Compensation
Market data- p25
- $127,500
- median
- $172,275
- p75
- $215,500
Annual base, USD, from public postings · based on n=464 · Updated November 2026. How we calculate this
Career & pay · engineering
DevOps Engineer
Market data for this role — salary, demand, and skills. See live openings below.
DevOps Engineers make software ship reliably and run smoothly — owning CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and the observability that keeps systems healthy. This page covers what the role does, the skills that matter, and how demand and pay break down by region.
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About the role
What a DevOps Engineer does
What a DevOps Engineer actually does
A DevOps Engineer owns the path code takes from a developer's laptop to running reliably in production — and everything that keeps it running afterward. In practice that means building CI/CD pipelines, defining infrastructure as code, managing cloud environments, orchestrating containers, and standing up the monitoring and alerting that catches problems early. The role is part software engineering, part systems operations, and part the cultural work of helping teams ship faster without breaking things.
The difference between a strong and weak engineer is mostly visible under pressure. A weak one wires up infrastructure by hand, leaves pipelines flaky, and treats monitoring as an afterthought — so outages become mysteries. A strong one automates relentlessly, makes infrastructure reproducible and reviewable, designs for failure (rollbacks, health checks, blast-radius limits), and builds observability before it's needed. They also weigh cost and complexity: the goal is a system the team can operate, not the most elaborate one possible. Calm, methodical incident response is a hallmark of seniority.
The tools and skills that matter
The modern baseline: solid Linux and shell fundamentals, containers (Docker), an orchestrator (usually Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform is the common denominator), and a major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Around that sit CI/CD systems, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, the OpenTelemetry world, or hosted equivalents), and scripting in Bash and Python. The senior differentiators are networking and security fluency, an understanding of distributed-systems failure modes, and genuine cost awareness. Real depth shows in how someone reasons about tradeoffs, not in how many tools they can name.
How Diiirect assesses this role
Candidates on Diiirect complete a role-specific skills assessment rather than relying on certifications alone. For DevOps Engineers that means scenario-driven problems — debugging a broken pipeline, reasoning about a Kubernetes failure, structuring Terraform safely, designing an alerting strategy — that surface real operational judgment under realistic constraints. Combined with profile and portfolio review, this gives hiring teams a grounded signal of how a candidate actually thinks about reliability, automation, and risk before the first interview.
By seniority · global median
Intern$37,036
Junior$60,183+$23,147
Mid$155,500+$95,317
Senior$175,000+$19,500
Staff$272,500+$97,500
Principal$194,437
Director$222,214+$27,777
VP$277,767+$55,553
C-level$370,356+$92,589
Where would you land?
~50th percentile — about $172,275 would out-earn an estimated 50% of DevOps Engineers.
Estimated from the p25–p75 band. For orientation, not an offer.
Open positions
Live DevOps Engineer roles
The most recent openings tracked across the market. Apply directly — no middle layer.
- Staff Site Reliability EngineerKEV GroupToronto, Ontariotoday
- MFE Planning EngineerBosch GroupSan Luis Potosí, S.L.P., MXyesterday
- Development & Test Engineer - Heat Pumps (f/m/div.)Bosch GroupCacia, Aveiro, PTyesterday
- AI Native DevOps Engineer (H/F)DevoteamLevallois-Perret, IDF, FRyesterday
- Lead Engineer / Developer, Microsoft Stack, .NET, C# (Remote)Carrington Recruitment SolutionsRayleigh, Essexyesterday
- Lead Engineer/.NET Developer (Remote)Carrington Recruitment SolutionsRayleigh, Essexyesterday
- Infrastructure Engineer, DataTelnyxLondon2d ago
- Senior Data Platform EngineerSchonfeldLondon2d ago
- DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes & AWS)WiTiRemoteRemote2d ago
- Cloud and Platform EngineerSwissPeak Partners GmbHZurich, Zürich, Switzerland2d ago
- Infrastructure AnalystFocus OperatingUS2d ago
- Associate Deployment Engineer - Galaxy Graduate ProgramcelonisMunich2d ago
Openings elsewhere
Live DevOps Engineer openings
Roles from other companies hiring DevOps Engineers right now, sourced straight from their own job boards.
- MFE Planning EngineerBosch GroupSan Luis Potosí, S.L.P., MX
- Development & Test Engineer - Heat Pumps (f/m/div.)Bosch GroupCacia, Aveiro, PT
- AI Native DevOps Engineer (H/F)DevoteamLevallois-Perret, IDF, FR
- Developer Success EngineertwilioRemote US
- Senior Customer Reliability EngineerCloudflareHybrid
- Integration Reliability Engineer Intern, Technical OperationsStripeSingapore
- Integration Reliability Engineer, Technical OperationsStripeSingapore
- Technical Operations EngineerStripeSouth San Francisco, CA
- Infrastructure Engineer, PrivyStripeNew York
- DevOps Engineer (Observability)twilioRemote - Ireland
Adjacent paths
Related roles
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Where it pays
Compensation by region
Median annual base in USD by region. Hiring globally widens the band you can recruit from — and the arbitrage you can capture.
Regionp25Medianp75Source
US$120,000$140,000$140,000Market data
CA$92,192$108,461$127,984Estimated
GB$87,695$103,171$121,741Estimated
UY$49,469$58,199$68,675Estimated
MX$47,220$55,553$65,553Estimated
CL$44,972$52,908$62,431Estimated
BR$44,972$52,908$62,431Estimated
CR$44,972$52,908$62,431Estimated
CO$38,226$44,972$53,067Estimated
AR$38,226$44,972$53,067Estimated
PE$35,977$42,326$49,945Estimated
What they do
Representative responsibilities
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that ship code safely and frequently to production
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform and related tooling
- Operate container orchestration (Kubernetes) and the supporting networking, scaling, and deployment patterns
- Implement observability — metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting — so issues are caught before users feel them
- Harden systems and automate security, secrets management, and incident response runbooks
Toolkit
In-demand skills
ci/cdkubernetesterraformawsdockerlinuxobservabilitybashpython
Good to know
Frequently asked
What's the salary range for a DevOps Engineer?
The median DevOps Engineer salary is $172,275. Most DevOps Engineer roles pay between $127,500 and $215,500 (USD, annual). Based on 464 salary observations.
Which companies hire DevOps Engineers?
Companies actively hiring DevOps Engineers include Palantir, NVIDIA, Openkyber, Devoteam, Cloudflare, Workday.
How do I get hired as a DevOps Engineer on diiirect?
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