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What DevOps engineers in India should know before going online
DevOps and SRE roles in India sit in product startups, SaaS firms, banks modernising their systems, IT services companies and global capability centres. Job titles vary from DevOps engineer to cloud engineer, platform engineer and SRE, so mention the titles you fit. Many services roles involve supporting overseas clients across time zones, so say whether you have handled night or weekend on-call and how rotations worked. Cloud certifications are commonly used as filters by recruiters, but interviewers dig into real incidents and design choices. Banks and regulated companies follow strict change control and data localisation needs, which is worth noting if you have worked under them. Never publish internal hostnames, IP ranges, keys or architecture diagrams that reveal a real employer’s setup.
Common website mistakes DevOps engineers make
- Listing thirty tools with no context. Show two or three systems you built or ran and what changed after your work.
- Publishing real infrastructure details such as account IDs, internal URLs or diagrams. Redraw a generic version and keep secrets out of repositories.
- Skipping reliability numbers you are allowed to share. Deployment frequency, rollback time or alert noise reduced, described honestly, shows impact.
- Ignoring the people side. Mention how you worked with developers on pipelines, documentation and runbooks, not only tools.
- Leaving old demo clusters or links that expose dashboards. Shut them down and replace them with screenshots.