DevOps Engineer

Remote

💥 Engineering

DevOps Engineers operate within the information technology department of a company working to help the software development, operations and testing teams better communicate and stay informed of each other’s work progress or updates. They also work to better understand the wants and needs of customers and build software and tools to reduce user errors and improve the customer’s overall experience. DevOps Engineers build procedures to troubleshoot and more effectively maintain and fix the company’s software systems. They constantly work to strengthen the knowledge and communications between the development and operations departments to increase the overall efficiencies of product releases.

What does a DevOps Engineer do?

A DevOps Engineer, or Development Operations Engineer, manages and improves the communication between the operational and developmental sides of the software development process. Their main duties include launching product updates, locating production errors and issues and building integrations that improve users’ experience.

Responsibilities

A DevOps Engineer should be able to fulfill various duties and responsibilities. The following are some duties and responsibilities a DevOps Engineer should be able to execute:

Guide teams in designing, building, testing and deploying changes to existing software
Enhance the company’s IT infrastructure security protocols
Identify manual processes that can be automated
Consider the organization’s entire IT infrastructure when making changes and improvements
Maintain and improve the company’s cloud infrastructure

Required Skills

A competitive DevOps Engineer will have certain skills and qualifications, including:

Security: While continually updating code to make the system run faster and better, the DevOps Engineer also must make sure that the changes to improve the system don’t accidentally make the system more vulnerable to attack.
Flexibility: The DevOps Engineer will update sections of software, as well as simultaneously managing changes to other parts of the program.
Collaboration: A DevOps Engineer will assist team members as needed.
Scripting Skills: DevOps Engineers must know how to use scripting programs such as Ruby, PHP, Pearl and Python.
Soft Skills: A DevOps Engineer should possess interpersonal, management and decision-making skills.

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