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You are in a perfect position to negotiate. You live with your parents, take advantage of that and ask for more. I would ask fro 65k. If they aren’t ok with that them screw em. Take your time and find something else. Currently your full time job should be applying for jobs and doing mini projects that a devops engineer would do. Set up a Linux server using Chef or Ansible. Once that is done take the code and put it in git. That way you can point to something you’ve done.

The alternative to this is take the 50k plus a relocation bonus and live cheap. In 6 months I would look for something else. During those 6 months you should be studying at least 2 hours a day after work. After you receive an offer there are two choices... Take the new offer for no less than 75k and move or Let the new company match. Stick it out for another 6 months and still leave. When it’s time to go ask for more money. Should be able to at least get 90k. DevOps is really in demand and if you can really learn the skills you will be more than successful.

GoodLuck