DevOps Engineer

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DevOps Engineer Roles and Responsibilities

• Implementing various testing development automation tools and IT infrastructures
• Planning the team structure activities and involvement in various project management activities
• Setting up tools and required infrastructures
• Selecting and deploying the appropriate CI/CD tools and performing any configuration management
• Defining and establishing test development release update and support processes for the organizations DevOps operations
• Work towards continuous improvement while building continuous integration continuous development and constant deployment pipelines
• Possess the technical skills necessary to review verify and validate software codes developed in the project
• Implementing and maintaining monitoring stacks
• Maintaining and improving the organizations cloud infrastructure
• Conducting system troubleshooting activities and fixing any found code bugs
• Monitoring the development processes during the whole lifecycle to ensure their adherence and creating or updating new processes and also minimize any waste
• Promoting and building automated processes wherever feasible
• Enhance the IT infrastructures security protocols by identifying and deploying needed cybersecurity measures by continuously conducting vulnerability assessment and risk management procedures
• Performing incidence management and root cause analysis
• Maintaining consistent coordination and communication within the team as well as with clients
• Mentoring and guiding the IT team members addressing any concerns and issues
• Understanding customer requirements monitoring and measuring customer experience and their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Managing stakeholders and associated external interfaces
• Managing periodic reporting on project progress to the management stakeholders and cu

Common DevOps Engineer Tools

• Source code management: GitHub.
• Developing CI/CD pipelines: CI/CD processes rely on specialized tools for automation including Jenkins and GitLab CI.
• Testing: DevOps engineers use tools such as Selenium to help the engineer ascertain how their application turned out and to check for errors.
• Containerization: This task needs specific tools to build and configure containers that allow the software to work across different environments. These tools include Docker and Kubernetes an opensource containerorchestration system.
• Configuration management: Tools include Puppet and Chef.
• Monitoring: Monitoring tools such as Nagios and Prometheus help the engineer screen the app and ensure it works as intended.
• Cloud platform integration: More organizations are turning to the cloud to run apps and store information over the web instead of inhouse systems. Cloud suppliers include Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Skills for a DevOps Engineer

• Work experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineer role
• Experience working on Linuxbased infrastructures
• A working knowledge of various tools and opensource technologies
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
• A good knowledge of Python Java Perl or Ruby
• A solid understanding of configuring and managing databases (MySQL Mongo) and SQL
• Experience in configuration management (e.g. Ansible Chef Puppet or similar)
• A strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure AWS or GCP especially if the DevOps engineer is angling for a job with a company that relies heavily on cloud computing
• Managing production infrastructure using tools like Terraform CloudFormation etc.
• A problemsolving mindset
• Experience in project management
• A spirit of teamwork and cooperation
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Good communication skills are necessary for dealing with management stakeholders and clients.

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