DevOps engineer resume template

Match the template to your years in the role. Someone moving up from systems administration should keep the Ansible and Linux bullets visible, as the WebForge role does here, and show the bridge into Terraform and Kubernetes rather than pretending the sysadmin years were something else. Senior candidates lead with platform multipliers: reusable Terraform modules, CI pipelines other teams depend on, and cost work with a currency figure attached, because at that level you are judged on what you made easier for everyone.

Infrastructure recruiters scan for tool names first, so AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub Actions must appear in bullets, not only the skills groups. The second scan is for numbers that prove operating maturity: environment build time, CI duration, failed rollout counts, uptime, and spend reduction. This sample attaches a figure to each because platform work is unusually measurable, and reviewers notice when a candidate in a measurable discipline offers no measurements.

The filters are specific to this role. A tool list with no versions of scale, such as how many services or environments, reads as tutorial experience. Describing manual server care with no mention of code-driven infrastructure marks the resume as years behind current practice. And claiming cost optimisation without a number is the emptiest phrase in platform hiring; if you cut spend, the figure exists, so print it or drop the claim.