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.