What does a DevOps engineer do?
A DevOps engineer works with software developers, admins and system operators, IT operations staff, and others to supervise and facilitate code releases/deployments on a CI/CD basis.
What is DevOps?
DevOps (Development and Operation’s Collaboration) refers to several practices that encourage software development and IT operations professionals to work together to efficiently design and develop systems software. It strives to develop an efficient relationship between the two departments, resulting in quicker development and releasing of regular product updates. DevOps is a step before deployment, making sure everything is ready for a smooth, error-free release.
DevOps Engineering Responsibilities
- Writing documentation for server-side features
- System analysis of the current system in use and developing plans for enhancements and improvements.
- Cloud deployment and management
- CI/CD management and deployment
- Continuous testing at different stages of the development cycle
- Helping to implement a DevOps culture
DevOps Engineer Skill Set
A DevOps engineer requires a good balance between soft and hard skills to successfully implement a DevOps methodology.
- Communication
- Problem-solving and troubleshooting
- Software development
- Process-oriented
- Product/project management
- Deployment/configuration management
DevOps Engineering on AWS
P2L has partnered up with Amazon Web Services to create a 3-day AWS DevOps Engineering on AWS course.
The course focuses on the following skills:
- Use the principal concepts and practices behind the DevOps methodology
- Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports one or more DevOps development projects
- Use AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and
- production environments for a software development project
- Use AWS CodeCommit and understand the array of options for enabling a Continuous Integration environment on AWS
- Use AWS CodePipeline to design and implement a Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline on AWS
- Implement several common Continuous Deployment use cases using AWS technologies, including blue/green deployment
- and A/B testing
- Distinguish between the array of application deployment technologies available on AWS (including AWS CodeDeploy, AWS
- Opsworks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2 Container Service, and Amazon EC2 Container Registry), and decide which
- technology best fits a given scenario
- Fine-tune the applications you deliver on AWS for high performance and use AWS tools and technologies to monitor your application and environment for potential issues
Who is this course for?
System Administrators, Software Developers, and anyone looking to become a DevOps practitioner can benefit from the course.
Recommended Follow on Courses
- DevOps – Running Container-Enabled Microservices on AWS application and environment for potential issues
- Cloud Native – CN100: Docker Containerization Essentials
- Cloud Native – CN120: Kubernetes Application Essentials
- Business Analysis – DevOps Foundations
AWS is a great pathway to further your IT career by choosing to acquire comprehensive training right at the foundational level. Contact P2L to start your journey.