01 / Clarity
Make findings understandable.
Connect technical detail to business impact and a specific next step.
About Spoonhunter Technology
Specialist focus.
Business perspective.
Spoonhunter Technology specializes in Linux and Amazon AWS security for small and medium businesses.
Security should help you move forward.
Your business depends on systems that work. Security decisions need to account for that reality: the people who maintain them, the workloads they support, and the time available to improve them.
Our focus is practical. Understand the environment, identify meaningful risks, and make the next steps clear.
02 / Focus
Prioritize what matters.
Shape recommendations around exposure, operational needs and available resources.
03 / Partnership
Work with your team.
Agree scope and responsibilities, then leave useful documentation behind.
Jared Spoonhunter is the owner and IT technician behind Spoonhunter Technology in Fort Washakie, Wyoming, providing Windows and Linux technical support, troubleshooting, maintenance and security configuration since 2018.
His background includes systems administration at the National Outdoor Leadership School and the Wind River Environmental Quality Commission, with experience in Linux, Windows Server, VMware, Nagios and PostgreSQL.
He continues to develop AWS cloud security, infrastructure automation and threat-detection skills through practical lab environments.
Independent technical projects
A working lab. A habit of learning.
Home lab security & SIEM
Centralized Wazuh on RHEL 10, Windows 11 endpoint telemetry with Sysmon, and security-event correlation. OPNsense segmentation and Snort/Suricata IDS/IPS testing support network analysis and threat-detection practice.
AWS cloud security lab
IAM least-privilege and role-based access, segmented VPC networking, EC2 and S3, and logging with CloudWatch and CloudTrail. Ongoing automation practice uses Terraform and Ansible.
Linux infrastructure & security
RHEL 10 administration, SELinux, host firewalls, service exposure and permissions. Container services use Podman and Docker, with Nginx, journalctl, Bash and Python supporting operations.
Technical toolkit
Across cloud,
systems and visibility.
- AWS
EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, RDS and Lambda. - Systems & infrastructure
RHEL 8/9/10, Windows Server, VMware, Nginx, systemd, Nagios, PostgreSQL and MySQL. - Security & networking
Wazuh, Sysmon, Suricata, Snort, IDS/IPS, eBPF observability, endpoint telemetry, log analysis, VLANs and firewalls. - Automation & containers
Git, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Bash and Python.
Learning & credentials
A foundation that
keeps growing.
Completed certifications
CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+; CIW Web Foundations; CIW Database Design Specialist (MySQL).
In progress
AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
Educational background: Information Technology at Western Governors University, Computer Science at the University of Wyoming, and Biology at Dickinson State University.
A clearer path forward
Know your risks.
Plan your next move.
Start with a conversation about your systems and priorities.