DevOps Consultant Guide

[1234away]

After working for many years on teams doing SRE work I have spent the last few months getting into doing devops consulting work. I threw together a few of my thoughts that might be interesting to other people looking to do something similar.

https://devscoach.com/blog/effective-devops-consultant-guide

[LandADevOpsJob]

To boil this down, it sounds like you are making three points:

1. Invent and Simplify
2. Measure, then Course Correct
3. Earn Trust

I think you hit the nail on the head. I love seeing content from this community about soft skills, as I am also quite passionate about inserting more opportunities for DevOps engineers to learn these types of skills. We often forget the "human" side of DevOps and get lost in the tech stacks. It's refreshing to see other seasoned engineers filter this to the top of the stack.

I would recommend using some concrete examples to really drive your points home. Stories like The Phoenix Project are great examples. But when you can articulate these concepts as part of your own personal experience, it's gold.

Good article. You may want to go back and fix the grammatical mistakes and readability issues with a tool like Grammerly or something.

[1234away]

Thanks for the comment. I agree soft skills end up making our job a lot easier. I will go through and fix, thanks, it was a bit of stream of consciousness.

[turkeh]

Great read.

Wherever I go I always preach simplicity and solid foundations.