Career development of operations engineers in operations

O&M engineers are divided into several categories in terms of their working methods: O&M Engineer O&M Development Engineer: Responsible for the operation and maintenance of specific product lines, and at the same time, they also need to master the ability of development, go deep into the business, best understand the pain points and problems of the business, and at the same time develop and optimize the platform, tools and means for the business needs of the product, be able to access all kinds of excellent system architectures and have the ability to make good and bad comparisons, and at the same time, the control of the business determines the role of the corresponding O&M engineer in business development.

The long-term development is to become the architect of large systems. O&M platform R&D engineer: Specializing in R&M-related general platforms and technologies, you need to have certain product line O&M experience or get O&M requirements from product lines.

It has high requirements for R&D capabilities, strict standards for system design, and can understand user needs, make O&M products suitable for service operation and maintenance and meet the use experience of O&M engineers, and the long-term development is to become a technical expert in various technical vertical fields. Database R&D Engineer Database Engineer: The database direction is a special direction in operation and maintenance technology, and due to the importance of the business, special positions are usually required, and the industry also has deep research and accumulation in this direction.

The main direction is database kernel, cloud database, etc., and the long-term development is technical experts and database architects in the field of databases. O&M Manager: O&M students usually need to coordinate multiple RD and QA students in the process of doing things, and they have high requirements for coordination and promotion capabilities, and some students with good technical depth and high coordination and promotion skills are very suitable for transformation management positions, and the long-term development and management positions in technical departments are the same as CTO and CEO.

After the development of engineers in all directions reaches a certain stage, there is no clear boundary, and it is a demanding profession that requires strong operation and maintenance, architecture, programming, algorithm and other capabilities at the same time.

The future development direction of O&M engineers is to become project managers.

In the gradual development stage, engineers who focus on summarizing and reflecting will gradually grow into high-level operation and maintenance personnel, and they usually have a more systematic understanding of service operation and maintenance. There are also some engineers who gradually become project managers due to their excellent project management and planning skills.

In this case, senior O&M personnel can even become product managers and consultants for product development, playing a vital role in the design and development of product functions.

Career Prospects:

O&M involves a wide range of knowledge and expertise, and the quality of employees is also very high, and O&M work is becoming more and more important in large Internet companies. With the rapid development of the Internet, the scale is getting larger and the architecture is becoming more and more complex, the demand for operation and maintenance engineers will become more and more urgent, especially for experienced operation and maintenance talents, and the older the more valuable.

The responsibilities of the O&M development engineer are: responsible for daily O&M work; Promote and develop efficient automated O&M and management tools to improve O&M efficiency; Develop and optimize O&M solutions, including but not limited to flexible disaster recovery, intelligent scheduling, elastic capacity expansion, and attack prevention; Explore and research new O&M technology directions.

The job requirements for operation and maintenance development engineers are: 1. Bachelor degree or above, aged 18 years or above; 2. Familiar with the configuration and optimization of common application services; 3. Be proficient in using commonly used monitoring software; 4. Good at analyzing and thinking about problems, and responsible; 5. Obey the work arrangement and be in good health.