Devops Architect

Concepts

DevOps/Cloud -
- CI/CD Practices
- Key Metrics (DORA)
- Security Vulnerability Tools (SonarQube, Nexus, Prisma)
- Cloud Models
- Cloud Platform Services (AWS Or Azure)

Scripting (Any One)

Linux Commands and Shell/Bash Scripting
Competencies for Evaluation
Linux daily usage commands
Automation scripts - Preferable

CI and CD tools

Jenkins or Github Actions or Azure DevOps or AWS Codebuild
Competencies for Evaluation
- Build and Release Pipeline/ Pipeline scripting/ Multibranch pipeline
- Artifacts/Release/Deployment Gates - Overview

Containers / Build

Docker or equivalent Container Runtime - Build,Ship,Run
Competencies for Evaluation
- Virtualization vs Containerization
- maven, gradle, npm, yarn
- Creating images with Dockerfile/Multistage Builds/Docker Compose
- Docker Volumes / Networking - Overview

Kubernetes or AKS or EKS or GKE or Openshift or AWS ECS Fargate
Competencies for Evaluation
- Basic Architecture of a Kubernetes cluster
- Managing Application Deployment/K8s Workloads Overview
- Service discovery and Networking (including Ingress)

Source code Repository

Knowledge of DVCS - GitHub/Bitbucket/other SCM Tools
- Git Commands
- Branching and Merging
- Branching Strategies - Overview

IaaC

Ansible
Competencies for Evaluation
Playbooks, inventories, roles, variables, Troubleshooting

Terraform / CloudFormation.
Competencies for Evaluation
Terraform workflow, implement and maintain state - remote backend
Providers, provisioners, resource and data configuration, registry,
usage of variables and outputs

Observability

Knowledge of Monitoring/SaaS Tools for APM, Infrastructure Monitoring
Competencies for Evaluation
Monitoring vs Observability (CloudWatch /ELK/ Prometheus / Grafana / Alerts)
Telemetry Data/Golden Metrics
Incidence management and root cause analysis

Troubleshooting

Analyze Linux Logs, Logs
Investigating Performance Issues

Certification

DevOps Certifications on AWS, Azure or GCP