Summary
Stephen Steiner is a senior cybersecurity and network automation engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operationalizing large-scale network and security solutions for service providers and enterprises. He has a rare blend of field engineering chops from early carrier and submarine cable work through leadership roles at Juniper and Palo Alto Networks, and now serves as a Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer at Navy Federal Credit Union. Stephen specializes in automation and DevOps for networking—authoring and containerizing PyEZ and Ansible tooling, building CI/CD pipelines, ZTP frameworks, and IaC-driven cloud security using Terraform, Ansible, Python, Docker, and Jenkins. Certified as a JNCIE-SP and Scrum Master, he pairs deep protocol-level knowledge with pragmatic delivery, often cutting time-to-market for network services by more than 90%. Based in Philadelphia, he is an active contributor to open-source network automation projects and a published author who enjoys making complex operational problems repeatable and automatable.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Engineering Technologies, Electronics Engineering Technologies at Community College of the Air Force
College Prep Technical Drafting, College Prep Technical Drafting at Valdosta High School