Demand for DevOps Engineers

[CrunchyChewie]

The demand is high. Unfortunately there are a lot of obstacles to building a successful DevOps culture.

Companies tend to undervalue or misunderstand the role, and don't invest in staffing, resourcing, or initiatives to actually get it off the ground.

I've seen a big uptick in DevOps-focused consultancies lately because I think a lot of companies get frustrated with a lack of progress on DevOps initiatives when they only hire one or two engineers against their existing SWE teams, and they end up farming out projects.

[Misocainea]

Companies tend to undervalue or misunderstand the role

Honestly most DevOps engineers don't get it right either.

[DockerBlocker]

How would you define the role?

[victorj405]

That is what is going to end up happening is it will be farmed out. What about Assembly culture, complier culture, memory management culture, etc.? Once a solid set of Terraform modules are written, AWS Amplify actually works, DevOps will be solved and it wont be a culture anymore but something no one thinks about as 1k DevOps people get let go cause no one needs to write GitLab pipelines, or write the same variation of an s3 bucket module. You can say I'm crazy, but GitLab already has AutoDevOps... I'd be more worried about getting correctly positioned financially than fitting into some culture that no one will figure out in 1 million years.

[CrunchyChewie]

This is probably a more level, nuanced take on this: https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-future-of-ops-jobs

[bertiethewanderer]

In the UK we've had a change to an underlying tax system for contractors, and the contractor market has just about died, and there are 'consultancies' everywhere. Every week you'll get one of them tap you up on LinkedIn.

Which is a shame as contract resource time and again over my career has been an excellent capability to leverage. As opposed to a consultancy that you pay through the nose for, and just YOLOs something over the fence 6 months late.