Max Habra

B. A. Sc., CISSP, CCSP, Security, Cloud & DevOps Certified

About Me

15+ years in IT/security (+10 in architecture), specializing in security, cryptography, governance, automation, and DevSecOps in agile teams.
Leader in cloud integration, incident response, and advising government modernization.
Delivered cloud, AI, and DevSecOps initiatives (zero trust, GitOps, NoOps) and complete SIEM/SOAR foundation.

Cloud Security DevOps Incidents Response Big Data Artificial Intelligence Governance

Skills & Expertise

Cloud AWS Azure GCP O365 Entra ID Serverless

Security Microsoft Defender Microsoft Intune Cryptography HSMs Defense-in-Depth

DevOps Agile Containers Kubernetes GitHub Azure DevOps HashiCorp Stack Atlassian Stack

SecOps Splunk Microsoft Sentinel SOAR Incident Response Service-Now

Big Data & AI Neural Networks Bayesian AutoML Vision API OCR/Tesseract Jupyter notebooks LLMs AI Agents

Governance ISO 27000 NIST SP 800 PCI DSS OWASP FIPS 140-2 CIS Zero Trust STRIDE TOGAF

Programming Bash C# C++ PowerShell Python HCL

Experience

CDPQ • Global Investment Group

Lead, Cloud Architecture Integrator & Incident Response, Security Operations Team

2021 - 2025

  • Leading cloud architecture for the Security Operations Team.
  • Improving security tools, pipelines, automation, and cloud practices across IT and business units. ß
  • Securing cloud assets and tenants (Azure, AWS, GCP) alongside Zero Trust initiatives.
  • Implementing shift-left and GitOps in Appsec team (50% reduction of operation costs)
  • Writing and updating cloud and development standards to improve security transparency.
  • Member of the Cloud Center of Excellence to architect, develop, and test solutions with cloud providers.
  • Improving incident response with automation, machine learning, and advanced analytics.
  • Application security automation through pipelines, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions.

Complete SIEM & SOAR Foundation Security as code Integration Secops Automation with LLMs Resilient Azure & AWS infrastructure

Mouvement Desjardins Group

Lead Cloud Integrator, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence, Innovation & AI Team

2020

  • Leading technical and architecture cloud integration for the Innovation & AI division.
  • Helping federate, develop, and improve the marketing Big Data initiative for consumer analytics.
  • Driving migration and improvement of IaaS applications toward cloud-native SaaS/PaaS offerings.
  • Company-wide cloud identity federation with Google Cloud and Azure Active Directory (Entra).
  • Expanding HashiCorp Stack (Terraform, Vault, Packer) for automation initiatives.
  • Democratizing Agile and DevOps principles for faster, better deliveries.
  • Enabling Big Data verticals beyond silos and on-prem technologies through governance and automated testing.

Migration to cloud-native solutions Advanced analytics automation data protection via Serverless pipelines & DLP Terraform & Git pipeline automation

National Bank of Canada

Lead, Cloud Security & Operations Engineer, Application Security Team

2019 - 2020

  • Leading security engineering on cloud platforms and DevOps best practices with infrastructure as code, automation, and secure SDLC design in a multi-cloud environment.
  • Security SME for Azure, AWS, GCP, private cloud, and container platforms.
  • Deploying security as code and a cloud-native banking security framework as part of the Cloud Foundation Program.
  • Leading container security implementation (Kubernetes) and SSDLC practice.
  • Roadmapping and training on application security, infrastructure as code, cloud services, and DevSecOps principles.
  • Cloud security incubator program for developers, teams, and management to improve cloud, DevSecOps, and Agile knowledge.
  • Cloud incident response and data protection/DLP using automated tools and machine learning.

Designed and implemented Security Foundation Operations Defense-in-Depth Kubernetes framework CASB Anti-fraud using ML/DL

Morgan Stanley

Senior Cloud Security Engineer, Cloud Practice, Security Architecture

2017 - 2019

  • Member of the Security Architecture Cloud Practice Team.
  • Primary architect and security engineering resource on public and hybrid cloud initiatives (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
  • Cloud security specialized advisor for projects involving AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, and Salesforce Cloud.
  • Auditing third parties for security standards compliance and remediation guidance.
  • Produced and contributed to whitepapers on cloud practice, CASBs, hybrid cloud integration (Azure Stack, Cloudify), cryptography, and DevSecOps.
  • Member of roadmap committees for Cloud Practice and DevSecOps commitment.

Public cloud security conceptions & Design Security Audits for IPOs Firmwide migration to public/hybrid cloud solutions

Desjardins Technology Group (GTD)

Network & Security Architect

2010 - 2017

  • Member of the Security Architecture and Engineering Team.
  • Primary advisor for feasibility, design, and implementation phases across projects.
  • Technical security consultant in systems, networking, cryptography, and governance.
  • Optimizing business processes to support production, business lines, and SOC operations.
  • Drafting and improving client experience and due diligence for standards, guidelines, and regulations (ISO, PCI DSS, NIST).
  • Risk analysis for major projects, technology monitoring, and third-party vendor assessments.
  • Architecture design for on-premise and cloud (Azure) projects.
  • Access and license management, enhancement of in-house applications, and internal fraud prevention.
  • Global participant for account verification and privilege management, IAM foundation (SSO, MFA, IAM, AD)and endpoint/server migrations.
  • Process improvement and crisis response for major incidents, plus deployment and security of a virtual bank.

IAM Audit Virtual banking system security Business Process Automation

Projects & Talks

Talk
Cloud Security Panel

2021

Talk and panel interview on Cloud Security at the 2021 NorthSec Application Security Conference. Discussion on secure cloud adoption, DevSecOps, and governance at a week-long AppSec event featuring workshops and a hacking competition.

Cloud Security NorthSec Application Security DevSecops Governance

Project
Strava Advanced Analytics

2021

Advanced analytics on Strava activities using Google Cloud BigQuery, triggered Python functions, and data warehouse integration with BI tools. Replicated in AWS using EventBridge, Lambda, S3, and Secrets Manager.

Google BigQuery Python Lambda Functions Secrets Manager

Project
Google Containerization Workforce

2020

Support for transforming Google Forseti from IaaS-based security modules to a containerized, Terraform-deployed architecture.

Kubernetes Containers Micro Services Google Terraform

Talk
Cloud Security Principles in an Agile World

2019

Talk and demo on Security as Code to protect and empower development teams and business units.

Micro-Segmentation VPC Security Organization Policies

Talk
From Narrow Intelligence to Super Intelligence

2018

Talk on Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), machine learning and deep learning, and the path toward AGI/ASI.

AI AGI Machine Learning Deep Learning

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Master classes focused on business management, artificial intelligence, and cryptography.

Université Laval

Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with Cooperative initiative
Specialization in Security and artificial intelligence.

Collège Édouard Montpetit

Technical degree (DEC) in network management and security
Focused on network management and security.

Certifications & Training

2025 Microsoft Solutions Partner Program
2022 Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)
2022 Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
2021 HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate
2019 HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
2019 Google Certified: GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer
2017 ISC²: Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
2016 ISC²: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Hands-on trainings:

  • Terraform & Vault labs
  • Google Cloud Architecture/Big Data/ML
  • Cloud & DevSecOps programs (GitHub Lab, Pluralsight)
  • NorthSec applied security workshops

Publications & Academic Work

2014 Time Sync Protocol Attacks — Laval University
2013 Statistics & Behavior for User Analysis — Laval University
2013 Knowledge-based AI for chemical composite discovery — Laval University