Manages and oversees the DevOps team and related projects.
Designs, builds and maintains a stable and efficient infrastructure to optimize service delivery across production, QA, and development environments throughout the development lifecycle. Monitors, troubleshoots, maintains, and continuously improves building, packaging, and deployment processes. Implements automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, monitoring. Utilizes a consistent DevOps approach to improve all phases of the process and ensure end-to-end quality across functions. Knowledge of deployment/configuration management tools like Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, or Ansible. Utilizes version control tools like GIT, Bitbucket, SVN, or CVS. Experienced with network infrastructure, database, cloud and data center operations, and security protocols. Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows OS. Understands AWS and other services. Experience with programming and scripting with languages like Python, Perl, Bash, PHP, Java, SQL, or C++.
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Check each DevOps Engineering Manager skill and competencie below to view definitions.
Skill definition-Applying computer science and engineering principles, methods, and practices to design, develop, deploy, and maintain reliable software systems.
Level 1 Behaviors
(General Familiarity)
Explains the importance of using suitable programming languages and platforms in software engineering.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Prepares engineering documentation to ensure software adheres to user expectations.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Utilizes version control systems (VCS) to track and manage changes in software codes.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Evaluates and modifies existing development processes to optimize software production and reduce errors.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Develops optimization strategies to improve software product quality and usability.
Skill definition-Testing mobile applications for functionality, usability, and performance to deliver the best product and experience to the end-user.
Level 1 Behaviors
(General Familiarity)
Describes the best practices and methodologies for mobile application quality assurance (QA) testing.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Gathers feedback and reports from beta users during the usability and performance testing process.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Tests the mobile applications before release to ensure their usability, consistency, and functionality.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Recommends new processes and policies to improve mobile application QA techniques.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Promotes the adoption of modern testing technologies to streamline the mobile application QA process.
Skill definition-Providing on-demand computing services that allow users to store, manage, and process their data remotely.
Level 1 Behaviors
(General Familiarity)
Explains the common design patterns, data structures, and algorithms in cloud computing.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Follows our established procedures in helping with the planning of cloud computing strategies.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Uses modern cloud computing services to improve the performance of cloud applications.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Monitors industry trends to enhance the future direction of cloud services in our organization.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Designs and develops tools to support overall cloud computing capabilities at our organization.
Skill definition-Ability to employ the process of virtually packaging and isolating applications to allow greater scalability, availability, portability, and running consistently on any infrastructure.
Level 1 Behaviors
(General Familiarity)
Explains the importance and use of container orchestration in containerization.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Helps in identifying and resolving issues on containerization and server-less deployments.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Utilizes containerization to make the deployment and testing process repeatable.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Oversees the containerization of current analytics pipelines for a distributed cloud platform.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Leads the design of large-scale application containerization projects in challenging environments.
Skill definition-Applying specific policies, tools and practices to plan and prepare projected revenues, expenses, cash flows, and capital expenditures.
Level 1 Behaviors
(General Familiarity)
Explains the importance of budget reporting and forecasting in our workplace.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Supplies supporting information and justification for major line items.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Compares planned budgets vs. actual expenditures, identifies, reports, and explains variances.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Anticipates organizational income and expenses to make forecasts and develop budget plans.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Adapts relevant industry trends on techniques in financial budgeting in our organization.
Skill definition-Managing and prioritizing resources and workloads by creating well-organized plans to attain organizational goals and objectives.
Level 1 Behaviors
(General Familiarity)
Cites potential challenges and workplace issues in delegating tasks that may impede well coordinated work.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Assists in identifying and breaking tasks into a sequence of steps for a more organized task plan.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Aligns tasks and priorities with business goals and objectives.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Creates programs to improve planning and organization of work to achieve business objectives.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Builds and designs organizational systems and planning tools to enhance overall productivity.
There are 7 hard skills for DevOps Engineering Manager, Software Engineering, Mobile Application QA, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), etc.
3 general skills for DevOps Engineering Manager, Cloud Computing, Containerization, DevOps.
15 soft skills for DevOps Engineering Manager, Budgeting, Planning and Organizing, Coordination, etc.
While the list totals 25 distinct skills, it's important to note that not all are required to be mastered to the same degree. Some skills may only need a basic understanding, whereas others demand a higher level of expertise.
For instance, as a DevOps Engineering Manager, he or she needs to be proficient in Budgeting, be skilled in Planning and Organizing, and be skilled in Coordination.
