Kevin Marafuga

Sr. Cyber Security Engineer

Chicopee, MA

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Certifications

  • CISSP
  • CompTIA Pentest+
  • CompTIA Security+
  • Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Technical

  • Python
  • Splunk
  • Kubernetes
  • Powershell
  • Grafana
  • Jenkins
  • Bash Shell
  • Docker
  • Jira/Confluence
  • SentinelOne
  • AWS
  • FedRAMP

Education

Master of Science
in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

Western Govenors University

June 2025

Bachelor of Science
in Computer Information Systems

Westfield State University

June 2020

Employment History

OpenText

Sr. Cyber Security Engineer

December 2022 - Present

  • - Implemented automated solutions for real-time synchronization of user access rights across multiple platforms, reducing manual workload
  • - Elevated the Security Team's basic monitoring and alerting to a comprehensive SRE framework by implementing advanced tools like Grafana
  • - Conducted comprehensive system audits to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities, enhancing overall system security posture
  • - Led the sole engineering efforts for configuring 7 Splunk servers in 3 different FedRAMP environments, ensuring high security and compliance standards
  • - Design and develop comprehensive Splunk dashboards and alerts for efficient log monitoring and analysis
  • - Managed centralized logging across AWS, Azure, and GCP for improved monitoring and quicker alerting, enhancing incident response and operational visibility
  • - Utilized Grafana and API integrations to create insightful dashboards, providing high-level management with enhanced operational visibility
  • - Participate in incident response and technical investigations as needed

Raytheon Technologies

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

January 2022 - Decemeber 2022

  • - Lead Security Analyst on the largest information system at the Marlborough site supporting over 300 users
  • - Utilized Splunk, Ivanti and other tools to detect unusual activity and possible threats to network resources
  • - Conducted incident response and preliminary investigations in accordance with Raytheon incident and disaster recovery plan
  • - Expertise in certifying and securing Windows, Linux, and CISCO devices to meet stringent security standards
  • - Collaborated closely with the Information System Security Manager to fulfill their roles effectively, ensuring the stringent implementation of NISP and DAAPM guidelines and regulations.

United States Air Force Westover ARB

IT Specialist

July 2020 - December 2021

  • - Diagnose and troubleshoot computer hardware, software, and networking devices
  • - Create catered scrips to remediate basewide vulnerabilities and enhance efficiency
  • - Perform troubleshooting tasks such as unlocking user accounts, ensuring network access, and managing organizational mailboxes
  • - Experience with LDAP, Active Directory and group policies data recovery tools, WINS, DHCP, and DNS
  • - Investigate anomalies observed within the network and to remediate network and systems outages
  • - Familiarity with cybersecurity Risk Management Framework (RMF) and compliance as stipulated by NISPOM/DAAPM, STIGs and associated NIST publications
  • - Coordinated with the Cyber Defense Infrastructure team to examine and confirm that systems, networks, and data are protected by secure setups

Westfield State University

ADA Accessibility Manager

August 2018 - Present

  • - Team leader and mentor, setting team objectives in coordination with the CIT Director and developing and implementing training plans to develop internal capabilities
  • - Excellent Teamwork skills; written and oral communication skills
  • - Updated existing process WSU had for making courses ADA Compliant and presented it at the Massachusetts Colleges Online Conference
  • - Reached out and negotiated with new vendors for captioning services

Kevin Marafuga — kmarafuga16@gmail.com