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A DevOps engineer is responsible for the smooth operation of a company's IT infrastructure. They work with developers to deploy and manage code changes, and with operations staff to ensure that systems are up and running smoothly. A DevOps engineer introduces processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle, from coding and deployment to maintenance and updates.
Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
Setting up tools and required infrastructure
Defining and setting development, testing, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
Have the technical skills to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
Incidence management and root cause analysis
Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
Mentoring and guiding the team members
Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
A comprehensive background in OS administration, such as Linux and Windows;
Strong experience with a range of automation and configuration management tools such as traditional scripts, as well as more specific tools such as Puppet and Chef;
A clear understanding of coding and scripting with common languages, such as PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby;
Knowledge of at least one major coding language, such as C++ or Java;
The ability to identify, assess and integrate various open-source technologies and cloud services;
A strong IT hardware and operations background with hands-on expertise in servers, storage and network device installation, provisioning and monitoring. This is usually supplemented with a knowledge of IT best practices for fault-tolerant, high-availability operations;
Supportive and collaborative management abilities in a team environment, as well as proven customer-facing management skills;
Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies, such as VMware vSphere for VMs, as well as expertise with container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes;
Proven experience with CI/CD tools, such as Microsoft GitHub, Atlassian Jira and Confluence, Red Hat Ansible, Prometheus and Jenkins;
Detailed, hands-on experience with public cloud resources and services such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud;
Experience with a diverse range of IT monitoring and management tools, such as Cloudflare and Datadog; and
Knowledge of how to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in test and production environments.
