Ryan Klein

About Ryan Klein

With more than a decade of information security and technology experience, Ryan is the Vice President of Application Security, Data Protection, and Attack Surface Management at FIS, a Fortune 500 financial technology company. The Application Security, Data Protection, and Attack Surface Management teams are responsible for ensuring the security, availability, and performance of the application suites that powers billions of transactions annually, moving over $9 trillion around the globe.Ryan has always had a passion for Information Technology and Engineering and at began 16 working as a Systems Administrator at a web hosting and development company. After graduating with a degree in Information Technology, Ryan expanded his focus to developing and managing the deployment of secure orchestration and automation systems and processes.Ryan is passionate about the technologies he has the opportunity to work with and develop everyday. Many people are often good at a single task while overlooking how the interdependencies of many components work in tandem. Through Ryan\'s experiences, good and bad, he has learned to appreciate and advocate for development and implementation of quality, detailed, and secure systems. The challenges present in today\'s day and age have pushed him to become a network and security focused, automation developer, SecOps guru, Systems Administrator with experience in a wide variety of application, network, and security infrastructure design, implementation, and maintenance areas.Specialties: Vendor agnostic network and security design, implementation, and operation. Automation and orchestration of complex and repetitive tasks. Extensive experience with Juniper, Check Point, and Cisco deployment and management. Network automation and Bash, Perl, Python, and Ruby programming. Linux/Unix and Windows [Active Directory] administration.

Experience

1. VP, IT Security Executive

   FIS

   Nov 2021 — Present · Milwaukee, WI, US

Education

• Waukesha County Technical College

  Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

  2006 — 2010

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Bachelor's, Information Technology

Skills

• Linux
• Virtualization
• Vmware
• Server Architecture
• Networking
• Checkpoint Security
• Security
• Tcp/Ip
• Cisco Ios
• Perl
• Scripting
• Ruby
• Juniper Networks Products
• Operating Systems
• Cisco Systems Products
• Cisco Technologies
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Information Security
• Computer Security
• Mysql
• Srx
• Servers
• Troubleshooting
• Dhcp
• Cissp
• Vmware Esx
• Network Administration
• Juniper
• Bash
• Dns
• Network Security
• Bgp
• Mpls
• Microsoft Office
• System Administration
• Junos
• Ips
• High Availability
• Checkpoint