DevOps Engineer
Protolabs · Maple Plain, MN
$87,400–$131,000
Jul 15, 2026
Maple Plain, MN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevOps Engineer role at a digital manufacturing company, working in a hybrid capacity at a Minnesota headquarters. The position involves maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and build tooling, while collaborating with development and IT teams to support internal and external applications. Candidates should bring experience with enterprise server management, configuration tools, and high-availability systems, with familiarity across technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
Mid level · 3+ years · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Full-time
Pay in the description: $87,400–$131,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,900 people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,150–3,750
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,799 (middle half $105,306–$165,164). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is a fixed hybrid (on-site Tue/Wed/Thu) at Protolabs HQ in Maple Plain, MN, which falls within the Minneapolis-St. Paul CBSA.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as an alternative to 3–5 years of relevant experience, so no degree is hard-required.
The three experience gates (3+ years managing enterprise servers, 2+ years supporting code releases for highly available apps, 1+ year with configuration management tools) are stated in the required 'What It Takes' section but name no specific technology — they are captured as role-level requirements rather than named-tool skills.
All named technologies (Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, HAProxy, JSON, REST, Git, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS, Azure) appear exclusively under the 'Preferred Skills and Technologies' heading and are therefore not hard gates.
Ansible and Terraform are listed together under 'Configuration Management' in the preferred section; they are interchangeable configuration-management tools in this context and are cross-listed as alternatives of each other.
ITAR compliance is noted: the role is restricted to US Citizens, lawful permanent residents, or refugee/asylee status holders — temporary visa holders are ineligible.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends DevOps automation/tooling work (15-1252) with server provisioning and operations (15-1244); the emphasis on CI/CD, SRE practices, and automation tips it toward 15-1252, but the server management and maintenance framing is a meaningful signal for 15-1244.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): server management, configuration management.
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