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DevOps Engineer resume example — Senior (6+ years)
Sample summary for Ben Cooper
Senior platform engineer with 8 years building cloud infrastructure at scale. Led a 5-person platform team, architected a multi-cloud infrastructure serving 50M+ requests/day, and built an internal developer platform that reduced onboarding time for new services by 80%. Known for making infrastructure invisible to product teams.
Key skills
AWSGCPKubernetesTerraformPlatform EngineeringTeam LeadershipFinOpsService Mesh (Istio)Security HardeningSRE PrinciplesIncident CommandGo
Sample experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
2019 – Present
Gridline Technologies · San Francisco, CA
- •Architected multi-cloud failover infrastructure (AWS + GCP) achieving 99.995% uptime for 50M+ daily requests
- •Led 5-person platform team; reduced new service time-to-production from 6 weeks to 3 days via golden path tooling
- •Implemented FinOps program saving $1.2M/year through cloud cost governance and automated right-sizing
- •Drove SOC 2 Type II certification by hardening 200+ infrastructure controls, enabling 6 enterprise sales
DevOps Engineer
2016 – 2019
Amplify Commerce · Seattle, WA
- •Migrated 90 legacy EC2 services to EKS, reducing operational overhead by 60% and saving $350K/year
- •Built disaster recovery plan achieving RTO of 15 min and RPO of 5 min, tested quarterly
- •Mentored 3 engineers on SRE practices; team achieved zero P1 incidents for 6 consecutive months
Tips for your DevOps Engineer resume
Senior platform engineer resumes should emphasize scale (requests/day, service count, team size), business impact (cost savings, uptime, security certifications), and developer experience improvements. Show that you build platforms that empower other engineers, not just infrastructure that keeps things running.
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