TechMid-level (3–5 years)
DevOps Engineer resume example — Mid-level (3–5 years)
Sample summary for Nina Okonkwo
DevOps engineer with 4 years building CI/CD infrastructure and cloud platforms for SaaS products. Reduced deployment frequency from weekly to multiple times per day, cut infrastructure costs by $400K/year, and built the platform reliability program from scratch at my current company.
Key skills
KubernetesTerraformAWSGitOpsPrometheusGrafanaHelmDatadogPythonBashIncident ManagementCost Optimization
Sample experience
DevOps Engineer
2021 – Present
Cascade Labs · Austin, TX
- •Migrated 40+ microservices to Kubernetes, enabling deployment frequency to increase from weekly to 20+ deploys/day
- •Reduced infrastructure costs by $400K/year through rightsizing, reserved instances, and autoscaling policies
- •Built SLO alerting framework covering 30 services; reduced mean time to alert from 18 min to 2 min
- •Led 2 major incident post-mortems, each resulting in process changes that prevented recurrence for 12+ months
DevOps Engineer
2020 – 2021
Relay Systems · Remote
- •Built CI/CD pipeline reducing average release cycle from 2 weeks to 3 days across 5 engineering teams
- •Implemented infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, making 80% of infrastructure changes automated and auditable
- •Reduced P1 incident resolution time by 55% by improving runbook quality and on-call tooling
Tips for your DevOps Engineer resume
Mid-level DevOps resumes should show reliability and velocity metrics, not just tool lists. Hiring managers want to see deploy frequency, uptime, cost improvements, and MTTR numbers. Show you think in systems — not just pipelines.
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