Infrastructure Engineer
Resume Template

A free Infrastructure Engineer resume, pre-filled and ready to edit. Replace the highlighted placeholders (cloud platforms, IaC tools, Kubernetes stack, CI/CD platform, metrics) using the side panel on the left, and the resume rewrites itself as you type. Save as PDF when you're done.

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Avery Brooks Infrastructure Engineer

New York, NY infra@gmail.com +1 6465-3333

Profile Summary

  • Infrastructure Engineer with 7 years of experience designing and operating internal developer platforms across consumer-internet platforms, content delivery, and developer tooling, specializing in Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure as code, and reliability engineering.
  • Solid technical background across cloud (AWS, GCP), IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm + Istio), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), and languages (Go, Python) with strong fundamentals in Linux internals, networking, and Bash automation.
  • Deep expertise in internal developer platforms, Kubernetes-native architecture, GitOps workflows, and zero-downtime deployments, leveraging methodologies such as golden paths and paved roads to drive scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure platforms.
  • Engaged collaborator working cross-functionally with Application, Security, and Finance teams in Agile environments, contributing to architecture reviews, platform-roadmap discussions, and post-incident retrospectives with a pragmatic, ownership-first mindset.
  • Emerging leader who shares technical excellence and fosters a culture of platform thinking and developer-experience focus through PR reviews and runbooks, while leading infrastructure guild sessions and authoring widely adopted Terraform module templates.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms:
AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM), GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL), Azure (AKS)
Infrastructure as Code:
Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm
Containers & Orchestration:
Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio, Argo Rollouts
CI/CD & Delivery:
GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Flux
Networking & Connectivity:
VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront, VPN, BGP
Security & IAM:
IAM, Vault, KMS, Trivy, SOC 2, ISO 27001
Observability & Monitoring:
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, ELK, Loki
Languages & Scripting:
Go, Python, Bash, SQL, YAML

Education

University of Michigan B.S. in Computer Science
Ann Arbor, MI Sep 2014 - May 2018

Work Experience

Reddit Senior Infrastructure Engineer
New York, NY Sep 2022 - Present
  • Own the end-to-end infrastructure platform for content-serving services at 15M+ DAU, leading design across cloud architecture, container orchestration, and CI/CD for 80+ microservices in a polyglot AWS + GCP environment.
  • Authored the Terraform and Pulumi module library for cluster, network, and database provisioning, shipping reusable bootstrap modules, policy-as-code via Sentinel, and drift-detection automation, cutting per-team onboarding lead time from 2 weeks to 1 day across 40+ engineering teams.
  • Built the CI/CD platform on GitHub Actions and ArgoCD with GitOps deployment, progressive delivery via Flagger, and automated rollback on SLO breach, operating 220+ pipelines and cutting commit-to-prod lead time from 4 hours to 18 minutes.
  • Operated Kubernetes clusters across 3 regions with Istio service mesh, Helm chart standardization, and horizontal pod autoscaling, supporting 80+ services with 99.95% control-plane availability.
  • Designed the multi-cloud VPC architecture on Transit Gateway peering with service discovery via HashiCorp Consul and centralized ingress hardening through WAF and inspection VPCs, connecting 40+ accounts at 62ms p95 cross-cloud latency.
  • Implemented the multi-cloud IAM strategy on least-privilege roles, secrets management via HashiCorp Vault, and container image scanning via Trivy, meeting SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 controls and reducing audit findings from 28 to 0 across two consecutive cycles.
  • Established the SLI/SLO program for 20 tier-1 services, defining EKS autoscaling policies, load testing via k6, and quarterly capacity-headroom reviews that absorbed a 3.5x holiday traffic surge with zero degradation.
Pinterest Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco, CA Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
  • Built the unified observability stack on Prometheus and Grafana, defining SLO dashboards, distributed tracing, and structured logging for 45 services and reducing mean time to detect from 22 minutes to 2 minutes.
  • Served as on-call rotation lead for the platform team, coordinating 35 SEV1/SEV2 incidents and facilitating the team's blameless postmortem program with action-item tracking and a weekly incident review board, lifting close rate from 48% to 91% within three quarters.
  • Drove the FinOps program around a Reserved Instance and Savings Plan portfolio, org-wide tagging policy, and rightsizing automation via Cloud Custodian, cutting annual cloud spend by 24% (~$5.2M) without service-level impact.
  • Partnered with Application, Security, and Finance teams across 6 product domains on platform standards, compliance controls, and cost-allocation policies, authoring 9 platform RFCs that shaped the org's golden-path rollout and onboarding 13 new infrastructure engineers.

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About this template

An Infrastructure Engineer
Resume Template, by an Engineering Resume Specialist.

Real talk: 14 years in tech recruiting, spent a stretch at Google. Today I work as an engineering resume specialist for IT and engineering candidates, and Infrastructure Engineer rewrites regularly hit my inbox. The angle: I read these CVs from the screening side, several times a week. Useful when you're trying to figure out what passes a 6-second screen and what stalls.

Most clients want the full custom rewrite. We dig into the actual platforms you ran, the IaC modules and pipelines you built, the reliability and cost wins worth promoting. Sometimes that's overkill. If the gap is just a clean skeleton with infrastructure-shaped placeholders, that's what this template is. ATS-clean, free, no signup. Worth a try.

How it works

How to use this template
to write an Infrastructure Engineer resume

The structure here was written by a former Google recruiter. The placeholders force you to be specific exactly where it matters: tools, services, infrastructure architecture, and metrics.

Strong Infrastructure Engineer bullets aren't written in a single pass. They build through five stages. Stage one names the task. Stages two and three add the tools you used and the platforms they ran on. Stage four shows the architectural decision behind the work. Stage five quantifies the result. Bullets that complete stage five are the ones a hiring manager flags for the phone screen. The complete framework lives in How to Write Bullet Points for Tech Resumes.

  1. 01 Task What you did
  2. 02 Tools Terraform, Helm, Go
  3. 03 Platforms k8s, AWS, GCP
  4. 04 Architecture How you designed
  5. 05 Metric Quantified impact

This template hard-wires the five stages into your bullets so the framework runs in the background. The side panel maps clean: IaC and language picks fill stage 2, container and cloud picks fill stage 3, the architecture-pattern fields fill stage 4, the metric inputs land at stage 5. The sentence skeletons cover stage 1. Why this matters: you only need to drop in real tools and real numbers. The structure handles the rest, and the resume reads at stage 5.

  1. Pick your stack

    Tap a chip to swap Terraform for Pulumi, Kubernetes for ECS or Nomad, ArgoCD for Flux, GitHub Actions for GitLab CI. Every mention updates at once.

  2. Drop in your numbers

    Pipeline count, lead time, cluster uptime, audit findings, MTTD, savings %. Don't have yours yet? The defaults pass for a senior Infrastructure Engineer resume.

  3. Save as PDF

    Click Download. The page generates a real vector PDF with selectable text and clean US Letter formatting. ATS-parsable.

Resume Sample

Infrastructure Engineer Resume Examples

Three sample infrastructure engineer resumes at different career stages: a junior platform engineer who pivoted from helpdesk, a senior IC owning a Bazel migration at a scaleup, and a staff infrastructure engineer tech-leading an internal developer platform at a Fortune 100 bank. Use them as inspiration when filling the template above.

Entry-level Infrastructure Engineer Resume Sample 2 years

Junior Infrastructure Engineer Resume Example

Pivot from helpdesk into platform engineering. Owns the CI build agents and the developer-laptop provisioning script.

Tomás Herrera

Junior Infrastructure Engineer

New York, NY · tomas.herrera@gmail.com · +1 646-555-0152 · linkedin.com/in/tomasherrera

Profile Summary
  • Junior Infrastructure Engineer with 2 years of experience supporting a platform-engineering team at a top creative SaaS, pivoting from a helpdesk background with a strong scripting habit and a curiosity for build systems.
  • Hands-on coverage across Linux, Bash and Python, Git with GitHub Actions, Jenkins (basic), Docker, basic Kubernetes (kubectl), Terraform (basic), Ansible (basic), and AWS (EC2, S3, IAM basics).
  • Owns the CI build agents and the developer-laptop provisioning script, learning Buildkite and self-service developer-environment patterns under senior platform-engineer review.
  • Eager collaborator working with developer experience, security, and IT in Agile environments, contributing to pipeline reviews, runbook drafts, and on-call shadow shifts.
Technical Skills
Operating Systems & Scripting:
Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux), macOS fleet, Bash, Python (proficient)
CI/CD & Build:
Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins (basic), Buildkite (intro), Make
Containers & Orchestration:
Docker, Kubernetes (basic kubectl), Helm (read)
Infrastructure as Code:
Terraform (basic), Ansible (basic), AWS CloudFormation (read)
Cloud:
AWS (EC2, S3, IAM basics, Route 53 read), basic VPC concepts
Tooling:
Jira, Confluence, Slack, Datadog (basic dashboards)
Education
Queens College, CUNY B.S. in Computer Science Queens, NY · Sep 2018 - May 2022
Work Experience
Squarespace Junior Infrastructure Engineer New York, NY · Sep 2023 - Present
  • Maintains 12 CI pipelines in GitHub Actions and Buildkite for the commerce and analytics teams, including triage of 52 broken builds over the past 4 quarters under senior platform-engineer review.
  • Owns the developer-laptop provisioning script (Bash + Ansible) used to bootstrap 240 macOS engineering laptops, cutting onboarding setup time from 2 days to 4 hours.
  • Contributed to a self-service Terraform module for staging environments, adopted by 5 product squads after senior review and 2 RFC iterations.
  • Built 4 Datadog dashboards covering CI agent health, queue depth, and median build time, surfacing 3 chronic slow steps later refactored by the build team.
  • Shipped Python tooling for GitHub Actions usage reporting across 180 repositories, supporting the platform team's monthly cost-of-CI review.
Vimeo IT Helpdesk & Junior Platform (pivot) New York, NY · May 2022 - Aug 2023
  • Provided Tier-2 helpdesk support for 320 engineering and creative staff, resolving 1,400 tickets over 15 months with a 96% CSAT.
  • Pair-rotated with the platform team on 11 CI tickets, learning Jenkins and Docker basics and contributing fixes to 4 flaky pipelines.
  • Shipped a Bash + Ansible bootstrap script that automated laptop reimaging for 180 macOS devices, cutting reimage time by 60%.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Resume Sample 7 years

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Resume Example

Senior IC on a platform-engineering team. Owns the Bazel migration and the internal developer portal.

Linnea Karlsson

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco, CA · linnea.karlsson@gmail.com · +1 415-555-0181 · linkedin.com/in/linneakarlsson

Profile Summary
  • Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 7 years of experience on platform-engineering teams at high-traffic social and data platforms, specializing in monorepo build systems, developer experience, and build-tooling migrations.
  • Hands-on coverage across Bazel (rules_python, rules_go), Buildkite and GitHub Actions, Backstage, Terraform with Terragrunt, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE), Go, Python, and Rust (platform tooling).
  • Deep expertise in monorepo strategy (Bazel, Pants), remote-execution and build-cache infrastructure (Sccache), and build-observability via Datadog and Honeycomb.
  • Engaged collaborator working with developer-experience, infrastructure, and security teams, leading RFC authorship for monorepo strategy and chairing the bi-weekly Platform Forum.
  • Emerging tech lead who mentors 3 mid-level platform engineers, runs the Backstage onboarding cohort, and authors the org's build-systems playbook.
Technical Skills
Build Systems:
Bazel (rules_python, rules_go), Pants, BUILD-file authoring, remote-execution, build-cache infra
CI/CD & Developer Portals:
Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Backstage (developer portal), Argo Workflows
Languages:
Go, Python, Rust (platform tooling), Starlark, Bash
Containers & Orchestration:
Kubernetes (EKS, GKE), Helm, ArgoCD, Docker, containerd
Infrastructure as Code:
Terraform, Terragrunt, Atlantis, Crossplane (intro)
Build Performance & Caching:
Sccache, remote-execution (Bazel BES), build-cache invalidation strategy
Build Observability:
Datadog, Honeycomb, build-event-stream analysis, flaky-test detection
Leadership:
RFC authorship, mentorship, Backstage onboarding cohort, platform playbook
Education
KTH Royal Institute of Technology B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science Stockholm, Sweden · Sep 2013 - Jun 2018
Work Experience
Reddit Senior Infrastructure Engineer San Francisco, CA · Aug 2022 - Present
  • Owns the Bazel build for the 8M-LOC monorepo, including BUILD-file authoring, rules_python and rules_go upkeep, and the remote-execution farm on Buildkite.
  • Cut p50 CI build time from 18 minutes to 7 minutes (a 61% reduction) via Sccache, Bazel remote-execution tuning, and build-cache hit-rate improvements from 54% to 88%.
  • Shipped Backstage as the internal developer portal for 320 engineers, including service-catalog ingestion, TechDocs, and 9 self-service Scaffolder templates.
  • Authored the monorepo strategy RFC adopted by 4 product orgs, defining ownership boundaries, language-tier policy, and migration phasing.
  • Built Datadog and Honeycomb observability for the build-event stream, surfacing 22 flaky tests per week and a long-tail of slow targets that drove a 30% reduction in median dev-loop time.
  • Mentored 3 mid-level platform engineers through senior trajectory; runs the Backstage onboarding cohort and chairs the bi-weekly Platform Forum.
Cloudera Infrastructure Engineer Palo Alto, CA · Jul 2018 - Jul 2022
  • Built and operated the Buildkite-based CI estate for the data-platform org, scaling agent fleets from 40 to 220 agents across spot and on-demand.
  • Led the Pants-to-Bazel migration for the Java + Python data-services monorepo, moving 180 targets over 11 months with zero CI freeze periods.
  • Shipped Go tooling that automated 180 Terraform module version bumps per quarter, cutting manual upgrade toil by 20 engineer-hours per release.
  • Mentored 4 mid-level engineers on Bazel and Buildkite internals; chaired the team's quarterly build-perf review.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Resume Sample 14 years

Staff Infrastructure Engineer Resume Example

Tech lead at a Fortune-100 bank. Manages 9 platform engineers and the firm's internal developer platform.

Gbemi Adesanya

Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Jersey City, NJ · gbemi.adesanya@gmail.com · +1 201-555-0196 · linkedin.com/in/gbemiadesanya

Profile Summary
  • Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of experience leading platform-engineering programs across regulated financial services, specializing in internal developer platforms, monorepo migrations, and regulatory IT controls.
  • Hands-on coverage across Bazel and Pants, Backstage and Spinnaker, Crossplane, Terraform with Atlantis, Kubernetes (EKS and on-prem OpenShift), Go, Python, and Java (platform tooling).
  • Deep expertise in IDP governance, multi-year monorepo migrations, and regulatory IT controls (SOX-IT, FFIEC), with Vault + HSM patterns for signing key custody.
  • Cross-functional leader partnering with engineering MDs, security, and audit to shape the firm's developer-platform roadmap, present cost-of-platform briefings to the CTO, and own annual IT-controls audit posture.
  • People manager and tech lead, directly managing 9 platform engineers and owning the internal developer platform for 14,000 developers across the consumer and corporate-investment-bank technology orgs.
Technical Skills
Build Systems & Monorepo:
Bazel, Pants, BUILD-file authoring, remote-execution, build-cache infra, language-tier policy
Developer Platform:
Backstage (IDP), Spinnaker, Crossplane, self-service Scaffolder templates
Languages:
Go, Python, Java (platform tooling), Starlark, Bash
Containers & Orchestration:
Kubernetes (EKS, on-prem OpenShift), Helm, ArgoCD, Docker
Infrastructure as Code:
Terraform, Atlantis, Terragrunt, Crossplane
Source Control & CI:
GitHub Enterprise, GitLab self-managed, Jenkins (legacy estate), Buildkite
Security & Secrets:
Vault, HSM-backed signing, mTLS, OPA Gatekeeper, IAM least-privilege
Regulatory IT Controls:
SOX-IT, FFIEC, evidence collection, audit-pass posture
Leadership:
People management, hiring loops, RFC governance, exec-board IDP investment briefings
Education
Stevens Institute of Technology B.S. in Computer Science Hoboken, NJ · Sep 2009 - May 2013
Work Experience
JPMorgan Chase Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Tech Lead) Jersey City, NJ · Jan 2021 - Present
  • Manages 9 platform engineers across 2 squads, owning the internal developer platform serving 14,000 developers across consumer and corporate-investment-bank technology orgs.
  • Drove a 3-year monorepo migration consolidating 180 Java and Go services from per-repo Jenkins onto a Bazel monorepo with Spinnaker delivery, cutting deploy lead time from 3.4 days to 11 hours (a 87% reduction).
  • Shipped the Backstage IDP as the firm's developer entry point, including 22 Scaffolder templates, TechDocs adoption, and Spinnaker pipeline generation for 1,200 services.
  • Owns the SOX-IT and FFIEC control posture for the platform, partnering with internal audit on 4 consecutive clean audit cycles and cutting evidence-collection toil by 60%.
  • Presents cost-of-platform briefings to the CTO quarterly and the engineering board annually; chair of the firm-wide Developer Platform Governance Council.
  • Sponsored the Vault + HSM migration for code-signing keys across 3 build farms, reducing key-rotation toil by 70% and clearing 3 prior audit findings.
  • Partnered with HR on a senior-platform-engineer hiring loop that placed 14 hires over 20 months; co-authored the firm's platform-engineering ladder and promotion rubric.
Citigroup Senior Infrastructure Engineer New York, NY · Jul 2013 - Dec 2020
  • Built and operated the Jenkins build estate for the equities and FX technology orgs, scaling from 80 to 540 agents across on-prem and cloud.
  • Led the OpenShift on-prem rollout for 180 latency-sensitive services over 22 months, replacing a VM estate and cutting deploy time per service from 45 minutes to 6 minutes.
  • Shipped Java and Python platform tooling consumed by 2,800 engineers, including a self-service Terraform-module catalog and a central GitHub Enterprise audit-log exporter.
  • Mentored 6 mid-level engineers through senior trajectory and ran the team's quarterly platform-performance review.

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Frequently asked

Your Questions about the Infrastructure Engineer Resume Template, Answered

Yes, fully free. No signup, no email gate, no premium tier hiding behind it. Open the template, fill the placeholders, save the PDF, you're set.

Yes. The exported PDF is single-column with the section headers ATS systems read by default (Profile Summary, Technical Skills, Education, Work Experience), no tables, no images, no multi-column layouts. Workday, Greenhouse, and iCIMS handle it cleanly. Drop the export into our ATS Checker after if you want a second look.

You can. Toggle Edit at the top of the resume preview, then click into any sentence and rewrite it directly. The side-panel placeholders keep updating; the rest of the text is plain editable copy.

Click Download. Your browser builds the PDF on the spot, no print dialog, no signup, no server in the loop. The output is real vector text on US Letter, parsed by ATS systems the same way they parse any clean resume export.

Yes. The defaults lean Terraform + Kubernetes + ArgoCD + AWS because that's what dominates 2026 Infrastructure Engineer JDs, but every reference is a placeholder. Swap Terraform for Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Ansible. Swap Kubernetes for ECS or Nomad. Swap ArgoCD for Flux, Spinnaker, or Jenkins. Swap AWS for GCP or Azure. The side panel updates the resume across every mention.

Infrastructure Engineer leans toward platform thinking: building the layer that other engineering teams ship on. Cloud Engineer leans toward cloud-architecture decisions and FinOps; DevOps Engineer leans toward delivery pipelines and developer experience; SRE leans toward reliability operations. The bullet patterns and emphasis differ across the four templates so each one targets the right keywords for its job-description pool. Pick the one that matches the title on the JDs you're applying to.

No. Hiring managers screen on substance: the platforms you actually built, the IaC modules and pipelines you owned, the reliability and cost wins you can defend in a screen. Layout origin is not on the rubric. What does cost interviews is a template stuffed with vague infra-speak, which this one is structured to prevent. The skeleton came from a former Google recruiter; the substance is yours.

Why trust this template

Emmanuel Gendre, former Google recruiter and tech resume writer

Emmanuel Gendre

Former Google recruiter · Tech resume writer

I built this Infrastructure Engineer template from the patterns I saw work, not from generic advice. Below is the data behind every bullet, skills line, and metric placeholder.

  • Experience 1,100+ Infrastructure Engineer resumes screened across consumer-internet, content delivery, and developer-tooling stacks during my Google recruiter years and at TechieCV. The Profile Summary and Skills sections mirror what survived the 6-second screen.
  • Expertise Bullets modeled on senior offers. The Reddit section is structured the way Senior and Staff Infrastructure Engineers write their experience when they land FAANG and large-scaleup interviews: platform-level ownership across cloud, IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, networking, security, and reliability, backed by hard numbers on lead time, uptime, and audit posture.
  • Trust Stack reflects the 2026 hiring bar. Terraform + Kubernetes + ArgoCD + GitHub Actions on AWS + GCP is what hiring managers expect today; suggestion chips cover realistic alternatives (Pulumi, CloudFormation, ECS, Nomad, Flux, Spinnaker, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure) so you can match your real toolchain without losing keyword fit.
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Disclaimer. This template is a starting point. Defaults are illustrative; replace every metric and tool with values that reflect your real work. Tailor wording to each job description.