DevOps Engineer

Key Skills

1. Application Deployment Skills

• Application deployment and release management
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and support
• Deployment automation using shell scripts and tools
• Application installation, configuration, and upgrades
• Production deployment and rollback procedures
• Change management and release coordination
• Environment management (Development, UAT, Production)
• Incident and problem management during deployments
• Application health monitoring and validation
• Troubleshooting deployment failures and performance issues

2. Linux Basic Administration Skills

• Linux operating system fundamentals (RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu)
• User and group administration
• File system management and permissions
• Process and service management
• Package management (RPM, YUM, DNF)
• Shell scripting (Bash)
• Log analysis and troubleshooting
• Cron job scheduling and automation
• Network configuration and connectivity troubleshooting
• Disk, memory, and CPU performance monitoring
• Basic security administration and access management

3. Oracle Database Skills

• Oracle Database administration fundamentals
• User, role, and privilege management
• SQL and PL/SQL knowledge
• Performance monitoring and tuning
• Troubleshooting database connectivity and application issues
• Oracle listener and service management

4. IBM MQ Skills

• IBM MQ administration and support
• Queue Manager creation and configuration
• Queue, channel, and listener management
• Message flow monitoring and troubleshooting
• IBM MQ installation, upgrade, and maintenance
• SSL/TLS configuration for secure messaging
• MQ clustering concepts
• Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) management
• Message persistence and recovery concepts
• Performance monitoring and tuning of MQ environments
• MQ connectivity troubleshooting with applications

Additional Professional Skills

• Production support and operations management
• Incident, problem, and change management (ITIL)
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• System monitoring and alert management
• Documentation and SOP preparation
• Cross-functional team collaboration
• Stakeholder communication