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What companies mean by “DevOps”
In India, DevOps roles often blend CI/CD, cloud infra, observability, and on-call culture — not only “Docker tutorials.”
Typical CI/CD flow
Core skill stack
- Linux & networking — SSH, systemd, DNS, HTTP
- Git + CI — GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
- Containers — Dockerfiles, compose, image security basics
- Kubernetes — Deployments, services, ingress, Helm intro
- Cloud — AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, ECS/EKS) or GCP equivalents
- IaC — Terraform modules you can explain in interviews
Salary snapshot (indicative)
| Experience | Typical range |
|---|---|
| 0–1 yr (trained) | ₹4–7 LPA |
| 2–4 yr | ₹8–15 LPA |
| 5+ yr (SRE lean) | ₹18 LPA+ |
Portfolio must-haves
- Pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys a sample app
- Monitoring dashboard screenshot (Grafana/Prometheus)
- Post-mortem write-up for a simulated outage
Start with one end-to-end project before collecting twenty half-done repos.
