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DevOps Engineer resume example — Entry-level (0–2 years)
Sample summary for Kevin Park
CS graduate specializing in cloud infrastructure with 1 internship and several personal homelab projects. Familiar with containerization, CI/CD, and cloud fundamentals. Eager to join a platform team where I can help engineers ship faster and more reliably.
Key skills
AWSDockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsLinuxBashPythonMonitoringNetworking Fundamentals
Sample experience
Cloud Infrastructure Intern
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
Nexus Software · Atlanta, GA
- •Set up CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions that automated deployments for 3 services, reducing deploy time from 45 min to 8 min
- •Migrated 4 legacy services from EC2 to containerized Docker deployments, cutting monthly AWS spend by $2,200
- •Wrote monitoring dashboards in Grafana covering 10 system metrics, used by the on-call team daily
Homelab Projects
2022 – 2024
Personal · Remote
- •Self-hosted Kubernetes cluster running 8 services, maintained with 99.5% uptime over 12 months
- •Automated backup strategy using Terraform + S3, tested and verified monthly restore procedures
- •Wrote 15 blog posts documenting homelab setups; posts received 8,000+ total views
Tips for your DevOps Engineer resume
Entry DevOps resumes benefit from real infrastructure work — even personal homelab projects count. Show specific tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions), specific metrics (deploy time, uptime, cost savings), and evidence you understand reliability principles beyond just running commands.
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