DevOps Engineer Resume Example
A senior DevOps engineer in Seattle with ten years from sysadmin to platform owner, now running the AWS platform for a payments company.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, licenses and schools are real.
Why it works
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“Senior DevOps engineer, 10 years in, owning the AWS platform for 85 services and 60 engineers at a payments company. Took deploys from weekly to 30 a day, held 99.95% API uptime and cut cloud spend 31% in two years.”
Gives platform size, who it serves, and three of the metrics the job is judged on (deploy frequency, uptime, cost) before naming a single tool.
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“Moved 85 services from a weekly release train to 30+ deploys a day on GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, under 4% change failure”
Before and after deploy frequency plus a change failure rate. Speed alone can look reckless, so the guardrail number matters.
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“Migrated 3 self-managed Kubernetes clusters to EKS with zero customer-facing downtime across 14 cutover windows”
A migration line that says how many cutovers and what broke (nothing), which is the question every platform lead asks.
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“Cut AWS spend from $310k to $214k a month with Graviton, Karpenter spot nodes and savings plans, with no SLO misses”
Cost work is often the clearest number in this job. Dollar figures beat a percentage alone, and the SLO clause shows nothing was sacrificed.
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“Rebuilt on-call for 60 engineers with SLO alerts in Prometheus and 40 runbooks, MTTR down from 74 to 21 minutes”
Shows production ownership through on-call and an MTTR change, which separates someone who ran prod from someone who built around it.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
Copy the text
Use it as a skeleton, then replace every line with your own work. A copied bullet with someone else's numbers is the fastest way to fail an interview question.
Sloane Whitaker Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS, EKS and Terraform Seattle, WA | sloane.whitaker@example.com SUMMARY Senior DevOps engineer, 10 years in, owning the AWS platform for 85 services and 60 engineers at a payments company. Took deploys from weekly to 30 a day, held 99.95% API uptime and cut cloud spend 31% in two years. EXPERIENCE Senior DevOps Engineer, Ledgerwise Payments | Feb 2022 - Present - Moved 85 services from a weekly release train to 30+ deploys a day on GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, under 4% change failure - Migrated 3 self-managed Kubernetes clusters to EKS with zero customer-facing downtime across 14 cutover windows - Cut AWS spend from $310k to $214k a month with Graviton, Karpenter spot nodes and savings plans, with no SLO misses - Built a Terraform module library for 22 AWS accounts under Control Tower, reviewed in Atlantis, used by 9 teams - Rebuilt on-call for 60 engineers with SLO alerts in Prometheus and 40 runbooks, MTTR down from 74 to 21 minutes DevOps Engineer, Cascade Freightworks | May 2018 - Jan 2022 - Containerized 30 Java and Node services onto Kubernetes with Helm, cutting lead time for changes from 9 days to 1 - Replaced a 12-VM Jenkins farm with GitHub Actions runners, cutting build times 58% and compute by $4,100 a month Systems Administrator, Puget Byte Hosting | Jun 2016 - Apr 2018 - Automated patching for 450 Linux servers with Ansible, shrinking the monthly patch window from 3 nights to 1 EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS B.S. Computer Science, Washington State University, 2016 Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 2021 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Professional, 2023 SKILLS AWS (EKS, IAM, VPC), Kubernetes, Terraform and Atlantis, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus and Grafana, Karpenter, Python and Bash, Ansible
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