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.

Emmanuel Gendre - Former Google Recruiter and Tech Resume Writer

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Emmanuel Gendre

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Last updated: May 8th, 2026 | Free, ATS-friendly, no signup

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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
  • Owned the end-to-end infrastructure platform for content-serving services at 15M+ DAU, leading design across cloud architecture, container orchestration, and CI/CD platform for 80+ microservices in a polyglot AWS + GCP environment.
  • Built a Terraform + Pulumi module library for cluster, network, and database provisioning, shipping reusable network/cluster 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 patterns, 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 a multi-cloud VPC architecture using Transit Gateway peering, HashiCorp Consul service discovery, and WAF and ingress hardening, connecting 40+ accounts at 62ms p95 cross-cloud latency.
  • Implemented a multi-cloud IAM strategy including least-privilege role hierarchies, HashiCorp Vault for secrets, container image scanning via Trivy, and encryption-in-transit policies, 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, defined EKS autoscaling policies, load testing with k6, and 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 a unified observability stack on Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, defining SLO dashboards, distributed tracing, and structured logging via Loki, covering 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 through org-wide tagging policy, a Reserved Instance and Savings Plan portfolio, and rightsizing automation via Cloud Custodian, cutting annual cloud spend by 24% (~$5.2M) without service-level impact.
  • Worked closely with Application, Security, and Finance teams across 6 product domains to negotiate 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: 12 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.

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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