The 10 Most In-Demand Tech Jobs for 2023 – Includes DevOps Engineer!

Pink News Editor | May 8, 2023 DevOps

In her January 2023 CIO article, The 10 Most In-Demand Tech Jobs for 2023 — and How to Hire for Them, Sarah K. White reports, “The ongoing tight IT job market has companies doing whatever they can to attract top tech talent.”

Her article also indicates that 56% of survey respondents said they plan to hire for new roles in the coming year (2023), and 39% said they planned to hire for vacated roles. Eighty-six percent of the technology managers said, “It’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. Companies will have to be more competitive than ever to land the right talent in these high-demand areas.”

According to the CIO article, here is the list of the 10 most in-demand tech jobs right now…

  • Cloud engineer
  • Database developer
  • DevOps engineer
  • Front-end developer
  • Help desk and desktop support professional
  • Network administrator
  • Network security engineer
  • Software developer
  • Software engineer
  • Systems security manager

For the complete article, along with salary projections and detailed descriptions of each of the 10 roles and the corresponding skills and experience required, click here.

Let’s now focus on the role of the DevOps engineer. DevOps is crucial for any organization that wants to successfully adopt and sustain digital transformation, and DevOps engineers are vital to the achievement of this goal…

The Role of DevOps Engineer

According to Sarah’s CIO article, “DevOps engineers develop and improve IT systems and work as a go-between for development teams to ensure a flow between coding and engineering. This position is essential for improving and maintaining IT and cloud infrastructure, ultimately boosting productivity in the business. DevOps engineers must be able to deploy automated applications, maintain applications, and identify the potential risks and benefits of new software and systems.”

Some of the capabilities related to this role are “…an understanding of Agile software development and methodologies, an ability to implement and work with IT automation tools, and traits such as analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.”

IT professionals who want to better position themselves with a recognized DevOps engineer skillset can demonstrate their enhanced DevOps capabilities by acquiring certification, such as those offered by accredited training organizations like Pink Elephant.

Want to Learn More?

  • Pink Elephant offers a unique and proprietorial DevOps approach that includes our innovative ‘full stack’ methodology, 15 essential DevOps practices to drive business value, and a DevOps assessment tool to determine where you are in your DevOps journey. Our robust portfolio of DevOps certification courses features two self-paced online DevOps engineer certification courses presented by the engaging George Spalding, a DevOps expert and Pink Elephant vice president and executive consultant:
    • DevOps Engineer – This key DevOps role is responsible for managing the output of software development and introduces processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs and requirements throughout the entire deployment pipeline. Learn to address the true impact of technical debt, unplanned work, and IT toil on business value delivery by applying the three ways and five ideals of DevOps, as well as using the most popular DevOps tools in the entire deployment pipeline.
    • Site Reliability Engineer – To keep up with technological advances that include a shift to cloud-native services, this certification course enables IT professionals to bridge the gaps between platform design and developmental and operational execution by applying SRE best practices. Learn the principles and actionable solutions required to build, sustain, and improve the SRE practice by combining theory with hands-on exercises.
  • Attend Pink24, our annual IT service management conference, now in its 27th hugely successful year. Several sessions are included about DevOps, Lean, and Agile.

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