DevOps Engineer Salary in India and Worldwide

DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps engineer ranks #2 on Glassdoor’s best jobs in America and global rankings.

The role of DevOps engineer has seen a 225% jump in postings on indeed” according to an SD times report.

How many companies are using DevOps

81% of enterprises

70% of small to medium businesses have adopted devops practices.

Since there are so many companies which are using DevOps obviously the demand will be pretty high.

What does it take to become a successful DevOps engineer?

Scripting Knowledge

-Proficiency in scripting language such as Powershell, Bash, Python

Version control systems (Git/SVN)

-Knoledgable in Common SCM practices, such as branching and code merge ability to work within a team with strong analytica, problem-solving and communication skill

Cloud and Linux knowledge is must

-you should be proficient with at least one cloud service provider. Preferably AWS coz it has a major market share.

Expereince in developing CI/CD pipeline

  • Becuase in CI/CD pipeline you might have to integrate multiple development, testing and deployment technologies. YOu might have to integrate those techologies.

DevOps Engineer salary
According to indeed and abgelist, 80% of the companies pay more than $90000 starting salary to a DevOps engineer. Also, 35% pay at least $115000 and 17% more than $125000

Obviously there are multiple factors which affects salary for example geography, skills, company so it varries accordingly.

DevOps engineers Salries in India

Bangalore – INR 3,25,672 – 19,42,394

Hyderabad – INR 3,60,585 – 15,17,277

An entry-level DevOps Engineer with less than 1 yr experience can expect to earn an average total package of INR 364926
An early career DevOps Engineer with 1-4 years of experience earns an average total package of ₹585136
A mid-career DevOps Engineer with 5-9 years of experience earns an average total compensation of ₹1118612
An experienced DevOps Engineer with 10-19 years of experience earns an average total compensation of ₹1644128

DevOps change the landscape and especially when you look at the developers today there is no Java developer there is no dotnet developers there are full stack developers.

All of them are powered by tools, everybody wants to release faster, everybody wants to be more secure and therefore, if you don’t know how to combine the power of developers and operations with the power of tools which is DevOps, you will fall behind.

Mantosh Singh