DevOps Engineer CV Example
Deploy frequency, recovery time and infrastructure as code — DevOps told through the four keystone metrics.
DevOps has an agreed scoreboard — deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore — and a CV that speaks in those terms immediately sounds fluent. This example organises its bullets around exactly those metrics, plus the cost line every platform team also owns.
Why this CV works
- The four DORA metrics structure the whole story — instantly legible to anyone who runs a platform team.
- Every reliability claim carries its mechanism (canary, runbooks, alert pruning), so nothing reads like luck.
- "100% under Terraform, drift zero" is the cleanest infrastructure-as-code claim available.
- A named monthly cost saving shows the commercial half of platform work.
The professional summary
DevOps Engineer with 7 years building CI/CD and Kubernetes platforms. Took a 40-service organisation from weekly to 30+ deploys/day (lead time 4 days → 35 minutes), cut change failure rate to 4%, and halved median restore time to 18 minutes with runbook-driven alerts. Terraform-first: 100% of production infrastructure under code.
Speak DORA: deploys per day, lead time, failure rate, restore time. One sentence of those four numbers outranks a paragraph of tool names.
Writing the work experience
Pair each metric movement with the mechanism that moved it. Tool lists say what you touched; mechanisms say what you understood.
Turning duties into achievements
Skills on this CV
ATS tips for DevOps Engineers
- Include "CI/CD" verbatim plus your specific tools (GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins) — both levels are filtered.
- "Infrastructure as code" and "Terraform" should both appear; ads split between concept and tool.
- Write "Kubernetes" in full at least once — some filters do not match "K8s".
ATS checks help identify potential compatibility issues, but employers and ATS platforms use different criteria — no template or score can guarantee an outcome.
Writing tips
- DORA metrics with before/after are the strongest possible spine for a DevOps CV.
- Alert noise killed and runbooks written are underrated bullets — they show respect for on-call humans.
- Cost work belongs on every platform CV now; name the monthly figure.
Frequently asked questions
DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineer — which title do I use?
Match the target ad, and let DORA metrics plus reliability bullets cover all three readings.
Are certifications required?
CKA and an AWS associate open filters; after that, production numbers decide.
How do I show incident experience without sounding like a firefighter?
Pair every incident stat with the prevention that followed. Restore time down and alerts pruned is maturity, not chaos.
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