DevOps engineer resume: a LaTeX example and how to write yours

DevOps and SRE resumes are about making shipping faster and outages rarer. Show deploy frequency, recovery time, uptime and cost, and name the tools (Kubernetes, Terraform, your CI) inside the bullets where they did that work.

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A sample devops engineer resume in Jake's Resume.

What recruiters look for

Delivery speed
Deploy frequency, build times, release processes you automated.
Reliability
Uptime, incident counts, recovery time, on-call improvements.
Infrastructure as code
Terraform, Helm, environments you made reproducible.
Cost
Cloud spend you cut, and how.

Weak bullets, and stronger ones

Managed Kubernetes clusters.

Migrated 40 services from VMs to EKS with Helm, cutting deploy time from 25 to 6 minutes.

→ Scope, tools and the speed-up.

Worked on monitoring.

Rolled out Prometheus and Grafana alerting with SLOs, reducing mean time to recovery from 70 to 18 minutes.

→ Ties monitoring to recovery time.

Wrote Terraform scripts.

Codified 3 AWS environments in Terraform, making a new staging stack a 20-minute job instead of 2 days.

→ Shows why the code mattered.

Words devops engineer job posts use

Use the ones that are true for you, inside your bullets as well as in Skills.

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Helm
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Linux
  • SRE
  • observability
  • infrastructure as code

Every job post is different. Check your resume against the exact post to see which of its must-haves your resume shows.

Tips

  1. 01Use reliability numbers: uptime, MTTR, incidents.
  2. 02Name your cloud and its services; posts often ask for AWS or GCP specifically.
  3. 03Certifications go in a short section only if the job post mentions them.

Questions

Should I list certifications?

Add them if they're current and relevant (for example an AWS or Kubernetes certification), in a short section. They help most when the job post asks for them.

DevOps or SRE: which title should I use?

Use the title you actually held. Put the other term in your summary or bullets if the work matches.

Other resume examples

All of them use Jake's Resume, the one-page LaTeX template engineers share on Overleaf. Once yours is ready, tailor it to each job.