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The DevOps Career Handbook

By : John Knight, Nate Swenson
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The DevOps Career Handbook

By: John Knight, Nate Swenson

Overview of this book

DevOps is a set of practices that make up a culture, and practicing DevOps methods can make developers more productive and easier to work with. The DevOps Career Handbook is filled with hundreds of tips and tricks from experts regarding every step of the interview process, helping you save time and money by steering clear of avoidable mistakes. You’ll learn about the various career paths available in the field of DevOps, before acquiring the essential skills needed to begin working as a DevOps professional. If you are already a DevOps engineer, this book will help you to gain advanced skills to become a DevOps specialist. After getting to grips with the basics, you'll discover tips and tricks for preparing your resume and online profiles and find out how to build long-lasting relationships with the recruiters. Finally, you'll read through interviews which will give you an insight into a career in DevOps from the viewpoint of individuals at different career levels. By the end of this DevOps book, you’ll gain a solid understanding of what DevOps is, the various DevOps career paths, and how to prepare for your interview.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: A Career in DevOps
5
Section 2: The Application Process
10
Section 3: Interview Process
13
Section 4: Tips, Tricks, and Interviews

Chapter 3: Specialized Skills for Advanced DevOps Practitioners

As DevOps engineers progress in their career-specific areas, they may stand out either as a result of their natural ability or skills or on account of their strong liking for the subject. This leads DevOps engineers down a specialized career path. The focus of this chapter will be on the skills required for entry into different DevOps specialties.

Mid–Senior Level Content

This chapter is full of useful information for anyone interested in the field of DevOps; however, it is geared for DevOps engineers who have been practicing for a minimum of 1-3 years. This chapter assumes that individuals already have the knowledge listed in the previous chapter.

In this chapter, the following specialized DevOps competencies will be covered:

  • CI/CD pipeline DevOps engineer
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Cloud and application modernization
  • Containers and container management
  • Security
  • Advanced DevOps...