DevOps Engineer CV Example & Writing Guide
Infrastructure engineer specialising in CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, and platform reliability.
Regional CV conventions
These examples share the same content worldwide. The header, length and personal-data rules change by region. Showing guidance for UK (CV).
Length
One page under 5 years experience, two pages maximum for senior roles.
Photo
Not expected. Leave the photo off unless the employer asks for one.
Personal data
Name, phone, email and location only. Do not include date of birth, marital status or nationality.
Good to know
UK CVs follow the same no-photo, no-personal-data rule as North America.
Sample Professional Summary
"Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 7 years building cloud-native infrastructure at scale. AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD. Track record of improving reliability (99.99% SLA) and reducing infrastructure costs by 35%."
Example Achievement Bullets
- ✓Migrated 200+ microservices to Kubernetes on AWS EKS, cutting infrastructure costs by 35% (£420K annual saving)
- ✓Achieved and maintained 99.99% uptime SLA across all production systems for 18 consecutive months
- ✓Reduced deployment time from 45 minutes to under 4 minutes through CI/CD pipeline rebuild with GitHub Actions
Core Skills
Recruiter tips for DevOps Engineer CVs
- Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, GCP Professional) are increasingly treated as baseline. Get one if you don't have it.
- Show both the build and the maintain: anyone can set up Kubernetes, but who handles the on-call, the runbooks, the capacity planning?
- Mention your observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty. Visibility into systems is half the job.
- Cost savings are gold in DevOps CVs, every engineering leader wants to know you think about infrastructure spend.
Common CV mistakes for DevOps Engineers
- ✗Listing technologies without showing impact or scale
- ✗No mention of reliability or SLAs, DevOps is about uptime as much as deployment speed
- ✗Omitting the security aspect: IAM, secrets management, compliance, increasingly important
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