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title: DevOps Intelligence role-based functions
slug: devops-intelligence-role-based-functions
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createdAt: 2026-05-28T13:01:35.948Z
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DevOps Intelligence the DevOps functions that drive Role Based Access Control (RBAC) built into DevOps Intelligence, enabling governance of your hybrid IT estate.

DevOps Intelligence supports four role-based functions that DevOps teams use to observe the performance of each phase of the DevOps life cycle and make necessary adjustments in your governed resources:

- **The Development Manager**:
  - Requires a unified view of DevOps Intelligence pipeline, tools, containers and application development and deployment status.
  - Checks cluster health of the application spread across multiple data centers and multiple clouds.
- **The Development Engineer:**
  - Performs enterprise-level view to measure the SDLC maturity level.
  - Requires summary view of a service's core metrics spread across multiple clouds.
  - Maintains a macro view of DevOps Intelligence pipelines, tools, containers and application development and deployment status.
  - Leads the development of pilots to test business hypotheses.
  - Advises on cost optimization opportunities by analyzing usage and utilization costs as well as asset performance.
  - Communicates frequently with stakeholders on project status.
  - Enables application developers to move at speed while optimizing cost, security and performance positions.
  - Acts as a systems integrator when the application he is managing is a large application or is developed in waterfall method.
- **The Site Reliability Engineer**:
  - Support DevOps teams in template development and use.
  - Integrate IaaS and PaaS into DevOps pipelines.
  - Perform a large amount of Automation.
  - Assist with the design and testing of end-to-end resilience.
  - Design of PaaS/IaaS service templates.
- **The Security and Compliance Officer**:
  - Manage risk and compliance, and secure and protect the business's assets (employees, data, information and office locations).
  - Direct staff to assess, monitor and develop strategies to proactively guard against information and information technology (IT) risks.
  - Respond to incidents; establish appropriate standards and controls; manage security technologies; and direct the establishment and implementation of policies and procedures.
  - Work to understand and measure the potential implications of a security breach.
  - Align audit and information-related compliance.
  - Identify, assess and prioritize enterprise-wide risks that have the potential to inflict harm on the organization (uncertainty in financial markets, project failures, legal liabilities, credit, risks, accidents and natural disasters).