A DevOps engineer does both, and generally carries the end-to-end responsibility of developing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and improving the code. Previously, developer teams would build and test the code, and operations teams would deploy and monitor the code. In short, the term refers to tools and practices that help engineers deliver and fix code on a more regular and faster basis, often multiple times a day - a practice pioneered by Facebook and its cohort. The term DevOps is a portmanteau of development and operations, two roles that are vital to the field of software engineering. So what does a DevOps engineer do, anyway? Have an account? Log in.Īccording to the LinkedIn report, DevOps engineers are also the most recruited jobs specific to the engineering field, followed by frontend engineers and cloud architects.
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