DevOps Engineer

Last Updated on February 18, 2023 by cscontents

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Introduction

In this article we will discuss, how DevOps engineer as a career path makes you an overall good engineer and makes you an independent engineer in some extent. Just to give analogy, in cricket we have batter, baller and all-rounder who can bat as well as ball. DevOps Engineer is kind of all-rounder or jack of all trade 😊.

Software Industry is a huge industry where we have engineers for all the roles available.

Traditional Roles in Software Industry

In old days, in a project roughly we needed engineers (with tech skill) from –

Developer
- Frontend developer
- Backend developer
Operation engineer
DB engineer
Network engineer

Modern day Roles in Software Industry

Nowadays, in a project roughly we need engineers (with tech skill) from –

Developer
- Frontend developer
- Backend developer
DevOps engineer
Operation engineer
DB engineer
Network engineer

Developer

Among the above engineers we all know “developer” is the most popular role. Developer is someone who mostly involved in writing code and generally a developer role does require ops skill.

Now as a developer if he wants to work on a project independently, then he will face challenge since he is having experience in only one part of the software project which is writing code.

Operation Engineer

An operation engineer is someone who handles server. He is the one who is responsible for supporting all the server related task/issue. And an ops engineer is not expected to know coding.

Now as an operation engineer if he wants to work on a project independently, then he will face challenge since he is having experience in only one part of the software project which is dealing with servers.

“DevOps” is basically a culture or practice. SDLC uses DevOps methodology to improve software delivery speed, detect issues at early stage etc.

An DevOps engineer is one who bridges between developer and operation engineer. With the help of DevOps engineer code moves faster from developer to operations, DevOps engineer fasten the delivery process. The role of DevOps engineer demands to have knowledge of ‘development’ and ‘operation’ both. It does not mean DevOps engineer need to have very good development skill and very good operation skill, but he/she must be aware of those process/skill to some extent.

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If we analyze the role of DevOps engineer, we will see a DevOps engineer gets exposure to both the side ‘development’ and ‘operations’ which makes them to think about the whole picture of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). And these ways a DevOps engineer becomes more independent compared to a ‘developer’ and a ‘operation engineer’.

Here by ‘independent’ I mean if a DevOps engineer wants to work on a project (e.g., personal project, startup etc.) then he won’t face that much challenge since he is somewhat aware of the skills & processes, maybe he can hire a developer and guide him to work accordingly.

Tasks of DevOps Engineer

Speaking about DevOps engineer’s tasks, for example –

Developing ansible playbook (YAML) – VM provisioning, software provisioning, software configuration etc.
Developing python script, shell script, PowerShell script etc.
Developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform – developing infrastructure as code
Developing Jenkins pipeline as code
Handling application deployment on VM, OCP etc.
Handling OCP, Kubernetes cluster etc.
Troubleshooting server side issues, networking related issues etc.

These are few tasks only, there can be more task for which a DevOps Engineer can be responsible.

All those skills set makes a DevOps engineer kind of all-rounder 😊.

Thank You.

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