Build, maintain and operate a continuous delivery DevOps deployment pipeline

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This standard is about providing software lifecycle management services using DevOps (integrated development and operations)  processes within an organisation to manage continuous software release and deployment into live environments..

This involves defining, implementing, managing and maintaining operational hosting environments and working with stakeholders to provide the continued evolution of software solutions and ensuring platforms are efficiency, secure and highly available. This includes creating and implementing development tools and infrastructure to support DevOps processes. This also includes building continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines and new development environments to improve efficiency, improving and automating release processes.

This standard is for those who need to build and maintain a continuous delivery DevOps deployment pipeline as part of their duties.

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1. Review requirements for DevOps tooling to update operational software environments

2. Design software development pipelines to deliver regular updates

3. Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline configurations to support software release and deployment 

4. Collaborate with architects and developers to build and deploy software updates into live environments

5. Automate DevOps processes to improve deployment performance

6. Identify risks with DevOps deployments and communicate these to senior managers for mitigation

7. Integrate specified code quality and testing tools into software development pipelines

8. Perform DevOps process improvement reviews to reduce cost and improve efficiency

9. Identify and implement new DevOps tools, technologies and working methods to improve the levels of service

10. Implement and apply version control systems to effectively track changes to deployed software solutions
11. Implement automated tools to monitor system health and reliability in live environments

12. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in DevOps processes to maintain high performing deployment pipelines

13. Create and maintain DevOps technical documentation to maintain records for auditing and reporting

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1. The main theories and principles of DevOps software lifecycle management
2. How to establish secure and reliable software delivery pipelines

3. The main features of CI/CD software deployment pipelines

4. The technical skills required to develop and operate software pipelines and services across the full life cycle

5. The importance of maintaining high-quality software environments
6. How to define, implement, manage and maintain the hosting environments required to support DevOps platforms

7. The industry standard tools used to manage DevOps infrastructure and how to apply them

8. The role of software configuration management and version control systems to manage software releases

9. The steps involved in monitoring, security, audit and resilience of live platforms
10. How to build repeatable and reliable capabilities through a process continual evolution
11. How to work with contemporary development practices and tools
12. The need to adapt DevOps working practices to the needs of specific products and services
13. The importance of building in risk management, quality, security, privacy and safety to DevOps platform solutions
14. The need to design, deploy and maintain robust, self-healing, and highly available platforms
15. The main steps involved in transitioning to a hybrid cloud landscape using contemporary technologies
16. The importance of effective problem solving to maintain reliable, secure, and cost-effective services
17. How to provide effective feedback to encourage development of the individuals and teams
18. The importance of Provides guidance and makes suggestions to support continual improvement and learning approach