DevOps Engineer Resume Example (2026)

A complete DevOps engineer resume example. Infrastructure resumes are judged on two numbers — how reliable you made it and what you saved — so every bullet here carries uptime, deploy frequency or dollars. Open it in the editor, swap in your own systems, and export a PDF.

Why this devops engineer resume works

• Reliability is quantified: error budgets, MTTR, deploy frequency — not "improved stability"
• Cloud cost work is stated in dollars, the number every engineering leader tracks
• Tools appear in context ("migrated to Terraform") rather than as a wall of logos
• On-call and incident work shows ownership, not just tooling
• A dense single page — senior infrastructure careers do not need two

Amara Diallo — DevOps Engineer

amara.diallo@email.com · +1 (720) 555-0184 · linkedin.com/in/amaradiallo

Summary

• DevOps engineer with 6 years running Kubernetes platforms on AWS for high-traffic products. Took deploys from weekly to 30 a day with zero-downtime releases, cut the cloud bill by $38K a month, and brought p1 incident MTTR under 25 minutes.

Experience

• Senior DevOps Engineer — Ridgeline Systems (May 2022 – Present)
• Migrated 60 services from hand-managed EC2 to Kubernetes with Terraform and ArgoCD, taking deploy frequency from weekly to 30 per day with zero-downtime releases
• Cut the AWS bill by $38K per month (31%) through rightsizing, spot instances for batch workloads, and deleting 14 orphaned environments
• Built the observability stack on Prometheus and Grafana with SLO-based alerts, reducing pages per on-call week from 22 to 6 and p1 MTTR from 90 to 24 minutes
• Wrote the incident review process now used by all 5 product teams, closing 85% of action items within two sprints
• DevOps Engineer — Bluepeak Software (Aug 2019 – Apr 2022)
• Replaced a 45-minute manual release with a GitHub Actions pipeline running tests, canary deploy and automatic rollback in under 12 minutes
• Automated database failover drills in Python, cutting recovery time in the annual DR test from 4 hours to 40 minutes
• Stood up centralised logging for 30 services, cutting mean time to diagnose customer-reported bugs by half

Projects

• kube-janitor-policies (2024)
• Open-source policy pack that finds and expires orphaned Kubernetes resources; adopted by 20+ companies and saving one adopter a reported $9K per month

Education

• B.S. Information Technology — Colorado State University (2013 – 2017), GPA 3.4/4.0

Skills

• AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Python, Bash, Linux, PostgreSQL, Incident Response, SRE Practices

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