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Most organisations find it difficult to recruit people for DevOps. The role of DevOps engineer typically requires a mix of experience, technical ability and versatility that is rare and often comes with a high price tag.
Certainly it’s not about recruiting individuals purely for their skills, which may well be out of date within two years; it’s much more about their aptitude said Jim Davies, head of DevOps at Moneysupermarket.com, speaking on a panel at Computing ‘s DevOps Summit this week.
“You’ll know the people in your organisation who are talented and interested,” he said. “I used to look in recruitment agencies four years ago but they never had what I was asking for, someone who know networking and storage but could also write a mean Ruby script. ”
Instead of looking externally, Davies focused on building on the pockets of talent that existed in certain sections of Moneysupermarket’s IT team, such as the website engineers, and spreading their expertise further afield.
“For smaller technology companies, T-shaped engineers [those with depth and breadth of experience] or E-shaped engineers [those able to execute on their plans] are the thing now,” he said.
A short while ago the title “DevOps engineer” was scoffed at, but the panellists agreed that it is now a recognised role, and useful in that recruitment agencies know what to look for these days.
