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I 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
by chigwe01 4y ago
I 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.