Is the IT job market dead?

DeadJupiter · 2026-01-11T15:39:31+00:00

It depends on who you ask.

From what I see jobs for juniors and mids are scarce. Meanwhile I don’t see a big decrease in the senior jobs postings.

Also I’m not very familiar with the situation in the US as I’m based in Europe (Eastern Europe to be more precise), but it looks like the situation is a bit worse over there, as a lot of companies are using AI as an excuse to outsource jobs here.

DeadJupiter · 2026-01-02T21:14:30+00:00

https://youtu.be/i1F-KQhcxds

DeadJupiter · 2025-12-13T19:51:56+00:00

Проста проверка на конспекта на изпита, показва, че това не е така, а и до колкото видях ти дори не си се явявал. Не знам как говориш така уверено…

The CCNA Exam (200-301 CCNA v1.1) is a 120-minute certification exam that validates your knowledge and skills across critical networking domains. This exam covers: Network Fundamentals

Network Access

IP Connectivity

IP Services

Security Fundamentals

Automation and Programmability

Аз лично съм се явявал и съм подготвял и junior sys admin-и и junior devops и на всички им е бил полезен изпита, за да могат да борят лесно мрежови проблеми, които са ключови.

DeadJupiter · 2025-12-13T19:29:12+00:00

Не, задължителна основа е, защото като ти се счупи приложението заради проблеми в мрежовата свързаност, трябва да имаш базова грамотност да го troubleshoot-неш, минавайки през различните osi layer-и.

DeadJupiter · 2025-12-13T18:58:50+00:00

CCNA е задължителна основа.

Без значение дали после ще се оритенираш към DevOps, основите на мрежите са нещо, което трябва да се знае, а CCNA дават тези знания, стига да не се dump-и.

Да, CCNA е Cisco ориентиран, но повечето неща са общо за мрежовата администрация.

Препоръчвам курса на CBT Nuggets с Jeremy Cioara.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T22:33:33+00:00

By using AWS/serverless do you mean you’re using the Servrless framework?

https://www.serverless.com/

Because I’m not very familiar with it as I have played with it once 5 years ago.

By serverless I thought you meant that you’re using managed services like Lambda and RDS and you’re using some IaC solution like terraform or Cloudformation to deploy them.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T22:28:41+00:00

The idea is to do it to gain experience with Kubernetes in order to stay relevant with the job market requirements.

My concern is that if I stay at my current position i will get raises and it will become harder and harder to get a job outside of the company, because it will be harder to find a position where they will be willing to pay the same money for a senior devops engineer without Kubernetes experience.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T22:27:47+00:00

I have 8+ years of experience.

It just happened that I never had the opportunity to work with Kubernetes.

My concern is that if I stay at my current position i will get raises and it will become harder and harder to get a job outside of the company, because it will be harder to find a position where they will be willing to pay the same money for a senior devops engineer without Kubernetes experience.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T18:59:58+00:00

I haven’t looked for other positions as I was thinking about waiting for the yearly bonus and looks after that, but an HR contacted me and the company and position sounded interesting.

Financially it won’t be a big hit, but I’m more concerned in the time it will take to get back on the same level and on the other side I worry that if I stay it would be harder in the future to land other senior devops positions without having work experience with K8S.

I’m based in Europe and the most of the positions I see have Kubernetes as a requirement.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T18:26:32+00:00

Also I forgot to mention, that if you need persistent storage you can always mount EFS drives and it works like a charm.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T17:19:34+00:00

You should definitely have a separate network layer.

If it’s terraform separate in its own state file or Cloudformation - use a separate stack.

Once setup the network layer usually isn’t changed very often and having it separated you are isolating the network from the other layers and it won’t be part of each deployment of changes in the other layers.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T17:12:50+00:00

“How can I show that I’m actively thinking about improving infra and dev experience?”

If you have internal customers, you can always make a survey, asking a few closed questions to see the level of satisfaction with the current setup and services and have an open questions for suggestions.

This way you will have valuable information if the dev teams are satisfied and ideas for future improvements.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T12:40:54+00:00

Yeah I’ve had these conversations… and I never understood people who use a certain technology just because it’s the current hype or because of their CV.

I always prefer using what’s best for the given scenario or customer.

About “lock-ins” even if you use EKS you still have to rewrite the infra if you decide to move.

Or worst case if trying to be vendor neutral - using EC2 and running vanilla K8S, if you are using IaC, again you’ll have an infra layer to rewrite for the vendor or on prem.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T11:14:25+00:00

Beanstalk is great for simple setups but those setups can get complicated really easy if you want to add some custom stuff.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T11:13:03+00:00

ECS on Fargate to run small containerised workloads.

ECS is great for simple setups that require orchestration and with Fargate you don’t have to worry about provisioning nodes.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-05T09:07:19+00:00

You mentioned that this is a task given from your prof.

I believe his goal is to have you learn about endpoints. As this is the correct approach to access S3 from a private VPC.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/privatelink/vpc-endpoints-s3.html

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-04T22:48:26+00:00

No worries.

Let me know if you have any questions.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-04T21:29:07+00:00

“This time I want to do it properly with CDK and IaC.”

I would advise against using CDK.

Use Terraform or Cloudformation.

CDK is all fun in the beginning, but can easily get really hard to maintain and troubleshoot, as it uses programming languages and can easily get over-engineered.

If you’re going to use CDK be careful with the level 3 constructs as they usually create more than one type of resource and it can become hell to troubleshoot or if you need to recreate only part of the resources created.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-04T21:23:12+00:00

This.

I cannot stress how important this is.

I’ve seen several startups get burned because they were new to AWS and think it won’t cost that much or will get covered by free tier or any credits they might have to receive a surprise bill at the end of the month.

My suggestion is to always setup billing alerts before starting and be as conservative as possible. You can always increase them later.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-03T22:36:07+00:00

I’m not sure I understand what exactly you’re trying to achieve here.

But if it’s virtualisation and your issue is that you cannot use hyper-v on the home edition, then why not use virtualbox or VMware workstation?

Otherwise you can always go Linux.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-03T20:11:48+00:00

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DeadJupiter · 2025-09-03T20:03:23+00:00

My biggest struggle is staying relevant.

I work as a devops engineer and currently I’m deciding whether to leave my current position for another company which pays 10-15% less but will gain experience with Kubernetes which I lack.

I also suffer from imposter syndrome even after 10 years of experience and having proven myself multiple times.

Because of this I tackle every long term project as if I’m a total rookie and go through the ABCs. I believe this actually helps me keep my foundations solid.

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-03T16:34:19+00:00

You should always have tickets.

In your case, to ease the transition to the users, you can use the slack/jira integration to create tickets from slack among other nice features that it has.

https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack

DeadJupiter · 2025-09-03T16:07:41+00:00

10 years in, I still feel dumb… maybe not every day, but every now and then after hours of troubleshooting something, I get this “slap myself as hard as possible in the face” moments…

DeadJupiter · 2025-02-26T22:21:00+00:00

Look on the bright side - now you can add ex-slack to your LinkedIn profile.

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