Why infrastructure people keep the CV as code
You already keep infrastructure in version control and would not hand-edit production config. A résumé in Markdown gets the same treatment: plain text, reviewable diffs, one source file, reproducible output. Tailor a variant for a platform role, keep it in the same repo, and export a PDF when you need one.
What platform and SRE hiring managers look for
The screen is a search for someone who has carried a pager and made things measurably better while doing it.
Reliability, with numbers. Uptime achieved, error budget policy, MTTR before and after, incidents reduced. “Improved reliability” is a claim; “cut mean time to recovery from 45 minutes to 9 by adding structured on-call runbooks and alert routing” is evidence.
Scale and cost. How many services, how many clusters, what request volume, what the monthly cloud bill was and what you did to it. Cloud cost reduction is one of the most reliably impressive things a DevOps résumé can show, and one of the most frequently omitted.
Migrations you actually completed. Data centre to cloud, VMs to containers, Jenkins to GitHub Actions, monolith to services. State the before, the after, and whether it finished — half-done migrations are common and honesty about scope reads well.
Platform terms these roles are filtered on
- Orchestration and containers: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ECS, service mesh
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation
- Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure, and the specific services you ran in anger
- Pipelines: CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, SLO, SLI, error budgets
- Practice: on-call, incident response, postmortems, capacity planning, disaster recovery, secrets management
Mistakes that undercut strong infrastructure experience
The tool inventory. Twenty technologies with no outcomes attached is the single most common failure mode in this discipline. Every tool should appear inside a sentence about something that got better.
No uptime or recovery numbers. This is a field with unusually good metrics available. Not using them is a wasted advantage.
Silence on security. Secrets handling, least privilege, patching cadence, compliance work. It is increasingly part of the role and increasingly screened for.
“Automated processes.” Which process, how long did it take before, how long now, and how many people stopped doing it by hand?
Omitting the on-call reality. Rotation size, severity levels handled, whether you wrote the runbooks. Teams are hiring someone to share a pager with; show you have held one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this DevOps engineer resume template free? +
Yes. Edit it in your browser and export to PDF, DOCX, or HTML with no account, no watermark, and no usage limit.
What metrics matter on a DevOps resume? +
Reliability and cost. Deploy frequency, MTTR, uptime, and cloud spend saved are the numbers hiring managers scan for — the sample above leads with each.
Should I list every tool I know? +
List the ones you've used in production, grouped by function. DevOps roles are heavily keyword-filtered, so accuracy matters more than length.