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DevOps Engineer Resume Example (2026)

DevOps resumes win on platform impact: reliability you can measure, cost you cut, and developer-productivity gains. The example below shows each, with the specific cloud and infrastructure tools recruiters scan for in 2026.

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Sample resume

DevOps Engineer resume — full example

One-column, ATS-friendly layout. Names and numbers are illustrative.

Sam Reyes

Denver, CO · sam.reyes@example.com · linkedin.com/in/samreyes · github.com/samreyes

Staff DevOps / Platform Engineer

Professional Summary

Staff platform engineer with 8 years owning production infrastructure for product engineering teams. At a 600-engineer marketplace, ran the internal Kubernetes platform and CI/CD; cut deploy lead time from 47 minutes to 8 and AWS spend by 31% in a single year. Operates at the intersection of reliability, cost, and developer experience.

Technical Skills

  • Cloud: AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, Route53, IAM, KMS), GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery), Azure (basics)
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Helm, Crossplane
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, Jenkins, GitLab CI
  • Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, PagerDuty
  • Languages: Go, Python, Bash, TypeScript

Professional Experience

Staff Platform Engineer — Marketly

Denver, CO · Jul 2022 — Present

  • Owned the company's Kubernetes platform (3 prod clusters, 40+ teams, 800+ services); cut p95 deploy lead time from 47 minutes to 8 and rollback time from 22 minutes to 90 seconds via a GitHub Actions → ArgoCD GitOps redesign.
  • Led the FinOps initiative that cut AWS spend 31% YoY ($1.4M annualized) without a feature freeze; right-sized EKS node groups via Karpenter, migrated 12 services to spot, and deprecated 280 stale resources surfaced by a Terraform drift report I built.
  • Designed and rolled out an internal developer platform (Backstage + custom CLI); cut new-service time-to-prod from 5 days to under 2 hours per the platform-team NPS survey.
  • Built the org's incident-response runbook + post-mortem template; mean time to recovery dropped from 41 minutes to 14 over the following four quarters.

Senior DevOps Engineer — Helix Robotics

Remote · Jan 2020 — Jun 2022

  • Built the company's first multi-region active-active deployment for the firmware-update service serving 220K devices; achieved 99.99% rolling availability over the following 12 months with zero unplanned outages.
  • 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.
  • Mentored 5 engineers through transition into platform-team rotations; two were promoted within 12 months.

DevOps Engineer — Spark Logistics

Chicago, IL · Sep 2017 — Dec 2019

  • Migrated 60-service monolithic deploy to per-service container deploys on ECS; cut average deploy duration from 38 minutes to 6 and eliminated all-hands deploy weekends.
  • Set up the company's first Datadog account; instrumented 40+ services and authored the on-call dashboards still in use today.

Education

  • B.S. Information Systems — Purdue University · 2017

Certifications

  • • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional (2023)
  • • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2022)

Why this resume works

  • Cloud sub-services are named (EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, Route53) — JDs almost always specify a subset, and the implicit-match layer credits both broad ('AWS') and specific ('EKS') matches.
  • Every bullet is grounded in a deploy-or-reliability number: lead time, MTTR, availability, spend. Platform/DevOps hiring managers screen out resumes that describe activity without a SLO/SLA-class outcome.
  • Career arc is visible: Engineer → Senior → Staff. The experience layer credits ascending titles.
  • Certifications are listed at the bottom but explicitly named (CKA, AWS DevOps Professional) — keyword-matchable.

Common mistakes

  • Listing 'CI/CD' without naming the actual tool. The keyword engine credits 'GitHub Actions' or 'ArgoCD'; 'CI/CD' alone is a partial match.
  • Skipping the cost-savings story. FinOps is now a separate JD requirement in 60%+ of senior platform roles — even a single $-figure bullet shifts the read.
  • Describing tools instead of outcomes. 'Used Terraform' is a buzzword bullet; 'Replaced ad-hoc shell with Terraform; cut config incidents from 1/week to <1/quarter' is the version that scores.
  • Listing every observability tool you've ever logged into. Three is plenty; pick the ones that match the JD.

ATS keywords

DevOps Engineer resume keywords ATS systems scan for

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

Hard skills

  • DevOps
  • Site reliability
  • Platform engineering
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous deployment
  • CI/CD
  • GitOps
  • Containerization
  • Orchestration
  • Observability
  • Monitoring

Tools

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

Action verbs

  • Architected
  • Designed
  • Built
  • Owned
  • Migrated
  • Automated
  • Reduced
  • Cut
  • Optimized
  • Scaled
  • Hardened
  • Secured

Soft skills

  • Incident commander
  • Cross-team collaboration
  • Runbook authorship
  • Documentation
  • Mentorship
  • On-call rotation
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Capacity planning
See the full DevOps Engineer keyword list

Questions

DevOps Engineer resume — frequently asked

Should I separate 'DevOps' and 'Platform Engineering' on my resume?+
Use whichever the target company uses. Most hiring managers treat them as overlapping; if the JD says 'Platform Engineer', mirror that in your summary line. The keyword engine credits both.
Do I need every CNCF tool listed?+
No. List the ones you've used in production. The keyword-stuffing detector flags resumes that list 20+ tools — recruiters know nobody has hands-on experience with all of them.
How do I show on-call experience without naming the incident?+
Frame it through the runbook or post-mortem you authored: 'wrote the runbook for our most common DB-failover scenario, used 11 times in the following year' is a quantified incident-response signal without leaking details.
Is the Kubernetes certification (CKA) worth getting?+
Yes, if you don't have production Kubernetes on your resume yet. It's the cheapest signal you can buy that you understand the cluster model. If you already have years of EKS/GKE work in your bullets, it's a nice-to-have.

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