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How to become a DevOps engineer: 50 beginner jobs open today
Five steps for people changing careers, with the figures from today’s 467 open DevOps engineer postings: what employers ask for first, how much experience, and what beginners are paid.
- Open jobs today
- 467
- Open to beginners
- 50
- Experience asked, median
- 5 years
- Beginner pay, median
- $164K
Five steps to your first DevOps engineer job
- Know what the work is. A DevOps engineer automates how code is tested, released and run, so releases are fast and safe. Beginner postings today use titles like DevOps Engineer; Cloud Platform Engineer; IT Network Infrastructure Engineer, Outside Plant; Software Infrastructure Engineer (Starlink); Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure.
- Learn the skills employers name first. In today’s 467 postings: Python (62%), Kubernetes (57%), Terraform (55%), AWS (53%), CI/CD (53%).
- Build proof you can show. Two or three results with a number, from a job, a course project or volunteer work. The kind of line a recruiter looks for: “Moved 35 services to Kubernetes; a deploy takes 6 minutes instead of 40”.
- Write the resume and the letter. Start from the DevOps engineer resume example and the cover letter example, and replace every line with your own.
- Apply where beginners are hired. 50 of today’s 467 open DevOps engineer jobs are junior or intern roles or ask for two years of experience or less. See the open jobs and check each one with the resume match checker before you apply.
Questions about becoming a DevOps engineer
- How much experience do DevOps engineer jobs ask for?
- The median in today’s postings is 5 years; 17% of the postings that name a number ask for two years or less.
- Do I need a degree to become a DevOps engineer?
- 11% of today’s 467 postings say no degree is required. Many others accept equivalent experience: read the requirements of each posting.
- How much does a beginner DevOps engineer earn?
- Junior and intern postings for this work that state pay advertise a median of $164K a year (22 postings).
Everything about DevOps engineer work
Counted from the open postings on Nov 14, 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages and recounted on every update. Beginner jobs: junior and intern titles, and postings that ask for two years of experience or less.