The DevOps engineer

Teams working on the same project are all working toward the same goal of delivering high-quality software. But with different roles and specialties in a software team, they all have different ways of achieving this goal. How do they all work together on separate parts with this in mind? A DevOps engineer, a title that describes a combination of development and operations, builds on a team’s vision of delivering reliable software by building and maintaining tools that can be used in all parts of the software engineering life cycle. To describe the role, let’s dive into the difference between development and operations.

Development focuses on building software, where a team will collaborate on writing code to add new features or fix bugs. Operations focus on keeping the software that is being built secure and reliable by making sure the requirements are met and that the software works as intended. In a team with multiple roles, it’s normal...