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§ 01

THE FLOOR

Skills you can't skip. Below this floor your resume doesn't get opened.

5MUST-HAVE SKILLS
Skills · ranked by prevalence
01Python54.5%The language. Beats Java here.
02AWS44.7%Dominant cloud platform.
03Troubleshooting40.5%The job. Things break.
04Kubernetes35.4%Container orchestration default.
05Problem Solving34.4%DSA / interview gate.
On the bubble
LinuxTerraformAzureJavaMonitoringDockerCloud-Native Design
Floor skills derived from validated devops & platform engineering postings on the astrid.postingmeta collection at JUNIOR + ENTRY seniority.
§ 02

PICK YOUR TRACK

Sub-tracks within this profile. Picking one is non-optional.

01

CLOUD-NATIVE

← THE DEFAULT
FA share40.7%of FA postings · n = 149
Salary₹19± ₹8LPA · mean ± SD
Company mix
MNCs & GCCs~55%
Established SME~17%
Unicorns & Indian Product~13%
Hires at
AccentureIBMOracleJPMorganChasehackajob
Add to the floor
TerraformDockerGCPAzureCloud-Native DesignJava
02

INFRA / SYSADMIN

← THE OPS PATH
FA share23.5%of FA postings · n = 86
Salary₹18± ₹11LPA · mean ± SD
Company mix
MNCs & GCCs~38%
Established SME~29%
MAANG & Elite Global Tech~13%
Hires at
AccentureMeltwaterMicrosoftWiproAmazon
Add to the floor
LinuxSQLAzureUnixJavaScriptMonitoring
03

SRE

← HIGHEST CEILING
FA share19.4%of FA postings · n = 71
Salary₹23± ₹11LPA · mean ± SD
Company mix
MNCs & GCCs~49%
MAANG & Elite Global Tech~27%
Hires at
AccentureMicrosoftAmazonJPMorganChaseAutodesk
Add to the floor
MonitoringIncident ManagementDistributed SystemsLoggingJavaCloud Architecture
04

CI/CD

← THE PIPELINES PATH
FA share12%of FA postings · n = 44
Salary₹19± ₹10LPA · mean ± SD
Company mix
Indian IT Services~39%
MNCs & GCCs~34%
Established SME~10%
Hires at
AmazonJPMorganChaseMicrosoftScout Inc.Siemens
Add to the floor
JenkinsJavaDockerGit FlowAgileDebugging
Small fresher sample, treat as directional only.
05

NETWORK

← SPARSE
FA share4.4%of FA postings · n = 16
Salary₹20± ₹10LPA · mean ± SD
Company mix
MNCs & GCCs~66%
Established SME~11%
Hires at
AccentureAlaanAmazonGolden OpportunitiesGoogle
Add to the floor
Incident ManagementFirewallsVPNDebuggingPerformance OptimizationSystem Design
Small fresher sample, treat as directional only.
Track shares and salary statistics (mean ± SD) derived from validated devops & platform engineering postings on the astrid.postingmeta collection at JUNIOR + ENTRY seniority.
§ 03

THE SKILL ARC

What ramps with seniority. What travels if you leave the profile.

A

Senior skew — what ramps with seniority.

Rising · FA → SR
01Kubernetes
FA35.4%
SR54.7%
+19.4 pp
02Microservices
FA8.4%
SR22.3%
+14.0 pp
03Azure DevOps
FA14.5%
SR28.1%
+13.6 pp
04Docker
FA26.3%
SR37.9%
+11.6 pp
05Azure
FA27.5%
SR38.8%
+11.3 pp
06Test Automation
FA5.9%
SR14.6%
+8.7 pp
07Agile
FA14.0%
SR22.5%
+8.5 pp
08Go
FA17.7%
SR26.1%
+8.4 pp
09AWS
FA44.7%
SR52.3%
+7.5 pp
Fading · FA → SR
01Troubleshooting
FA40.5%
SR28.7%
-11.9 pp
02Problem Solving
FA34.4%
SR24.4%
-10.0 pp
03Linux
FA29.0%
SR21.7%
-7.3 pp
B

Portability — what travels if you leave the profile.

Portable · cross-profile spread (out of 15)
01Problem Solving
15/15
Mobile Development41%Data Analytics & BI40%Enterprise Platforms40%
02Agile
15/15
Fullstack Development47%Enterprise Platforms43%Generalist SWE40%
03Troubleshooting
13/15
Enterprise Platforms36%Generalist SWE21%Systems & Embedded19%
04Debugging
13/15
Systems & Embedded36%Mobile Development27%Generalist SWE25%
05Java
12/15
Backend Development59%Fullstack Development42%Security Engineering42%
06SDLC
12/15
Generalist SWE38%Enterprise Platforms22%Domain-Specific Development19%
07SQL
12/15
Data Analytics & BI63%Data Engineering57%Fullstack Development45%
08Python
11/15
Data Science & ML78%AI & LLM Applications66%Data Engineering57%
09AWS
11/15
Security Engineering43%Backend Development41%Data Engineering39%
10System Design
11/15
Generalist SWE27%Backend Development18%AI & LLM Applications16%
11Performance Optimization
11/15
Mobile Development26%Frontend Development20%Generalist SWE20%
12Azure
10/15
Security Engineering40%Data Engineering33%AI & LLM Applications30%
13Distributed Systems
9/15
Backend Development24%Security Engineering20%Data Engineering19%
Locked · stays inside the profile
01Terraform2/15
02Monitoring1/15
03Multi-Cloud2/15
04Linux2/15
05Hybrid Cloud2/15
06Public Cloud2/15
07Private Cloud2/15
08Grafana1/15
09Root Cause Analysis1/15
10Ansible1/15
11Bash1/15
12Prometheus1/15
13Incident Management1/15
14Logging1/15
15IaC1/15
Skill arc derived from validated devops & platform engineering postings on the astrid.postingmeta collection. FA = ENTRY + JUNIOR seniority; cross-profile spread computed at the 10% prevalence threshold across all 15 profiles.
§ 04

TARGETING YOUR COMPANY POOL

Hiring volume splits across two distinct company pools with different skill profiles.

MAANG & Tier-1 Tech

n = 323usable
CompaniesGoogleAmazonMetaAtlassianCloudflare
Skill skew · MAANG & Tier-1 Tech vs IT Services & BPO
% in MAANGSkill% in IT ServicesSkew
58.7%
Distributed Systems
2.4%
+56.3 pp
58.7%
Java
4.3%
+54.3 pp
46.3%
C/C++
0.4%
+46.0 pp
55.1%
Python
12.3%
+42.8 pp
37.0%
Scalability
1.4%
+35.5 pp
32.3%
Code Reviews
2.9%
+29.4 pp
27.9%
Distributed System Design
0.7%
+27.1 pp
27.6%
Design Patterns
0.5%
+27.0 pp
32.3%
Cloud Architecture
5.3%
+27.0 pp

IT Services & BPO

n = 549usable
CompaniesTCSInfosysWiproLTIMindtreeHCL
Skill skew · MAANG & Tier-1 Tech vs IT Services & BPO
% in MAANGSkill% in IT ServicesSkew
10.6%
Root Cause Analysis
76.6%
-66.1 pp
7.3%
Test Automation
69.7%
-62.4 pp
0.6%
Test Case Design
59.6%
-59.0 pp
1.5%
Requirements Analysis
56.0%
-54.5 pp
1.2%
Report Generation
54.3%
-53.2 pp
0.6%
Software Validation
50.0%
-49.4 pp
21.4%
Troubleshooting
68.7%
-47.3 pp
24.3%
Monitoring
68.5%
-44.1 pp
24.0%
SDLC
60.1%
-36.1 pp
Company-pool skills derived from validated devops & platform engineering postings on the astrid.postingmeta collection, scoped to the MAANG + Tier-1 Global and IT Services & BPO company classes.