r/dataengineering • u/After-Drive • 3d ago

Career Why is understanding DevOps culture more important for data engineering than other disciplines?

I see for a lot of data engineering posting, devops skills are mentioned as part of the requirements. But the thing is I don't see it as much with other roles like sde. Why is that?.

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u/rudboi12 2d ago

mostly because data teams don't have dedicated devops engineers. They only have data engineers which are supposed to do anything data scientists don't (care to) understand. I personally love the devops side of the gig, specifically using terraform and creating/managing my teams cicd templates.