Xavier Reaves

About Xavier Reaves

I am a current protector in the cloud. A motivated cloud security engineer that will…

Experience

1. Cloud Security Engineer

   Zoro.com

   Sep 2021 — Present · US

   Assist in designing and developing security solutions to protect Zoro’s cloud infrastructure and overall computing environment that involves various cloud-based applications and services\\\\n-Managing projects to implement security functions/tools\\\\n-Creating documentation for security tools and services\\\\n-Providing feedback on new and existing security policies\\\\n-Creating and maintaining security procedures\\\\n-Keeping abreast of security industry standards, technology changes, trends, and best practices\\\\n-Reviewing and approving security infrastructure change requests\\\\n-Assisting in designing solutions to meet remediation requirements from audits, security reviews, external regulatory changes, PEN Tests, PCI changes\\\\n-Work with the SOC (operated and managed by Zoro’s parent company – Grainger) for security incident remediation\\\\n-Research and design ways to achieve risk reduction objectives in creative ways, including expanding our current tool stack where appropriate\\\\n-Assist in the selection of vendors, devices, and tools and manage vendor relationship\\\\n-Assist with security incidents that Zoro may face in alignment with our response processes\\\\n-Partner and execute changes in information security based on results from analysis received from internal/external and other functions as deemed appropriate\\\\n-Implement and assist in implementing identified best practices - examples: remediate standing infrastructure, introduce and implement new common tools within Infrastructure as Code and application pipelines, security patching and automation and reporting of security patching, etc\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• Xavier University of Louisiana

  Master of Science - MS, Health informatics

  2022 — 2024

• Marymount University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Junior

  2018 — 2022