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DevOps Engineer jobs

DevOps engineers build the pipelines, infrastructure, and automation that let teams ship software quickly and safely. The work centers on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and reliability.

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What devops engineers earn in the US

Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives

ExperienceHourlyAnnual, full-time
Entry level $36–$50 $75k–$105k
Mid level $50–$72 $105k–$150k
Senior $70–$94 $145k–$195k

National ranges. City pages adjust for the local market.

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Azure DevOps Engineer

Openkyber · Rhode Island

Job Title: Azure DevOps Engineer Location: Princeton, NJ, Newark, NJ, New York City, NY, Boston, MA, Hartford, CT. Looking for W2 candidates. No C2C Job Summary: Seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer with experience managing…

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What employers ask for

The skills these listings keep naming

AWS, GCP, or AzureKubernetes and DockerTerraform or other IaCCI/CD pipelinesLinux and shell scriptingPython or GoMonitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)Incident responseCost optimization
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Interview questions worth rehearsing

With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for

Walk me through a CI/CD pipeline you built or improved.

Cover the stages, what you automated, and the measurable result — faster deploys, fewer failed releases. Numbers make this answer.

A deploy just took production down. What do you do?

Roll back first, diagnose second, communicate throughout. Then talk about prevention: canaries, health checks, smaller changes.

How do you manage infrastructure as code, and why does it matter?

Explain reproducibility, review, and drift prevention with a tool like Terraform. Mention how you handle state and secrets — that is where real experience shows.

How would you reduce a team's cloud bill?

Start with visibility (tagging, cost reports), then rightsizing, reserved capacity, and killing orphaned resources. A real example with a dollar figure is ideal.

How do you decide what to monitor and alert on?

Alert on symptoms users feel, not every metric. Talk about SLOs and reducing alert fatigue — mature answers focus on fewer, better alerts.

How do you roll out a risky infrastructure change?

Describe staging environments, incremental rollout, rollback plans, and communicating with affected teams before you touch anything.

How do you handle secrets in pipelines and applications?

Name a secrets manager, rotation, and least privilege, and the anti-pattern you are avoiding: credentials in code or CI variables sprayed everywhere.

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Resume tips that move the needle

For devops engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here

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Lead with measurable operational wins: deploy frequency, mean time to recovery, uptime, or cloud cost reductions.

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Name your infrastructure stack precisely — 'Kubernetes on EKS with Terraform and GitHub Actions' beats 'cloud technologies'.

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Certifications (AWS, CKA) still move the needle in this field; list current ones near the top.

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Describe scale: number of services, clusters, or engineers your platform supported.

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Mention incident and on-call experience — teams hiring DevOps are usually buying calm under pressure.

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Where this role goes

Typical progression

01 Junior DevOps Engineer
02 DevOps Engineer
03 Senior DevOps Engineer
04 Platform Engineering Lead
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