Rene Benner
System Security Engineer at Fortytwo Security
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRene Benner is a pragmatic System Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, automating and securing Linux-first infrastructures across hosting and cloud platforms, predominantly AWS. He blends deep operational skills—PCI-DSS and ISO-aligned hardening, monitoring, load balancing and network ops—with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation using Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines. At Fortytwo Security he focuses on secure cloud migrations, audits and practical compliance for customers from FinTech to multimedia, while coaching teams on 12-factor and secure operations. Comfortable in smaller dedicated teams, he thrives on high-availability environments where clear answers and reliability matter. A longtime systems operator who still enjoys hunting “mainframe unicorns,” he balances security rigor with pragmatic engineering to keep mission-critical services running.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MBO Netwerk Beheer Niveau 4
English, flemish, German, Dutch, Spanish
Github Skills (55)
terraform-module9
frontend8
cmdb8
command-line8
aws8
security8
mysql7
devops7
monitoring7
security-hardening7
amazon-web-services7
terraform7
grafana7
ansible7
hardening7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RedbeeBV/check_mk-eximqueue
May 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Prophecy67/p67-awstools
May 2023 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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