Learning DevOps is a good move. It depends on your company but your goal should be to get on the on-call rotation as quickly as possible. Once you are on the o

Learning DevOps is a good move. It depends on your company but your goal should be to get on the on-call rotation as quickly as possible. Once you are on the on-call rotation, you will take your responsibility even more seriously - as you will be the point person for systems issues. Similarly, your goal should be to identify a pain area in your systems management and be able to write a script, a Nagios plugin, something to address that pain point. You can work from there to larger projects involving infrastructure automation. Like with anything, it will help to learn to understand the language of DevOps. The best way to do that is by reading and watching presentations by practitioners. Similar to iOS Dev Weekly, you can learn a lot by reading a curated list of articles in the DevOps world. http://www.devopsweekly.com/archive http://www.devopsweekly.com/archive Surge 2014 (one of the better DevOps conferences) has slides and videos. http://surge.omniti.com/2014 http://surge.omniti.com/2014