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DevOps / SRE

CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response, and developer-platform work.

6 technologies in this stack — ordered Core → Edge → Hybrid bonus. Click any tile to start practicing.

Core

Core — lands the role. Baseline skills hiring managers screen for. Master these and you can land the role at market CTC.

Edge

Edge — lifts your CTC band. Rarer skills that strengthen negotiation — they can push the offer toward the top of the band (e.g. ₹30–40L+ for senior data roles).

Hybrid bonus

Hybrid bonus — broadens your profile. Cross-domain extras (e.g. Power BI for a Data Engineer) that open hybrid roles and raise your profile weightage with recruiters.

  1. Core
    1

    CI/CD Pipelines

    GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, and deployment automation.

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  2. Core
    2

    Linux & Shell Scripting

    Bash scripting, cron jobs, file system, process management, and networking.

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  3. Core
    3

    Docker & Kubernetes

    Containerization, orchestration, Helm charts, and production K8s patterns.

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  4. Edge
    4

    Observability

    Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and alerting.

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  5. Edge
    5

    Terraform & IaC

    Infrastructure as code, modules, state management, and cloud resource provisioning.

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  6. Hybrid bonus
    6

    AWS Data Services

    S3, Glue, EMR, Athena, Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis — the most common cloud stack in India.

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