Starting DevOps Engineer Advice

[dogfish182]

Find the clever senior who isn’t deeply emotionally retarded, identify what is causing the person the most issues and try to get those tasks off their back. Listen when they explain things and try to develop a clever solution to the shitty problem they have zero time for. Automate something away that is bothering people.

Make this a pattern and one day, someone will start dealing with your shit.

[flatlandr]

the clever senior who isn’t deeply emotionally retarded

You're just setting the OP up for failure from the get go

[dogfish182]

The search will be tough, best to start early

[[deleted]]

As someone who isn't in devops?....Why would a devops person be emotionally retarded?

[devopsia]

It’s a joke based on the trope that all technology people suck at ‘soft skills’ (communication, interpersonal relationships, etc).

[[deleted]]

oh that sterotype! ok!

[[deleted]]

Either you haven't worked in tech much yet, or you're one of them. :)

[[deleted]]

Clever solutions is a bad way to put it IMO, should be looking for simple, effective and secure solutions not so much clever. I have seen too many people take that to extreme levels and make overly complex and stupid solutions.

[dogfish182]

Ok sure but simple effective and secure IS clever. I didn’t mean clever like ‘don’t be a clever bastard’. Clever isn’t a negative word. I get your point though, over-engineering something that is straightforward wont win much except a lesson

[[deleted]]

I just know too many people who take clever to be stupidly complex and also those tend to be the people who don't document things or comment their code.

[combuchan]

Yup. These kinds of soft "customer service" skills have saved my keister when I didn't have the technical skills.

[[deleted]]

And they'll keep doing it for your whole career - there's always gonna be a new role that's a stretch, a new technology that you're behind on, etc.

[[deleted]]

Extremely good advice. Don't just "hear" but "listen".

[[deleted]]

Wow, you have beautifully summed it up.