What employers ask for in DevOps Engineer jobs

We read 29 current DevOps Engineer postings from 28 companies' own career sites on November 4, 2026 and counted, posting by posting, what they ask candidates for.

Tools and technologies

Share of postings that name each one.

• Terraform79% · 23 of 29
• AWS66% · 19 of 29
• Python62% · 18 of 29
• Kubernetes55% · 16 of 29
• Bash41% · 12 of 29
• Docker41% · 12 of 29
• GitHub Actions34% · 10 of 29
• Go34% · 10 of 29
• Grafana34% · 10 of 29
• Prometheus34% · 10 of 29
• Datadog28% · 8 of 29
• Jenkins28% · 8 of 29
• CloudFormation24% · 7 of 29
• GCP24% · 7 of 29
• GitLab CI21% · 6 of 29

Skills and methods

• CI/CD86% · 25 of 29
• Infrastructure as Code41% · 12 of 29
• Observability34% · 10 of 29
• GitOps24% · 7 of 29
• Disaster recovery17% · 5 of 29
• IAM14% · 4 of 29
• Incident response14% · 4 of 29
• Cloud infrastructure10% · 3 of 29
• Distributed systems10% · 3 of 29
• Networking10% · 3 of 29

Soft skills

• Communication31% · 9 of 29
• Ownership10% · 3 of 29

Experience

22 of 29 postings state a minimum number of years; the median is 5 years.

• 0–2 years5% · 1
• 3–4 years23% · 5
• 5–7 years64% · 14
• 8+ years9% · 2

Where and with what degree

• Remote41%
• Hybrid10%
• On-site28%
• Not stated21%
• Degree required17%
• Degree preferred10%

Using this on your resume

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Postings we read

Read on November 4, 2026; some may have closed since.

How we counted

We searched company career sites hosted on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and SmartRecruiters for current postings titled “devops engineer”, “platform engineer”, “infrastructure engineer”, at most two per company, and read each one. An AI model listed what each posting asks for; we kept an item only when the posting contains it word for word, and list it here when at least two postings ask for it. Seniority levels are mixed. Updated November 4, 2026.

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