Hi, my name is

Aaron Miller

I build, maintain, and secure cloud-native workloads

I am a driven cloud engineer with 4+ years experience designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure on AWS. I am an ambitious self-starter committed to continuous learning and leveling up my technical abilities.

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About Me

A passionate cloud security engineer. I provision, maintain, and secure cloud native workloads on AWS - all using Infrastructure as Code I am currently working on a project that will revolutionise media asset management at one of the worlds leading heritage sites. Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:
  • Terraform
  • Packer
  • Jenkins
  • AWS IAM
  • Amazon ECS
  • BitBucket Pipelines
  • Emacs
  • Tmux
  • Amazon RDS (MariaDB)
  • Amazon VPC

Experience

Cloud Infrastructure Associate - Royal Opera House
Feb 2022 - present
Royal Opera House Stream
In my current position I serve as the resident DevOps Engineer. Due to my dedicated skillset in AWS, and DevOps technologies I am entrusted with system administration tasks such as assigning user permissions, updating security groups, and managing website availability via auto-scaling.
Junior Infrastructure Engineer - Royal Opera House
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
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Alumni Mentor - Amazon Web Services
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
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After attending AWS re:Invent in 2022 as an ABW Grant Recipient, I became a grant alumni and was eligible to apply for the 2023 mentorship program. I was thrilled to learn that my application blew the ABW team away, and they were delighted to accept me as an alumni mentor for the ABW Grant program at AWS re:Invent 2023!

  • Responsible for ensuring the grant participants in my mentor group were prepared and supported to have the best re:Invent experience possible.
  • Conducted online calls prior to the event to share my experience from the previous year and answer any questions.
  • Arranged on site meetings for us to regroup and gather during the wonderful chaos that is AWS re:Invent!
  • Advised my mentees on how to navigate Las Vegas, and make the most of their time based on their goals and aspirations.
Opensource Contributor - Opensearch
Oct 2023 - Jan 2024
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  • Collaborated with a group of global participants to improve the Opensearch service.
  • Learnt the fundamentals of Opensearch and it’s use cases. This program also exposed me to a side of Terraform new to me, managing the Opensearch provider and therefore learning some Golang too.
Youth Advisory Board Member - Generation
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
  • I served as a member of Generation UK’s Youth Advisory Board from October 2019, to October 2020.

Education

2019
AWS re/Start (Get Into Tech)
Generation UK & Ireland
GPA: N/A

I completed the AWS re:Start programme, run in conjunction with Generation UK and The Prince’s Trust. AWS re:Start was designed to address the growing cloud skills gap and to provide transformative opportunities for 1000+ unemployed young people across the UK to break into the tech sector.

  • I later was accepted as a Youth Advisory Board member for which I served for one year.
  • And I voluntered and was later nominated to speak at several public events sharing my experience, as well as private events with prospective employees who were interested in hiring from the next batch of graduates.
2013 - 2015
A-Levels
St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College
GPA: Subjects: Geography, Sociology, Government and Politics, and Media Studies

During my time at St Charles I..

  • Played on the basketball team proudly representing my college at a National league level
  • Worked on a media studies project to design a sustainaible fashion magazine. The end result and concept is something I am still proud of to this day. I used a suite of Adobe tools to bring my vision to life.
Young Kingz
2012 - 2013
AS Levels
Haydon School
GPA: Subjects: Geography, Psychology, Biology, and Business Studies
2007 - 2012
High School
Northolt High School
GPA: Achieved: 11 GCSE qualifications
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Projects

Opensearch Opensource Contributor
Opensearch Terraform Golang
Opensearch Opensource Contributor
A highly customizable and mobile first Hugo template for personal portfolio and blog.
OSCI 2023
AWS New Voices
Public Speaking Presenting
AWS New Voices
Public speaking.
Demo
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Emacs Hugo Open Source
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TBA
Demo V2

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