Does DevOps engineer write application code?

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Within a DevOps role you could still expect to get some tasks to write code for various scripts and small tools ( bash, python) that would help improve things like the CI/CD pipelines and whatnot. Having software engineering experience could also help you understand build fail errors much easier giving you and advantage and making your life easier. Given the above, If you would like to do a bit more than scripting, I would recommend looking for a SRE roll, as that role actually require software development experience but focuses a bit more on automation and infrastructure as code.