DevOps Engineer resume example
A devops engineer resume gets read for about seven seconds. What survives that read: a two-line summary with a number in it, bullets that start with a result, and the skills the posting asked for. Below is a complete example you can adapt, and the rough notes it was generated from.
Summary
DevOps engineer with 6 years running cloud infrastructure for SaaS products. Cut AWS spend by 34% and took deploys from weekly to 40 a day with zero-downtime releases.
Experience bullets that work
- Moved 60 services to Kubernetes with Terraform, taking deploys from weekly to 40 a day.
- Cut AWS spend by 34% ($410k a year) with rightsizing, spot instances and storage lifecycle rules.
- Raised uptime from 99.5% to 99.95% by adding health checks, autoscaling and runbooks.
- Built a CI pipeline that runs 3,000 tests in 7 minutes, down from 28.
- Led on-call rotation for 12 engineers and halved mean time to recovery.
Key skills for a devops engineer
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Prometheus & Grafana
- Docker
- Linux
- Incident response
Common mistakes
- A wall of tool logos with no outcomes.
- Omitting cost savings and uptime numbers.
- Not saying how many services or engineers you supported.
From rough notes to a finished resume
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Tomasz Nowak tomasz@example.com CloudLedger, DevOps Engineer, 2019-now - 60 services to k8s + terraform, deploys weekly to 40/day - AWS -34%, 410k/yr - uptime 99.5 to 99.95 - CI 28 min to 7 BSc Computer Science 2018, AWS Solutions ArchitectGenerate this resume free — then swap in your notes
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