Meaning
An engineer who bridges software development and IT operations to automate infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud deployments.
Three examples from work
Pipeline optimization
DevOur CI test builds take twenty minutes to finish.
DevOpsI'll cache docker layers and split the test runners across four parallel jobs.
Incident response
On-call LeadThe production cluster is running out of disk space.
DevOpsI expanded the storage volume and configured log rotation to prevent future exhaustion.
Infrastructure as code
ArchitectAre all staging cloud resources provisioned via Terraform?
DevOpsYes, our entire infrastructure is fully declarative and version-controlled.
DevOps engineers focus on automation, reliability, and deployment velocity. Collocations: 'automate CI/CD', 'provision infrastructure', 'monitor cluster health'.