Challenge
A leading financial service’s cyber team needed , engineering, and development expertise and support.
Solution
Delivered a team of data engineers and full-stack developers to enhance client’s cyber capabilities through:
- Providing strategic advisory and stabilization development efforts for the ELK backbone, with nine PBs of critical enterprise cybersecurity log data
- Implementing a suite of monitoring tools and alarm integrations, to include tools such as DataDog and PagerDuty
- Managing the client’s Kafka, Spark, NiFi, Snowflake, and AI/ML infrastructure
- Creating Ansible playbooks for AWS resource automation in support of DevOps
- Developing Kubernetes containerization architecture for use with Logstash and Elasticsearch instances
- Refactoring Python scripts to support HTTP data transmission and AWS Lambda
- Migrating more than 90 legacy Spark data parsing scripts to Logstash parsers
Outcome
Delivered a more robust cyber infrastructure, capacity, and posture by:
- Optimizing the resource load, building platform efficiency, and ensuring that enterprise compliance requirements are being followed
- Developing and implementing an architecture that will deliver increased efficiencies and resiliency
- Improving performance and customer experience through dynamic mapping of data in real time
- Improving client’s morale and capacity by providing skilled and experienced resources, including on-call support and overnight watch capability, that leverage a shared service model
Published February 11, 2020