A DevOps engineer’s roles and responsibilities are a combination of technical and management roles. It is essential to have excellent communication and coordination skills to successfully integrate various functions in a coordinated manner and deliver the responsibilities to the customer’s satisfaction.

Skills

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or related role
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Travis CI, or CircleCI
• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Nagios
• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide support to development teams as needed
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Stay up-to-date with the latest DevOps trends and technologies and make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and tools.

Responsibilities

• 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 skill 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.