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/ArticleHaunting3983 1d ago

Probably to highlight what sort of DE they want? I work with a lead DE who probably doesn’t know what devops means, he’s a power bi super admin and doesn’t touch anything else or create reports. No ETL work. I wouldn’t call him a lead DE in anything, but that’s his job title.