Ken Johnston
Cyber Security Engineer at Kinetik
Spring, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKen Johnston is a Cyber Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on IT experience supporting small businesses to global enterprises from Spring, Texas. He combines system administration expertise—managing 500+ Oracle Linux VMs, IPA domains, DNS, and orchestration—with practical security operations such as vulnerability management with Tenable and endpoint tooling. Ken’s background spans network engineering, Red Hat environments, ESXi virtualization, and single‑handed IT support for 150 users, giving him a rare full-stack operational perspective. He has also coached and mentored students on CompTIA Network+ and Security+ topics, translating complex security concepts into practical skills. Currently at Kinetik after a security analyst role at Lone Star College, he brings persistence and a habit of automating routine tasks via scripting and orchestration. Outside day-to-day duties he’s noted for bridging education and production operations—improving both team capability and system resilience.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Systems Administrator, Information Technology Systems Administrator at MyComputerCareerBachelor of Applied Technology - BASc, Cybersecurity, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Applied Technology - BASc, Cybersecurity, Magna Cum Laude at Lone Star College-CyFairGithub contributions (2)
kennethjohnston/gpstracker-server
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 17 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
kennethjohnston/gpstracker-client
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 5 issues in 1 month
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