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DevOps Engineer

Technology

You build and maintain the pipelines, infrastructure, and automation that let developers ship code without the whole system catching fire. You live in the world of CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and monitoring dashboards. When production is healthy, nobody knows you exist. When production is down, you're the most important person in the building. The on-call rotation will age you in dog years.

Salary Range

Low

$85k

Median

$125k

High

$180k

10-Year Growth

much faster

US Workers

55K

Education

Bachelor's in CS or IT + deep knowledge of Linux, containers, CI/CD, and cloud platforms

Environment

indoor

Tools & Technical Skills

  • ▸CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
  • ▸Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
  • ▸Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi)
  • ▸Linux systems administration
  • ▸Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty)
  • ▸Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • ▸Scripting (Bash, Python)

People & Mindset Skills

  • ▸Calm under production pressure
  • ▸Cross-team collaboration
  • ▸Automation-first thinking
  • ▸Incident communication
  • ▸Continuous improvement mindset

Learn the skills

Courses and certifications to get you job-ready

CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)

CIBM DevOps and Software Engineering Certificate (IBM)$49/mo

Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)

CIBM DevOps and Software Engineering Certificate (IBM)$49/mo

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

CAWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (AWS)$49/moCMicrosoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 (Microsoft)$49/mo

Scripting (Bash, Python)

CMeta Back-End Developer Professional Certificate (Meta)$49/moCIBM Data Science Professional Certificate (IBM)$49/mo
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What you'll actually do

  • 01Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that turn 'git push' into a deployed application without human intervention
  • 02Manage Kubernetes clusters and pretend you fully understand every YAML file in the repo (you don't, nobody does)
  • 03Respond to production alerts at 3 AM and troubleshoot issues with the cognitive clarity of a sleep-deprived raccoon
  • 04Write infrastructure-as-code and fight the urge to just SSH into a box and fix it manually
  • 05Automate everything that can be automated and then automate the monitoring of the automation
  • 06Explain to developers that 'it works on my machine' is not a deployment strategy

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