Platform Engineer Resume Example

“Platform engineer with 6 years building internal developer platforms that accelerate engineering velocity. Expert in Kubernetes, service mesh, and developer experience tooling, with a focus on abstracting infrastructure complexity and enabling self-service for hundreds of developers.”

• Built the internal developer platform on Backstage for 300+ engineers. Service onboarding went from 2 weeks to 2 hours
• Designed self-service Kubernetes namespace provisioning with Crossplane. Teams can deploy new services in under 10 minutes now
• Created golden path templates for 5 common service types (REST API, worker, cron job, etc.). 80% adoption, 3x faster first deploy
• Put together a unified observability stack integrating metrics, logs, and traces. Mean time to detection dropped 65%
• Added automated security scanning to the deployment pipeline. Catches 200+ vulnerabilities per quarter before they reach production
• Responsible for the Kubernetes platform that runs all production workloads - upgrades, node management, and capacity planning
• Wrote documentation and ran office hours to help developers use the platform. Handled about 20 support requests per week
• Worked with the SRE team to define SLOs for platform reliability. Committed to 99.95% uptime for the deployment pipeline
• Built a CLI tool in Go that developers use to scaffold new services, manage configs, and deploy to staging with one command

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

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate