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POSITION 07 · Engineering · DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Make releases boring and safe
DevOps connects build, deploy, monitoring, scaling and recovery. The goal is faster delivery and steadier systems through automation.
Core responsibilities 01 / DUTY
- Build CI/CD, canary and rollback
- Maintain containers and config
- Set up monitoring, logs and tracing
Required skills 02 / SKILL
Linux & networkingContainers & orchestrationCI/CD & IaCIncident responseScripting
Who this suits 06 / FIT
- Strong sense of ownership for reliability
- Likes automating repetition
FAQ 07 / FAQ
Will cloud replace ops?
It replaces manual toil, not reliability engineering, architecture or cost governance.
Related industries & roles 08 / LINK
This role commonly appears in these industries and works with these roles:
Before you start · insider notes
Rollback must be faster than repair
If there's no one-click rollback, that is your biggest release risk.
Every alert needs an action
Alerts without a runbook get muted, then missed when it matters.
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Company size × salary
Illustrative ranges · not official statistics · community-editableThe same role pays differently — and asks for different things — at different company sizes. Editorial reference ranges; corrections welcome.
| Company size | Monthly salary | What matters |
|---|---|---|
| Startup / <50 | 14–26K | Ops + dev, get deploys working |
| Growth / 50–500 | 20–38K | CI/CD & monitoring systems |
| Large / 500–5k | 28–46K | Multi-env governance & SLOs |
| Platform / >5k | 35–62K | Internal platform & cost |
Abilities required
Five dimensions, level 1–5
Linux & networking
5/5
Automation
5/5
Incident response
5/5
Collaboration
4/5
Reliability
5/5
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