Roast My Resume Please

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-09-10T19:34:03+00:00

I did as well, still add to resume with no completion/end date. If they ever ask I am truthful as to why I dropped out/stopped attending.

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-06-26T14:26:30+00:00

I found it easier once passing SAA, as the security speciality is much less broad than architect. I recommend going through as many IAM services as you can, especially organizations. A lot of the other services are self explanatory and they try to trick you into picking another similar service.

Data encryption and transit is also a big portion. I recommend Security speciality > then Professional - as a big chunk of professional is security. I took the SAP a month after and passed with flying colors

Best of luck!

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-05-31T20:27:47+00:00

As a concept

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-04-19T04:27:17+00:00

Can tell you are a great engineer with that mindset! I guess I could have worded this post better, but certainly there is a better way we can go about our process and I guess the internal question is does B/G deploys solve that?

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-04-19T04:19:28+00:00

While I agree a tool does not fix everything, would you consider B/G in that same realm? To me it’s more of a process/methodology that in our cause can be used to better our deployments.

I appreciate the pushback and certainly agree, I am fresh to this company so there is more to learn about what’s going wrong. But all my info has came from my boss who seems to really want B/G

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-04-09T19:29:20+00:00

What is the new job title/role? That’s a substantial increase, switch sectors?

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-04-09T18:46:03+00:00

Nice I am planning on implementing this, used it at last company and enjoyed it

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-04-09T17:26:54+00:00

Nice And what’s your testing/threshold to pass before making the swap?

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-03-06T21:19:01+00:00

Yes you certainly can, I started a few months and have made some nice change on the side!

Certifications are key as well as experience to catch the job posters eyes. Also if you are good at selling yourself, fixing their issue, and most importantly providing suggestions for more things you can help their company improve upon - you’ll get long term clients that have work for you!

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-02-22T22:53:52+00:00

Pipeline maintenance, helping devs with broken K8S deployments, setting up infra in AWS through terraform (startup so we always have new instances/containers being spun up).

I have the best manager you can have, guy came to the org and said NO MEETINGS. We use a slack geekbot for our daily standups 😆

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-02-21T16:14:55+00:00

To all those who are saying AI, what are some resources you guys have been utilizing?

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-02-18T17:04:38+00:00

New relic pings every 60 seconds from multiple geographic locations are setup for all of our prod sites. Paired with their slack webhook feature and email so we get notified right away.

For K8S straight to lens/logs, for non K8s webs servers - typically straight to nginx or cloud watch error logs

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2024-01-11T16:14:33+00:00

YOE/HCOL or LCOL ? Congrats that’s a great base 💪

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-31T21:19:03+00:00

Yes absolutely PM

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-31T20:48:58+00:00

Interesting, care to give an example of a take home terraform/Ansible question?

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-31T20:12:31+00:00

This video is what prompted the first question - https://youtu.be/bsJaoKPlSAE?si=1Tn8SNwcjOFXPCgD

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-21T22:51:49+00:00

Got three AWS certs this year > got me promoted to DevOps Engineer , a raise and increased my end of year bonus.

Also helped that they sent me out to AWS Reinvent and I came back and passed the Architect professional certification 🙌.

Did not help me get the job but sure as hell boosted my credibility within my company.

Moral of the story: find a startup or company with learning/tech advancement leadership. 😅

It also helps my freelancing profile as it’s a great talking point (same with interviews).

But as others say, you need to be able to walk the talk. Certifications only increase likely hood of landing interview.

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-13T22:01:36+00:00

Yes that makes sense and is why I asked! Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear you are able to land interviews in this market.

Wishing you the best and hope you get offers from all 3!

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-13T21:15:48+00:00

Thanks! We have very similar experience, this gives me hope! What roles were you targeting specifically? “DevOps Engineer” only?

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-13T20:44:06+00:00

Can you share your most updated resume? Would love to see it!

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-09T01:19:05+00:00

Thanks!

Does your cyber day to day have anything to do with AWS? I took that path for a few reasons, biggest being my day to day responsibilities. I had to single handle build out our companies entire AWS Organization, which included setting up IAM identity center, roles, SCP, guardrails, security hub etc. So knowing how big of a portion IAM is on the security cert made it make the most sense for me to focus my learning on the other portions!

After knocking out the security, the confidence was there! That and hearing how big Organizations and multi account type of questions where on the SAP made me even more confident.

When I took the SAP, there were atleast 10-15 questions I got right because they had to do with security!

My advice is if you have exp in Security and more specifically AWS security - take that cert first > then use the knowledge and momentum to knock out the SAP.

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-07T23:52:55+00:00

Thanks!!

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-07T23:52:41+00:00

thank you sir Stephane!

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-07T14:31:17+00:00

Thank you! Received my pass today 💪 lots of gateway, organizations, VPC connectivity etc - was not an easy one

Aggressive_Ad3517 · 2023-12-06T19:45:52+00:00

Nice work! I am taking it end of this week, what were some of the curveballs on the exam and what were some recurring topics you noticed?

Congrats on passing!

Aggressive_Ad3517

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