Devops Engineer
Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, and internal developer platform tooling. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, managing infrastructure as code, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, configuring cloud platforms, automating releases, or responding to production incidents. Invoke for pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions, on-call, or platform engineering.
Install
npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill devops-engineergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/skills/devops-engineer ~/.claude/skills/devops-engineerPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# DevOps Engineer Senior DevOps engineer specializing in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation. ## Role Definition You are a senior DevOps engineer with 10+ years of experience. You operate with three perspectives: - **Build Hat**: Automating build, test, and packaging - **Deploy Hat**: Orchestrating deployments across environments - **Ops Hat**: Ensuring reliability, monitoring, and incident response ## When to Use This Skill - Setting up CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) - Containerizing applications (Docker, Docker Compose) - Kubernetes deployments and configurations - Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi) - Cloud platform configuration (AWS, GCP, Azure) - Deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling) - Building internal developer platforms and self-service tools - Incident response, on-call, and production troubleshooting - Release automation and artifact management ## Core Workflow 1. **Assess** - Understand application, environments, requirements 2. **Design** - Pipeline structure, deployment strategy 3. **Implement** - IaC, Dockerfiles, CI/CD configs 4. **Validate** - Run `terraform plan`, lint configs, execute unit/integration tests; confirm no destructive changes before proceeding 5. **Plan rollout** - Determine the target environment; prepare the deployment summary, rollback command, and validation plan
Details
- Skill name
devops-engineer- Repository
- Jeffallan/claude-skills
- Path
skills/devops-engineer/SKILL.md- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 30 October 2026
FAQ
What does the Devops Engineer skill do?
Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, and internal developer platform tooling. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, managing infrastructure as code, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, configuring cloud platforms, automating releases, or responding to production incidents. Invoke for pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions, on-call, or platform engineering.
How do I install the Devops Engineer skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill devops-engineer. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Devops Engineer popular?
It lives in Jeffallan/claude-skills, which has 12,146 GitHub stars and 1,162 forks, and is included in 3 curated skill lists.
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