Job Tittle: DevOps Engineer
Duration: Long-term
DevOps Engineer Roles And Responsibilities
A DevOps Engineer closely works with the IT personnel and developers in an organisation to oversee code releases. They demonstrate combined experience and expertise in coding and engineering. From implementing and creating systems software to data analysis that improves existing solutions, DevOps engineers help in increasing the productivity of an organisation. They have the knowledge and expertise of software development lifecycles and intricately understand several automation tools that help develop digital CI/CD pipelines.
DevOps Engineer Job Description
The roles and responsibilities of a DevOps Engineer combine management and technical roles. Additionally, they must have superior coordination and communication skills that help in successfully integrating several functions according to a coordinated system and deliver solutions that guarantee customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of a DevOps Engineer are manifold. A professional in this role should be agile as there are both operations and technical hats to be worn at the same time. Their core responsibilities are as follows:
- Understand project KPIs and metrics and customer needs
- Implement different development, automation, IT and testing infrastructure
- Plan team activities, team structure and different member involvement in project management activities
- Manage external interfaces and stakeholders
- Set up tools and necessary infrastructure
- Define and set processes for development, testing, releases, updates and support in DevOps operations
- Demonstrate technical expertise for reviewing, verifying and validating software code that is developed for the project
- Troubleshoot different techniques and fix bugs in the code
- Monitor all the processes through the project lifecycle to ensure adherence or updates whenever needed
- Create new processes to improve and minimise wastage
- Encourage and build automated processes as and when applicable
- Identify and deploy measures for cybersecurity through continuous risk management and vulnerability assessment
- Root cause analysis and incidence management
- Coordinate and communicate with customers and team members
- Select and deploy relevant CI/CD tools