Sysadmin is an important role but don’t forget that what we call DevOps is an essential step for most of the SysAdmins these days. If you stick with the tradit

Sysadmin is an important role but don’t forget that what we call DevOps is an essential step for most of the SysAdmins these days. If you stick with the traditional definition of SysAdmin, your job market becomes smaller every year. That doesn’t mean you won’t find a high paying job, it just means there are less opportunities and more competition. Are you good at it? Then perhaps you don’t need those DevOps skills. There will be enough opportunities for your lifetime. Then instead focus on branding yourself. Write online about your skills, share your knowledge on internet to create a strong and visible profile that you can reference to it. Don’t keep your knowledge on your head. Make it more visible even stuff that you think is obvious and easy. Then you always have a better chance in the market and it is very likely that good offers knock your door. But, If you do feel that your career is at risk and you see kess chance in competing other SysAdmins, Then definitely invest on learning Cloud focused DevOps skills. And I think grasping the next step isn’t hard for a SysAdmin. Stuff like Modern CI/CD pipeline, Monitoring and integration with Cloud providers and different services, Cloud migration, some level of scripting probably in Python, etc. And about coding, first of all you don’t have to become a programmer, . so be careful what resources and courses you take as some of them might be unnecessarily overwhelming. and secondly, like everything else, there is a learning curve. You just need to pass it and be patient.