A DevOps Engineer is an IT professional who works with software developers, system operators, and other production IT staff to administer code releases. DevOps should have hard and soft skills to communicate and collaborate with development, testing, and operations teams.
The DevOps approach needs frequent, incremental changes to code versions, requiring frequent deployment and testing regimens. Although DevOps engineers need to code occasionally from scratch, they must have the basics of software development languages.
A DevOps engineer will work with development team staff to tackle the coding and scripting needed to connect code elements, like libraries or software development kits.