Cloud, DevOps & SREDevOps Engineer
Cloud, DevOps & SRESite Reliability Engineer
Primary focus
Automates build, deployment and operations so teams ship faster and safer.
Engineers reliability with SLO, automation and data instead of manual firefighting.
Main responsibilities
  • — Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
  • — Describe infrastructure as code and version it
  • — Package and operate containerised workloads
  • — Implement metrics, logs and tracing end to end
  • — Automate recurring tasks with scripts
  • — Define SLI/SLO and manage the error budget
  • — Implement metrics, logs and tracing end to end
  • — Reduce toil through automation and better tooling
  • — Lead incident resolution and post-mortem analysis
  • — Operate Kubernetes clusters and their add-ons
Infrastructure involvement
85
90
Monitoring
80
95
Incident management
75
95
Cloud
80
85
Automation
90
90
Coding level
High
High
Common tools
LinuxDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleGitLab CIGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgoCDHelm
KubernetesLinuxGoPythonPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryLokiTempoTerraform
Entry level
Intermediate
Senior
Key skills
CI/CD pipelinesDockerGit & branching strategiesLinuxTerraform
Observability & tracingSLO & error budgetsKubernetesLinux internalsIncident command

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