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DevOps Engineer resume keywords

Show reliability and speed in numbers: uptime, deploy frequency, recovery time and cost.

Skills to show

Use the exact phrase where it is true, inside a bullet and not only in a list.

  • CI/CD
  • infrastructure as code
  • monitoring
  • incident response
  • containerization
  • cloud security
  • automation
  • site reliability

Tools and software

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Prometheus
  • Linux

Verbs that fit devops engineer work

  • automated
  • deployed
  • migrated
  • reduced
  • monitored
  • hardened

Example bullets

The numbers are examples. Replace them with your own and round honestly.

  • Moved 22 services to Kubernetes and cut monthly cloud cost by 27%.
  • Built a CI/CD pipeline in GitHub Actions that took deploys from weekly to several a day.
  • Wrote Terraform for the full staging environment, so a new one now takes 20 minutes instead of 2 days.

Mistakes to avoid

  • A tool list with no system you ran.
  • Leaving out scale: services, requests, users or nodes.