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Infrastructure Engineer resume keywords

Core keywords are the skill list on the Infrastructure Engineer resume example.

See the matching Infrastructure Engineer resume example. For which applicant tracking systems large employers use, read the State of ATS 2026 report.

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Counted on 2026-10-10 from 115 public job postings whose titles match Infrastructure Engineer. Those postings came from Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, and SmartRecruiters. A posting is counted for this role when the longest published job-title phrase in its title is Infrastructure Engineer. The crawl queried Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and SmartRecruiters for 133 employers in the State of ATS 2026 dataset that use those vendors, and for 279 additional public boards from the extended coverage tier. The extended boards are not part of the 738-company statistics. 361 boards returned postings out of 412 boards attempted, and 46923 postings were scanned. HTML was stripped before counting, and each posting counts once per term. Phrases beyond the published skill list are the most common two- and three-word phrases in the matched postings. Posting text is not stored. A role page shows these percentages only when at least 30 descriptions were counted.

Core keywords

These are the terms to put on the resume when they match work you have done.

  • Terraform

    38% of 115 recent postings mention Terraform.

  • AWS

    43% of 115 recent postings mention AWS.

  • Kubernetes

    54% of 115 recent postings mention Kubernetes.

  • Linux

    43% of 115 recent postings mention Linux.

  • Networking

    46% of 115 recent postings mention Networking.

  • Security

    57% of 115 recent postings mention Security.

  • Automation

    57% of 115 recent postings mention Automation.

  • Monitoring

    53% of 115 recent postings mention Monitoring.

Supporting keywords

The skills catalog does not name extra terms for this role. The core list above is the published skill list.

Phrases from recent postings

These phrases showed up often in the matched postings and are not already on the published skill list.

  • infrastructure engineer

    70% of 115 recent postings mention infrastructure engineer.

  • computer science

    50% of 115 recent postings mention computer science.

  • large scale

    42% of 115 recent postings mention large scale.

  • production systems

    39% of 115 recent postings mention production systems.

  • incident response

    37% of 115 recent postings mention incident response.

  • long term

    37% of 115 recent postings mention long term.

  • cloud infrastructure

    36% of 115 recent postings mention cloud infrastructure.

  • distributed systems

    35% of 115 recent postings mention distributed systems.

  • engineering teams

    34% of 115 recent postings mention engineering teams.

  • cutting edge

    31% of 115 recent postings mention cutting edge.

  • open source

    31% of 115 recent postings mention open source.

  • software engineering

    30% of 115 recent postings mention software engineering.

Where to place them

  1. 1

    Headline

    Put the target title and two core terms on the line under your name: Infrastructure Engineer | Terraform | AWS.

  2. 2

    Skills

    List the core terms together in the skills section: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Networking, Security, Automation, Monitoring.

  3. 3

    Experience

    Use Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes inside bullets for work you did in this role, next to the result.

Sample lines from the resume example

These lines are already published on the Infrastructure Engineer resume example. Use them as a pattern for where a keyword sits next to a result, and replace the details with your own.

  • Managed cloud infrastructure supporting 500+ services across 3 AWS regions with 99.99% uptime
  • Implemented infrastructure as code with Terraform managing 2000+ resources across multiple accounts
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by $1.2M annually through right-sizing and reserved capacity planning
  • Designed disaster recovery architecture achieving 15-minute RPO and 1-hour RTO

Questions about Infrastructure Engineer keywords

What keywords should a Infrastructure Engineer resume include?

Core keywords for a Infrastructure Engineer resume are Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Networking, Security, Automation, Monitoring. Core keywords are the skill list on the Infrastructure Engineer resume example. Percentages are the share of 115 public postings fetched on 2026-10-10 whose titles match this role.

Where should Infrastructure Engineer keywords go on a resume?

Headline: Put the target title and two core terms on the line under your name: Infrastructure Engineer | Terraform | AWS. Skills: List the core terms together in the skills section: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Networking, Security, Automation, Monitoring. Experience: Use Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes inside bullets for work you did in this role, next to the result.

How do I check a Infrastructure Engineer resume?

Open the free ATS checker with Infrastructure Engineer prefilled, paste your resume, and compare it with the keyword list on this page.

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