RezUpDevOps Engineer resume example
A DevOps engineer resume example with deploy frequency, MTTR and cost-reduction numbers — the reliability metrics platform teams actually screen for, not a tool list.
Tomas Lindgren
Summary
DevOps engineer with 7 years building CI/CD and cloud infrastructure for SaaS teams. Took a 40-service platform from weekly to daily deploys, cut MTTR from 90 to 25 minutes, and reduced AWS spend 27% without capacity loss.
Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer — Skyline Software 2022 – Present
- Own CI/CD for 40 microservices (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD on EKS); moved the platform from weekly release trains to 15+ daily deploys with automated rollback
- Cut MTTR from 90 to 25 minutes by rebuilding alerting on SLOs (Prometheus/Grafana) and writing runbooks for the 12 most-paged scenarios
- Reduced AWS spend 27% ($41k/month) via rightsizing, Savings Plans and moving batch workloads to spot instances
DevOps Engineer — Bitfield Systems 2018 – 2022
- Migrated 25 services from EC2/Chef to Kubernetes with Terraform-managed infrastructure, cutting environment-provision time from 2 days to 40 minutes
- Introduced trunk-based development and preview environments, halving average PR-to-production lead time
Skills
Kubernetes (EKS) & Docker · Terraform & infrastructure as code · CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) · Prometheus/Grafana & SLO alerting · AWS cost optimization · Incident response & runbooks
Education
B.S. Computer Science — Colorado State University, 2018 · CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), 2023
Fictional example for illustration — names, employers and numbers are invented, but every bullet follows the honest formula: action + scope + verifiable result. Never copy claims you can't defend in an interview.
Reliability numbers beat tool lists
Every DevOps resume lists Kubernetes and Terraform; almost none show deploy frequency, MTTR or lead time moving. Those DORA-style numbers are what platform leads actually compare.
Cost savings are a hiring trigger
A concrete "$41k/month, 27%" with the mechanism (rightsizing, spot) is often the single line that gets the interview — infra cost is a budget-line pain every engineering VP feels.
Tie each tool to an outcome
"Terraform-managed migration that cut provision time from 2 days to 40 minutes" proves fluency better than a skills-section keyword ever can.
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