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DevOps Engineer CV example

Reliability, automation, and lead time. Numbers prove impact.

Sample professional summary

DevOps engineer who cut deploy time from 45 to 6 minutes and raised uptime to 99.95% via IaC and CI/CD.

Key skills recruiters look for

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • AWS
  • Observability
  • Docker

How to write strong bullet points

  • Quantify deploy frequency, lead time, uptime.
  • Name the platform and IaC tooling.
  • Show incident reduction.

DevOps Engineer career path & typical salary

How the role typically progresses, with the kind of responsibilities and approximate US base-salary range at each stage.

Junior DevOps / Cloud Engineer$75k–$110k

0–2 yrs

Maintains CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, handles tickets and on-call basics under guidance.

DevOps Engineer$110k–$150k

2–5 yrs

Owns pipelines, infrastructure and observability for products; automates and hardens delivery.

Senior DevOps / SRE$150k–$205k

5–8 yrs

Leads reliability and platform strategy, sets SLOs, and drives incident and capacity practices.

Staff / Principal Platform Engineer$200k–$300k+

8+ yrs

Owns platform architecture and reliability standards across the org; de-risks scaling.

Platform / SRE Manager (alt. track)$190k–$290k+

8+ yrs

Leads a platform/SRE team's roadmap, hiring and on-call health.

Salary figures are approximate US market estimates for general guidance only. Actual pay varies widely by location, industry, employer, education and negotiation.

Common DevOps Engineer interview questions

Practice structured answers (situation, action, measurable result) — the same achievements belong on your CV.

  • Walk me through a CI/CD pipeline you built and where it most often failed.
  • Describe an outage you handled — detection, mitigation and the follow-up fix.
  • How do you design infrastructure-as-code so changes are safe to roll back?
  • How do you decide what to alert on without drowning in noise?
  • Explain how you'd cut cloud cost without hurting reliability.
  • How do you secure secrets and access across environments?

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