DevOps Engineer Resume
Example (2026)
Most devops engineer resumes score below 42% on ATS systems. See exactly why yours might be failing. 75% never reach a recruiter.
What ATS systems actually see
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Generic descriptions and soft skills make this resume hard to scan and easy to ignore.
✗ Generic soft skills that every applicant claims. ATS cannot match 'Scripting' to any specific job requirement.
✗ 'Helped the team move things' shows no ownership. 'Things' is unmatchable by ATS.
✗ 'Set up CI/CD pipelines' tells nothing about scale, tools, or outcomes. Every DevOps engineer does this.
✗ 'Helped improve security' is vague. Which tools? What compliance? What was the outcome?
✗ 'Some scripts' and 'routine tasks' are unmatchable. Name the languages and tasks.
✗ Hobbies waste space on a DevOps engineer resume. Use it for certifications, open source contributions, or conference talks instead.
Raj Krishnamurthy
DevOps Engineer
Seattle, WA · raj.krishnamurthy@email.com · linkedin.com/in/rajkrishnamurthy · github.com/rajkrishna
Professional Summary
Experienced DevOps engineer who works with cloud technologies and automation tools. Strong team player who enjoys solving infrastructure problems and learning new tools. Looking for a role where I can help a company improve their deployment processes.
Core Skills
Professional Experience
Nimbus Cloud Solutions
Jan 2023 - PresentDevOps Engineer
- Managed the cloud infrastructure and made sure everything was running smoothly.
- Helped the team move things to Kubernetes and set up the deployment pipeline.
- Worked on monitoring and alerting for our production systems.
Velocity Platforms
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022Junior DevOps Engineer
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for the development teams.
- Wrote Terraform scripts for provisioning infrastructure.
- Helped improve the security of our cloud environment.
DataBridge Technologies
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021IT Operations Intern
- Helped monitor servers and respond to alerts.
- Wrote some scripts to automate routine tasks.
- Learned about Docker and containerization during the internship.
Education
University of Washington
Computer Science degree
Certifications & Awards
- AWS cert
- Kubernetes cert
- Employee of the Month (2022)
Languages
English (Fluent) • Hindi (Native) • Tamil (Conversational)
Interests & Hobbies
- Gaming
- Reading tech blogs
- Tinkering with home servers
- Cricket
✗ No matchable keywords. 'Cloud technologies' and 'automation tools' are too vague for ATS to score. Zero metrics.
✗ 'Made sure everything was running smoothly' is the #1 antipattern on DevOps resumes. Zero metrics, no services named.
✗ 'Worked on monitoring' is vague. Which tools? What improved?
✗ 'Wrote Terraform scripts' has no scale or impact. What did the automation achieve?
✗ 'Helped monitor servers' gives no sense of scale or tools. Quantify everything.
✗ 'Learned about Docker' is not a resume bullet. Show what you built, not what you observed.
✗ Vague duties like "Responsible for", soft skills like "Hard Worker", and buzzwords like "synergistic" — no keywords for recruiters to find. This resume gets buried.
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Keywords ATS Systems Scan For
These are the exact terms recruiters and ATS systems filter by for devops engineer roles. Missing even 2-3 can drop your score below the threshold.
IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
CI/CD Pipeline
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
Helm
Observability (Logs, Metrics, Traces)
SLA/SLO/SLI
Canary Deployment
Blue/Green Deployment
Microservices
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Docker
How many of these are on your resume?
Examples by Experience Level
Select your level. See the exact verbs, bullets, and metrics that ATS systems reward at each stage.
Action Verbs
Metrics to Include
- Automation Coverage (%)
- Time Savings (Hrs/Wk)
- Provisioning Time Reduction
- Security Scan Pass Rate
- Alert Noise Reduction
- Incident Response Time
- Build Time (minutes)
Example Resume Bullets
Ship independentlyAutomated server patching and security configuration using Ansible and Terraform, reducing critical vulnerability exposure time by 75%.
Managed and scaled the production database clusters (PostgreSQL) supporting 10,000 active users, reducing read latency by 30% through connection pooling.
Configured and maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab) for 8 different applications, ensuring an average build time of under 5 minutes.
Are your bullets this specific?
Phrases That Get DevOps Engineers Rejected
Listing languages isn't enough. Context matters. "JavaScript" is good; "Built REST APIs with Node.js" is hired.
Responsible for server uptime and making sure the code deploys.
Describes a job duty, not an achievement. Every DevOps engineer handles deployments. ATS sees zero differentiating keywords.
Maintained 99.99% uptime across 200+ microservices on AWS EKS, implementing automated canary deployments that reduced rollback incidents by 60%.
Supported the development team in moving things to the cloud.
'Supported' and 'things' are passive and unmatchable. Recruiters need specifics: which cloud, which services, what outcome.
Led migration of 45 on-premise services to AWS (EKS, RDS, S3), reducing infrastructure costs by 28% and improving deployment frequency from weekly to daily.
Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes.
'Familiar with' signals beginner-level knowledge. ATS ranks candidates who demonstrate hands-on production experience higher.
Orchestrated 150+ containerized services across 3 Kubernetes clusters, implementing Helm charts and ArgoCD for zero-downtime GitOps deployments.
Knows a lot about AWS.
'Knows a lot' is unmatchable and unprofessional. List specific services and certifications explicitly.
Managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFormation) across 3 regions. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.
Helped automate some things.
'Some things' tells recruiters nothing. ATS cannot parse vague automation claims. Name the tools, targets, and outcomes.
Automated server provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, reducing environment setup time from 3 days to 20 minutes for 150+ cloud resources.
Worked on the CI/CD pipeline and improved deployment speed.
No tools named, no metrics given. 'Improved speed' could mean anything from 1% to 90%.
Designed GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for 12 microservices with automated testing, achieving 4-minute average build times and a 99.5% deployment success rate.
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