Career guide
DevOps Engineer
DevOps engineers own the path from commit to production: pipelines, environments, observability and incident response. The best ones treat operations as a software problem — everything reproducible, everything monitored, and no deployment that depends on someone remembering a step.
₹18–26L across 1 live listing6 core skillsInterview questions →
What the work actually is
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Kubernetes/container platform operations and upgrades
- Observability: metrics, logs, traces, alert quality
- Incident response and blameless post-incident reviews
The skills that get you hired
Core — expected at interview
LinuxDockerKubernetesCI/CD (GitLab/GitHub Actions/Jenkins)TerraformOne scripting language
Differentiators
Service meshSRE practices (SLOs, error budgets)Security scanningGitOps (Argo/Flux)
The path
- DevOps Engineer0–3 yrsOwn pipelines and environments; automate what you did twice.
- Senior DevOps/SRE3–6 yrsOwn reliability targets and the platform's upgrade path.
- Platform Lead6+ yrsOwn developer experience — the platform as an internal product.