Technology
DevOps Engineer
DevOps engineers build the pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation that let teams ship software reliably and often. It blends coding with systems and operations.
Median salary
$130,000
Typical range
$90k – $190k
Job outlook
+21% (much faster than average)
AI exposure
Plan a path to DevOps Engineer
Education
Typical entry: Bachelor's degree
Plan my path to this →Typical progression
DevOps Engineer Intern
Internship
$45,000
~4 mos to advance
Junior DevOps Engineer
Entry / Junior
$90,000
~2 yrs to advance
DevOps Engineer
Established
$130,000
~3 yrs to advance
Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior
$160,000
Internships are a common on-ramp here — they speed up landing that first role and improve your odds, which is why the Safe and High-ceiling plans build one in.
Key skills
A typical day
- •Automate deployments
- •Manage cloud infrastructure
- •Improve reliability
Fields of study
Computer Science · Information Technology
Top colleges for Technology
Explore all- Massachusetts Institute of Technology4% admit · $124,000 grad pay
- Stanford University4% admit · $122,000 grad pay
- Carnegie Mellon University11% admit · $109,000 grad pay
- University of California, Berkeley11% admit · $97,000 grad pay
- Georgia Institute of Technology16% admit · $99,000 grad pay
Reputation-based selection; stats shown are outcome data per school.
Related careers
Other careers from this field of study
Mapped by field-of-study code (Computer Science, Information Technology), not by job-title guessing.