Martin Brignall
Bristol, BS3
ABOUT ME
Over the past 5 years, I’ve developed expertise in DevOps/DevSecOps and am currently working as a Cyber Defence Engineer. I handle a range of alerts, from phishing and email, end user compute and IAM to cloud security reports from GuardDuty/SCC/Google Sec Ops.
I’m passionate about the software development pipeline and building secure software, utilising tools like Terraform for infrastructure as code and building automations in CI/CD. I’m always eager to explore new technologies, often using my home lab for hands-on learning.
A Linux enthusiast, I’ve recently been exploring NixOS/Nix-Darwin to manage my development environment declaratively. I am familiar with command line tools, navigating filesystems and shell scripting.
For the past two years, I’ve also managed the website for the Tobacco Factory Sunday Market, built with Django/Python, with a fully fledged CI/CD pipeline and automated deployments.
I've also taken part in a range of community events in the local Bristol area and spoke at the Atlassian Team yearly event in Las Vegas.
EXPERIENCE
OVO Energy, Bristol - Cyber Defence Engineer
May 2024 to Present
- Building a connection between ticketing systems (Jira to ServiceNow) of our MSSP and OVO (saving £30k)
- Working with leading technologies in SOC/Threat Detection/SIEM
- Google Chronicle/Workspace/SecOps
- Sublime Email Security
- CrowdStrike
- Elastic/Kibana
- Tines (Security Automation)
- Wiz/Cloud monitoring
- Escalated Incident Response (Blue Team)
OVO Energy, Bristol - Developer Tooling Specialist
August 2022 - May 2024
- Cloud services optimization (AWS/GCP) for scalability, reliability, and targeted cost reduction
- Monitoring tools like Datadog and Grafana
- CI/CD and Automation, CircleCI and GitHub Actions
- Building automated vending for GCP projects
- Contributed code to internal developer platform (Backstage)
- Champion collaboration and knowledge sharing within the engineering community
- Vendor engagement and billing/cost reconciliation
OVO Energy, Bristol - Enterprise Technology Specialist
March 2021 - August 2022
- Administered and supported full Atlassian product suite
- Delivered zero-touch deployment using Mosyle, a pioneering MDM tool for Apple devices
- Linux device management solution including device scripting/hardening
OVO Energy, Bristol - Tech Support Analyst
June 2019 - August 2022
- Provided technical support and automated Jira projects for enhanced productivity
- Service Desk - Front Line Support
- Covid Office Cover
INTERESTS/SKILLS
- Programming & Web Development: Django | Python | HTMX | JavaScript/TypeScript | Node
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS | GCP | Terraform | Cloudflare
- Security & Detection: Detection Engineering | SIEM/SOC | Threat Hunting
- Databases: Postgres | SQLite
- Monitoring & Alerting: Grafana | Datadog | Chronicle | Elastic/Kibana
- Operating Systems: NixOS | Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL
- Development Tools: Git | GitHub Actions | CircleCI
- Virtualisation & Containers: Proxmox | Docker | LXC | Home Lab
- Productivity & Workflow: Atlassian/Jira | Emacs | Shell
TRAINING/OTHER
- Web Development: Webdev Bootcamps
- Cloud & Security: AWS Developer | Google Labs/Security Foundations | Immersive Labs/HackTheBox
- Productivity & Tools: Jira Fundamentals | Atlassian University
- Community: Atlassian Community Leader
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