Technology & Software

DevOps Engineer

Explore how DevOps engineers improve the way software is built, tested, released and operated.

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What does this career involve?

Common kinds of work to investigate when learning about this area.

Work you might explore

  • Automating builds, tests and deployments
  • Improving collaboration between development and operations
  • Observing systems and responding to reliability issues
  • Making release processes safer and more repeatable

What skills can help?

  • Scripting and automation
  • Version control
  • Continuous delivery concepts
  • Systems troubleshooting

Courses to explore

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Projects students can try

Small projects can help you test your interest and practise the work behind this career.

PROJECT 01

Add automated checks to a sample application

PROJECT 02

Containerise and deploy a small service

PROJECT 03

Design a release pipeline diagram and incident checklist

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