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🚀 DevOps Engineer resume example

A DevOps engineer resume example built to pass applicant tracking systems and prove real operational impact. It opens with the platform, Kubernetes and Docker on AWS, and a reliability number, 99.98% uptime, then backs every bullet with a metric: deploy frequency, latency, cost, or mean time to recovery.

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This example contains 28 of 60 ATS keywords employers use for DevOps Engineer roles.

Keywords come from the same dictionary the 22skills ATS checker scores against. Matched terms are shown in green.

Example resume

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Owen Bennett

DevOps Engineer · Kubernetes & AWS

Raleigh, United States

About

DevOps Engineer with 7 years of experience automating infrastructure and CI/CD for high-availability platforms. Runs Kubernetes on AWS with Terraform for infrastructure as code, owns monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and has taken deployment frequency from weekly to several times a day at 99.98% uptime. Leads the on-call rotation and treats every incident as a runbook waiting to be written.

Experience

  • Trailhead Cloud Systems· Senior DevOps EngineerRaleigh, NC (hybrid)2022-06 – Present
    • Own the Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS serving 4M daily requests at 99.98% uptime for 14 product teams.
    • Built CI/CD in GitHub Actions with ArgoCD for GitOps deploys, taking releases from weekly to 6 a day with automated rollback.
    • Manage all infrastructure as code in Terraform across 9 AWS accounts; no production change has been made by hand since 2023.
    • Run monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog, cutting mean time to recovery 45% and false-page volume 60%.
    • Lead the PagerDuty on-call rotation for 8 engineers and wrote 40 runbooks that new joiners use in their first week.
    • Cut the monthly AWS bill 22% through right-sizing, spot instances and S3 lifecycle policies without touching SLOs.
  • Ferngate Networks· DevOps EngineerRaleigh, NC2019-08 – 2022-05
    • Ran CI/CD in GitLab CI and Jenkins for three product teams, standardizing 25 pipelines on one shared template.
    • Configured IAM policies, Route 53 and CloudFront on AWS for a customer-facing platform passing its first SOC 2 audit.
    • Migrated server configuration from Chef to Ansible, reducing configuration drift incidents to zero over 12 months.
    • Set up centralized logging with an ELK stack that cut incident investigation time roughly in half.
  • Piedmont Hosting Co.· Systems AdministratorRaleigh, NC2017-06 – 2019-07
    • Administered 120 Linux servers and automated patching with Ansible, cutting the monthly patch window from 2 days to 4 hours.
    • Introduced Docker for local development environments, making onboarding a one-command setup.

Education

  • North Carolina State University· B.S. Computer ScienceComputer Science2013-08 – 2017-05

Projects

Certifications

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate · HashiCorp (2022)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) · The Linux Foundation (2021)

Why this example passes the ATS

  • The summary leads with the platform and a reliability metric, Kubernetes and Docker on AWS at 99.98% uptime, which is exactly what DevOps job posts and ATS keyword scans look for first.
  • Bullets pair a tool with an outcome, for example the CI/CD work that moved releases from weekly to multiple times a day, and the on-call improvement that cut mean time to recovery 45%.
  • Skills are grouped into containers, CI/CD, cloud platforms, infrastructure as code and monitoring, using exact terms like "EKS", "Terraform" and "CloudWatch" that recruiters and ATS filters search for.
  • The career history shows range across two cloud providers and multiple CI/CD tools, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI and Spinnaker, which reads as broad platform experience rather than one vendor's ecosystem.
  • Certifications use full names, "HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate" and "Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)", so both the vendor and the acronym match ATS parsing.

DevOps Engineer ATS keywords in this example

Grouped the way the checker groups them. Green terms appear in the example above; grey ones are in the dictionary but not used here.

Containers & Orchestration

4/11
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • EKS
  • Docker Compose
  • Podman
  • Container Registry
  • ECS
  • GKE
  • AKS
  • OpenShift

CI/CD

4/10
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • ArgoCD
  • CircleCI
  • Spinnaker
  • TeamCity
  • Azure DevOps
  • Travis CI
  • Bamboo

Cloud Platforms

8/12
  • AWS
  • EC2
  • S3
  • Lambda
  • CloudFormation
  • IAM
  • Route 53
  • CloudFront
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • VPC
  • RDS

Infrastructure as Code

4/9
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • CloudFormation
  • Chef
  • Pulumi
  • Puppet
  • Salt
  • Packer
  • Vagrant

Monitoring & Logging

5/10
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • ELK Stack
  • PagerDuty
  • New Relic
  • Splunk
  • CloudWatch
  • Nagios
  • Jaeger

Certifications

3/8
  • CKA
  • Terraform Associate
  • HashiCorp Certified
  • AWS Solutions Architect
  • AWS DevOps Engineer
  • CKAD
  • Azure DevOps Expert
  • Google Cloud DevOps

How to adapt this example to your own experience

  1. 1Lead with your own reliability or scale number the way this example leads with 99.98% uptime and 4M daily requests, that number belongs in the first two lines.
  2. 2Swap the cloud and CI/CD tools for what the job post names, AWS and GitHub Actions here could become Azure and Azure DevOps, or GCP and CircleCI.
  3. 3Replace the deployment frequency and MTTR numbers with your own, before-and-after is what makes a DevOps bullet credible.
  4. 4Keep the skills section to 15-22 tools grouped by category, containers, CI/CD, cloud, infrastructure as code and monitoring, matching this example's structure.
  5. 5If you carry on-call, mention the tool and a concrete improvement, this example uses "PagerDuty" paired with a 45% MTTR reduction, not just "handled incidents".

Questions about the DevOps Engineer resume

How long should a DevOps engineer resume be?

One page for up to about five years of experience, two pages at most for senior or staff-level DevOps and SRE roles managing multiple platforms. Keep the current role and its reliability metrics on the first page.

What metrics matter most on a DevOps engineer resume?

Uptime, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery, and infrastructure cost. A line like "99.98% uptime" or "deploy time from 25 minutes to 4" tells a hiring manager more than a list of tool names.

Do I need certifications like CKA or Terraform Associate to get a DevOps job?

They help pass ATS keyword filters and prove hands-on familiarity with a specific tool, but production experience running real infrastructure at scale matters more. List certifications after experience unless you are early career.

Should a DevOps resume list every tool I have used?

No. Group tools by category, containers, CI/CD, cloud, infrastructure as code and monitoring, and lead with what the job post names. A focused list of 15 to 22 tools reads as depth, not a 40-item list with no structure.

Is this resume format safe for ATS software like Workday or Greenhouse?

Yes. It uses a single column, standard section headings, plain text bullets and consistent dates, which parsers in Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and iCIMS read reliably. Export as a text-based PDF or DOCX, never a scanned image.

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