This page is for DevOps, platform, and site reliability engineers. DevOps resumes are evaluated on the systems you automated and the reliability you created: deployment frequency, recovery times, uptime, and cost. The strongest resumes read like an uptime report with a personality, not a list of tools installed.
ALEX MORGAN Email: alex.morgan@example.com | Phone: +1 555 010 0091 | Dublin, IE | github.com/alexmorgan PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY DevOps engineer with 6 years building platform infrastructure for 40+ engineering teams. Cut deployment time from 45 minutes to 6, raised uptime from 99.5% to 99.95%, and reduced AWS spend $18k per month. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DevOps Engineer | Kellscale | 2021 - Present - Built a self-service GitHub Actions pipeline with ephemeral preview environments, raising deployment frequency from weekly to 20+ deploys per day across 12 teams. - Introduced SLOs and error budgets for 9 services, cutting pager volume 60% while raising uptime from 99.5% to 99.95%. - Reduced AWS spend by $18k per month through rightsizing, spot fleets, and storage lifecycle policies. Platform Engineer | Arclight Systems | 2018 - 2021 - Codified 100% of production infrastructure in Terraform across 3 AWS accounts, eliminating environment drift incidents. - Migrated 30 legacy VMs to Kubernetes, cutting average recovery time from hours to minutes. - Implemented centralized secrets management with Vault, passing the company's first external security audit. SKILLS AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Vault CERTIFICATIONS AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
"DevOps engineer with 6 years building platform infrastructure for 40+ engineering teams. Cut deployment time from 45 minutes to 6 with a self-service pipeline, raised uptime from 99.5% to 99.95%, and reduced AWS spend $18k per month through rightsizing and spot strategies."
Why it works: Three metrics, three different DevOps responsibilities (delivery, reliability, cost). It reads like the job description of every platform team, proven.
AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation
Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI
Prometheus, Grafana, SLOs, Incident response, Chaos testing
The pattern to copy: strong verb, specific action, measurable result. Compare each weak version with its rebuild:
Example 1
Bad: Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS.
Good: Codified 100% of production infrastructure in Terraform across 3 AWS accounts, cutting environment drift incidents from monthly to zero in a year.
Why: Coverage, scope, and the problem eliminated. 'Managed infrastructure' could mean clicking in the console; this shows engineering.
Example 2
Bad: Set up CI/CD pipelines for the teams.
Good: Built a self-service GitHub Actions pipeline with ephemeral preview environments, raising deployment frequency from weekly to 20+ deploys per day across 12 teams.
Why: Deployment frequency is the DevOps north-star metric. Before/after plus team count makes the platform work tangible.
Example 3
Bad: Handled on-call incidents and monitoring.
Good: Introduced SLOs and error budgets for 9 services, cutting pager volume 60% while raising measured uptime from 99.5% to 99.95%.
Why: It shows modern reliability practice (SLOs) and the rare win of fewer alerts AND better uptime, which demonstrates real observability skill.
Include the terms the job posting uses, and make sure each one is backed by evidence in a bullet. Common keywords for this role:
DevOps engineersite reliabilityKubernetesTerraforminfrastructure as codeCI/CDAWSDockerobservabilitySLOincident responsecost optimization
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Check my resume freeDeployment frequency, lead time to production, mean time to recovery, uptime or error rates, pager volume, and cloud cost changes. These map to the DORA metrics hiring managers know.
Yes for AWS, Azure, GCP, and CKA certifications, especially early career or when switching clouds. List them under education or certifications, but never as a substitute for infrastructure experience.
Show what you changed: runbooks written, alerts deduplicated, MTTR reduced, pager volume cut. On-call participation is expected; on-call improvement is an achievement.
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