Devops Engineer (ANZSCO 261316)

On the Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Devops Engineer on?

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Devops Engineer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

DevOps Engineer is assessed by ACS under the same Migration Skills Assessment framework used across every ACS-listed code: General Skills (a years-of-experience matrix set by qualification level and how closely it matches an ICT major) or RPL for applicants without a closely-related degree. What is specific to this code, confirmed on ACS's own vendor-certifications page, is that ACS "now offers applicants the option to submit Vendor Certification evidence across DevOps and Cyber Security ANZSCO codes" — named credentials such as ISC2's CISSP and CSSLP can be uploaded as supporting evidence within a standard application, alongside the usual work-experience and qualification evidence, not instead of it.

Where these applications come unstuck

No ACS-published lead definition or duty description for this specific code turned up in the material this research could reach, unlike the fully profiled support-and-test cluster (263211-263299), so there is no way from ACS's own wording to check a job title against the occupation the way an applicant could for those codes. The vendor-certification option is easy to mistake for a shortcut; ACS frames it as supplementary evidence within the standard General Skills or RPL pathway, not a separate or faster route around the usual experience requirement.

An honest read on this pathway

This code carries CSOL only, not STSOL or MLTSSL, so it reaches the 186 and 482 employer-sponsored visas and nothing else — no 189, no 190, no 491, no 494, no 407, no 485. The employer-sponsored route genuinely exists and accepts named vendor certifications as supporting evidence, but the points-tested and regional doors this cluster's other codes carry are structurally closed here regardless of how strong an individual application is.

Assembling an ACS application? ACS wants employment evidence that lines up exactly with the dates and duties you claim elsewhere. The Skilled Visa EOI Organiser keeps your claims consistent across the skills assessment, EOI and Form 80 — inconsistencies between them are a common cause of delay.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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