DevOps and Cloud Engineering: A Brief Overview
DevOps Engineering is about building, testing, and maintaining the infrastructure and tools to allow for the speedy development and release of the software. It’s a super interesting field. The Knowledge of DevOps can be applied to these different job roles;
– DevOps Engineer
– DevSecOps Engineer
– Site Reliability Engineer
– Integration Specialist
– Cloud Engineer
– Platform Engineer
– Infrastructure Specialist
– Automation Engineer
– Enterprise/Solution Architect
These are some of the areas you will be gaining technical skills in if you join the DevOps Squad;
– A good knowledge of the Linux Operating System
– Working Knowledge of Virtualization
– A good understanding of Shell Scripting e.g. Bash, Python
– A good understanding of Source Control preferably Git
– An understanding of Build and Release in a development environment
– A working knowledge of Web servers e.g Apache, Nginx
– Working knowledge of Databases
– A working Knowledge of Cloud and PaaS Environments i.e Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS
– Proficiency in Containerization and Orchestration
– A working knowledge of Infrastructure and Configuration Management
– An understanding of Networking Protocols
– An understanding of Logging and Monitoring
– Ability to Document processes
DevOps is a growing field and is in very high demand, a lot of companies have adopted DevOps as a culture for their Engineering teams. Gaining DevOps skills will put a high price on your skill sets and make you very employable.