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Engineering – DevOps Engineering Professional P3

EDE.GEN.P3

P3P3 — Mid-Level Professionalmedium0.70draftglobalv1

A mid-level DevOps Engineer responsible for enhancing software delivery through automation, managing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating across development, QA, and operations teams to optimize system performance and security.

Summary

A mid-level DevOps Engineer responsible for enhancing software delivery through automation, managing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating across development, QA, and operations teams to optimize system performance and security.

Level — P3 — Mid-Level Professional

Fully competent professional; works independently on standard projects

Scope
Features or a sub-system end-to-end
Autonomy
Works independently on standard work; reviewed on the non-standard
Complexity
Diverse problems; adapts existing approaches
Impact
Project / team outcomes
Decision rights
Owns implementation decisions for own scope
Leadership
Mentors juniors informally
Typical experience
3–5 yrs

Core outputs

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Components

Responsibilities7

  • Design, implement, and maintain automated build, test, and deployment pipelinescommonlevel
  • Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code scriptscommonlevel
  • Package applications into containers and manage container orchestration platformscommonlevel
  • Author and refine automation scriptscommonlevel
  • Utilize configuration management toolscommonlevel
  • Set up proactive monitoring and alerting systemscommonlevel
  • Implement security best practices in the CI/CD pipelinecommonlevel

Tasks3

  • Automate build and deployment processescommonlevel
  • Manage infrastructure as codecommonlevel
  • Ensure security in CI/CD pipelinescommonlevel

Skills6

  • Automation scriptingcommonlevel
  • Container orchestrationcommonlevel
  • Infrastructure-as-codecommonlevel
  • Configuration managementcommonlevel
  • Proactive monitoring setupcommonlevel
  • Security implementationcommonlevel

Knowledge6

  • CI/CD processescommonlevel
  • Infrastructure automationcommonlevel
  • Container managementcommonlevel
  • Configuration management toolscommonlevel
  • Security practices in DevOpscommonlevel
  • Monitoring and alerting systemscommonlevel

competency6

  • Strong problem-solving skillscommonlevel
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skillscommonlevel
  • Continuous improvement mindsetcommonlevel
  • Infrastructure automation expertisecommonlevel
  • CI/CD pipeline managementcommonlevel
  • Security best practices in DevOpscommonlevel

qualification4

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related fieldcommonlevel
  • 3–5+ years of hands-on experience in a DevOps or similar rolecommonlevel
  • Relevant postgraduate degrees or certificationscommonlevel
  • Certifications like AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps Engineercommonlevel

Title aliases

AliasTypeConfidenceApproved
Engineering – DevOps Engineering IIIcommonmedium0.70
Engineering – DevOps Engineering 3commonmedium0.66
Mid-Level Engineering – DevOps Engineeringcommonmedium0.64
Engineering – DevOps Engineer IIIcommonmedium0.70
Engineering – DevOps Engineer 3commonmedium0.66
Mid-Level Engineering – DevOps Engineercommonmedium0.64
Engineering – DevOps Engineering Professional P3commonmedium0.60

Classification mappings

O*NET / SOC

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