Automation index
Can AI do a DevOps engineer’s job?
Today an AI can already do 42% of this job. Architecture, the hard calls, and review still need someone who has broken production.
It does not tell you how many jobs will vanish.
IS WORK OVER?
DevOps engineer
42%
AI or a robot can already do 42% of this job.
#30 / 82
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Tasks and time saved
YAML and pipelines
70%30% of the week
Incident runbooks
45%25% of the week
Production architecture
25%25% of the week
On-call judgment
15%20% of the week
Estimate · first measured 25 Aug 2026. · Coverage 54%