Devops engineers collaborate with development and operations teams to help create reliable and rapid release pipelines for software and updates. This typically involves creating custom automation tools, standardizing technologies, and improving operations efficiency. As agile team members, their goal is to speed up the processes involved in creating and delivering software. This covers extensive technical responsibilities, including tracking design bugs and automating the debugging process for developers. In terms of efficiency, they may document and standardize engineering procedures, build and maintain configuration and deployment frameworks, and create best practices style guides and standards.
Technical Skills
Understanding of Major DevOps Tools
DevOps tools are too many, and it does not make much sense to try to master them all. The good news is, you do not have to.
However, knowing your way around the major DevOps tools (displayed in the table below) will be a huge plus on your resume.
Source Control: Git
Continuous Integration: Gitlab
Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Deployment Automation: Gitlab
Containers: Docker
Orchestration: Kubernetes
Cloud Platforms: GCP, AWS, Azure, hybrid cloud & multi-clouds
Job responsibilities of a devops engineer include:
• Finding new opportunities for automation
• Utilizing automated configuration tools (Ansible, yaml)
• Maintaining and deploying web-based applications
• Monitoring security issues
• Measuring performance against expected business outcomes
• Brainstorming creative cloud solutions
• Ensuring compatibility across systems
• Protecting an organization’s information over the cloud
What makes a good QA Engineer :
Strong Communication and Collaboration Skills Communication and collaboration are the skills that can make or break DevOps in any organization.
Just consider a few things that can be efficiently done if communication and collaboration are on your DevOps skill set:
• Breaking down the silos. Everyone is sick and tired of this, but DevOps is all about breaking down the silos between the development and operations teams. A DevOps engineer is someone who builds connections and relieves bottlenecks, which is done by talking to people.
• Aligning Dev and Ops goals for the customer’s sake. A DevOps pro should be able to assess and streamline the goals of Dev and Ops teams towards the common goal to ensure a flawless customer experience.
• Introducing and implementing a DevOps culture. All organizations are different, and you will not be able to instill DevOps values and DevOps culture should communication and collaboration be missing. You will have to explain what DevOps is, educate about DevOps principles and DevOps tools, and verbally dive deep into infrastructure and automation issues.
Simply put, if you are not a people person who can bring employees together to work towards a common goal, DevOps might not be the best fit for you.
Non – Technical Skills
Empathy and Unselfishness
Soft skills are as important to a DevOps professional as hard skills and should not be underestimated.
Not only does DevOps require strong hard skills like coding and automation, it also necessitates such soft skills as curiosity, flexibility, self-motivation, and empathy.
Among soft skills, nothing beats empathy and unselfishness — DevOps skills that help you understand what other people feel and allow you not to put yourself above others.
DevOps pros should not only be talkers, but also listeners.
• Talk to key stakeholders
• Find out what the goals are
• Assess the current state of DevOps
• Identify areas of improvement
• Ensure that stakeholders realize what you are going to do
You should understand how the organization runs, who the people who manage it are, and what the organization’s culture is to avoid creating contention points and constraints. Empathy and unselfishness will definitely help you in the process.
Customer-Centric Mindset
DevOps engineers should work with a final goal in mind, which is delivering value to the end user and getting tangible results for their organization’s business. They should analyze how their own and their organization’s activities can be enhanced to deliver value more rapidly.
To do that, DevOps engineers should keep in touch with key stakeholders, including developers, testers, project managers, and business leaders. Eventually, they need to ensure that their activities are properly synchronized and optimized around the common goal.
Passion and Proactivity
DevOps engineers should nurture passion and proactivity.
To begin with, loving your job is naturally linked to happiness at a workplace, which impacts performance and productivity. And the more meaningful results you produce for the company, the more valuable asset you become.
Then, as a DevOps engineer, you will have to learn a lot on a daily basis. New tools, new technologies, new cloud offerings, and so on. You should approach those proactively and with passion. Otherwise, you will slowly but surely become someone whose skills are no longer needed.
And finally, passion and proactivity are your safe road for setting you up as an authority. You can and should develop a brand identity not only to stand out against the competition but also to build trust with your co-workers.
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