DevOps encompasses various technical and organizational skills, including deploying and managing releases, monitoring systems, understanding HTTP protocol, using SSH for navigation and troubleshooting, recognizing CPU, process, and storage issues, triaging problems, working with databases, creating CI/CD pipelines, mastering Git version control, conducting risk assessments, performing load and performance testing, grasping language runtimes and their configurations, utilizing infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Ansible, focusing on developer experience, using containers for efficient app deployment, and container orchestration using Kubernetes or competitors.