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DevOps Engineer Roadmap

Automate, deploy, and scale infrastructure

Duration
10-12 months
Job Demand
very high
Phases
6
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About This Roadmap

DevOps Engineering revolutionizes software delivery by bridging the gap between development and operations teams, focusing on automation, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. As a DevOps engineer, you will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure as code, orchestrate containers, monitor systems, and ensure high availability and scalability. This comprehensive roadmap covers Linux administration, scripting, version control, containerization with Docker, orchestration with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), infrastructure as code with Terraform, and monitoring tools. DevOps engineers are critical in modern software companies, enabling rapid releases, reducing deployment failures, and improving system reliability. The role requires strong scripting skills, understanding of networking and security, knowledge of cloud platforms, and a problem-solving mindset.

Prerequisites

  • Basic programming
  • Linux fundamentals
  • Networking basics
  • Understanding of software development

What You'll Learn

Build CI/CD pipelines
Master Docker & Kubernetes
Automate infrastructure
Deploy on cloud
Monitor systems
Implement security
Optimize performance

Complete Learning Path

6-8 weeks

1
Linux Administration

File system, permissions, processes, systemd

2
Shell Scripting

Bash, automation, cron jobs, sed/awk

3
Networking

TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, load balancing

4
Git

Branching, merging, rebasing, workflows

6-8 weeks

1
Jenkins

Pipelines, plugins, Jenkinsfile

2
GitLab CI

Runners, pipelines, stages, artifacts

3
GitHub Actions

Workflows, actions, secrets

4
Build Tools

Maven, Gradle, npm, Docker builds

8-10 weeks

1
Docker

Images, containers, Dockerfile, compose

2
Container Registry

Docker Hub, ECR, GCR, artifact management

3
Docker Networking

Bridge, host, overlay networks

4
Security

Image scanning, secrets management

10-12 weeks

1
Kubernetes Basics

Pods, services, deployments, namespaces

2
K8s Advanced

StatefulSets, DaemonSets, ConfigMaps, Secrets

3
Helm

Package management, charts, releases

4
Service Mesh

Istio, traffic management, observability

8-10 weeks

1
AWS

EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFormation

2
Terraform

Resources, modules, state management, workspaces

3
Ansible

Playbooks, roles, inventory, automation

4
Cloud Security

IAM, VPC, security groups, compliance

6-8 weeks

1
Prometheus

Metrics, alerts, PromQL

2
Grafana

Dashboards, visualization, alerting

3
ELK Stack

Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana for logs

4
Incident Management

On-call, postmortems, SRE practices

Tools & Technologies

LinuxBashGitDockerKubernetesJenkinsGitLab CITerraformAnsibleAWSPrometheusGrafanaELK

Career Opportunities

  • DevOps Engineer
  • Site Reliability Engineer
  • Platform Engineer
  • Cloud Engineer
  • Infrastructure Engineer
  • Release Engineer

Expected Salary (India)

₹5-10 LPA (Entry)
₹10-20 LPA (Mid)
₹20-40 LPA (Senior)
₹40L+ (Lead)

Companies Hiring

GoogleAmazonMicrosoftNetflixUberAirbnbFlipkartSwiggyRazorpayCREDZerodhaFreshworks

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