DevOps Engineer — CI/CD, Platform and Reliability, US Employers

Technology companies, banks, retailers, health systems and government contractors across the United States hire DevOps engineers to make software delivery fast, repeatable and safe. In practice that means owning the path from a merged pull request to running production, and everything that path touches.

What the work involves

Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, defining infrastructure as code, running container platforms, wiring up monitoring and alerting that tells the truth, and being part of the rotation that answers when production breaks. On a good team it also means removing the manual steps other engineers have quietly been tolerating.

Requirements

• Software engineering practice — this is a coding role, and the code is other people's ability to ship
• CI/CD in production: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or CircleCI, and pipelines you have had to debug under pressure
• Containers and Kubernetes, including what happens when a rollout goes wrong
• Infrastructure as code, usually Terraform, reviewed like application code
• A cloud platform in depth — AWS or Azure most often
• Linux, scripting and monitoring, plus the incident habits that turn an outage into a fix rather than a story

How the pay is structured

• Salaried roles sit against the BLS software developer occupation, which is where this work is counted: a $135,980 median as of May 2025, the lowest tenth under $82,460 and the highest tenth above $214,670
• Job-board averages are self-reported and include contract rates and total-compensation figures, so treat the eye-catching numbers as unverified rather than as a band you can expect
• Cleared federal work pays a premium, and TS/SCI roles more again, because the eligible pool is very small

Before you apply

Ask about the on-call rotation and whether it is paid. How often you carry the pager, how often it actually fires, and what compensation attaches to it are the largest quality-of-life variables in this job, and almost none of it appears in the advertisement.

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