Information Security Architect
As a principal engineer I provided technical leadership with in the security engineering domain. which included kubernetes and container security, cloud security including : AWS, Azure and GCP, application security and compliance for multiple laws and regulations including : SOC2, HIPAA.
- Lead cross functional team to provide security requirements and controls for kubernetes infrastructure and container lifecycle
- Developed a product evaluation process to quantify and grade products based on requirements and use cases
- Designed and delivered automated solutions to secure AWS multi-account environment at scale, conforming to best practices and regulatory requirements
- Updated and created new standards and policies for cloud security
- Contributed to cloud security and security architecture team charters
- Developed maturity model to influence roadmaps and provide focus for improvement
2021 : 2022
Twilio
Principal Cloud Security Engineer
As a Principal Engineer I provide thought leadership, direction and architecture for security platforms including : cloud security, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, collaboration security, endpoint security.
- Work with cross functional teams to provide secure solutions across the enterprise
- Guided teams to improve and automate foundational cloud security
- Researched and developed roadmap to implement SASE architecture
2020 : 2021
Northwestern Mutual
Principal Cyber Security Engineer
As a lead engineer on the cloud platform team I lead a team of engineers that worked to mature the platform to handle management, security and availability at scale. Worked with teams within the organization to help them move to the cloud in a secure and reliable fashion.
- Developed reactive framework to auto-remediate misconfigurations in AWS services
- Matured the AWS platform to handle larger scale adoption, 200+ AWS accounts
- Implemented AWS Organizations and multi-account strategy
- Guided team on architectural decisions for the AWS platform
- Worked with application teams to develop secure , scalable and highly available application architecture use AWS services
- Help develop AWS service introduction process to ensure AWS services had proper security controls and use cases
- Participated in several compliance audits including NYDFS and MAR
- Automated infrastructure and application deployments using Terraform, Packer and Cloudformation
- Worked with cloud security team to design and implement security controls at scale across the platform
- Spoke at 2 AWS summits on reactive security controls and AWS meetup on cloud security at scale
2017 : 2020
Northwestern Mutual
Lead Engineer
- Matured the AWS platform from a single application to wider adoption in the enterprise
- Worked with northwersternmutal.com app team to create a new serverless architecture for scalability and availability
- Setup network connectivity and VPC design
- Worked with Kubernetes to run various docker workloads
- Provisioned infrastructure and applications using Ansible, Cloudformation and Docker
2016 : 2017
Northwestern Mutual
Senior Engineer
2022 : Present
iRobot
Senior Principal Information Security Architect
As a principal engineer I provided technical leadership with in the security engineering domain. which included kubernetes and container security, cloud security including : AWS, Azure and GCP, application security and compliance for multiple laws and regulations including : SOC2, HIPAA.
- Lead cross functional team to provide security requirements and controls for kubernetes infrastructure and container lifecycle
- Developed a product evaluation process to quantify and grade products based on requirements and use cases
- Designed and delivered automated solutions to secure AWS multi-account environment at scale, conforming to best practices and regulatory requirements
- Updated and created new standards and policies for cloud security
- Contributed to cloud security and security architecture team charters
- Developed maturity model to influence roadmaps and provide focus for improvement
2021 : 2022
Twilio
Principal Cloud Security Engineer
As a Principal Engineer I provide thought leadership, direction and architecture for security platforms including : cloud security, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, collaboration security, endpoint security.
- Work with cross functional teams to provide secure solutions across the enterprise
- Guided teams to improve and automate foundational cloud security
- Researched and developed roadmap to implement SASE architecture
2020 : 2021
Northwestern Mutual
Principal Cyber Security Engineer
As a lead engineer on the cloud platform team I lead a team of engineers that worked to mature the platform to handle management, security and availability at scale. Worked with teams within the organization to help them move to the cloud in a secure and reliable fashion.
- Developed reactive framework to auto-remediate misconfigurations in AWS services
- Matured the AWS platform to handle larger scale adoption, 200+ AWS accounts
- Implemented AWS Organizations and multi-account strategy
- Guided team on architectural decisions for the AWS platform
- Worked with application teams to develop secure , scalable and highly available application architecture use AWS services
- Help develop AWS service introduction process to ensure AWS services had proper security controls and use cases
- Participated in several compliance audits including NYDFS and MAR
- Automated infrastructure and application deployments using Terraform, Packer and Cloudformation
- Worked with cloud security team to design and implement security controls at scale across the platform
- Spoke at 2 AWS summits on reactive security controls and AWS meetup on cloud security at scale
2017 : 2020
Northwestern Mutual
Lead Engineer
- Matured the AWS platform from a single application to wider adoption in the enterprise
- Worked with northwersternmutal.com app team to create a new serverless architecture for scalability and availability
- Setup network connectivity and VPC design
- Worked with Kubernetes to run various docker workloads
- Provisioned infrastructure and applications using Ansible, Cloudformation and Docker
2016 : 2017
Northwestern Mutual
Senior Engineer
Company:
iRobot
Years of Experience:
20
Skills
Active Directory, Amazon Web Services (AWS), ansible, Apache, Application Architecture, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Database Design, Databases, DevOps, DNS, docker, Git, Information Security, Infrastructure as code (IaC), JavaScript, kubernetes, Linux, Mobile Applications, MySQL, PHP, Project Management, Security, Server Management, SQL, System Administration, terraform, Ubuntu, Unix, VMware, Web Applications, Web Development, Web Services, Windows, Windows Server, C, Java, Perl, XML, IIS, SQL Server, Bash, Troubleshooting, ASP, AJAX, Visual Studio, Subversion, jQuery, ASP.NET, CSS, Tomcat, Operating Systems, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, VMware View, CakePHP, HTML 5, Eclipse, Version Control SVN, Amazon Web Services, Backbone.js, JSON, net framework
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