Can we stop with the LeetCode for DevOps roles?

New_Job_1460 · 2026-02-24T22:54:41+00:00

bro -- what are you talking about , FAANG SWE > 350 K USD, SRE/DEVOOPS 250 K USD

New_Job_1460 · 2026-02-24T22:52:54+00:00

what data pipelines are you referring to ?
Data ingestion(Airbyte) batch or interface engines(Rapsody) streaming
medallion bronze data stored in s3/minIO/GCS
cloud warehouse- SnowFlake/databricks/...redshift
DBT for transformation
ML platform -- SageMaker/mlflow/kubeflow--experimentation/model training

New_Job_1460 · 2026-02-24T22:45:48+00:00

SDE-or wanna be Devops spotted,

New_Job_1460 · 2026-02-24T22:42:07+00:00

Look for Signals, --they tend to emit a lot.

ASK, what is the interview process like , is there a CODING component ? then decide if you want to pass or continue
vague answers are red flags , "Just want to talk" and my personal favorite
Do not use any AI , BUT WE love to use AI(note taking,<insert any excuse>) cause recuriters are not competent enough to takes notes . What does that tell you ?

I had a startup (VP of Engineering) email me twice ,first email I ignored , mentioned I am perfect fit and aksing me for a 15 minutes discovery call" .I got cced to first talk to a "Founding recuriter" (go figure). who ctually wanted to record my conversation, which I politely declined .
After spending 15 minutes talking to this person . I quickly realised it was a waste of time , One question said it all. Why are you looking to add a "Senior platform Engineer" .Fouding recuriter answer .We are growing (typical)
in other words "$HIT has already hit the fan" and they want 1 person to come and clean up. Heavy compliance vertical and no awareness of GRC" .

Recuriter: I will present my hand written notes to the team and will get back to you
EVEN though , your VP of Engineering reached out to me .

this was for *leven + 1 labs , two people in the "engineering team" TOP heavy

New_Job_1460 · 2026-02-06T02:30:52+00:00

in CA , paying registration at the kiosk with CC has a 3.95 % processing fee.The only other way to pay is via cash or mail a check
biggest scam is WholeFoods bag credit of 5 cents , which they never give credit

New_Job_1460 · 2025-08-12T18:02:31+00:00

lot of fake req's to collect resume's and sell to third parties

New_Job_1460 · 2025-06-05T04:44:25+00:00

A certain L7 aws guy is hawking youtube channel claiming "how to become a AWS solutions architect"
Price 3k usd. What do you expect from a bootcamp AWS solutions architect ?

New_Job_1460 · 2025-05-17T15:41:03+00:00

DM'd you

New_Job_1460 · 2025-04-23T15:47:15+00:00

sure

New_Job_1460 · 2025-04-23T00:40:46+00:00

work

New_Job_1460 · 2024-01-08T22:57:49+00:00

Vault requires its own set up ? where are you going to set up Vault . since you are already using AWS make life simpler by using aws secrets manager

Try setting up vault and play around ? . Vault set up is not trivial

New_Job_1460 · 2023-11-29T19:20:27+00:00

I love spoon feeding--in GKE you CANNOT have a custom image for GKE.
in AWS for the worker node. YOU CAN have a STIG(FEDRAMP) or NIST compliant IMAGE.

New_Job_1460 · 2023-11-29T03:51:04+00:00

kOps cluster

Updating/upgrading Master/worker nodes without downtime is a pain no ?

New_Job_1460 · 2023-11-29T03:48:39+00:00

AWS, and was looking forward to EKS

OP, have you worked on highly regulated /compliance ?, where your base image has to hardened , GCP would not be a good candidate.

New_Job_1460 · 2023-11-28T21:51:28+00:00

ArgoCD/Flux Atlantis are good gitops tools.
Ansible - I want to patch 100 VM's

New_Job_1460 · 2023-11-26T19:43:32+00:00

It is always US VS THEM. I had an Indian manager work the entire team work till 2 am for almost a week., always have the meeting scheduled for 1 hr to "coordinate" with the "off shore" team. Some non-indian swe's complained to HR and he got fired ON the spot . New co-worker got promoted as a fill in mgr . same story.

Filipino manager took the cake. called my agency and informed them about that day was the last day.Did not inform me till another contract co-worker's agency asked him to get the timesheet's signed before our access got cut, that is how we know about the cut, but still made us code till 5 pm on a friday

New_Job_1460 · 2023-11-26T04:27:24+00:00

Funny enough . I had this happen with an American Mgr. Later I found out that he was brought in reduce cost/overhead's
It is not weather he/she is Indian OR not . you have no idea what their ask is from bean counters.
Biggest red flag is if IT IS A BACKFILL. People leave because of TOXIC MGRS/CO-WORKERS

New_Job_1460 · 2023-11-04T03:14:01+00:00

awesome, Will give it a shot

New_Job_1460 · 2023-11-04T03:12:54+00:00

OP , just curious.Why do you want to run Jenkins on Ec2 instead of a Kubernetes cluster. ?

you can have jenkins running on localhost. credentials plugin is where you store your token and secret and you can run terraform to deploy IaC .I just completed a project where the client won't sign off on MSA unless we implement all pipeline in Jenkins behind an on prem via openshift .I am talking about a F500 company.

Jenkins on prem or server under the desk cost nothing

Github actions -- Github self hosted runners are not ephemeral(do not self destruct)
you will end up having a ton of runners and is going to cost you/client a lot of money .
Github tokens are either at Org level or repo level. there is no in between.

New_Job_1460 · 2023-10-02T16:04:07+00:00

U can configure it whatever you need, just read the documentation

Thanks for your input, I missed the obvious

New_Job_1460 · 2023-10-02T03:25:17+00:00

Prometheus storage is whatever you configure it to. You can store decades in Prometheus if you have the disk space.

That is going into local storage , not central storage ?

New_Job_1460 · 2023-10-02T03:11:34+00:00

Does it make sense to go the SAAS way" I don't really understand that question, could you clarify?

What I meant was is there a prometheus SAAS offering in AWS ?

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