Roles of a DevOps Engineer:
- DevOps Officer: Manages the DevOps implementation in an organization.
- Release Manager: Helps in the integration of new features into existing features.
- Automation Engineer: Works with developers to analyze and design different strategies for deployment.
- Tester: Tests the code to remove any bugs or fix any existing issues to ensure everything runs smoothly.
- Developer: Performs the actual coding of the application.
Responsibilities of a DevOps Engineer:
- Help in testing code and programs to identify bugs that may affect the performance of the applications.
- Provide support to the customers both externally and internally.
- Help in improving performance through analysis, modifications, and providing solutions.
- Manage other teams of DevOps engineers.
- Provide maintenance and troubleshooting services when deploying applications to ensure smooth running.
- Automation of different workloads across different cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Services, Google Cloud Platform, etc.
- Help in using the continuous integration and deployment tools to automate most deployment and testing activities. It helps in promoting agile practices amongst the teams.
- Improving customer experience by using different tooling and practices in creating services like playbooks.
- Help in dealing with the customer's KPI.
- Coaching team members who have skill gaps and develop training methods and resources to fill the gaps.
- Managing the team's questions and providing feedback to ensure the development process evolves and there are clear methods of communication.
- Help in monitoring and improving the network of the software.
- Help in the management of the application infrastructure.
- Ensuring both the deployment, development, and production environments are safe from cybersecurity threats.
- Help in project planning of applications by providing development risks, costs, plans, impacts, etc.
- Help the team build, install, code, maintain, and configure applications.
- Perform system analysis of the applications by checking the technologies and see how they can improve the application by recommending new requirements.
- Help in writing documentation for server-side applications and listing their specifications.