DevOps jobs: Learn these skills to become a Site Reliability Engineer and earn as much as ₹30 lacs per annum

• With companies adopting automation across processes, there has been a significant rise in the demand for DevOps Engineers (site reliability).
  
• According to the latest report by LinkedIn on the ‘Emerging jobs 2020,’ site reliability engineer is among the top 10 in-demand jobs for 2020.
  
• Their annual remuneration can go as high as ₹30 lacs for those with an experience of five years.
  
• Telecom, marketing, advertising, and Information Technology and Services are the top industries hiring site reliability engineers.

With companies adopting automation across processes, there has been a significant rise in the demand for DevOps Engineers (site reliability). According to the latest report by LinkedIn on the ‘Emerging jobs 2020,’ site reliability engineer is among the top 10 in-demand jobs for 2020.

Candidates too are keen on this role due to the competitive salaries that it offers. DevOps engineers are one of the highest paid techies across the US, UK and India — followed by data engineers and data scientists. Their annual remuneration can go as high as ₹30 lakhs for those with an experience of upto five years.

“India is showing dramatic growth in web and mobile technologies like React.js and React Native, but less so in data science related technologies like R and Matplotlib,” Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow told the Times of India.

A site reliability engineer helps create reliable software systems by resolving infrastructural and operational challenges in the software.

Telecom, marketing and advertising, and Information Technology & Services are the top industries hiring site reliability engineers.

Here are all the programmes, languages and other skills that they need.

Amazon Web Services

SRE’s should be well versed with this very popular cloud service. This cloud platform provides a variety of services including infrastructure technologies, databases and internet of things (IoT). This virtual set of resources lets the user move the existing application over cloud, more efficiently. It also includes the data storage fundamentals to use databases efficiently in the software architecture.

Linux Servers

Linux is an open source operating system that helps to create and maintain web services, databases, network and system administration. A DevOps engineer is expected to be aware of shell scripting, working on databases like MySQL and Oracle. Knowledge of Linux servers will enable the site reliability engineer to setup and configure nameservers.

Programming languages

Programming skills are key to software engineering and development. Coding languages such as Python, Java, Ruby and Perl are the most in-demand languages for DevOps Engineers, as per the latest job postings on professional networking platform LinkedIn.

Machine Learning and data mining

This includes extracting, manipulating and analysing the data to infer trends and insights. It is a tool or a procedure to understand data patterns. Some of the top data mining tools are RapidMiner, R and Apache Spark.

Cloud Technologies — Jenkins, Kubernetes

These are open source automation tools. Jenkins and Kubernetes are open source server-based systems used to automate software development process. Kubernetes was originally designed by Google, and is maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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