Have You Heard of DBOps? You Might Soon.
If you have been in IT long enough, you have probably witnessed this evolution firsthand 👇
In the on-prem era, the Database Administrator (DBA) was the backbone of every system, installing, configuring, tuning, backing up, and securing the databases that powered entire organisations.
It was all about stability, reliability, and control.
Then came the cloud revolution 🌩️
Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation changed everything. Automation became essential, and many DBAs evolved into DevOps engineers, learning new stacks, cloud platforms, and scalable automation to keep up with agile delivery cycles.
But today, we are living in a hybrid world, where systems span on-prem, cloud, and containerised environments. And, while talking with our customers, we consistently see the same challenge:
Organisations need the speed and automation of DevOps without losing the data reliability and deep expertise of traditional DBAs.
From our perspective, this is where a new type of role is starting to take shape 👉 what we call DBOps 👈
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗕𝗢𝗽𝘀?
DBOps blends database reliability with infrastructure handling and DevOps automation, creating a unified approach to data operations in hybrid environments.
𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲:
• Infrastructure as Code for provisioning and patching (Terraform, Ansible)
• Database CI/CD pipelines (schema versioning, automated deployments)
• Kubernetes-native database management
• Cloud database platforms (RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, Cloud SQL, etc.)
• Monitoring and observability for data platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Automated backup, recovery, and compliance
• Security, cost, and performance optimisation at scale
𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
From our perspective, the market is clearly moving toward a combined skill set, where data expertise meets automation. DBOps is already becoming a critical function in organisations operating across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
As hybrid architectures continue to expand, we expect to see a growing demand for professionals who can own this intersection, ensuring that data remains reliable, secure, and agile.