SRE and Platform Engineer Resume Guide 2026

SRE vs. Platform Engineer vs. DevOps: Positioning Your Resume

• •SRE: Reliability-focused; SLOs/SLAs, incident response, eliminating toil, capacity planning.
• •Platform Engineer: Developer-experience focused; internal tooling, CI/CD, Kubernetes platforms, golden paths.
• •DevOps: Broader delivery focus; bridging dev and ops, automation, infrastructure.

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SRE Experience Bullets

"Owned reliability for 12 production services across 3 AWS regions -- maintained 99.98% uptime SLO with P99 latency < 120ms; on-call rotation with avg MTTR of 14 minutes."

"Eliminated 6 recurring toil items through automation (Python and Kubernetes operators) -- reduced on-call burden by 8 hours/week per engineer."

"Led post-mortem program across 40-engineer engineering org -- introduced blameless RCA template, published 24 post-mortems in 12 months, and tracked remediation closure rate to 89%."

Platform Engineer Experience Bullets

"Built internal developer platform on Kubernetes -- reduced new service time-to-deploy from 2 weeks to 4 hours; adopted by 45 engineering teams."

"Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions and ArgoCD) serving 180+ repositories -- achieved 99.6% pipeline reliability and reduced build time by 40% through caching."

Core Skills for SRE/Platform

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Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, AWS/GCP/Azure

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins, Spinnaker

Languages: Go, Python, Bash

Reliability: SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, incident response, chaos engineering

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Key ATS Keywords

site reliability engineering, SLO, SLA, error budget, incident response, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, Prometheus, Grafana, platform engineering, CI/CD, GitOps, chaos engineering, MTTR, availability.

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