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I've been an automation engineer on small dev teams (5-15 devs) and felt like I had tremendous impact. There were a few larger integrations I was generally hire
by jhot 3y ago
I've been an automation engineer on small dev teams (5-15 devs) and felt like I had tremendous impact. There were a few larger integrations I was generally hired for and then got to tackle pain points I had seen and heard about within the dev team and on the business side. Not to mention being able to refine CI/CD and take that off developers hands.
I've been at a large organization for a while now and my backlog is mostly planned out quarters ahead and I don't feel like I have nearly the same impact.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agohow many hours of dev time you think you saved for 5-15, is that justifying your salary 10-25K p/m?
- arghwhat 3y agoWith 15 people and 7.5 hour work days, saving each person just 30 minutes a day is cost equivalent to a permanent full time role. At 30 people, you need to save just 15 minutes. At 90 people, 5 minutes. And that is without considering that a full time role would keep doing more work than that singular time saving, or the decreased operational cost from failures in manual process execution. Just because the jobs seem menial to you does not exclude it from bringing great value to an employer. (Above numbers are subject to crude linear extrapolation, but are sufficient to make the point.)