From some of DevOps JD on linkedIn, I realised that DeveOps should be the leader of the organization. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P520nH0pYcAdN0rJcnMQqsgu9cV9GdknztJ92J8l7-s/pubhtml DevOps' Required Skills From LinkedIn on 8/30/16: DevOps should be the leader of the company! Yahoo Netflix Samsung Salesforce Fortinet SUM OS admin UNIX systems Unix platforms Linux administrator Linux VMs Docker VMs VMware, OpenStack, Hyper-V Openstack, KVM, VMWare Version control version control systems Git, SVN Cloud Amazon AWS AWS AWS, Azure DB MySql Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL Mysql administration and strong command of SQL MySQL RabbitMQ MySql, MongoDB, Redis, Oracle, ProgreSQL N/W TCP/IP networking, DNS, HTTP NAS Understanding of network stack, network tuning, subnet/VLANs. HAProxy, DNS, IPTable Script Lang Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP bash Python, Bash/tcsh a scripting language: Perl, Python and Unix Shell preferred Python, Perl, Ruby Python, Ruby, Shell, PHP Web LAMP stack