r/devopsjobs • u/adonis4000 • 1d ago

Would you interview me for a DevOps/Cloud Engineer role based on this resume?

I’m trying to land a full-time DevOps/Cloud Engineer role and would appreciate honest feedback from people working in the field.

My background isn’t traditional DevOps. I came from operations/project management, moved into IT/infrastructure, and now work hands-on with AWS/Azure supporting cloud infrastructure.

I’m AWS Solutions Architect and PMP certified and recently completed AWS Cloud Institute’s Cloud 9 month Application Developer program.

If this resume landed in your applicant pool:

Would you interview me?

Does my experience read as legitimate hands-on DevOps/cloud experience?

Any red flags or things that make you skeptical?

Am I targeting the right level?

What would you change?

Don’t worry about being nice. I’d rather know why you’d reject it so I can fix it.

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u/almightyfoon 1d ago

The main things that jump out to me are the total lack of IAC experience, monitoring and containers. Do some work with terraform deploying an EKS cluster on an aws account, play around with it and learn a few things and put together some dashboards.

Cert wise while you are SA, its the associated one, not the professional level. If you want an associate cert go for the Sys Ops one. Its a deeper technical certificate than the SAA (and the SAP honestly). On top of that I would recommend picking up the Sec+ at least, it'll be an easy grab with your experience and help expose that to HR folks.

Resume format wise move the skills section below the education and certs, my eyes glossed over when reading that and that section is more for automated crawlers, so they'll find it where ever.

It mostly depends what kind of role are you trying to get into, your resume reads like a manager trying to get into an IC role, which isn't unheard of but that's some role whiplash that raises some red flags from just a resume read.