DevOps engineer with 8 years of experience automating delivery and infrastructure for SaaS products. Took a team from biweekly manual releases to 40 automated deploys a day with fewer failed changes. Brings CI/CD, Kubernetes and Terraform skills plus a collaborative style that gets developers owning their own pipelines.
Experience
DevOps Engineer, Fieldnote Software (Kansas City, MO)
Jan 2022 – Present
Moved 60 services from biweekly manual releases to 40 automated daily deploys, cutting change failure rate from 18% to 6%
Containerized legacy Rails and Node apps and migrated them to EKS with Helm charts
Built preview environments per pull request, reducing QA wait time from 2 days to 30 minutes
Ran incident reviews and on-call improvements that lowered after-hours pages by 45%
Systems Engineer, Plaza Health Tech (Overland Park, KS)
Apr 2019 – Dec 2021
Automated server configuration with Ansible for 300 VMs, ending configuration drift findings
Implemented Jenkins pipelines with automated tests for 15 applications
IT Support Specialist, Plaza Health Tech (Overland Park, KS)
Jun 2018 – Mar 2019
Supported 450 users and wrote PowerShell scripts that automated account setup
Maintained backup jobs for 40 servers
Education
B.S. Information Technology, University of Kansas (Aug 2014 – May 2018)
A strong DevOps Engineer resume shows the systems you built, the scale they run at, and the measurable effect on speed, reliability or cost. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
Sections, in order
Summary
Experience
Projects
Skills
Education
Length: One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Summary: Write two or three lines: your role, your strongest skills, and one result that proves them.
Skills to feature
Programming languages
System design
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
CI/CD
Testing and code review
Databases and SQL
Observability
Security fundamentals
APIs and integrations
Technical documentation
Example bullet points
Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2M monthly users
Introduced contract tests and staged rollouts, reducing production incidents by 45% in two quarters
Migrated 30 services to Kubernetes with Terraform, lowering cloud spend by $250k a year
Tips from recruiters
Group skills by category (for example "Languages: Go, TypeScript") so recruiters and ATS parsers find them quickly.
Link to a repository, demo or write-up for at least one project you can talk about in depth.
Name the stack inside each bullet; keyword matching happens at the bullet level, not only in the skills list.
Recommended templates
Classic (ATS-friendly): Jake's-style LaTeX classic: small caps and hairline rules
Tech (ATS-friendly): Developer style: mono headings and tags, sans body
Modern (ATS-friendly): Clean single column with accent headings and rules
DevOps Engineer resume FAQ
What should a DevOps Engineer resume include?
A DevOps Engineer resume should show the systems you built, the scale they run at, and the measurable effect on speed, reliability or cost. Use these sections in this order: Summary, Experience, Projects, Skills and Education. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
What is the best resume template for a DevOps Engineer?
Classic, Tech and Modern work well for DevOps Engineer roles. They are single-column with standard headings, so applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse them reliably.
How long should a DevOps Engineer resume be?
One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Which skills should a DevOps Engineer put on a resume?
Prioritize the skills named in the job posting. Common ones for DevOps Engineer roles are Programming languages, System design, Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD, Testing and code review and Databases and SQL.
How do I write strong DevOps Engineer resume bullet points?
Start with an action verb, say what you did, and end with a measurable result such as latency, uptime and deploy frequency. For example: "Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2M monthly users."