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> However, I know that I do not want to do Ops work professionally It'd be helpful to know why you don't want to do Ops work. There are many roles that fall ou
by yunwal 4y ago
> However, I know that I do not want to do Ops work professionally
It'd be helpful to know why you don't want to do Ops work. There are many roles that fall outside of DevOps that have the same downsides (frequent oncall, unpredictable workloads, further from the product, CEO doesn't understand what you do, etc). There are also roles that fall under DevOps that don't have some of those downsides (infrastructure architect-type roles).
For example, there are people in the comments recommending security, which is great for job security, but generally bad if you want to do interesting work. Usually developers do most of the actually interesting security work while security teams check boxes for SOCII audits unless you're working for a security product, which can be pretty competitive.
- chigwe01 4y agoI got into tech because I wanted to ship software that people used. Then when I got my first job out of colllege, I chose the k8s team because I saw the career potential in kubernetes. Now, I feel like i have such unique knowledge, application of k8s at such a large scale, and I no longer want to use professionally. Makes me feel like my career till this point, has basically gone to waste. I have done oncall, CI/CD, Kubernetes, dev tooling, terraform and some other devops stuff.
- jen20 4y agoPerhaps consider applying to one of the companies building ecosystem tooling around Kubernetes or other schedulers? Your at-scale operational knowledge will be invaluable - it's something many people do not have. Actual in-the-trenches experience of distributed systems at scale is fairly rare. Anything that helped you acquire that while being paid is likely not wasted!
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- Kinrany 4y agoAn idea: work on something that will help other people to never have to learn what you had to learn about k8s.
- yunwal 4y ago> software that people used I’m assuming by this you mean non-technical people. It feels like if you can handle the chaos, an early-stage startup is the way to go for you. A single developer can significantly contribute to product discussions and infra platform decisions simultaneously. Perhaps also look into positions outside of traditional tech? Med-tech, green-tech, etc are all in desperate need of infra experience, but tend to not have siloed roles like tech-tech has.
- sillybov3456 4y agoI absolutely agree not to get into security and try to stick a little closer to programming, with the same caveat that if you are doing some programming for a security company then maybe it would be a little better.