Site Reliability Engineer Resume Example

“Site reliability engineer with 6+ years ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of large-scale distributed systems. Expert in observability, incident response, and infrastructure automation, with a proven record of maintaining 99.99% uptime for platforms serving millions of users.”

• Kept 99.99% uptime for a platform with 8M daily active users. Built automated failover and self-healing for the core infrastructure
• Got MTTR from 45 minutes down to 8 minutes by automating runbooks and cleaning up noisy alerts that were hiding real issues
• Wrote the SLO framework that 15 services now use. Each team has clear reliability targets and error budget policies
• Automated certificate rotation, capacity planning scripts, and deployment rollbacks. Eliminated about 200 hours of monthly toil
• Ran the chaos engineering program - injected 50+ failure scenarios per quarter and found 30 failure modes nobody knew about
• On-call for all production infrastructure. Responded to pages, coordinated incident response, and wrote postmortems for every P0/P1
• Managed Kubernetes clusters across 3 AWS regions. Handled upgrades, node scaling, and troubleshooting pod scheduling issues
• Built Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerting rules for 40+ services. Became the go-to person for observability questions
• Worked with dev teams to define resource requests and limits for their services. Prevented about 15 OOM-related outages per quarter

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

• Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)