Recent IT graduate and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner who provisioned a 3-tier web app on AWS entirely with Terraform. Cut a lab environment's monthly cost 40% by right-sizing EC2 and adding auto-scaling. Seeking a cloud engineer role to grow in infrastructure automation and networking.
Junior cloud engineer with the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification and two infrastructure-as-code side projects. Comfortable with EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and Terraform, with a focus on secure, reproducible infrastructure. Looking to join a cloud team that values automation and mentorship.
Cloud Engineer with 4 years building and operating AWS infrastructure for production workloads. Migrated 120 VMs to the cloud and cut monthly spend $42K through rightsizing and Savings Plans. Fluent in Terraform, VPC networking, IAM, and Python automation.
Multi-cloud engineer with 5 years across AWS and Azure. Designed VPC and Transit Gateway networking for 30+ accounts and codified the estate in Terraform, cutting provisioning time 70%. Strong on cloud security, cost optimization, and Kubernetes.
Senior Cloud Engineer with 8 years architecting cloud platforms serving 5M+ daily users. Reduced cloud spend 38% ($1.1M/year) through a FinOps program and led a data-center-to-AWS migration of 200+ workloads. Deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, and cloud security.
Senior cloud architect specializing in secure, cost-efficient AWS and GCP design. Cut mean time to detection to under 8 minutes with centralized observability, achieved SOC 2 compliance across the estate, and built a landing-zone framework that onboarded 40 accounts. Set the org's tagging, IAM, and cost-governance standards.
Career-changer from network administration, now a cloud engineer after earning the AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Terraform Associate certifications. Combine a decade of networking and Linux depth with new fluency in VPC design, IAM, and infrastructure as code. Eager to apply operational rigor to cloud architecture.
Writing a summary that lands
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- Name the specific services, not just the cloud: "AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, Lambda)" matches far more ATS filters than "cloud experience."
- Lead bullets with the numbers hiring managers reward — cloud spend saved, workloads migrated, provisioning time cut, and uptime.
- Mirror the job posting's platform exactly. If it says Azure, don't submit an AWS-only resume; name the platform and its services in your summary and skills.
- Show a cost-optimization win prominently — cloud engineers who save money get interviews, so quantify it in dollars and percent.
- Keep it one clean column and one page (two if you have 8+ years), and list certifications near the top since many cloud roles screen for them.
Avoid
- Writing "Cloud" or "AWS" alone with no services named — ATS keyword filters look for EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, and the like.
- Describing duties ("managed cloud infrastructure") instead of outcomes ("migrated 120 VMs, cut spend $42K/year").
- Leaving out cost numbers on a role where FinOps and savings are a primary hiring signal.
- Listing three clouds at equal depth when you only know one well; name a primary cloud and mark the others honestly.
- Using a two-column template that hides half your experience from ATS parsers.