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Everyone in this field lists Docker and Kubernetes. What separates resumes is what changed because of the work: deployment time that dropped, infrastructure cost that came down, an uptime number that improved. If you do not have a hard number, scope still counts, how many services, how many deploys a week, how large the environment you manage.
AWS, GCP and Azure are different hiring searches, and Kubernetes experience does not automatically mean Terraform experience. If a posting names a specific tool, like EKS, ArgoCD, or a particular CI system, and you have used it, say so in those words rather than a general "cloud infrastructure" phrase.
A percentage uptime, how often you deploy, how fast you resolve an incident: these show up in this job constantly, and stating them is far more credible than a general claim about reliability. If your team tracks these formally, an SLO, an incident postmortem log, pull the real numbers rather than estimating.
Most DevOps and platform roles carry an on-call rotation, and stating it plainly ("on call one week in six, average incident resolution time under 30 minutes") signals real operational maturity. The common mistake is describing infrastructure work only in terms of what was built, when a hiring manager also wants to know how it holds up in production at 3 a.m.
One page under about eight years of experience. Past that, two pages is reasonable once you are leading a platform team or own budget and reliability across multiple systems that a single page would compress into one line.
No. List what you would be comfortable being asked about in a technical interview tomorrow. A long list padded with tools you used once dilutes the ones you actually know deeply, and interviewers in this field tend to probe whatever is on the list.
Use relative or rounded figures instead of exact ones: "cut deployment time by roughly a third" or "reduced monthly cloud spend by six figures" still communicates real impact without disclosing numbers your employer would consider sensitive.
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