William French

About William French

Currently a Cyber Security Engineer at Ally working to develop automation utilizing SIEM & SOAR software, along with other software solutions to drive meaningful improvement to processes. Graduate of University of North Carolina at Charlotte\'s Cyber Security program, continuing education at UNCC in the Cybersecurity Master\'s program.

Experience

1. Security Engineer

   Ally

   Jul 2022 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Collaborating with enterprise security operations teams and stakeholders (such as Data Loss Prevention, Security Operations Center, Cyber Threat Intelligence, etc.) to understand current processes and identify opportunities to design, implement and maintain automated solutions supporting analysts throughout each team’s incident response cycle- Administering Splunk SOAR (Phantom) environments supporting 35 analysts’ daily incident response operations across multiple security teams- Expanding SOAR product capabilities through the development of new API integrations- Developing and deploying AWS infrastructure (Ec2, Lambda, Secrets Manager, Cloudtrail, IAM, S3) for security automation use cases using Terraform and Gitlab CI/CD pipelines- Writing threat detection searches utilizing Splunk- Designing dashboards in Splunk to track and visualize metrics for teams and stakeholders- Producing documentation for standard operating procedures and infrastructure- Implementing automated testing for Splunk SOAR playbooks and API integrations- Troubleshooting and debugging issues throughout the OSI model- Conducting code reviews for changes in repositories, playbooks and other projects- Operating under a Kanban-style workflow structure in Jira and Confluence.

Education

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

  2016

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity