While there is a raft of technical skills that may be required for any given environment, the reality of DevOps engineering is one of frequent change. This means a person in this position must be curious, motivated, intelligent and multi-task.
Here are the top 10 skills that experts say DevOps engineers need to succeed on the job.
1. Soft skills
It is about transforming the functional work experience between the development and operations teams by breaking down the silos and bring different teams together to work towards a common goal. This requires the team to have strong communication skills.
2. Broad understanding of tools and technologies
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While new technologies and tools crop up continuously on its landscape, it’s important for a good engineer to constantly learn new things, constantly ask questions and listen to answers to generate new ideas and welcome new challenges.
3. Security training
In today’s era of vulnerabilities, DevOps engineers must be able to write secure code in the requirement phase itself to protect applications from attack, as well as defend against common cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
4. Experience with infrastructure automation tools
The Engineer must possess the ability to implement automation technologies and tools at any level, from requirements to development to testing and operations.
5. Testing
Automation is driven by testing, so strong testing skills are needed to be a successful DevOps engineer.
6. Customer-first mindset
First and foremost, a great DevOps engineer should always care about delivering value to customers and to understand and measure how their work is moving the needle.
7. Collaboration
Strong DevOps managers must be great team members, and help relieve bottlenecks by assisting coworkers as necessary.
8. Flexibility
A successful DevOps culture demands flexibility. The ability to work on multiple tasks at the same time is also critical.
9. Network awareness
The end objective of any DevOps project is to successfully deliver an application that involves the network to the end user who will consume it.
10. Big picture thinking
Because it combines the needs and wants of multidisciplinary teams and applications, a successful engineer can’t lose sight of the big picture for DevOps and digital transformation at the enterprise level—especially in a large organization.
Date: June 14, 2017
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