Your DevOps Resume: Demonstrate That You're a Bridge Builder

Your DevOps resume has to show everything you do—the full range of your DevOps work—and as a DevOps engineer, you do a lot. Of course, there’s a large technical component—you leverage your extensive technical skills, encompassing both development and operations, to optimize software delivery and drive innovation. But just as importantly, you’re a communicator, a partner. You build the critical bridges across siloed teams to grow collaboration, and to unify, optimize, and automate key SDLC processes.

It’s a big job.

Your DevOps Resume Requires Balance

There's a lot of balance in a DevOps career—that's part of what makes the role interesting and challenging. You have to balance needs and goals from a range of teams—and develop and communicate effective solutions that address a range of needs and objectives. That's why your DevOps resume has to balance your technical and your interpersonal contributions clearly, concisely, and effectively to prove the range of contributions you’ve made in your DevOps career.

What Can Derail Your DevOps Resume?

There are some very common issues I see with many IT resumes—from individual contributors to IT leadership. The biggest issues, the biggest problems, are an overemphasis on technology and overemphasis on actions rather than results.

In my professional IT resume writing service, I've seen these problems time after time—and, as I mentioned, from clients from early career to C-level executives.

These issues can weaken any IT resume's strength and effectiveness—but they can be even more damaging to a DevOps resume.

That's because, as I mentioned above, collaboration, bridge building, and overcoming silos are as critical a part of a successful DevOps engineer's career as more quantifiable, technical accomplishments.

How Do I Communicate This in a DevOps Resume?

I'm J.M. Auron, and I've been writing IT resumes for more than 15 years full-time—and the process I use is very different than that used by most professional IT resume writing services.

I believe that a direct, personal conversation is the best way for me help you clarify your accomplishments, your goals—and for me to gather the data I need to craft your DevOps resume and LinkedIn profile. Questionnaires and worksheets are time consuming—and they just don't do the job.

One of the most common things I hear from my clients is, "That's a great question, JM!" I use my skills as a coach to stay connected throughout my conversations with clients—and to ensure that I'm asking the questions that unearth the critical accomplishments you may not even be aware of.

Then you can relax for a couple of weeks while I do the heavy lifting—and get you the best DevOps resume possible for your career.

And After your DevOps Resume is Completed?

My goal is to the your end-to-end career partner. That's why I include LinkedIn profiles and tech career coaching in my Gold and Platinum packages.

LinkedIn profiles are a critical document in your job search. LinkedIn is still the go-to platform for many recruiters to source talent. It's also the first place hiring authorities go to learn more about an interesting candidate.

That's one reason that I treat the LinkedIn profile as a more modern form of the old cover letter. I always use the first person ('I' statements) and focus on character and culture fit in the summary. That's important—because hiring authorities want to know more about who you are as a professional.

I also provide tech career coaching (at no charge) in my gold and platinum packages. In our coaching sessions we discuss everything from nuts-and-bolts job search questions to deeper issues around long-term career direction.

I'm always direct about pricing—and every other aspect of my process. The cost for my gold package—including DevOps resume, LinkedIn profile, and two one-hour coaching sessions—is $1397. My full pricing can be found here.

If you'd like to set up a free, 30-minute conversation to discuss learn more about how I work—and to mutually determine if working together makes good sense—here's my contact page.