🚀 DEVOPS ENGINEER (M/F)

The DevOps Engineer automates and ensures the reliability of the path from code to production: cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and monitoring. Their goal is to enable teams to deploy quickly, frequently, and without issues. Today, this role encompasses similar job titles such as SRE, Platform Engineer, and Cloud Engineer.

🎯 Tasks

• Build and maintain the cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines (build, testing, deployment, rollback).
• Operate Kubernetes platforms and containerization.
• Implementing Observability: Metrics, Logs, Traces, Alerting, and On-Call Schedules.
• Secure the software chain (DevSecOps) and optimize cloud costs (FinOps).

🛠️ Skills & Tech Stack 2026

• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS), Helm.
• IaC: Terraform / OpenTofu, Ansible.
• CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD.
• Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure (often multi-cloud or hybrid).
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.
• Scripting: Bash, Python, Go.

💰 2026 Salaries (as reported in France)

• Junior: 42–50 k€
• Confirmed: 50–68 k€
• Senior / Lead / SRE: 68–90 k€ and up
• Freelance: Average Daily Rate (ADR) €500–850 — one of the most competitive segments of the market.

🔍 Not to be confused with

Neitherthe traditionalsystem administrator (who operates systems without extensive automation) nor the back-end developer: DevOps does not develop application features; rather, it streamlines their deployment into production.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineer: What’s the difference? They share the same technical foundation; the SRE focuses on reliability (SLOs, incidents), while the Platform Engineer builds an internal self-service platform for developers.

Is certification required? Certifications (CKA, AWS/GCP) are reassuring, but real-world production experience carries more weight in our evaluation.

📈 Trends

DevOps Lead, Senior SRE, Head of Platform, Cloud Architect, CTO (Infrastructure).