Many people consider DevOps engineers as experts of both software development and IT system operations. This could be completely true, however, not all job roles demand such diverse DevOps competency.
In this blog, we discuss how to become a DevOps engineer quickly and take smart steps to excel in the vastly demanded role.
What’s DevOps?
Before we start DevOps career advice, let’s quickly go through what’s DevOps?
In software development, DevOps is an emerging discipline that aims to refine the development strategy across the whole organization.
As a result, the software updates are fast, feedback reception and response is quick, and companies save a lot of money.
With DevOps, user experience is delivered at the best.
After the waterfall model’s insufficiency to offer efficiency in software development, the agile concept was adopted. DevOps is even a step further from agile concept, and is the next emerging solution for enterprises digital service delivery.
Demand of DevOps in Global Market
As a result, DevOps has seen a boost in investment per year (measured as CAGR) in the global market.
In 2017, DevOps market share was valued at over USD 2b which took a splendid boost in 2021 reaching to over USD 7b.
Analysts report this boost a result of rapid software delivery and quality privileges by DevOps.
Acumen Research and Consulting forecast a growth rate of CAGR 20% taking DevOps market size to a ballooning figure of over USD 27b by 2030.
What does this mean for you?
More enterprises are adopting DevOps because of its ability to offer low-cost IT services. The microservices based service virtualization is another benefit that businesses are after, making DevOps skills increasingly in-demand.
What are the Skills of a DevOps professional?
Once you know that DevOps is a cost effective and efficient way to enable software development cycle, let’s see what skillset a DevOps engineer requires for successful entry in the industry.
At the abstract level (without narrowing DevOps job roles) a DevOps engineer is expected to have a good understanding of the following things:
- Expertise in one of the high level programming languages; Java/C++. Depending on the type of company, an object oriented programming knowledge is required.
- Understanding of Unix/Linux or Windows OS. Almost 90% of web servers are based on Linux OS. However, some companies look for Microsoft DevOps expertise, and in that case understanding windows is required.
- Knowledge and hand-on in prominent DevOps Tools:
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab),
- configuration automation tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible),
- container run time (Docker, rkt, cri-o,
- container orchestration tools (Kubernetics),
- computer system architecture.
- Database management – SQL/PSQL
- Scripting language to automate cron jobs (Bash, Perl, Python)
- Knowledge of any one cloud platform: AWS, Azure etc
With all these skills, where to take a start?
We understand that DevOps skills are so versatile. Fortunately, lower level software engineering job roles offer a smart way to quickly jump to DevOps Careers.
An individual from the following job roles can quickly advance in DevOps.
- Software engineer
- Quality control
- DevOps Evangelist
- Security officer
- Automation Expert
Example of DevOps Job Description
Which DevOps skills companies in Pakistan look for?
With this question in mind, we explore DevOps job descriptions across Pakistan’s industrial landscape and find out that almost all DevOps job skills overlapped.
First, there’s DevOps trainee jobs. Though rarely found, entry level DevOps skills exist specifically targeting fresh graduates.
Note that no advanced level DevOps skills such as experience in DevOps tools are required for this role.
Next, we have companies seeking experienced professionals with versatile job roles across the software development life cycle, and system administration tasks.
Following are two examples of DevOps engineer roles and responsibilities from top tech recruiters in Pakistan.
Career Advice
A good step to initiate a career in DevOps is by learning one skill at a time, and gradually moving to the next. Doing this, within a short time, a person becomes eligible to apply for fullfleged DevOps roles.
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