Which roles ask for Chef at tech companies · 15 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
15 roles counted that list Chef, one per company, title and level; 36 postings in the window.
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In short
Chef: listed in 15 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 10 and preferred in 5. The largest group is DevOps engineer roles: 5 of 15. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.
- Required
- 10 of 15
- Of the roles that list Chef
- Preferred
- 5 of 15
- Of the roles that list Chef
- Largest group
- 5 of 15
- DevOps engineer
Roles that ask for Chef
Roles listing Chef, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps engineer | 5 | 5 of 58 |
| Site reliability engineer | 4 | 4 of 70 |
| Platform engineer | 2 | 2 of 57 |
| QA engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 |
| Software engineer | 2 | 2 of 719 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Crusoe2 roles
- TASQ Staffing Solutions2 roles
- Abacus Consulting1 role
- Datadog1 role
- Eclypsium1 role
- Exceptionly1 role
- HealthEdge1 role
- NVIDIA1 role
- OpenAI1 role
- Scalr1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 15 Chef roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Terraform | 12 of 15 |
| Ansible | 11 of 15 |
| Python | 11 of 15 |
| CI/CD | 9 of 15 |
| Puppet | 9 of 15 |
| Shell Scripting | 8 of 15 |
| AWS | 7 of 15 |
| Infrastructure as Code | 7 of 15 |
| Kubernetes | 7 of 15 |
| Scripting | 7 of 15 |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Observability | 4 of 15 |
| Configuration Management | 3 of 15 |
| Docker | 3 of 15 |
| Go | 3 of 15 |
| Kubernetes | 3 of 15 |
| Puppet | 3 of 15 |
| AWS Certification | 2 of 15 |
| Ansible | 2 of 15 |
| Azure | 2 of 15 |
| SOC 2 | 2 of 15 |
Experience
Of the 5 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 5 of 5
- 2+ years
- 5 of 5
- 3+ years
- 5 of 5
- 5+ years
- 4 of 5
- 8+ years
- 2 of 5
- 10+ years
- 2 of 5
Degree
Of the 6 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 1 of 6
- Required, or experience instead
- 2 of 6
- Preferred
- 0 of 6
- Not mentioned
- 3 of 6
Pay and remote work
Of the 15 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 6 of 15
- Remote roles
- 11 of 15
How we count: 15 roles from 13 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology