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Cloud Engineer Resume Example (2026)

Cloud engineer resumes win on architecture decisions you can defend, cost savings you can prove, and reliability you measured. The example below names a specific multi-region pattern, a $-figure FinOps win, and an availability number.

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Sample resume

Cloud Engineer resume — full example

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Erik Mendelssohn

Seattle, WA · erik.mendelssohn@example.com · linkedin.com/in/erikm

Senior Cloud Architect

Professional Summary

Senior cloud architect with 8 years designing and running production infrastructure for product engineering teams. Designed the multi-region active-active topology now serving 230K devices at 99.99% rolling availability; led the FinOps program that cut AWS spend 31% YoY at the current employer. Operates at the intersection of reliability, cost, and architecture defensibility.

Technical Skills

  • Cloud: AWS (deep — EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, Route53, IAM, KMS, VPC, Transit Gateway), GCP (working — GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery), Azure (familiar)
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (deep), Terragrunt, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Crossplane, Helm
  • Reliability: Multi-region, Active-active, Active-passive, Disaster recovery, SLI/SLO/SLA, Capacity planning
  • Security: IAM design, Least-privilege, Secrets management (Vault, Secrets Manager), VPC design, Network segmentation
  • FinOps: Cost allocation, Spot/Savings Plans, Right-sizing, Karpenter, Reserved Instance planning

Professional Experience

Senior Cloud Architect — Marketly

Seattle, WA · Jul 2022 — Present

  • Designed and rolled out the multi-region active-active topology for the firmware-update service (230K devices); held 99.99% rolling availability over the following 12 months with zero unplanned cross-region outages.
  • Led the FinOps initiative: cut AWS spend 31% YoY ($1.4M annualized) without a feature freeze by right-sizing EKS node groups with Karpenter, migrating 12 services to spot, and deprecating 280 stale resources via a Terraform drift report I built.
  • Re-architected the IAM permission set: replaced 84 wildcard policies with least-privilege roles tied to service identity; passed the 2024 SOC 2 Type II audit with zero IAM findings.
  • Authored the company's cloud-architecture review process (CAR doc + review board); adopted by all 6 platform-eng teams and credited in the 2025 reliability retro as a primary factor in the 41% drop in P0/P1 incidents.

Cloud Engineer — Helix Robotics

Remote · Feb 2019 — Jun 2022

  • Replaced ad-hoc shell scripts with Terraform across 100% of cloud resources (~1,200 resources, 4 accounts) and added drift detection in CI; cut config-related incidents from ~1/week to <1/quarter.
  • Designed and shipped the company's first VPC peering + Transit Gateway architecture spanning 3 regions; eliminated 14 hand-rolled VPN tunnels and the on-call pages they generated.
  • Built the FinOps dashboard surfacing per-team spend and unit-economic metrics; team-level accountability cut idle EBS volumes by $42K/year.

Education

  • B.S. Computer Science — University of Washington · 2017

Certifications

  • • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional (2024)
  • • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (2023)

Why this resume works

  • Architecture bullets name the specific topology (multi-region active-active), the workload (230K devices), and the availability number (99.99%). All three are JD-keyword hits.
  • FinOps bullet has the percentage, the dollar amount, AND the specific levers (Karpenter, spot, drift detection). Hiring panels love specificity here because FinOps is dominated by hand-wavy claims.
  • IAM bullet names the specific replacement (wildcard → least-privilege tied to service identity) and the audit outcome — exactly what security-conscious hiring managers screen for.
  • AWS sub-services are listed with depth annotation ('deep'), GCP with 'working', Azure 'familiar'. Honest and saves the interviewer time.

Common mistakes

  • Listing every CNCF tool. Hiring managers know nobody has hands-on production experience with all of them; long lists trigger the keyword-stuffing detector.
  • Saying 'cost optimization' without a number. The dollar amount is the bullet.
  • Burying the availability number. Multi-region work is differentiated by the availability achieved — name it.
  • Listing AWS certifications without dates. Cert recency matters; AWS changes fast.

ATS keywords

Cloud Engineer resume keywords ATS systems scan for

A condensed view. For the full categorized list, see the Cloud Engineer keywords page.

Hard skills

  • Cloud architecture
  • Multi-region deployment
  • Active-active
  • Active-passive
  • Disaster recovery
  • High availability
  • Reliability engineering
  • SLI
  • SLO
  • SLA
  • Capacity planning
  • Cost optimization

Tools

  • AWS
  • EC2
  • EKS
  • ECS
  • Fargate
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • RDS
  • DynamoDB
  • CloudFront
  • Route53
  • IAM

Action verbs

  • Architected
  • Designed
  • Migrated
  • Modernized
  • Hardened
  • Secured
  • Optimized
  • Reduced
  • Cut
  • Scaled
  • Automated
  • Standardized

Soft skills

  • Cross-team collaboration
  • Architecture review
  • Mentorship
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Vendor management
  • Documentation
  • Runbook authorship
  • Incident commander
See the full Cloud Engineer keyword list

Questions

Cloud Engineer resume — frequently asked

Cloud engineer vs DevOps engineer vs SRE — which to claim?+
Use the JD's title. The roles overlap heavily and the keyword engine credits all three. Lean cloud-engineer if your work skews architecture; lean DevOps/SRE if your work skews CI/CD and on-call.
Do I need both AWS and GCP/Azure?+
One deeply is better than two shallowly. Be honest about depth (deep / working / familiar). Recruiters value calibrated claims and interviews will surface false multi-cloud claims fast.
How important are certifications?+
AWS Solutions Architect Professional is the strongest single signal for senior cloud roles. HashiCorp Terraform Associate is the cheapest Terraform fluency signal. CKA only matters if Kubernetes is core to the JD.
How do I describe a multi-region migration that's still in progress?+
Frame as the milestone you hit: 'Designed and shipped active-active in 2 of 4 regions; targeting full rollout in Q2'. Honesty about progress is a senior signal.

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