DevOps Engineer
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IT professionals who collaborate with software developers, system operators and other IT staff members to manage code releases.
Overview
You’ll certainly need to be tech-savvy for a career in ‘DevOps’.
The very concept of DevOps is to bridge the gap between ‘development’ and ‘operations’ and as the Engineer, it’s your job to make this happen.
As a Development Operations Engineer, you’ll support the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices and it’s your role to deliver automated software components that form part of a development operations toolchain.
You’ll be responsible for underpinning good development processes including managing tools and testing environments, central code control, maintaining development standards and writing software that automates systems.
You’ll need to be super flexible with the ability to multi-task as you’re likely to be dealing with multiple urgent situations at a time.
Top 5 Tasks
- Transform technical requirements into DevOps processes
- Build complex stories without additional support
- Understand information security and design solutions
- Identify and resolve issues preventing delivery
- Manage live test environments.
Salary
A career in DevOps can be quite lucrative, with an average salary of around £72,500 in the UK.
Am I Suited?
- Technically-minded
- Excellent communicator
- Logical
- Team player
- Flexible
Demand for DevOps Engineers is expected to increase rapidly as organisations strive to improve and develop their DevOps practices in the future.
Qualifications
Generally, you’ll need experience working in a software engineering or similar role before moving into DevOps.
You’ll also need to have completed a university or college course in a relevant subject, such as software development or computing.
Progression
