Cloud Engineer resume example

Cloud engineer resumes should show the platforms you build on and the results of your work. Hiring managers look for AWS, Azure or GCP, infrastructure as code, reliability, cost savings and migrations.

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Key skills for a cloud engineer resume

AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
Kubernetes and containers
Networking and IAM
Monitoring and reliability
Cloud cost optimisation

Summary

Cloud engineer with 6 years of experience designing and running AWS and Azure platforms. Migrated 120 workloads to the cloud, cut monthly infrastructure costs by 35% and keep production at 99.98% uptime with Terraform, Kubernetes and strong monitoring.

Experience

Cloud EngineerMay 2021 – Present

Rakuten

Migrated 120 on-premise workloads to AWS with no customer-facing downtime
Reduced monthly cloud costs by 35% through rightsizing and reserved instances
Built Terraform modules used by 25 product teams
Maintained 99.98% uptime for services handling 50,000 requests per second

Infrastructure EngineerApr 2018 – Apr 2021

NTT Data

Automated server provisioning, cutting setup time from 3 days to 20 minutes
Designed Azure network and IAM policies for 8 enterprise clients

How to write a cloud engineer resume

Name the cloud provider and services you use, not just "cloud".
Quantify cost savings, uptime and the size of migrations you led.
List cloud certifications; recruiters filter on them.

ATS keywords for cloud engineer jobs

Applicant tracking systems rank resumes by how well they match the job post. Use the keywords that appear in the posting you are applying for — these are the most common:

cloud engineer
AWS
Azure
Terraform
Kubernetes
infrastructure as code
CI/CD
IAM
cloud migration
cost optimization

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