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Show Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation projects demonstrate modern infrastructure practices.
DEVOPS DEVELOPER
DevOps Engineer Portfolio Guide
Bridge development and operations. Enable teams to ship faster and more reliably.
Demand: Very HighJunior: $80k - $115k | Mid: $115k - $170k
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DevOps engineers build the infrastructure that enables rapid, reliable deployment. At startups, good DevOps practices are the difference between shipping daily and shipping monthly.
Related Technologies
DockerKubernetesTerraformAWSGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaLinux
Profile Tips for DevOps Developers
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Include CI/CD Pipelines
Show pipelines you've built. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins—automation is the core skill.
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Demonstrate Monitoring
Alerting, dashboards, and observability show you think about production reliability.
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Document Your Work
READMEs and runbooks are DevOps deliverables. Show you can document systems for others.
Project Ideas to Showcase
Kubernetes Deployment
Set up a complete Kubernetes cluster with deployments, services, and ingress.
KubernetesHelmTerraformAWS/GCP
CI/CD Pipeline
Build a complete pipeline: lint, test, build, deploy with environment promotion.
GitHub ActionsDockerTerraform
Monitoring Stack
Deploy Prometheus and Grafana with alerting for application metrics.
PrometheusGrafanaAlertManager
Recommended Tech Stack
Containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- containerd
IaC
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- CloudFormation
- Ansible
CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- CircleCI
- ArgoCD
Monitoring
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- PagerDuty
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Overlapping roles. DevOps emphasizes culture and CI/CD; SRE emphasizes reliability and error budgets. Skills transfer between them. Many companies use terms interchangeably.
Yes. Python, Go, or Bash at minimum. Modern DevOps involves writing automation, IaC, and sometimes application code. You're an engineer, not just an operator.
AWS has the most jobs. GCP is popular at startups. Azure is strong in enterprise. Start with AWS; concepts transfer to others.
Increasingly yes. Many companies use K8s, and understanding it is valuable. But not all startups need it. Learn the basics; go deeper if relevant to your targets.
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