Professional Resume Template for
AWS Cloud Engineer
Brendan J. Miller
Arlington, VA
(703) 555-0142
brendan.miller@email.com
linkedin.com/in/brendan-miller | github.com/brendanmiller | brendanmiller.dev
Professional Summary
Systems-oriented AWS Cloud Engineer with a 5-year track record of designing, deploying, and managing secure, high-availability infrastructure on AWS. Expertise includes infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CI/CD pipeline automation, and cloud cost optimization. Successfully reduced cross-region network latency by 28% and lowered monthly AWS operational spend by 22% while maintaining 99.99% application uptime. Proficient with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and Linux systems.
Work Experience
AWS Cloud Engineer — Sentry Financial Systems
Arlington, VA | June 2023 – Present
- Designed and deployed a multi-region AWS transit gateway architecture for 14 VPCs, reducing cross-region network latency by 28% and saving $42,000 in annual data transfer costs.
- Migrated a legacy customer-facing SQL database to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, improving query response times by 34% and database availability to 99.99%.
- Automated provisioning of 8 development environments using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, cutting resource deployment time from 4 hours to 12 minutes.
- Implemented AWS Cost Explorer and auto-scaling groups to identify and terminate idle EC2 and RDS resources, reducing monthly cloud spend by 22%.
Associate Cloud Engineer — CloudScale Software
Reston, VA | July 2021 – May 2023
- Configured and maintained AWS IAM roles and security policies for 65 users, reducing unauthorized resource access alerts by 85%.
- Built CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and CodeDeploy for 4 microservices, reducing code deployment error rates by 19%.
- Monitored system performance across 120+ EC2 instances using Amazon CloudWatch, resolving latency anomalies 24 minutes faster on average.
- Assisted in the containerization of 3 legacy applications using Amazon ECS and ECR, improving CPU utilization efficiency by 16%.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2021
Skills
AWS (EC2, RDS, Aurora, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, S3), Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash, Linux, Cloud Cost Optimization, Microservices Architecture, Networking, SOC 2 Security Compliance
Projects
Multi-Region High-Availability Migration
Role: Lead Cloud Engineer
Tools: AWS Route 53, Aurora, Terraform, AWS Transit Gateway
Orchestrated the migration of a core payments app to a multi-region active-active architecture, achieving a recovery time objective (RTO) under 5 minutes and 100% data replication consistency.
Automated Cost Optimization Engine
Role: Cloud Systems Engineer
Tools: Python, AWS Lambda, AWS Budgets, CloudWatch
Developed serverless Python scripts running on AWS Lambda to auto-stop non-production environments after business hours, saving $68,000 in annual AWS compute costs.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2022)
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate (2021)
Additional information
- Languages: English (Native), French (Conversational)
- Volunteer Work: Technical mentor for Arlington youth coding workshops (2022-present)
- Availability: 2 weeks notice
Job Market Insights
Market data and opportunities for
AWS Cloud Engineer
Job Market Insights
$115,000
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$165,000
Avg:
$142,000
Growth Outlook:
The employment outlook for Cloud Engineers remains exceptionally strong as organizations transition workloads to AWS and optimize hybrid-cloud environments. The ongoing integration of AI and machine learning workloads requires specialized cloud architects and engineers to manage GPU-backed EC2 instances and serverless pipelines. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer and network architectures and software developers are projected to grow between 12% and 15% over the next decade, with cloud roles leading this expansion.
13% growth over 10 years
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