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Resume Roast for DevOps Engineers

DevOps Engineer resumes tend to be tool inventories: Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, a dozen more. The recruiter has seen that exact list all morning. What stops the scan is consequence: deploys that got faster, outages that got rarer, cloud bills that got smaller. Infrastructure is invisible when it works, so your resume has to make the invisible measurable or it disappears too.

What Gabe checks first on a DevOps Engineer resume

Lead with an outcome per tool: cut deploy time from 40 minutes to 8 with a pipeline rewrite beats a comma-separated list of CI systems.
Quantify reliability, like uptime percentage, incident count down, mean time to recovery. Those numbers are the whole job, and almost nobody puts them on paper.
Mention cost work if you have done any. Trimmed the AWS bill by 30 percent gets a hiring manager reading closer, faster than any certification logo.

Worth knowing

Recruiters spend about 7 seconds on a first resume scan. (Ladders eye-tracking study)

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