Jarrod Lowe
Somerville,VIC
Summary
Focused Security Engineer with extensive knowledge of threat detection, prevention and analysis. Leverages expertise in security software and products to build solid IT security infrastructure. Detail-oriented leader and proactive communicator dedicated to safeguarding against threats. Oversees firewall installation and patching devices to reduce vulnerabilities. Safeguards company data through stringent enforcement of security protocols and is skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Cyber Security Consultant
Skillfield (Contracted to Telstra)
Melbourne, VIC
09.2024 - Current
- Management of the virtual environment in AWS Cloud Services as well as cost optimisation
- Mandiant Service Validator admin to confirm the working order of detections against malicious traffic
- Search through data tables in ClickHouse using SQL
- Use of OpenSearch as a data platform for customer logs
- Writing security detections in SQL
- The use of VSCode for code repository management
- Operating Linux command line to control the customer environment
- Managing tasks using Azure DevOps boards
- Understand and update Grafana dashboards to allow the SOC better visibility of platform resources
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Liberty Finance
Melbourne, VIC
08.2023 - 08.2024
- Work closely with the developer teams to uplift security of external teams and business units
- Analyze system risk to identify and implement appropriate security countermeasures
- Audit networks and security systems to identify vulnerabilities
- Manage Security awareness company wide
- Design, implement and maintained security systems and controls
- Demonstrated leadership by making improvements to work processes and helping to train others
- Used Defender for Cloud alongside Azure to audit for security recommendations
- Update and tune Web Application Firewalls using Terraform
- Monitored Microsoft sentinel for tracking of alerts in the SIEM
- Data analysation for monthly reports
Cyber Security Engineer
Telstra
Melbourne, VIC
12.2020 - 08.2023
- Security Analyst and Data Analyst within Kibana
- Establishing connection to the client via Palo Alto Firewall and using SSH to enable this
- Applied knowledge on firewalls and upgrading installed packages of apache nifi
- Using Kibana Devtools to roll over index pattens and perform system health checks
- Platform Engineering to allow customer logs to flow through into the SIEM
- Testing and developing new functions within an environment
- Strong knowledge of network security technologies such as Firewalls including; NextGen features, IPS, Security Gateways (Web, Email, VPN), DDoS protection, Cyber deception and other network security tools
- Azure Key Vault to apply to customer specific python scripts for pulling data out of their storage accounts for an accurate source of data usage
- Maintaining the security of virtual machines running inside Telstra's cloud security platform Azure
- Controlling the ingest of data through Databricks while creating a customer and linking to their azure storage account
- End-to-end responsibility of customers being onboarded into the platform
- Using Git repositories and command line through code applications such as Visual Studio Code
- Maintaining our Terraform and Ansible playbooks through pull requests within azure devops whilst upkeeping the documentation for these processes
- Running pipelines to upgrade a host with specific installation requirements
- Threat hunting through index patterns to understand malicious and anticipated behaviour
- Participate in incident response activities, establishing processes and uplifting them in post incident reviews
Cyber Security Analyst
Telstra
Melbourne , VIC
03.2019 - 12.2020
- Actioning alerts on the security incident events management board
- Threat hunting via customer logs and observing for malicious activity
- Daily correspondence with customers through the ticketing system Request Tracker
- Monthly reporting involving collection of customer logs
- Using open source tools such as VirusTotal to determine the security risk of an IP address
- Utilising Kibana to build dashboards that will determine patterns associated with potential threats
- Participating in incident response activities
Education
Cert IV Specializing in Cyber Security - Cyber Security
Box Hill Institute of TAFE
Melbourne, VIC12.2017
Advanced Diploma Specializing in Cyber Security - Cyber Security
Box Hill Institute of TAFE
Melbourne, VIC06.2019
Threat Hunting - Cyber Security
Chris Sanders
Melbourne, VIC02.2020
Regular Expressions - Cyber Security
Chris Sanders
Melbourne, VIC02.2020
Investigation Theory - Cyber Security
Chris Sanders
Melbourne, VIC06.2020
Effective Report Writing - Cyber Security
Chris Sanders
Melbourne, VIC09.2020
Elasticsearch Engineer - Cyber Security
Elasticsearch
Melbourne, VIC02.2021
Skills
- Cloud expert in Azure
- AWS cloud services
- Mandiant Service Validator
- Threat Hunting
- Maintaining firewalls
- Incident Response
- LINUX System Administrator
- Identity and Access Management
- Team work and task prioritisation
- Supervision & Leadership
Additional Information
- Negative Vetting Level 1 Clearance
- Linux System Administrator Monthly Challenge
Hobbies
- Snow Skiing
- AFL
- Travelling
- Camping
Personal Attributes
- Positive
- Resilient
- Proactive
- Adaptable
- Optimistic
- Perseverant
- Determined
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Senior Cyber Security Consultant
Skillfield (Contracted to Telstra)
09.2024 - Current
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Liberty Finance
08.2023 - 08.2024
Cyber Security Engineer
Telstra
12.2020 - 08.2023
Cyber Security Analyst
Telstra
03.2019 - 12.2020
Cert IV Specializing in Cyber Security - Cyber Security
Box Hill Institute of TAFE
Advanced Diploma Specializing in Cyber Security - Cyber Security
Box Hill Institute of TAFE
Threat Hunting - Cyber Security
Chris Sanders
Regular Expressions - Cyber Security
Chris Sanders
Investigation Theory - Cyber Security
Chris Sanders
Effective Report Writing - Cyber Security
Chris Sanders
Elasticsearch Engineer - Cyber Security
Elasticsearch
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