CLOUD AND FINOPS · CV · MIDSENIOR · CLOUD AND FINOPS · 2024
Mid-level cloud engineer relocating from India to Australia
A cloud engineer with 6 years on AWS, GCP, and Terraform, applying for senior roles in Sydney and Melbourne where the same work was being read as junior.
SITUATION
He had been applying for roles in Sydney and Melbourne for 7 months with very few responses. Most of the rejections cited level mismatch, despite the underlying work being clearly senior.
WHAT WE FOUND
The CV was 87% stack and 13% impact. Australian readers were taking it at face value: an experienced individual contributor, not a senior engineer. The level mismatch was being created by the document, not the work.
WHAT WE CHANGED
We restructured every role around the system owned, the team scope, and the call he was making, with the stack moved to a single technical band at the foot of each role. The summary was rewritten to lead with cost ownership and platform decisions, not toolchain.
OUTCOME
First Australian phone screen within 12 days. Three offers inside 6 weeks. He accepted a senior platform engineer position in Melbourne at the top of the advertised band.