At Whitridge’s technology recruiters place a variety of consultants at our client locations and DevOps is a hot sector. Recently we’ve placed DevOps Engineers, DevOps Architects, Cloud Engineers and Architects, Test and QA Engineers, and Full Stack Developers/Engineers, all of whom needed DevOps skills to have success in their career. But what is DevOps and is it a good area to explore in your career? Atlassian defines DevOps as, “a set of practices that works to automate and integrate ...

Companies who use IT processes tend to be the most likely to embrace Agile practices and are benefiting from applying Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to software development within the enterprise. Because Agile is based in sprints (or iterations) the process lacks a dedicated testing phase like that in a traditional Waterfall process making manual testing inefficient and costly, and, in some cases, nearly impossible to complete. In Agile development, continuous integration, continuous...