Devops is Dying

Something alarming is happening in DevOps job postings right now. Salaries are falling, job listings for DevOps engineers are going down, and remote roles are also decreasing. But at the same time, engineering job postings overall are climbing. So, is DevOps dying or is something else going on here? I know this sounds crazy, but in this video, I'll show you why this is actually the best thing to ever happen to DevOps and how it might be the biggest opportunity in your engineering career. Not long ago, DevOps engineer was considered a golden ticket. Six-figure salaries, remote freedom, everyone was hiring. But fast forward to now, we are seeing some numbers nobody saw coming. Salaries are down 6%. DevOps engineer job postings have also dropped with 6%. Only 16% of DevOps roles are remote, also down 5.2%. It looks like the DevOps bubble has popped. But let me show you, it is actually the opposite that's happening. But before we dive deeper, about 73% of my viewers aren't subscribed, so please subscribe now. It lets me put out more honest content like this every single week. Let's get into what's actually going on behind the scenes. The DevOps engineer title has always been a bit of a mess. Some companies expected infrastructure, others wanted CI/CD and Terraform, and sometimes you would be putting out fires in production at 2 a.m. It was a role without boundaries. But now that same underlying DevOps skill set is being absorbed into roles with clearer focus. Platform engineers own Kubernetes tooling and developer experience. Cloud engineers handle scaling infrastructure as code and cost optimization. SRRES drive uptime monitoring and production health. And yes, even software engineers are expected to monitor, deploy and pipeline their own code. In 2024, the most in- demand role for Kubernetes was software engineer, not DevOps engineer. So, the title may be fading, but the skills behind DevOps are actually more in demand than ever. They've just moved. DevOps isn't dead. It's dissolving into other roles.