DevOps Engineer jobs

DevOps engineers play an integral role in fusing project functions and resources with the product lifecycle. Individuals who work as DevOps engineers are hands-on at all levels of development, including planning, building, testing, deployment, and support. DevOps engineers focus on automation and unification processes, often playing a lead role in combining code, application maintenance, and application management.

Because of this, DevOps engineers strike a balance between technical and managerial roles. DevOps engineers are typically hired as part of a team, so they must be able to work independently and collaboratively. Similarly, they will also be expected to work closely with other engineering teams across the organization to understand their needs and how their experience can be improved through building a streamlined development process.

At the heart of this job role is having a deep understanding of and a drive to improve developer experience within the organization. So, DevOps engineers need to have a strong knowledge not only of development life cycles, but also of DevOps as a methodology and philosophy, software design and development principles, and reducing cognitive load through abstraction.

Typical responsibilities for DevOps engineers include building, testing, and managing development tools and infrastructure, particularly internal platforms that simplify and allow for self-service within the development pipeline. They will be expected to continuously work on improving these software tools based on stakeholder needs and feedback, whether that’s received from engineers or stakeholders elsewhere in the organization.

DevOps engineers are also responsible for monitoring the development pipeline and compiling reports, typically using metrics like mean time to recovery (MTTR), change failure rate, and deployment frequency to analyze how efficient the development pipeline is. Using this information, engineers in this role will work to optimize release cycles by removing roadblocks, introducing new software, and developing new software or IT infrastructure to speed up release rates.

Finally, DevOps engineers will also be responsible for maintaining the security of internal platforms, tools, and processes, always being mindful of how automation, infrastructure design, and release schedules can present security risks within the development environment.

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