started with a degree from art school and very basic linux skills, lucked my way into a basic NOC position doing simple things like pulling logs, opening ticket

started with a degree from art school and very basic linux skills, lucked my way into a basic NOC position doing simple things like pulling logs, opening tickets, troubleshooting network issues and SIP problems, standard operations stuff like change management, working with the sysadmin team on deployments, etc. Started automating that stuff once I was comfortable with Linux/shell and eventually got inspired to set up a raspberry pi at home to tinker with. Spent the better part of a year wading through the deep end, trying to get myself up to speed on most of the basic/middle tier concepts, then finally at one of my reviews I asked to be moved to an opening on the SRE team and they said “sure, we’d like to keep you so if that’s what you want we’ll make it work”.