Sev Kelian
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Sev is a strategically focused technologist experienced in cyber and cloud technology management and 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. He's adept at building strong relationships to drive value while maintaining secure infrastructure, cloud, data, and app platforms. Sev还擅长定义和现代化云和网络战略, architecture and delivering DevSecOps processes via the automatic acceleration of cloud adoption.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
亚马逊网络服务(AWS), Cybersecurity, Cisco, Azure, PCI Compliance, 规模化敏捷框架(SAFe), Digital Transformation, Security Architecture, 企业架构, Cloud
The most amazing...
...事情是带领团队交付安全, regulatory-compliant cloud platforms while accelerating secure cloud adoption among all business units.
Work Experience
云安全高级总监
National Bank of Canada
- Worked as a senior member of the CISO cybertechnology management team and defined and modernized BNC’s cloud cyber strategy and delivered DevSecOps processes through automation accelerating secure cloud adoption among all business units.
- Developed and managed cloud security governance frameworks, policies, and architectural blueprints.
- Built and managed a strong cross-functional security architecture and engineering team to accelerate cloud migration and adoption; empowered those teams by transferring our templates, methodologies, 以及具有可操作计划的云计算最佳实践.
技术顾问|顾问
Kelian
- 曾担任加拿大蒙特利尔客户的技术顾问和顾问.
- 评估、分析、设计和实现安全IT解决方案.
- 建立了配置的标准和程序, diagnosis, 关键客户IT基础设施的支持.
云平台和安全服务总监
Paysafe
- Led the cloud migration program, including its development, design, and operationalization.
- Built a cloud adoption business case and obtained board approval to accelerate the full-scale migration strategy—reducing the annual IT budget by 20%.
- Migrated new and existing workloads securely and compliantly to the cloud which reduced the annual global IT budget by 20%.
- Built a highly secure cloud production platform meeting PCI and NIST best practice design standards.
- 设计了一个以数据为中心的安全平台来实现发现, classification, 保护敏感数据.
- 带领数据和安全工程师团队进行设计, deploy, 并将企业数据平台迁移到云端，降低成本, 简化安全管理, 并为业务和数据团队提供自助访问.
信息技术和安全总监
Paysafe Group
- 监督和交付技术和IT安全基础设施.
- Consolidated, modernized, and transformed Paysafe’s technology landscape in areas such as data centers and infrastructure, software delivery, data, and cybersecurity.
- Created a global data center consolidation program (from 14 to six)—enabling synergy, 减少硬件和软件的刷新周期, and simplifying IT ops—and resulting in $2 million/year in OPEX reduction and $10 million in CAPEX avoidance.
- Reduced cyber risk and improved the IT infrastructure and application security posture by implementing a cyber protection platform such as DDoS, application security, IAM and governance, SSO, PAM, SIEM, DLP, 以及端点保护功能.
信息技术和架构团队领导
Optimal Payments
- 主导数据中心架构的制作, deployment, 包括设计在内的操作, deploying, 并在全球范围内运作, 高可用性和PCI兼容的生产数据中心.
- Designed and led the deployment of a globally standardized corporate security infrastructure by leveraging security in-depth design principles.
- Designed, deployed, and operated the Akamai DDoS security platform which included migrating the corporate DNS services and enabling Akamai GTM (global traffic management) to improve production services' reliability, up time, and security.
网络和安全工程团队领导
Terra Payments
- Served as a tech lead of a team of network and security engineers to support Terra Payments' corporate and production infrastructures.
- Managed many projects from modernizing the production and corporate data centers to supporting day-to-day production operations.
- Analyzed, evaluated, 并推荐了优化和提高冗余度的新技术, high availability, 以及网络的安全性.
- 进行网络和安全优化，确保可用性, 实时在线交易(信用卡)的冗余和安全性, debit card, 和电子检查处理)与合作伙伴, customers, 金融机构.
网络与安全顾问
Metafore
- 领导一个由三名网络电信和安全专家组成的团队.
- Evaluated, analyzed, designed, 为中、大型局域网/广域网提供安全的资讯科技解决方案.
- Performed pre- and post-sale activities supporting the sales and marketing team with technical expertise.
网络与安全顾问
ESI Technologies
- 开发客户数据网络基础设施以满足业务需求.
- 设计、部署、记录和排除安全LAN/WAN网络的故障.
- 建立了配置的标准和程序, diagnosis, 关键客户IT基础设施的支持.
- Evaluated technologies, interacted with vendors, prepared business cases, 并向IT管理层提出策略.
- Developed the first-ever French language "Cisco Firewall" and "Cisco Routing" training material for ESI's customers IT personnel.
Experience
企业云数据分析和机器学习平台
云容器化平台
数据中心的整合和现代化
企业云采用计划
I also built a highly secure cloud-production platform that met PCI and NIST best practice design standards. 然后，我设计了一个以数据为中心的安全平台来实现发现, classification, 保护敏感数据.
Finally, I partnered with legal, compliance, privacy, 和qa建立基础设施的安全治理框架, data, 实现PCI-DSS的应用系统, SOC, FCA, GDPR, data residency, and privacy compliance.
网络安全架构与工程
有一个可行的计划.
I also developed the cloud security architecture and compliance practices to deliver security by design and continuous compliance automation capabilities as code. I then worked with business unit stakeholders to establish security context and help stakeholders to understand the security requirements, practices, and risks.
Skills
Other
Cisco, Digital Transformation, Security Architecture, Cloud, Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, IT Strategy, Cloud Security, PCI Compliance, PCI DSS, 企业架构, Identity & 访问管理(IAM), Data Protection, Virtualization, IT Automation, Team Leadership, IT Security, IT系统架构, IP Networks, F5 Networks, 入侵防御系统(IPS), Akamai, Web应用防火墙(WAF), CyberArk, Fortinet防火墙配置, Checkpoints, RSA, 数据丢失预防(DLP), IP Routing, Data Center Migration, 资讯科技营运管理(ITOM), Networking, Vendor Management, Technical Design, Technology, Firewalls, ASA Firewalls, Cisco Switches, SAN Switches, WAN, WLAN, 软件定义数据中心(SDDC), 虚拟化技术, 虚拟桌面基础架构(VDI), Secure Storage, SANs, Cisco MDS, Cisco UCS, Cisco Routers, GDPR, Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, SOC Compliance, SIEM, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Data-level Security, Agile DevOps
Frameworks
规模化敏捷框架(SAFe)
Platforms
亚马逊网络服务(AWS), Azure, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Languages
Python
Tools
VMware、VPN、Amazon EKS、Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)、Terraform
Paradigms
DevSecOps，敏捷，软件定义网络(SDN)， DDoS, DevOps
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