Operations's Ability: Infrastructure

Develops expertise in the systems we use to build and deliver software, such as development environments, deployment pipelines, and hosting infrastructure.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability with only a small amount of guidance

• Makes minor version upgrades to underlying infrastructure technologies.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability, with no assistance as well as being a trusted active or passive mentor to others

• Makes major version upgrades to underlying infrastructure technologies.
• Makes updates to existing infrastructure to meet new monitoring, scalability, and performance needs.
• Shares with the team newly discovered tools and tricks that improves one’s own developer experience.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to multiple squads when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability as well as being considered an expert within this discipline

• Empowers colleagues by successfully and seamlessly spearheading significant changes to developer environments (such as adding Docker as an option, enabling offline development, or local TLS)
• Designs and implements the infrastructure for major complex systems from the ground up.
• Plans major infrastructure migrations with no downtime.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can not only employ this ability but where they set the tone for this at the company level

• You are seen as an expert in infrastructure to connect, mediate, and manage interactions by the department and organization.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to not just internal teams but the community/industry in general when wielding this ability, and they are recognized by the community/industry as an expert

• You are seen as an expert in infrastructure to connect, mediate, and manage interactions within the industry.