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DevOps Engineer resume keywords
The skills, tools and terms recruiters search for when hiring a devops engineer, and a free check of which ones your resume is missing.
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD and one cloud provider are the core match. Quantify deploy frequency and uptime.
Skills and keywords
Tools and software
Soft skills
Use the exact wording from the posting you are applying to. Only include what is true for you.
Example devops engineer resume bullets
Keywords work best inside achievements. Each example pairs a keyword with a number:
- Automated infrastructure with Terraform across 3 AWS regions, cutting provisioning from days to 20 minutes
- Raised deploy frequency from weekly to 25 per day with a Jenkins and Kubernetes pipeline
- Improved uptime from 99.5% to 99.97% by adding monitoring and on-call runbooks
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Where to put keywords
- Summary: your job title in the posting's words plus your two strongest matching skills.
- Skills section: tools and hard skills, spelled the way the posting spells them.
- Experience bullets: each important skill used in a sentence with a result. A skill that appears only in a list is weak evidence.
More in how to tailor your resume in 15 minutes and how to add numbers to your bullets.