DevOps Engineer resume example

DevOps hiring is measured in incidents avoided and deploys shipped, so lead with the reliability metric: uptime percentage, mean time to recovery, or deployment frequency before and after your change. Naming the IaC tool and cloud provider up front is what clears the ATS keyword scan.

Avoid listing every tool in the CNCF landscape — pick the ones the job description names and show a concrete before/after for each, since depth in three tools beats a shallow mention of fifteen.

Tomasz Nowak

DevOps Engineer

Raleigh, NC tomasz.nowak@email.com +1 (919) 555-0184 linkedin.com/in/tomasznowak github.com/tnowak-ops

Summary

DevOps and Platform Engineer with 6+ years automating enterprise cloud infrastructure, continuous deployment pipelines, and observability stacks on AWS and Kubernetes. Proven expertise in infrastructure-as-code, GitOps workflows, automated testing, and distributed site reliability, maintaining 99.97% uptime across 40 microservices while cutting compute expenditure by 28% through autoscaling.

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Ridgeline Cloud · Raleigh, NC

Apr 2022 — Present

Migrated cloud infrastructure to Terraform-managed AWS environments, cutting new client provisioning time from 3 days to 25 minutes.
Architected a Prometheus and Grafana observability stack across 40 services, reducing mean time to detect incidents from 22 minutes to 3 minutes.
Led migration to GitHub Actions with canary deployments, accelerating release cadence from weekly to daily across 12 months with 0 rollbacks.

Site Reliability Engineer

Vantable Corp · Raleigh, NC

Aug 2019 — Mar 2022

Automated Kubernetes autoscaling with Helm and custom HPA metrics, reducing off-peak compute expenditure by 28% annually.
Standardized incident response runbooks and blameless postmortems, cutting repeat operational incidents by 40% year-over-year.
Enforced IAM least-privilege security policies across 15 AWS accounts, remediating 22 audit findings with 100% compliance over 6 months.

Skills

Terraform · AWS · Kubernetes · Helm · Ansible · Docker · GitHub Actions · Prometheus · Grafana · Bash · GitOps · Site Reliability Engineering

Education

North Carolina State University

B.S. Computer Engineering

2015 — 2019

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

DevOps Engineer · Technical Mono template · single-column, ATS-safe.

ATS keywords for a DevOps Engineer resume

Applicant tracking systems match your resume against the job description's vocabulary. Mirror the terms below that are true of you — ideally with a metric attached.

TerraformAWSKubernetesHelmAnsibleDockerCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaIAMVPCInfrastructure as CodeSite ReliabilityBash Scripting

What recruiters look for

The primary cloud provider and IaC tool (Terraform, CloudFormation) matched to the posting.
A deployment-frequency or lead-time metric showing pipeline maturity improved under their watch.
Incident-response ownership: MTTR, on-call rotation, postmortem process.
Monitoring and observability stack named explicitly (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch).
Cost-optimization evidence, since infrastructure spend is a recurring DevOps KPI.

Before & after: one bullet

Weak

Managed the company's cloud infrastructure and deployments.

Strong

Migrated infrastructure to Terraform-managed AWS, cutting environment provisioning from 3 days to 25 minutes and reducing monthly spend 28%.

Common mistakes to avoid

Listing every Kubernetes add-on ever touched instead of the 3-4 that map to the job posting.
No before/after deployment frequency or MTTR number — just 'managed CI/CD pipelines'.
Security and access-control work (IAM policies, secrets management) omitted entirely.
Treating DevOps as sysadmin work with no automation or IaC evidence.