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DevOps Engineer resume example
DevOps is measured in minutes and dollars: how fast things ship, how often they break, what the bill is. Those numbers belong on the resume.
What we would lead with
- Deployment frequency and lead time, before and after
- Incident numbers: how many, how long, what changed
- Cost, because infrastructure is the one engineering function with a visible bill
The mistake we would warn you about
A wall of tool logos. Every DevOps engineer has used Terraform. Show what it did for the people who deploy.
Bullet points that work for devops engineers
Each one opens with an action verb, says what was done, and ends with a result.
- Took deployment frequency from weekly to 30 a day by replacing manual approvals with automated canaries.
- Cut mean time to recovery from 90 minutes to 11 by adding one-click rollback and useful alerts.
- Reduced AWS spend 38%, $520K a year, with rightsizing, savings plans, and killing 60 orphaned resources.
- Rebuilt on-call so pages dropped from 40 a week to 6, and removed the two alerts causing half of them.
Skills to list as a DevOps engineer
Infrastructure
TerraformKubernetesAWSHelm
Delivery
GitHub ActionsArgoCDProgressive delivery
Operations
PrometheusGrafanaIncident responseFinOps