DevOps Engineer resume keywords

What a devops engineer resume is screened for, and example bullets to adapt. Use the skills that are true of your experience, and put them inside accomplishment bullets rather than in a bare list.

Also covers: Platform Engineer, Devops, Devsecops Engineer, Infrastructure Automation Engineer.

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Skills and keywords

These are the terms most consistently used to screen devops engineer applications. Spell tools and certifications the way postings spell them — a screen matches the words, not the meaning.

CI/CDKubernetesDockerTerraformAWSAzureGCPLinuxMonitoringIncident responseInfrastructure as codePythonBash

Example bullets

Each one has blanks in brackets. Fill them with your own figures, or rewrite the line — never keep a number you cannot explain.

  • Built CI/CD pipelines that cut deploy time from N minutes to N.
  • Held availability at N% across N services.
  • Cut cloud spend N% (amount/year) through rightsizing.
  • Reduced mean time to recovery from N to N minutes with better alerting.

Verbs that signal ownership

Open bullets with these rather than with “responsible for” or “worked on”:

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