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.