Security & Automation Engineer in Georgia

I secure your business and automate the workflows that keep it running.

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Skills & Tools

Ansible

Astro

Docker

Github

Kubernetes

Lambda

N8n

Playwright

Proxmox

Python

SQL

Tanium

Wireguard

Wordpress

Ansible

Astro

Docker

Github

Kubernetes

Lambda

N8n

Playwright

Proxmox

Python

SQL

Tanium

Wireguard

Wordpress

Threat Intelligence & OSINT

IOC collection, adversary tracking, phishing investigation, and enrichment workflows. Built structured intelligence pipelines for analysis and reporting.

Security Automation

Python driven automation for collection, enrichment, parsing, and API integration. Designed workflows that handle failures cleanly and produce reliable outputs.

Log Analysis & SIEM

Security event detection and triage using Wazuh, Graylog, Elasticsearch, and Splunk. Investigated phishing reports and supported incident response efforts.

Detection Engineering

Developed and refined detection logic based on threat patterns, log telemetry, and vulnerability trends to improve alert accuracy and reduce noise.

Security Data Pipelines

Ingestion, normalization, and storage using PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch. Built ETL style pipelines for telemetry and threat intelligence data.

Web Automation & Scraping

Browser automation with Playwright and Selenium for authenticated workflows and dynamic content extraction across changing web environments.

Infrastructure & Virtualization

Linux server deployment, containerization with Docker, and virtualized lab environments designed for secure testing, monitoring, and automation.

Business Document Automation

Extracted structured data from PDFs using OCR and parsing techniques, then generated clean output PDFs and exports to streamline business workflows.

Work Experience

Automation Engineer

Apollo Information Systems

Remote

Built automated threat intelligence collection pipelines using Python and Selenium. Developed API driven workflows to ingest structured data into Elasticsearch and monitored scraper reliability across evolving web platforms.

PythonSeleniumPlaywrightBeautifulSoupRequestsElasticsearchPostgreSQLDockerGit

Enterprise Security Engineer (Threat Intelligence)

PPL Utilities

Remote

Conducted reconnaissance and threat intelligence collection across enterprise and cloud environments. Automated IOC collection and enrichment workflows using Python APIs and supported threat hunting operations with Tanium and QRadar.

PythonREST APIsTaniumQRadarElasticsearchAWSAzureGCP

Security Operations Assistant

Georgia Cyber Center of Training and Innovation

Augusta, GA

Led and coordinated a team reviewing Wazuh security logs to identify security events and potential vulnerabilities. Assisted with automated deployment processes and supported vulnerability prioritization based on risk severity and operational impact.

WazuhLinuxSecurity MonitoringVulnerability PrioritizationDeployment Automation

Information Security Intern

Heaven Hill Distillery

Bardstown, KY

Monitored and analyzed security events using Graylog and Mimecast. Investigated phishing emails, performed triage on reported incidents, and wrote Bash scripts to support automation and internal security workflows.

GraylogMimecastBashPhishing AnalysisIncident TriageLinux

Studies

B.S. in Cybersecurity

Augusta University

Coursework focused on network security, operating systems, threat detection, digital forensics, secure system design, and applied security engineering.

Network Security Operating Systems Threat Detection Digital Forensics Security Engineering Vulnerability Analysis

CompTIA Security+

CompTIA

Validated foundational cybersecurity knowledge including risk management, network security, incident response, and security architecture.

Risk Management Security Architecture Incident Response Network Security

CompTIA PenTest+

CompTIA

Validated skills in penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, exploitation techniques, and security reporting.

Penetration Testing Vulnerability Assessment Exploitation Security Reporting

CompTIA Cloud+

CompTIA

Validated knowledge of cloud infrastructure security, virtualization, automation, and cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.

Cloud Security Virtualization Infrastructure Automation Cloud Operations