DevOps Engineer resume example

DevOps Engineer CV example from Edinburgh: 45 services moved to EKS, 20+ deploys a day, AWS bill cut 40% (£380k) and recovery time down to 25 minutes.

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Fraser McLeod

Senior Platform and DevOps Engineer | AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD

Edinburgh10 years of experience

Summary

Senior Platform Engineer with 10 years across systems administration, DevOps and platform teams. Builds the paved road for product engineers: Kubernetes on AWS, Terraform modules, and CI/CD pipelines that make deploying boring. Has cut cloud costs, shortened deploy times and led incident reviews that fix causes rather than symptoms.

Experience

Senior Platform EngineerMar 2022 - Present

Forthlight Energy

  • Led the move of 45 services from EC2 to Amazon EKS, with deployment frequency rising from weekly to 20+ deploys a day.
  • Cut the annual AWS bill by 40%, about £380k, through Graviton instances, spot node pools and savings plans.
  • Built a library of 30 Terraform modules now used by 8 product teams to provision infrastructure without tickets.
  • Mean time to recovery fell from 2 hours to 25 minutes after I introduced SLO-based alerting and blameless post-incident reviews.
  • Lead a platform team of 4 engineers.
DevOps EngineerJan 2019 - Feb 2022

Leith Software Ltd

  • Replaced a Jenkins setup with GitHub Actions for 60 repositories; average build time dropped from 18 minutes to 7.
  • Containerised the main SaaS product and ran it on Kubernetes with Helm and Argo CD.
  • Set up Prometheus and Grafana monitoring for the whole estate, replacing 3 separate tools.
Systems AdministratorSep 2016 - Dec 2018

Lothian Data Services

  • Managed 300 Linux and Windows servers across 2 data centres for hosting clients.
  • Automated server builds with Ansible, cutting provisioning time from 2 days to 3 hours.

Skills

  • AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM)
  • Kubernetes and Helm
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Argo CD)
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Ansible
  • Prometheus and Grafana
  • Python and Bash
  • FinOps and Cost Optimisation
  • Incident Management

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Education

BSc (Hons) Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, 2016

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What hiring managers check first

Delivery metrics

Deploy frequency, build time and recovery time are the DORA-style numbers engineering leaders track. Show how you moved them.

The platform, not just the tools

Explain what you built for other engineers, such as modules, pipelines or templates, and how many teams use it.

Cost awareness

Cloud spend is a board-level topic. A saving in pounds or percentage is a strong differentiator.

Certifications that match the stack

CKA and AWS professional-level certifications are recognised signals in UK DevOps hiring.

Keywords the applicant tracking system matches

  • DevOps Engineer
  • Platform Engineer
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux
  • Monitoring
  • SRE
  • Cloud Cost Optimisation

Use the ones that are true of you, in the words the posting uses.

Mistakes to avoid

  1. A tool list with no outcomes

    Kubernetes and Terraform appear on every DevOps CV. What sets you apart is what they enabled.

  2. Leaving out incidents

    How you handle outages says a lot. Include your on-call or incident review experience.

  3. Hiding leadership

    If you lead a team or set standards, say so clearly. It is key for senior and lead roles.

Questions

How long should a DevOps CV be in the UK?
Two pages for experienced engineers. Summarise roles older than about 8 years in a line or two each.
Is DevOps different from platform engineering?
The skills overlap heavily. Platform roles focus more on building internal tools for other engineers; use the title the posting uses in your headline.
Which certifications help most?
CKA for Kubernetes and an AWS, Azure or GCP professional-level certification for your main cloud. Experience still outweighs certificates.

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