ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Hugh Fajardo, I'm a Platform Engineer at Westpac New Zealand. I have a passion for security and automation and would like to take my skills to the cloud!

I built this page as part of the Cloud Guru Azure Resume Challenge.

Certifications

Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

April 2024

COMPTIA Security+

October 2022

Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)

October 2021

Splunk Certified: Splunk Enterprise Security

August 2021

Splunk Certified: Splunk Fundamentals 1 & 2

June 2021

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

October 2020

Work

Westpac New Zealand Limited

Cyber Security Analyst • February 2021 - Present

  • Detecting and responding to cyber security incidents
  • Crafting, implementing, and tuning security detection rules
  • Develop security playbooks to improve future incident reponse workflows
  • Continuous uplift of security operations using agile methodology

    • Westpac New Zealand Limited

    Platform Engineer • February 2020 - February 2021

  • Provide engineering support for enterprise DevOps tooling
  • Working microservices using Kubernetes, docker, Helm, and Jenkins for CI/CD
  • Infrastructure-as-Code deployment using Terraform and Chef
  • Agile working methodology and tools such as JIRA and Confluence

    • Green Lane Coordinating Centre

    IT Administrator & Technical Writer • September 2018 - May 2019

  • O365 suite administration
  • Adobe Creative Cloud administration
  • JumpCloud Directory-as-a-Service administration
  • Privilege Access Management and reporting via Egnyte
  • Security monitoring, detection, and response
  • General IT support (on-site and remote)