P3P3 — Mid-Level Professional
Engineering – DevOps Engineering Professional P3
A mid-level DevOps Engineer responsible for enhancing software delivery through automation, managing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating across development, QA, and operations teams to optimize system performance and security.
What this level means
Fully competent professional; works independently on standard projects
- Scope
- Features or a sub-system end-to-end
- Autonomy
- Works independently on standard work; reviewed on the non-standard
- Complexity
- Diverse problems; adapts existing approaches
- Impact
- Project / team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Owns implementation decisions for own scope
- Leadership
- Mentors juniors informally
- Typical experience
- 3–5 yrs
What you'd do
- Design, implement, and maintain automated build, test, and deployment pipelines
- Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code scripts
- Package applications into containers and manage container orchestration platforms
- Author and refine automation scripts
- Utilize configuration management tools
- Set up proactive monitoring and alerting systems
- Implement security best practices in the CI/CD pipeline
- Automate build and deployment processes
- Manage infrastructure as code
- Ensure security in CI/CD pipelines
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Automation scripting
- Container orchestration
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Configuration management
- Proactive monitoring setup
- Security implementation
- CI/CD processes
- Infrastructure automation
- Container management
- Configuration management tools
- Security practices in DevOps
- Monitoring and alerting systems
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Infrastructure automation expertise
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Security best practices in DevOps
What good looks like
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 3–5+ years of hands-on experience in a DevOps or similar role
- Relevant postgraduate degrees or certifications
- Certifications like AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps Engineer
Common titles
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What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
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