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Sounds like a lot of fun. I work as Platform Engineer so I’m also on call for about 30+ a week sometimes. The only thing I don’t get to do is programming a lot,
by gosenx 3y ago
Sounds like a lot of fun. I work as Platform Engineer so I’m also on call for about 30+ a week sometimes. The only thing I don’t get to do is programming a lot, I mean I do write some Terraform, YML, Go, scripts etc but not the type of coding that you spend a month building something rather than small programs to automate and facilitate our ops work.
I want to shift from ops to systems programming and find a completely new role.
I’m really good at the debugging and diving into new codebases, but companies don’t like the fact that I don’t really have a previous full time coding role.
Happy to ear how things are going for you and how you have grown technically.
- diarrhea 3y agoI am also in the boat of wanting to switch to systems programming. Writing code in Terraform or YAML is soul-sucking to me, but sadly all I get currently. I have previous, full time software engineering experience, so I have “seen the light”, making Terraform/YAML feel that much more like a punishment. I’m building up Rust skills (1 year in now) to make the jump once that’s more popular. It’s a slightly risky bet (Rust jobs are currently 95% crypto).