DevOps & SRE Resume Guide
Showcase your infrastructure automation, reliability engineering, and operational excellence. Build a resume that demonstrates you keep systems running.
Markus Fink
Senior Technical Recruiter, Ex - Google, Airbnb
What You'll Learn
DevOps vs SRE
While related, these roles have different emphases:
🔧 DevOps
Focus on CI/CD, automation, developer experience, deployment pipelines
🛡️ SRE
Focus on reliability, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, capacity planning
Tailor your resume based on the role. SRE positions want more reliability metrics; DevOps wants more automation stories.
Key Metrics to Include
DevOps/SRE resumes thrive on metrics:
- Uptime — 'Maintained 99.99% availability'
- Deploy frequency — 'Increased deploys from weekly to 50/day'
- MTTR — 'Reduced mean time to recovery from 2hr to 15min'
- Cost — 'Reduced cloud spend by $1M annually'
- Automation — 'Automated 90% of manual operations'
- Scale — 'Managed infrastructure serving 10M users'
Technical Skills
Cloud Platforms
AWS, GCP, Azure — include certifications if you have them
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible
Containers & Orchestration
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ECS
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty
CI/CD
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD
Bullet Point Examples
✅ Strong
"Designed and implemented Kubernetes platform serving 50 microservices, reducing deployment time from 2 hours to 10 minutes while achieving 99.95% uptime."
✅ Strong
"Migrated 100+ services to Terraform, reducing infrastructure provisioning time by 80% and eliminating configuration drift across 3 environments."
✅ Strong
"Led incident response for P0 outages, reducing MTTR from 90 minutes to 20 minutes through improved runbooks and automated diagnostics."