DevOps Engineer Resume Example

# Avery Zhang
**DevOps Engineer** | Austin, TX | avery.zhang@email.com | (555) 123-4567

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## Summary

DevOps engineer with 5 years of experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure at scale. Specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation. Passionate about reliability engineering, developer experience, and infrastructure cost optimization.

## Experience

### Senior DevOps Engineer
**Datadog** | Austin, TX (Remote) | Feb 2022 - Present

- Managed Kubernetes clusters (500+ pods) across 3 AWS regions with 99.99% uptime SLA
- Built CI/CD platform using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, reducing deployment time from 45min to 8min
- Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 35% ($420K/year) through spot instances, right-sizing, and reserved capacity
- Implemented observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) reducing MTTR from 4 hours to 15 minutes
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform (200+ modules), eliminating manual setup entirely

### DevOps Engineer
**Twilio** | San Francisco, CA | Jun 2020 - Jan 2022

- Designed and implemented multi-region disaster recovery strategy with 15-minute RTO
- Built automated security scanning pipeline catching 40+ vulnerabilities before production
- Migrated 60+ microservices from EC2 to EKS, improving resource utilization by 50%
- Created developer self-service portal for environment provisioning, reducing setup time from 2 days to 30 minutes

### Systems Administrator
**Rackspace** | San Antonio, TX | Aug 2018 - May 2020

- Managed 200+ Linux servers for enterprise clients with 99.9% uptime guarantee
- Automated patch management and compliance reporting using Ansible and Python
- Reduced ticket resolution time by 40% through runbook automation and improved monitoring

## Skills

**Cloud:** AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFront), GCP, Azure
**IaC:** Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible
**Containers:** Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio
**CI/CD:** GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI
**Monitoring:** Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty, ELK Stack

## Certifications

- AWS Solutions Architect Professional — 2022
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — 2021

## Education

### B.S. Computer Engineering
**Texas A&M University** | 2014 - 2018