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i feel like devops is just a bucket for lost souls who like tech stuff.
am i crazy?
2. Become an IT Operations Engineer
3. Years later, find out what DevOps actually is
4. Never actually practice DevOps
5. Become a DevOps Consultant
ill never get why people punish themselves with this devops shit. you could just learn 1 thing (networking) on a few vendors (cisco, juniper, whatever), pass a few tests and be making good money out the gate. i feel like devops is just a bucket for lost souls who like tech stuff. am i crazy?
2. Start implementing tools into existing workflows
3. Pad resume with new buzz words
4. Leave for a more lucrative gig while midflight with current projects
5. Rinse and repeat
The sad truth is that DevOps is a cost center which comes with all types of organizational disrespect, including lower pay and harder political battles.
As someone that has never worked at a startup before, this seems to be the list of skills a startup might find reasonable for a 'DevOps Engineer'. Every other place I've interviewed or have worked has DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer being distinctly different roles (SRE focusing on monitoring and logging and DevOps engineer focusing on pipeline and build). There are also other places like where I am now…
devops or sre might as well be a euphemism for sysadmin that can write a little python
1. Identify a plethora of tools that are gaining steam 2. Start implementing tools into existing workflows 3. Pad resume with new buzz words 4. Leave for a more lucrative gig while midflight with current projects 5. Rinse and repeat
It's pretty much shell scripts all the way down folks. Its all shell scripts being used abused wrapped invented and reinvented.
As someone that has never worked at a startup before, this seems to be the list of skills a startup might find reasonable for a 'DevOps Engineer'. Every other place I've interviewed or have worked has DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer being distinctly different roles (SRE focusing on monitoring and logging and DevOps engineer focusing on pipeline and build). There are also other places like where I am now…
devops or sre might as well be a euphemism for sysadmin that can write a little python
1. Find out that DevOps Engineer is a made up title by hiring managers to mean "IT Operations Engineer That Knows Modern Tools" but shorter 2. Become an IT Operations Engineer 3. Years later, find out what DevOps actually is 4. Never actually practice DevOps 5. Become a DevOps Consultant