What Senior DevOps Jobs Ask For
Across 270 open Senior DevOps postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cloud, automation, aws.
Updated October 27, 2026
274 open Senior DevOps postings. The percentages below are measured over the 270 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cloud | 75% |
| automation | 64% |
| aws | 61% |
| terraform | 61% |
| ci-cd | 60% |
| python | 60% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 59% |
| kubernetes | 59% |
| ai | 53% |
| devops | 47% |
| networking | 46% |
| observability | 44% |
| linux | 41% |
| docker | 33% |
| azure | 32% |
| bash | 32% |
| gcp | 31% |
| github | 26% |
| iam | 26% |
| grafana | 26% |
| prometheus | 24% |
| github-actions | 22% |
| gitops | 22% |
| ansible | 21% |
| api | 21% |
| sre | 21% |
| postgresql | 20% |
| dns | 20% |
| argocd | 19% |
| eks | 19% |
| cloud-native | 18% |
| gitlab | 18% |
| helm | 18% |
| agentic-ai | 16% |
| machine-learning | 16% |
| distributed-systems | 15% |
| git | 14% |
| jenkins | 14% |
| containerization | 13% |
| s3 | 13% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 274 open Senior DevOps jobs →
Across all DevOps levels
Most DevOps postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- cloud 657
- automation 532
- python 528
- ci-cd 513
- aws 510
- ai 495
- kubernetes 492
- terraform 464
- infrastructure-as-code 439
- networking 396
- devops 380
- linux 376