DevOps Engineer
eStaff LLC · Sacramento, CA
$135,200–$145,600
Jul 6, 2026
Sacramento, CA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 5+ years · Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 65 people in the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 25–95
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,711 (middle half $129,435–$173,984).
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 titled 'DevOps Engineer' with no seniority modifier, but the mandatory qualifications gate on 5 years of experience across IaC, scripting, configuration management, and CI/CD — consistent with a Senior-level practitioner.
A mandatory professional certification is required: one of AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or CKA. This is a hard gate that cannot be represented as a skill entry; hiring managers should screen for it explicitly.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree OR four (4) additional years of experience,' making the degree substitutable — the degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK are all explicitly named as required IaC tools; they are listed as separate skills rather than alternatives because the JD calls for all three.
Ansible, Chef, and Puppet are listed as a configuration management requirement with 'or' phrasing — Ansible is the primary skill with Chef and Puppet as named alternatives.
The role is described as hybrid in Sacramento, CA — not fully remote.
Public Sector / Federal Government experience appears under 'Preferred Qualifications' and is marked accordingly.
SOC confidence is Medium: the role involves substantial infrastructure-as-code and automation coding (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has meaningful systems/configuration management and operations duties that could support 15-1244.
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