Live job postings
394
as of 29 Jun 2026
Demand index
0.21%
% of all job postings
Median salary
$140k
$140,000
Salary range
$120k – $140k
$120,000 – $140,000
Salary distribution
Core skills employers ask for
Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)Containerization & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)CI/CD Pipeline Design (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)Scripting & Automation (Python, Bash)Monitoring & Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)Linux System AdministrationGit & Version Control WorkflowsSecurity (DevSecOps, Secrets Management)Networking (DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls)Config Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
AI impact on this career
AI is beginning to automate routine toil in DevOps, particularly in incident triage, log analysis, and auto-remediation via AIOps platforms. Infrastructure-as-code tools are integrating AI-assisted code generation (e.g., natural-language to Terraform), reducing the barrier to writing correct configurations. However, complex architecture design, cross-team orchestration, and understanding business context remain strongly human-driven. The DevOps engineer role is shifting from execution of low-level tasks toward higher-level system design and AI-tool supervision, making adaptability and cloud architecture skills more critical than ever.
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