Jamie Example
Cloud Security Engineer | AWS | Terraform
jamie.example@example.com | +971 50 000 0000 | Abu Dhabi, UAE | linkedin.com/in/jamie-example | github.com/jamie-example
Summary
Cloud engineer with 2 years in support and a secure AWS lab built with Terraform. CompTIA Security+ and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. Writes least-privilege IAM policies and checks them before release.
Skills
- Cloud: AWS, Azure
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
- Scripting: Python, Bash
- Security: IAM, CloudTrail, security groups
Certifications
- CompTIA Security+ (2025)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2025)
Projects
Secure AWS landing zone lab (github.com/jamie-example/aws-baseline)
- Built a 3-account AWS lab in Terraform with CloudTrail on in every account and logs sent to a locked bucket
- Wrote 12 least-privilege IAM policies in AWS and removed 5 wildcard permissions found in the first draft
- Scanned the Terraform with a policy check in the pipeline and fixed 9 findings before the first deploy
- Wrote a Python script that lists open security groups across the 3 accounts and found 4 that allowed any address
Kubernetes hardening notes (github.com/jamie-example/k8s-notes)
- Applied 15 pod security settings to a test Kubernetes cluster, with Docker images scanned before each push
Experience
Cloud Support Associate, Example Hosting
Jan 2024 - Present
- Resolved 25 AWS and Azure tickets a week for 40 customers and escalated 6 security cases to the engineers
- Reviewed access lists for 12 customer accounts in AWS and removed 30 unused users after approval
- Documented 5 backup and restore runbooks, with Bash scripts, that the night team now follows
Education
BSc Computer Engineering, Example University
2019 - 2023
Languages
Arabic, English