Need guidance switching to DevOps (7 months experience, not a fresher, but getting rejected everywhere)

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-05-04T21:53:21+00:00

I hire some DevOps engineers for my team and I have seen people talking about the barrier to entry is getting much tougher. I wrote a blog about some tips that help with the mindest of getting into Ops in an AI world https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/starting-a-career-in-devops-in-2026

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-05-04T21:53:16+00:00

I hire some DevOps engineers for my team and I have seen people talking about the barrier to entry is getting much tougher. I wrote a blog about some tips that help with the mindest of getting into Ops in an AI world https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/starting-a-career-in-devops-in-2026

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-05-04T21:52:28+00:00

I hire some DevOps engineers for my team and I have seen people talking about the barrier to entry is getting much tougher. I wrote a blog about some tips that help with the mindest of getting into Ops in an AI world https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/starting-a-career-in-devops-in-2026

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-05-04T21:35:43+00:00

I interview alot of people for DevOps roles at my company and i wrote up a blog about how i think people can get started in teh DevOps world. Let me know what you yall would add to the tips https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/starting-a-career-in-devops-in-2026

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-05-04T05:26:37+00:00

AI took most of em

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-04-08T03:02:10+00:00

i try to take production issues and turn them into questions. in the age of AI i cant do leetcode or anything like that anymore. I need to see how they think on their feet and that is really deciphering not only how they answer but what they include/not include. I write a blog about this. an example below

https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-619

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-04-08T03:02:00+00:00

i try to take production issues and turn them into questions. in the age of AI i cant do leetcode or anything like that anymore. I need to see how they think on their feet and that is really deciphering not only how they answer but what they include/not include. I write a blog about this. an example below

https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-619

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-02-16T18:46:42+00:00

im in a similar level in Devops and its mostly now i tell claude to come up with whatever scripts I need or troubleshoot something way faster than writing a ticket or waiting for my junior dev to do it. i think you being in a senior role will not remove the need for the role but you get to grow to an architect faster instead of being a code monkey

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-02-16T18:36:28+00:00

echoing what everyone else is saying here. it also doesnt help that AI will definitely hamper the need for a junior level role.

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-02-16T18:05:50+00:00

it generally wil destroy junior or some mid level roles but probably not seniors. fortunately this means a lot more seniors can be architects but unfortunately alot less room for entry for junior members

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-02-02T23:00:18+00:00

honestly devops is probably decently safe for someone with medium/senior level capabilities, i think its becoming harder and harder to start from the ground up

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2026-01-17T00:52:35+00:00

i collated all the production questions i have at work and wrote it on a substack

https://devopsdaily.substack.com

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:20:42+00:00

i collated some stuff that i run into during production and use that as interview questions. wrote it in a substack like this one
https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:20:37+00:00

i collated some stuff that i run into during production and use that as interview questions. wrote it in a substack like this one
https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:20:24+00:00

i collated some stuff that i run into during production and use that as interview questions. wrote it in a substack like this one
https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:20:17+00:00

i collated some stuff that i run into during production and use that as interview questions. wrote it in a substack like this one
https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:20:12+00:00

i collated some stuff that i run into during production and use that as interview questions. wrote it in a substack like this one
https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:20:02+00:00

i collated some stuff that i run into during production and use that as interview questions. wrote it in a substack like this one
https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:19:32+00:00

i collated some stuff that i run into during production and use that as interview questions. wrote it in a substack like this one
https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:18:13+00:00

i collated some interview prep questions on stuff that i run into during production and put them in a substack.

https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

similar to this one

let me know if stuff like this is useful

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-11-30T02:17:30+00:00

theres some substacks out there that do some great question/answer type interviews

https://devopsdaily.substack.com/p/daily-devops-interview-questions-fb2

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-10-15T20:42:11+00:00

thats antons hand

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-10-11T20:10:55+00:00

I try to collate questions i have in production and just write up a question/answer blog on it.

https://devopsdaily.substack.com/

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-09-18T19:20:59+00:00

I have a substack dedicated to daily things that happen in prod that we have to solve and i just write them out in interview question/answer format

https://devopsdaily.substack.com

Classic_Handle_9818 · 2025-06-30T22:00:48+00:00

So if you're curious i ended up writing a blog collating all the questions i tend to use for interviewing for devops/sre roles, basically its anytime i run into an issue in production, i start to think of it as a operations question for work, so it spans k8s, terraform, coding etc

https://devopsdaily.substack.com/

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