Emerging Trends for Global DevOps: A New Zealand Perspective

TL;DR

This paper investigates the emerging DevOps role in New Zealand by analyzing job ads and interviews, highlighting key skills and global trends, and providing insights for various stakeholders.

Contribution

It offers a novel perspective on DevOps roles in a small advanced economy, based on empirical analysis of job market data and interviews in New Zealand.

Findings

Identified key Knowledge Areas, Skills, and Capabilities for DevOps roles.

Revealed the global and emerging nature of DevOps in GSE projects.

Provided insights valuable to employers, job seekers, researchers, educators, and policymakers.

Abstract

The DevOps phenomenon is gaining popularity through its ability to support continuous value delivery and ready accommodation of change. However, given the relative immaturity and general confusion about DevOps, a common view of expectations from a DevOps role is lacking. Through investigation of online job advertisements, combined with interviews, we identified key Knowledge Areas, Skills and Capabilities for a DevOps role and their relative importance in New Zealand's job market. Our analysis also revealed the global dimensions and the emerging nature of the DevOps role in GSE projects. This research adds a small advanced economy (New Zealand) perspective to the literature on DevOps job advertisements and should be of value to employers, job seekers, researchers as well educators and policy makers.