System admin. Learn Unix/Linux, and the docker api/dsl, and you can go very far. I was in your shoes about 5 years ago and learning systems eng is the best th

System admin. Learn Unix/Linux, and the docker api/dsl, and you can go very far. I was in your shoes about 5 years ago and learning systems eng is the best thing to have happened to me. I think what makes it 'easier' is that most ops processes are very linear, they start at a given state A and step by step you bring it to state Z. Good luck!