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Review score
98
Evidence
100%
Words
257

Scored by the same rules the Studio uses. How scoring works

Why it works

  • One page in all six layouts257 words, so switching designs never pushes it to a second page.
  • 7 of 8 bullets name a resultThe rest show the scale of the work, which a recruiter reads as proof too. Counted by the same Review the Studio runs.
  • Headings an ATS already knowsSummary, Experience, Education, Certifications, Skills, in that order.
  • Credentials have their own sectionCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Professional), each with issuer and year.
  • Reads back as plain textOne column with no tables or icons. The ATS text tab shows what a parser gets.
What a recruiter sees
Daniel Okafor
Senior DevOps Engineer
daniel.okafor@example.com · +44 20 7946 0581 · London, UK · github.com/dokafor-ops · linkedin.com/in/danielokafor
Summary

DevOps engineer with eight years running AWS and Kubernetes platforms for fintech and retail. Builds CI/CD pipelines and Terraform modules that let product teams ship daily, and cuts cloud spend along the way.

Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
2022 – Present
Fernhill Pay · London, UK
  • Run the Amazon EKS platform behind 140 services, taking deploys from fortnightly to about 40 a day with GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
  • Codified 26 AWS accounts in Terraform modules, so a new environment takes an hour instead of two weeks.
  • Cut mean time to recovery from 3 hours to 25 minutes with SLO-based Prometheus alerts and runbooks.
  • Lead an on-call rota of eight engineers and run blameless postmortems.
DevOps Engineer
2019 – 2022
Halcyon Retail Group · Manchester, UK
  • Migrated 60 Jenkins jobs to GitLab CI and containerised 22 Java apps with Docker, cutting build time from 35 to 9 minutes.
  • Reduced AWS spend by £380K a year with Spot instances, rightsizing and storage lifecycle rules.
Linux Systems Administrator
2016 – 2019
Brookfield Data Centres · Leeds, UK
  • Managed 450 Linux servers and automated patching with Ansible, cutting patch windows from 2 days to 4 hours.
  • Set up Grafana dashboards for 30 client environments, catching disk and memory issues before outages.
Education
BSc Computer Science
2013 – 2016
University of Leeds · Leeds, UK
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), The Linux Foundation
2023
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Professional), Amazon Web Services
2022
Skills
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, GitOps
Containers & IaC: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Ansible
Cloud & Systems: AWS, Linux, Bash, Python, IAM
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, SLOs, incident response
Layout

A warm serif name and headings with short colour underlines, over a plain sans body. Switching layouts never changes the words.

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A DevOps resume is easy to write as a list of tools and hard to write as a record of what got faster, cheaper or more reliable. Screeners want the second. The template above shows deploy frequency, recovery time and cloud spend next to the tools that moved them, and the score on this page is the actual output of the Review.

DevOps engineer resume summary example

Target roleSenior DevOps Engineer
SummaryDevOps engineer with eight years running AWS and Kubernetes platforms for fintech and retail. Builds CI/CD pipelines and Terraform modules that let product teams ship daily, and cuts cloud spend along the way.
4 of this role's keywords are in the summary
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Terraform

The candidate is fictional, so swap in your own numbers. Stuck? The resume summary generator drafts one from your title and results.

Why most DevOps engineers don't get the call

Skills and keywords for a devops engineer resume

Applicant tracking systems match on literal strings. Spell each term the way the job posting spells it, and group related skills so people and parsers can both follow it.

CI/CD

  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • Argo CD
  • GitOps
  • release management

Containers & IaC

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • CloudFormation
  • infrastructure as code

Cloud & systems

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Linux
  • Bash
  • Python
  • networking
  • IAM

Reliability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • observability
  • SLOs
  • incident response
  • on-call
  • postmortems

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Why each choice was made

  1. Why the skills are grouped by layer

    Pipeline, containers, cloud and monitoring are how a DevOps hiring manager thinks about a stack. Four short groups let a parser match each tool and let a person see in seconds whether you cover the layers their team needs.

  2. Why recovery time is in the first job

    Anyone can claim reliability. Mean time to recovery falling from hours to minutes is something a team can check in an interview, which is why the strongest reliability bullet sits at the top of the page.

  3. Why there is an older sysadmin role

    Many good DevOps engineers came up through Linux administration or support. Keeping that role, briefly, shows the systems depth behind the automation. It is worth a line, not a page.

DevOps engineer resume questions

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What skills should I put on a devops engineer resume?

The skills the job posting names, spelled the way it spells them. For a devops engineer that often includes CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and Azure. Show each one in a bullet with a result, then list the core ones again in a short skills section.

How do I write a devops engineer resume summary?

Keep it to two or three sentences: your years of experience and where, the scale of your work, and one result with a number. Leave out words a recruiter cannot check, like hardworking or passionate. The example summary on this page shows the pattern.

Is this devops engineer resume template free?

Yes. Open it in the Studio, replace the example with your own work and download it as a PDF in a free design (Clean, Signal, Editorial and Minimal). Word files and the other designs come with ATSPrep Pro. There is no watermark; downloading needs a free account.

Is this devops engineer resume template ATS friendly?

Yes. It is one column of real text with standard section headings, and no tables, text boxes or text inside images, so parsers read it in order. Run your finished file through the free ATS resume checker to see the text it gives back.

Keep the pattern. Tell your story.

The Studio opens with this devops engineer example loaded. Edit any bullet and the Review score updates as you type. Editing needs no account; downloading needs a free one.

  1. Keep the hierarchy. Same section order, plain-text contact details.
  2. Replace every claim. Your scope, your numbers, your tools. Never borrowed achievements.
  3. Run the Review again. Watch the score respond to the evidence in your version.
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