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, Sr. 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)
Describes the application of engineering principles and methods in software architecture design.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Gathers and compiles user requirements to support software design and development processes.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Performs system analyses to assess the functionality and interoperability of software products.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Establishes performance metrics to track the effectiveness of software engineering processes and procedures.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Designs and executes innovative strategies to streamline software engineering processes.
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)
Defines the role and importance of quality assurance in the mobile application development process.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Conducts basic quality assurance testing on the mobile app to ensure it meets the acceptance criteria.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Reviews QA test results to estimate the reliability of mobile applications.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Oversees the entire mobile application quality assurance process to ensure compliance with the procedures.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Establishes metrics and KPIs to measure and assess the effectiveness of mobile application testing.
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 automation and orchestration frameworks of cloud computing.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Documents the modern technologies and trends for cloud computing.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Maintains multi-site network connectivity to ensure the availability of cloud computing resources.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Integrates virtualization systems to deliver high visibility of cloud computing initiatives.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Creates design specifications to ensure stable computing operations in a cloud-based environment.
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)
Describes the relation between containerization, APIs, and Microservices.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Conducts troubleshooting to ensure availability and scalability of container orchestration cluster.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Implements innovative strategies to ensure seamless migration workloads to containers.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Formulates viable solutions to resolve associated management challenges of containerization.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Develops strategies to secure cloud computing infrastructure operating containerized applications.
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)
Describes the procedures for capital and expense allocation and budgeting.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Gathers data from financial statements to help create budget plans and improve budgeting strategies.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Implements strategic operational efficiencies and techniques for conducting successful budgeting.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Evaluates past decisions on budgetary considerations to improve the budgeting process.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Establishes operating procedures to guide the consistency and repeatability of our budgeting processes.
Skill definition-Managing and prioritizing resources and workloads by creating well-organized plans to attain organizational goals and objectives.
Level 1 Behaviors
(General Familiarity)
Documents best practices in planning and organizing work to address important tasks.
Level 2 Behaviors
(Light Experience)
Discusses the positive and negative outcomes of planning and organization in the workplace.
Level 3 Behaviors
(Moderate Experience)
Helps set up new practices to anticipate and address the needs of planning and organization initiatives.
Level 4 Behaviors
(Extensive Experience)
Facilitates the adoption of advanced tools to streamline the process of planning and organization.
Level 5 Behaviors
(Mastery)
Develops best practices in planning and organizing activities to improve organizational efficiency.
There are 7 hard skills for DevOps Engineering Manager, Sr., Software Engineering, Mobile Application QA, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), etc.
3 general skills for DevOps Engineering Manager, Sr., Cloud Computing, Containerization, DevOps.
15 soft skills for DevOps Engineering Manager, Sr., 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, Sr., he or she needs to be skilled in Budgeting, be skilled in Planning and Organizing, and be skilled in Coordination.
