Having said that, we think a DevOps Engineer should; 1. Have a BA or a BSc in Computer Science. Engineering or equivalent 2. Have at least 5 years experience working in-depth with Linux 3. Have extensive experience with NGINX, Redis, HAProxy, MySQL and ideally. Percona 4. Have extensive experience with Linux security settings and tools such as IP Tables. UFW and others 5. For bonus points have expert knowledge of tools such as Chef, Puppet and Ansible