What are the tasks of a DevOps engineer?

Written by Claudio Kuenzler - 0 comments

Published on May 27th 2015 - last updated on August 27th 2019 - Listed in Personal

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Today I got asked this very question "What are your tasks as a DevOps engineer" and this is how I (personally) understand my role and tasks as a DevOps engineer.

• systems administration
• security
• operations and monitoring
• (re-) engineering of infrastructure and system environments
  
• automation
• scripting/coding
• understanding applications from developers
• make developers understand security and systems
• being the bridge between code and system
• quality assurance
• research and (performance/stability) testing of new technologies
  
• use Agile methods to build and deploy new systems (we're talking about Continuous Deployments here)
• use centralized/programmable configuration management (Ansible, chef, puppet, ..)
• troubleshoot incidents (performance issues, hack attacks, etc)
• write and review documentations
• understand needs of developers and deliver a "system response" (e.g. centralized application logging)
  

As mentioned above, a DevOps engineer is the bridge between the code and the systems. This image (found on Defining the Ops in Devops) explains that part very well:

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