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October 13, 2021

What does a Nearshore DevOps Engineer do?

What a nearshore DevOps engineer owns for a US team: CI/CD, environments as code, releases with a tested rollback, and on-call in your hours.

A nearshore DevOps engineer is a DevOps engineer in a nearby country who works your hours and owns how code reaches production.

For a US company that usually means Mexico or Colombia. Their working day overlaps yours, so releases and incidents happen while your team is online.

What one owns, day to day:

  • CI/CD pipelines: the builds, tests and deploys that run on every change.
  • Environments: QA, staging and production, defined as code.
  • Releases: promotion between environments, with a rollback that has been tested.
  • Monitoring and on-call during your business hours.

Release is part of the job for every senior engineer in our AI-Native Development Pod.

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What does a Nearshore DevOps engineer do?

Within an agile environment, developers, sysadmins, and programmers can work on the same product in isolation, but without sharing the information needed to ensure value to the user. Nearshore DevOps engineers reduce that complexity by bridging the gap between the actions that are needed to quickly change an application and the tasks that are performed to maintain its reliability.

Some companies may hire specialists to "implement Nearshore DevOps" within their workflows, but since successful Nearshore DevOps adoption depends on changes in culture and process, this can increase the disconnect between developers and developers. operational teams. 

Our answer to that split: each senior nearshore engineer takes work from spec to production release, inside your team.

Nearshore DevOps basics

Nearshore DevOps engineers develop new skills that build on their current experience. Tasks like data management and library updates for new product launches are matched with leadership and collaboration needs across teams. It is important that Nearshore DevOps engineers understand the fundamentals of application development and deployment.

Continuous integration / distribution (CI / CD)

You and your teams can design and test changes, add repositories, and deploy updates quickly and efficiently.

Safety

DevOps processes can take into account software vulnerabilities and address them.

How easy is it to learn Nearshore DevOps?

Most specialists who embrace the Nearshore DevOps culture combine tools and practices with years of experience in enterprise IT. Consider gaining knowledge outside of your skill set, and perhaps outside of your team, to gain the holistic perspective it takes to become a Nearshore DevOps engineer.

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Erick Tijerina

Erick Tijerina

Erick is passionate about video games and geek stuff, he loves board games, and oh, he is also our Social Media Specialist!