Want to win the DevOps talent wars? Get wisdom and real-world tactics from IT leaders, recruiters, and DevOps experts
Many
new IT big ideas promise to help IT transform from the department of
“no” to the department of “yes.” One of the few that actually delivers
on that promise: DevOps.
DevOps has become red-hot in enterprise IT because it helps IT
provide what companies want most now: Speed and flexibility to
experiment. When DevOps truly wins over an IT organization,
great change happens. Yet DevOps is a relatively young concept. That
adds up to a war for DevOps talent. No wonder then, that our readers
have been so hungry to learn more about DevOps jobs – both those of you
seeking a DevOps role and those of you hiring DevOps talent and helping
your DevOps organizations mature.
Both sides face real challenges. For job seekers, it’s tricky to
demonstrate you have the DevOps goods when DevOps as a discipline is so
new. It’s also tough to tell whether a potential employer is just
talking DevOps talk, or actually does DevOps well.
For hiring managers, it’s hard to attract experienced DevOps pros who
know how to do what one CTO described to us as the essence of DevOps: Identifying friction and resolving it.
These potential hires also need strong collaboration and communication
skills, as they will be working in cross-functional teams, experimenting
at high speed. Even if you can find these folks, you need to win them
over.
As a hiring manager, you must learn how to sell - and evolve - your
DevOps organization so that it’s a place where the best people want to
work. As Red Hat director of product strategy Brian Gracely recently noted, IT leaders struggle to just articulate their DevOps goals. (See his article, The 7 habits of highly effective DevOps, for help on that front.)
To this end, we’ve rounded up our recently shared wisdom and
real-world tactics from IT leaders, recruiters, DevOps culture change
gurus, and others. Whether you’re starting your DevOps journey or taking
it to the next level, we hope you find plenty of practical advice
to apply right away.
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