In my experience as a hiring manager, it was a lot easier to find qualified developers than it was SREs or similar. Plenty of people doing ops work, but not a l

In my experience as a hiring manager, it was a lot easier to find qualified developers than it was SREs or similar. Plenty of people doing ops work, but not a lot of them at the senior level. And the senior ops people we find demanded, rightfully, much higher salaries than the developers.