What Makes a DevOps

 Solid Linux/Unix administration skills.

 Strong Puppet or Chef experience (either for Configuration Management 

and/or Continuous Delivery) 

and

  how on repository systems such as Git and SVN are a must.

 Can understand the developer needs and propose a Continuous Integrationplan and implement 

CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo).

 Can understand the infrastructure needs and design a Continuous Deliveryplan.

 Can understand the management needs and create a Release Management plan.

 Can easily setup application stacks (LAMP, LEMP).

 Can easily setup application server stacks (Tomcat, Webshpere, JBoss).

 Can easily integrate applications with services (ActiveMQ, Redis, Memcache).

 Know how and when to scale horizontally & vertically.

 Can work on different caching levels through modern applications (Varnish, Terracotta EHCache, 

Memcache).

 Understand the need of DRPs, backup strategies and security audits.

DevOps

Devops 

• Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services, VMware, RackSpace, Microsoft Azure, KVM, Heroku, Amazon OpsWorks, Amazon ElasticBeanstalk, Docker, Vagrant
• Web / Application Architecture / Site Performance / Load Balancing: Apache, NGINX, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Rails, Node.js, DJango, PHP, Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, Amazon AutoScaling, Varnish Software, Memcached, Redis, Amazon ElastiCache, Red Hat Cluster Suite, F5 LTM (Local Traffic Manager) & GTM (Global Traffic Manager), Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, HAProxy
• Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control OpenLDAP:RSA Authentication, Radius Authentication, MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)/Google Authenticator, Centrify/Powerbroker, SAML, OAuth
• Environment Build and Deployment: Packer, PXE, Foreman, Red Hat Kickstart, Spacewalk, RedHat Satellite Service, Mrepo, Pulp
• Orchestration / Service Discovery: Consul, Registrator, Consul Template, Shipyard, CloudFormation, Terraform
• Configuration Management / Automation: Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible, Beaker, TestKitchen, ServerSpec, Berkshelf, r10k
• Big Data Operations: Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, MapR, Hortonworks, Kafka, Storm, Oozie, Sqoop, Pig

• Operational Visibility (Service Health Monitoring, Capacity Planning, and Reporting): Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Splunk, Graphite, Grafana, Cacti, SNMP, Diamond, CollectD, NRPE, Nagios, Sensu, CloudWatch
• Release Management: GIT, SVN, Stash, GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, Docker Registry Hub / Private Registry, Jenkins, Bamboo, TravisCI
• Message Queuing: RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon SQS,
• Storage: NFS File Server, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NAS / SAN, Netapp, 3par, EMC, Multipath / MPIO, device-mapper, PowerPath
• Security: Host based Firewalls (Iptables), SSL VPN (OpenVPN), IPSEC VPN (OpenSwan, LibraSwan), Amazon VPC, IAM, Security Groups & ACLs, SELinux, Auditing and hardening Linux servers
• ITIL Service Operations (Incident, Problem, and Event Management): Design and implement change control solutions, Design and implement disaster recovery solutions, Design and implement business continuity solutions, Root-cause analysis investigation, Linux Kernel performance troubleshooting and tuning, Application performance troubleshooting and tuning
• Backup and Recovery: Tivoli – TSM, HP DataProtector, Bacula, NetBackup, BackupExec, Rsync-based solutions