Are certifications important for DevOps jobs?

They help, especially cloud ones like AWS Solutions Architect, but hands-on work with numbers matters more. List both.

How do I move into DevOps from support or sysadmin work?

Show automation you built, scripts, pipelines or infrastructure as code, and describe the time or errors it saved.

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DevOps Engineer resume example

DevOps engineers automate how software is built, released and run so teams can ship quickly and safely.

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Imran Sheikh

Noida, Uttar Pradesh · +91 90000 00107 · [email protected]

Summary

DevOps engineer with 5 years of experience automating builds, releases and cloud infrastructure on AWS. Focused on reliability, security and cutting the time from code commit to production.

Experience

DevOps Engineer, Cirrus Cloud Services

Noida · Feb 2023 to Present

Built CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions that cut release time from 3 days to 4 hours.
Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform for 30+ AWS resources across 3 environments.
Reduced monthly cloud spend by 27% by right-sizing instances and removing idle resources.
Set up Prometheus and Grafana monitoring that lowered incident response time by 50%.

Systems Engineer, Yamuna Infotech

Noida · Jul 2020 to Jan 2023

Containerised 12 applications with Docker and ran them on Kubernetes.
Automated server patching with Ansible, covering 150 servers with no manual steps.
Maintained 99.95% uptime for customer-facing services over 18 months.

Education

B.Tech, Electronics and Communication, Delhi Technical Institute, Noida (2016 to 2020) · CGPA 7.9/10

Skills

AWS · Terraform · Docker · Kubernetes · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · Ansible · Linux · Prometheus · Grafana · Bash · Python scripting

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services (2022)

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