DevOps Engineer Resume Example

“DevOps engineer with 5+ years automating infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, and managing cloud-native deployments. Expert in Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS with a focus on reliability, security, and enabling development teams to ship faster with confidence.”

• Built CI/CD pipelines for 40+ microservices using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD. Deployment lead time went from 2 weeks to 30 minutes
• Managed Kubernetes clusters across 3 AWS regions serving 5M+ daily users. Availability stayed at 99.99% with auto-scaling
• Wrote all the Terraform for 200+ cloud resources. Eliminated config drift and made it easy to spin up new environments
• Found $85K in monthly AWS savings by right-sizing instances, using reserved and spot fleets, and cleaning up orphaned resources
• Designed the disaster recovery strategy with automated failover. RPO is 5 minutes, RTO is 15 minutes across regions
• Responsible for maintaining Jenkins and GitHub Actions runners. Kept build infrastructure running for 60+ developers
• Set up Prometheus and Grafana monitoring for all production services. Built alerting rules and on-call rotation schedules
• Worked with the security team to implement container image scanning in the pipeline. Blocked vulnerable images from reaching production
• Wrote runbooks for common operational tasks like database failovers, certificate renewals, and emergency rollbacks

Include these keywords in your resume to pass Applicant Tracking Systems.

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)