DevOps Engineer
Explore how DevOps engineers improve the way software is built, tested, released and operated.
Roles vary across organisations and change over time. Use this profile to identify questions, then investigate current role and course information.
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
These are possible learning routes, not fixed requirements. Course content and entry conditions vary.
Projects students can try
Small projects can help you test your interest and practise the work behind this career.
Containerise and deploy a small service
Design a release pipeline diagram and incident checklist
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