Group
Occupation

273332 DevOps Engineer

Latest release
OSCA - Occupation Standard Classification for Australia
Reference period
2024, Version 1.0

273332 DevOps Engineer

Facilitates and undertakes communication, collaboration, integration and automation to improve efficiency and workflow across different specialist IT teams.

Cloud Engineers are excluded from this occupation. Cloud Engineers are included in Occupation 273331 Cloud Engineer.

Skill level: 1

Main tasks

  • Leads and coordinates software development and operations, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, code deployment and system automation
  • Promotes collaboration between development teams and operations teams
  • Deploys applications or updates systems to ensure uniformity between networks, servers and automation elements within a given environment
  • Automates software and infrastructure deployment using automation tools to improve the software development life cycle
  • Implements and manages containerisation technologies
  • Conducts performance testing and tuning to optimise the performance and stability of operational infrastructure
  • Automates security testing and vulnerability scanning across the entire software development lifecycle
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