What Staff DevOps Jobs Ask For
Across 920 open Staff DevOps postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cloud, kubernetes, ci-cd.
Updated October 8, 2026
952 open Staff DevOps postings. The percentages below are measured over the 920 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cloud | 75% |
| kubernetes | 65% |
| ci-cd | 65% |
| ai | 63% |
| python | 61% |
| automation | 60% |
| aws | 58% |
| observability | 57% |
| terraform | 56% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 53% |
| devops | 50% |
| networking | 42% |
| gcp | 29% |
| azure | 28% |
| distributed-systems | 27% |
| bash | 26% |
| docker | 25% |
| api | 24% |
| github | 24% |
| linux | 24% |
| prometheus | 23% |
| grafana | 22% |
| developer-experience | 20% |
| github-actions | 20% |
| machine-learning | 19% |
| cloud-native | 19% |
| ansible | 18% |
| agentic-ai | 18% |
| jenkins | 17% |
| gitops | 16% |
| gitlab | 16% |
| iam | 15% |
| postgresql | 15% |
| java | 15% |
| saas | 14% |
| helm | 14% |
| llm | 13% |
| argocd | 13% |
| typescript | 13% |
| eks | 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 952 open Staff DevOps jobs →
Across all DevOps levels
Most DevOps postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- cloud 43,551
- devops 41,514
- ci-cd 36,873
- automation 29,255
- kubernetes 28,194
- aws 26,416
- terraform 25,704
- infrastructure-as-code 25,222
- azure 24,365
- python 24,051
- linux 21,717
- docker 19,164