DevOps Engineer Job Description [Updated for 2025]

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A 341291572devops engineer92.63devops22.03software engineer16.62cloud engineer6.82software developer4.4915686216619639000.00130838.67276000.00YEARLY1121339382025-09-012025-09-302025-08-012025-08-312025-10-05DevOps Engineer, or Development Operations Engineer, manages and improves the communication between the operational and developmental sides of the software development process. Their main duties include launching product updates, locating production errors and issues and building integrations that improve users’ experience.

DevOps Engineer duties and responsibilities

A 341291572devops engineer92.63devops22.03software engineer16.62cloud engineer6.82software developer4.4915686216619639000.00130838.67276000.00YEARLY1121339382025-09-012025-09-302025-08-012025-08-312025-10-05DevOps Engineer must balance several roles in the development process, including computer coding, testing and deployment. They must also possess the communication and management skills needed to oversee and manage multiple teams continually working on updating sections of code, testing the updated sections and deploying them.

A job description for a DevOps Engineer may contain the following duties and responsibilities:

Guide teams in designing, building, testing and deploying changes to existing software
Enhance the company’s IT infrastructure security protocols
Identify manual processes that can be automated
Consider the organization’s entire IT infrastructure when making changes and improvements
Maintain and improve the company’s cloud infrastructure

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DevOps Engineer Job Description Examples

Example 1

DevOps Engineer

This is currently a hybrid role, and the candidate must be able to be onsite at least two (2) days per week at the client facility in Moline, IL, or at the manager's direction.

Bettendorf, IA, US

Chicago, IL, US

Davenport, IA, US

Moline, IL, US

Rock Island, IL, US

NOTE: This is currently a hybrid role, and the candidate must be able to be onsite at least two (2) days per week at the client facility in Moline, IL, or at the manager's direction.

*Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

As an DevOps Engineerfor our client, you will be primary lead under the direction of the Engineering Manager, the Business Project Owner, and the Application Technical Lead. Responsibilities include:

Implement, install, upgrade, troubleshoot, and manage the configuration and maintenance of Linux application servers within the client's environment for one of its applications

Collaborate with team members to define product requirements and implementation

Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot Infrastructure and Networking in the AWS Account

Engage and collaborate with other teams to optimize application performance

Collaborate with various specialty groups within the client company to manage all aspects of the above for the application, including but not limited to troubleshooting, configuration, DNS, hostnames, networking, Web service client configuration, VM installation / patches / upgrades, deployment, dynamic and static analysis tools, and Incident (support) Management

Required Skills

5 or more years building software from source, managing third party dynamic libraries, identifying build-time issues and incompatibilities

5 or more years of experience with Databases (examples: PostgresQL, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2.)

5 or more years of experience with Web & Internet Technologies: HTML, XML, JSON, HTTP, CSS, SMTP, DNS, HTTP Cache Expires headers, REST services, OAuth 2, SSL Certificates // Tools such as browser Inspect, Postman, Curl

5 or more years of experience with installing, configuring, and maintaining local services (daemons), such as Redis, MongoDB, and Memcached

5 or more years of experience with Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Red Hat, command-line shell; installation of software; packages; editors; configuration; revision control of configuration; basic principles of such

5 or more years of experience with Scripting Languages: Examples: RUBY, SHELL, PERL, BASH, Powershell, Python

5 or more years of experience with Version Control Tools such as Git, TFS, CVS, SVN, GIT, Perforce

5 or more years of experience configuring, managing, and supporting Application/Web Servers such as Apache HTTPD, Phusion Passenger, NGINX, Java containers, reverse proxies

5 or more years of experience with Build and Release Engineering / DevOps, Such as Make, Jenkins, Cruise Control, Remedy, Vagrant, Puppet, Fisheye, AWS, Azure stack hub Nagios, Rally, Hudson, Chef, Ant, Maven, Tekton, Kubernetes, Gradle, Hudson, Docker, and Bamboo

5 or more years of experience with AWS Services: EC2, S3, Glacier, CloudFront, WAF, Cloud Watch, SQS, ELB, , VPC, RDS, IAM, , Cloud Formation, , Cloud trail, SNS, SWF, EBS, Amazon Direct Connect, OpsWorks

5 or more years of experience with Linux/Unix system-level tools such as LogRotate, Cron, user/group permissions model, services, kernel model w.r.t. memory/priority/system calls, sockets & I/O

5 or more years of experience in Support role, working with other application and Ops teams in resolving issues/incidents

What Makes You Stand Out

Experience presenting technical information written and verbal, prepared and ad hoc

Experience in leading team meetings, giving clear & concise project/task updates in written and verbal form to non-technical team members

Expert skills with multiple programming or application or system administration or domain-specific languages/frameworks

Demonstrated comfort level in understanding the direction/constraints of an initiative, and working within those independently and effectively, using the resources at hand

AWS Certified Solutions Architect/Developer/SysOps Administrator (Associate) Certification

Self Starter that can work independently and can engage & influence other technical teams in the support & maintenance of the MachineFinder/Pro application

Education Details

Bachelor's degree in either Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, MIS, or other IT-related discipline

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $84.00 - $88.00 per year

Experience level:

5 years

6 years

Experience:

DevOps: 5 years Location: On the road

Example 2

Functions & Responsibilities

Collaborate with Engineering Leadership to shape the vision of our next-generation platform and deployment pipeline;

Ensure objectives and development plans are established and reviewed continuously throughout the year

Lead technical design decisions across teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements and to ensure data and architectural designs are documented, consistent, maintainable, flexible, and cost-effective

Maintain and expand Software Development skills, including identifying and evaluating new technologies that could benefit our platform

Required:

Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, or technical/business discipline is

7+ years of overall experience in automation frameworks and supporting tools; writing code to automate the management of Infrastructure services; testing and deploying infrastructure templates with CI/CD automation

5+ years of experience in system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a SaaS environment; including experience in testing frameworks (JEST, Cypress)

Experience implementing AWS core services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, VPCs, SNS, SQS, etc.

Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Laravel Vapor, Terraform, and CloudFormation

Experience in programming with at least one modern language such as PHP, Python, Javascript

Experience in integrating static/dynamic code analysis framework and tools to minimize security risks

Extensively used source code management systems like Bitbucket or, GitHub

Experience in monitoring and mogging systems; Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) strategy in AWS using native services

Understand HIPAA/HI-Tech/SOC requirements for Healthcare Software and ensure compliance

Familiarity with collaboration tools like Jira, Confluence

AWS certifications in related field is a big plus

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance
Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Experience:

Laravel Vapor (familiar with how Vapor works is mandatory): 1 year Location: Remote

Example 3

DevOps Engineer who will be responsible to build, manage, and automate our AWS infrastructure.

You will be working with engineering teams and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation.

Duties & Responsibilities

Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system.

Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.

Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems.

Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.

System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.

Pre-production acceptance testing for quality assurance.

Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.

Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.

Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.

Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.

Requirements

Over three years of experience in provisioning, operations, and management of AWS environments.

Demonstrated competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, ECR, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, QuickSight, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, ElastiCache, Lambda.

Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language.

Knowledge of operating system administration.

Experience in creation of highly automated infrastructures.

Comprehensive knowledge regarding contemporary processes and methodologies for development and operations.

Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements.

AWS Disaster Recovery design and deployment across regions a plus.

Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.

Clear written and verbal communication.

Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision insurance
Schedule:

8 hour shift

Day shift

Monday to Friday

Experience:

Devops engineer: 1 year (Preferred)

AWS: 1 year (Preferred)

CloudFormation: 1 year (Preferred)

CloudFront: 1 year (Preferred)

CloudWatch: 1 year Location: Remote

Example 4

AWS DevOps Engineer

Are you an experienced, passionate pioneer in technology - a solutions builder, a roll-up-your-sleeves technologist who wants to thrive in a daily collaborative environment? This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a successful, fast growing healthcare tech company that is revolutionizing emergency medical care for children and adults on a national and international level.

Handtevy - Pediatric Emergency Standards, Inc has an exciting opportunity for a full-time DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer you will be key to continuing to enable automation as we quickly scale our technology.

This position is available following one of these schedules:

Five days in the office

Hybrid (3 days a week in the office)

Role Responsibilities:

Manage our AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform and CloudFormation) maintaining compliance with CIS and NIST frameworks.

Managing production and non-production workloads with docker containers.

Continue expanding and maintaining cloud-first monitoring, logging, and alerting tools and processes that support 24/7 enterprise platforms.

Monitor and resolve infrastructure performance and security issues. Perform root cause analysis.

Work on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.

Design and document procedures for systems troubleshooting and maintenance.

Conduct testing throughout each of our environments.

Manage routers and firewalls in our HQ.

Provide technical support.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Expectations:

Willing to learn and expand your skill set.

Proficient in English language.

Strong written and verbal communication skills .

Exceptional organizational skills and being able to estimate and prioritize initiatives.

Maintain a sense of urgency.

Find efficient solutions to the right problems.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience

3+ years hands on, production-level experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer.

Deep knowledge and experience deploying and maintaining distributed systems in AWS.

Knowledge of the AWS Well Architected Framework.

3+ years of experience using IaC tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation

Advanced knowledge of AWS and AWS CLI including EC2, VPC, EBS, NLB/ALB, SNS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Strong knowledge and understanding of CI/CD pipeline automation and tools

Ideally with AWS Codebuild or Github Actions

Docker, Kubernetes, and related orchestration technologies

Scripting languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python

Experienced managing networks, routers and firewalls.

Proficient with git and git workflows

Experience with agile methodologies (SCRUM or Kanban)

Experience working on cross-functional teams and working collaboratively with peers

A demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to all audiences.

Authorized to work in the US.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA)

Experience with Datadog, Wiz, Snyk and CrowdStrike

Technical background in development or automation.

Benefits:

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee assistance program

Health, Vision and Life insurance

Paid time off

Schedule:

Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm Eastern Time

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee assistance program

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Referral program

Vision insurance
Experience level:

3 years
Schedule:

8 hour shift

Monday to Friday

Experience:

AWS: 3 years (Preferred)

Kubernetes: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

English (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

Davie, FL 33325 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

Davie, FL 33325: Relocate before starting work Location: Hybrid remote in Davie, FL 33325

Example 5

DevOps Engineer

Location: Atlanta, GA

This is what we look for –· Interested in Supporting distributed Platform· Likes to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment and you are not afraid to change things to make them better.· Enjoys new technological challenges and solving hard problems.· Aspires to join a global production support team focused on improving production plant and stability for the systems and building relationships with the downstream consumers of the [website]· A Production Support analyst will primarily be responsible for managing the technology stack to ensure we are providing the expected service to our clients through proactive system alerts,Skills Required:· 1 to 5 years practical experience in Production support or similar role.· Working knowledge of UNIX/LINUX operating system, Any scripting language (E.g., Shell Scripting, Python, Perl,or JavaScript) and a Relational database (E.g., Sybase, DB2, SQL, Postgres and so on)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Experience level:

4 years

Experience:

Azure: 1 year (Preferred)

AWS: 1 year (Preferred)

Kubernetes: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

Atlanta, GA: Relocate before starting work Location: On the road

Example 6

Job Title: DevOps Engineer - DevOps

Location: Columbus, OH & New York City, NY

Job Description:

REST or RPC, microservices-based architectures

Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, and/or Azure (multi-cloud preferred). Prefer industry certification (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps / Solutions Architect)

Must have strong experience building & deploying services on Kubernetes ideally CKA certified.

Strong working knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines in a globally distributed environment. Must have Jenkins and Spinnaker experience.

Working knowledge of Terraform and Ansible for performing DevOps on cloud platforms

Current hands-on development experience in one or more modern languages and frameworks: Java/Springboot, Golang, Python, JS/NodeJS, Rust

Knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines

Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools: DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, Geneos, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, Splunk

Knowledge of Redis, Gemfire, Hazelcast, GoldenGate or other replication

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $56.00 per hour

Schedule:

8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

Columbus, OH 43004: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

REST or RPC, microservices-based architectures: 5 years (Required)

AWS, Google Cloud, and/or Azure (multi-cloud preferred): 5 years (Required)

Kubernetes ideally CKA certified: 5 years (Required)

AWS Certified DevOps / Solutions Architect: 5 years (Required)

CI/CD Jenkins and Spinnaker: 5 years (Required)

Terraform&Ansible for performing DevOps on cloud platforms: 7 years (Required)

ava/Springboot, Golang, Python, JS/NodeJS, Rust: 5 years (Required)

DataDog,Grafana: 5 years (Required)

,Prometheus,Geneos,Jaeger,OpenTelemetry,Zipkin,Splunk: 5 years (Required)

Redis, Gemfire, Hazelcast, GoldenGate: 5 years Location: One location

Example 7

1. AWS DevOps

- Understanding of Rest APIs, Big Data Processing, Rules Engines to orchestrate the calls to the Rest APIs and other data sources like Kafka, Snowflake, AWS S3

- Strong implementation background and experience with AWS Services (Preferably : Lambdas, step functions , firehose , Kinesis , EMR , Glue ETL , Dynamodb , Neptune , route53 , Application Load balancers , ECS , SQS )

- Knowledge of Corporate Governance on Cloud service usage and Security measures.

- Experience in streaming technologies such as Kafka

- Experience with Automating Testing and deployment pipelines using devops tools such as Jenkins

- Strong Data Engineering background with the ability to implement Spark based or AWS Lambda based or glue based ETL jobs

- Experienced or Familiar with Batch Jobs orchestration tools Apache Airflow

- Experience with working on Big Data Warehouse platforms such Snowflake

- Experience with Production Support who can be on call and help troubleshoot errors on the applications and fix the issues.

- AWS certification preferred

Job Type: Contract

Pay: From $40.82 per hour

Schedule:

8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

Richmond, VA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

Kafka: 1 year (Required)

AWS: 1 year (Required)

Cloud development: 1 year Location: One location

Example 8

Improve application availability and performance for over 1 million devices.

Develop cloud mechanisms to improve scalability and reduce costs.

We enabled one of the world's largest companies to mobilize its business units and maintain 99.9% uptimes.
What You Have Done: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Technical Science.

5-7 years of experience with coding or scripting languages with at least two of the following (Shell, Ruby/JRuby, Perl, Python, PowerShell, Java, Go, Bash).

Experience in mentoring and executing Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery best practices.

Strong technical foundation in a number of the following tools and technologies: Linux and/or Windows (Ubuntu/Debian and/or RedHat/Centos/Fedora.

Virtualization (VMWare, Xen, KVM, VirtualBox).

Cloud computing 5+ years: (AWS, Google GCP/GAE/GCE, Rackspace Cloud, Azure).

Infrastructure automation 3+ years (Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible).

Build tools (Maven, Ant, NAnt, MSBuild, Rake, GNU Make).

Continuous integration tools (Cruise, TeamCity, Jenkins).

SCM tools (Git, SVN, Perforce, Mercurial).

Application servers, servlet containers, and web servers (WebSphere, Tomcat, Jetty, Nginx, Mongrel, Microsoft IIS, Apache HTTP server)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80.00 - $85.00 per hour

Schedule:

Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

San Jose, CA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

Google Cloud Platform: 7 years (Preferred)

AWS: 7 years (Preferred)

VMWare: 7 years Location: One location

Example 9