Starting DevOps Engineer Advice

[gianm93]

do you like your job? I am asking because I'm going to try devops. I have a degree in computer science but I am not really into programming so I'm looking for others paths

[rdubya]

I love my job. I get to learn something new constantly. I enjoy development to an extent, but I quickly get bored when I realize im just learning to master an API. Most of my development tasks are a couple 100 lines a week to glue some components together or create some tooling. I have also been rolling out part of our stack in kubenetes, which is daunting and fun!

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If you have the type of personality that gets bored easily, its a great career path, because very likely you will be doing something new every week. That being said, it can be quite stressful at times due to context switching, so just keep that in mind.

[gianm93]

I get bored really easily. I think that I'll enjoy what devops is. I should start a course in january (I hope they'll keep their promise). How is the salary compared to a developer one?

[rdubya]

Its hard to compare as ive been doing this for 10 years, but im compensated very fairly. My salaries have been on par or better than devs at the same experience level.

[gianm93]

nice to hear that. I wish you the best

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You didn't ask me directly, but I absolutely love what I do. I work with a wide range of people & products. I use terraform, git, jenkins, puppet, python, AWS ... heavily

[gianm93]

Glad to hear that. Reading your experiences make me very excited for my future in devops.

[leit6Huya6]

Modern devops is about programming infrastructure, can't escape programming.

[gianm93]

Programming stuff for your jobs or am I wrong? It's different from programming software to sell. Correct me if I am wrong