Steven Rogers

Experience

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  StarTrack

  Apr 2006 - Apr 2010

  Infrastructure Engineer

  Freight shipping company with depots all over Australia. I was based in the Western Sydney (Minchinbury) depot and managed all IT Infrastructure for the depot’s within NSW. Technology was heavily used in this business to ensure that all freight is sorted and sent to the correct destination.ResponsibilitiesPrimary responsibilities include• Infrastructure and helpdesk support for all NSW depots• Sortation server & system maintenance• Maintain Cisco core and network infrastructure• Help Desk calls from within the organization and also from customers with enquiries about our services with regards to technology• After hours on call for all site issues including battery UPS and Diesel Generator• Support over 300 desktop and laptopsAccomplishments• Successful project to replace hand scanners for all drivers across Australia by choosing and working with both a software and hardware vendor in order to bring both systems together• Microsoft Active Directory (Migrated from Novell) with all computers in NSW being re-imaged and bound to the domain• Setup Open Source Linux systems to monitor the network (Nagios)• Increased Network resilience against switch downtime by redesigning the core network structure and cleaning up configurations• Consolidated old individual servers into depots first virtualized system by configuring an ESX cluster attached to a NAS using iSCSI (ESXi with iSCSI to QNAP) Show less

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  ALDI Stores

  Apr 2010 - Nov 2010

  Store Infrastructure Manager

  Primary responsibilities include• Management of all ALDI Store infrastructures for the Australia business• Identify areas for process improvement and develop solutions achieving efficiency• Manage the Store Infrastructure team, contractors and vendors• Work with key stakeholders and other team leads to obtain greater alignment and clarity• Ensure projects are scoped and resourced accordingly, whilst identifying potential risks or issues• Strategise with overseas head office and communicate plans to Australian teamAccomplishments• Successful completion of 7 stores across NSW/VIC• Planning commencing the upgrade of all EFTPOS terminals across NSW Show less

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  Ansarada

  Nov 2010 - Jun 2019

  Primary Responsibilities• Continued ownership and mentoring of Security, DevOps, IT and Systems Dev teams.• Board reporting on the Security strategy and current state• Hiring of passionate and talented people to fill security roles within the team• Managing and coaching team while communicating clear expectations • Innovating and deciding on technologies/solutions to reduce cost while increasing speed and availability for the clients• Drive our Information Security strategy across the platform and business• Ensure Engineering have the tools and feedback required to deliver secure solutions• Business security compliance and certification (ISO 27001)• Manage Infrastructure team (DevOps/SRE, InfoSec, Internal Support), contractors and vendors• Ensure projects are scoped and resourced accordingly, whilst identifying potential risks or issues• Empower and support the development of the global business, living out the company values; innovative, entrepreneurial, transparency and passionateAccomplishments• Build out Cyber Security capability within the product company• Expansion of the Security culture by implementing core tooling to allow great visibility and ownership for the product and platform• Tooling includes: - ZAP Proxy built in to build/test/deploy automated pipeline - SonarQube static code analysis in pipeline - Black Duck library scanning and auditing in pipeline - Cloudflare WAF/CDN - Security Metric dashboards and reporting - Crowdstrike EDR across entire organisation (production/staff)• Creation of internal Security Collective group to discuss security issues & actions across the business and platform• Automation of Security using Cloud Formation to deploy services and integration with devops pipeline. Show less Primary responsibilities include• Management of all production infrastructures for the global business• Information Security for the platform and business• Site Reliability and DevOps team planning and coaching• Business security compliance and certification (ISO 27001)• Identify areas for process improvement and develop solutions achieving efficiency• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management• Manage Infrastructure team (DevOps/SRE, InfoSec, Internal Support), contractors and vendors• Co-lead the wider IT team with Head of Development / Head of Design and work with business units to drive efficiency through technology and information• Ensure projects are scoped and resourced accordingly, whilst identifying potential risks or issues• Empower and support the development of the global business, living out the company values; innovative, entrepreneurial, transparency and passionateAccomplishments• Restructure entire Infrastructure team to be lean and work with an exponential mindset - Went from 2 general Infrastructure staff to 3 teams dedicated to seperate business improvements (DevOps/SRE, Information Security & Internal IT Systems Support)• Commencement of the DevOps culture by implementing core tooling to allow great visibility and ownership for the product and platform - Tooling includes: • SumoLogic • NewRelic • OpsGenie• Creation of internal Security Collective group to discuss security issues & actions across the business and platform• Complete migration from physical infrastructure in two data centres (Active/Passive) to AWS in Active/Active• Decommission of services and contracts for data centres and the secure disposal of all assets• Migration from on premise Exchange to cloud Office365 for the entire global business• Implementation of Akamai Web Application Firewall, SiteShield & Failover with Advanced meta data• Implement Telstra TIPT phone system for Australian office Show less Primary responsibilities include• Responsible for monitoring and managing all systems to support a global SaaS product with users in over 140 countries• Ownership and accountability for all physical and virtual infrastructure• Handle and respond to High-level business escalations• Responsible for adherence to ISO 27001 controls throughout the business in all regions, including regular auditing of controls and processes• Reporting up to Board level on IT strategy and infrastructure development plans• Maintenance of 2 Co-location Data Centers• Maintain in house Asterisk PBX system• On-call 24/7Accomplishments• Started trialing cloud platforms including AWS/Azure for internal services to show benefits to the wider organisation• Upgrade of Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010• Multiple upgrades of production infrastructure hardware• Multiple upgrades of vMWare virtualisation environments• Successful pass of licensing audit by Microsoft• Automate email signatures across the organisation to keep a standard marketing format while also reducing workload on all staff who had to manage this themselves• Negotiation of contracts for DR facility and services• Juniper SRX Firewall upgrades• Juniper IDP/IDS implementation and configuration• New office network and telephony planning and implementation• Upgrade all global office infrastructure to Meraki cloud based network equipment Show less

  • Chief Systems & Security Officer

    Oct 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Head of DevOps / Infrastructure

    Aug 2013 - Oct 2017

  • Senior Infrastructure Engineer

    Nov 2010 - Sept 2013
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  SafetyCulture

  Sept 2019 - now

  • Group Engineering Manager Cybersecurity

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Principal Security Engineer

    Sept 2019 - Sept 2022