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Being a Developer vs. DevOps Engineer
What are the exact tasks of a DevOps Engineer and why is there pay higher than normal developer
I am not saying that DevOps should be paid less than normal developers but I am curious to understand why is there salary higher than that of normal developers.
- mattbillenstein 6y agoI'm not sure the salary thing is generally true - but lets say it is - the reason is mostly supply/demand, there are less people with the wider base of knowledge it takes of systems and software or just general desire to do devops/cloud work than there are those that can do general software development.
- bakingPrograMer 6y agoThanks for your insight.
- giantg2 6y agoI second this. I have recently switched from legacy development to AWS DevSecOps (I was/am an ASC in both roles). I do less development now, but I do more configuration-type work. It's more difficult than straight development, especially since the company doesn't really train us and we don't get a steady diet of one kind if work (today it might be a Python Lambda, tomorrow it might be Java ECS; I've never done the same type of work more than once in my 6 months on the team). In my case, the salary stayed the same. So with more responsibilities and the same pay, I'm wishing I could go back to legacy development.
- bakingPrograMer 6y agoThat clears my confusion. So, basically if as a developer I end up setting CI/CD pipelines for my product. I am doing dev and devops job.