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Riley Chen
DevOps Engineer · AWS · Kubernetes · CI/CD
riley.chen@email.com
(555) 902-4411
Austin, TX
rileychendevops.com

Profile

I harden delivery pipelines and production platforms: faster deploys, clearer incidents, and cloud spend teams can explain.

Key achievements

  • Zero-downtime region failover
    Led failover drill that restored traffic in under 8 minutes across 2 AZs.
  • Pipeline adoption
    Standard CI templates adopted by 12 product teams in 2 quarters.

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Lattice Cloud
January 2022
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Present
Remote
Briefly describe the context of this role...
  • Raised deploy frequency from weekly to daily with GitHub Actions and progressive delivery
  • Cut p1 incident MTTR 45% by standardizing runbooks, paging and postmortems
  • Reduced AWS compute spend 31% via rightsizing, autoscaling and reserved coverage

Site Reliability Engineer (Associate)

BluePeak Media
September 2019
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December 2021
Austin, TX
Briefly describe the context of this role...
  • Maintained 99.95% uptime SLO for customer-facing APIs across 3 regions
  • Migrated workloads to Kubernetes with blue/green cutovers and zero data loss

Skills

Platform
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker
GitHub Actions
Reliability
Observability
Incident response
SLOs
Cost optimization

Languages

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services
•
2023

Education

B.S. Information Systems

Texas A&M University
2015
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2019
College Station, TX
CI/CD, reliability and cloud efficiency

DevOps engineer resume example

DevOps and platform hiring teams want proof you improved delivery speed, reliability and cost - not only tool names.

Lead with uptime, deploy frequency, incident MTTR and cloud savings tied to systems you owned.

What to highlight

  • Cloud + IaC: AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes
  • CI/CD outcomes: deploy frequency, change fail rate, rollback time
  • Reliability: SLOs, MTTR, on-call ownership
  • Cost and security improvements with numbers

Mistakes to avoid

  • Tool laundry lists without reliability or cost impact
  • Hiding on-call or incident ownership
  • Certifications without systems you actually ran

Frequently asked questions

DevOps vs SRE on the resume title?

Use the title from your offer letter or the job posting. Mirror keywords from the role while keeping your real scope honest.

Do certifications matter for DevOps?

They help for screening, especially AWS/GCP/CKA. Pair them with production ownership so they do not look empty.

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