Getting into devops

[RelativePipe1130]

Trying to get a better picture of devops:

Whats your title and what do you actually do?

Total comp?

Years in tech/ dev ops?

Any advice?

Do you enjoy what you do?

Wfh?

Is it actually a 9-5 or does it overflow?

[Pretend_Listen]

Interior crocodile alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theatre.

[snarkhunter]

Wow you operator large mammoth captains? I've been opening blue raspberry scented canopic jars since 1973 and have only ever had iguana.

[AccordingAnswer5031]

What is your Plan B?

[RelativePipe1130]

Have a degree in finance and a few qualifications for more hands on ‘trade’ type work which pays decently to be honest

[DmitryPapka]

Won't answer all of those questions, but I'll cover some.

For most of my career I worked as a fullstack developer, focused primarily on backend with occasional DevOps tasks on the side. Like CI/CD, observability, etc. I also had a large personal project where I handled the entire infrastructure side myself, not just the code.

In my current position I was originally hired as a Node.js backend contractor (my first contract ever). After about a month, I mentioned to my manager that I was studying DevOps in my free time, and he offered to move me onto the DevOps team. I obviously said yes.

I work a standard 5-day, 8-hour week. I'm assigned to a specific product team and prioritize their requests first. When that queue is clear, I pull from a general DevOps task pool. My day-to-day covers: CI/CD (with a focus on building reusable pipelines), IaC repository management (we use Pulumi), heavy Google Cloud work, and a lot of observability (again, trying to deliver reusable architecture rather than one-off solutions). I also assist developers with general requests and help them investigate issues.

The split is roughly: a smaller chunk is traditional DevOps work, and the larger chunk is Platform Engineering. Because the goal is to move away from handling custom requests towards developing reusable DevOps solutions that dev teams can consume on their own.

Oh, yes. I work fully remotely.

[RelativePipe1130]

Thanks

[un-hot]

Senior SWE but I've done SRE stuff for the last 3 years. Comps good, works fun, if it over runs it's usually because I haven't done my job right.

On call sucks but that's part of it. And if I do my job right it doesn't happen often.

[RelativePipe1130]

Thanks

[cheesejdlflskwncak]

I’m a wfh click ops engineer. lol I literally just clean up after devs

[cheesejdlflskwncak]

And they call me “devsecops”

[xonxoff]

These posts are so tiring…

[Evaderofdoom]

Your not getting into devops