DevOps engineers own the machinery between a developer's commit and a running production system: pipelines, containers, infrastructure as code and the monitoring around it. It is one of the strongest mid-career markets in India, and Pune hires steadily across services firms, captives and product companies. The catch is that it is a poor fresher role — most listings want prior experience in development or systems administration, because the job is largely about judgement under failure conditions rather than tool operation.