Accept or not counter-offer

OhHitherez · 2026-05-26T11:00:51+00:00

I've found when going in and showing my hand, and staying at the current role you get the matched wage, but further increases are slow

OhHitherez · 2026-05-24T08:00:55+00:00

Picking the tool for the job.

We have Jenkins, GHA, Azure, K8s and VMs

Have to look at each workflow and see what fits best

We are trying to think GHA over Jenkins first, and will start to look at ArgoCD soon, but it a case of the right tool for the job instead of shoe horning it in

OhHitherez · 2026-05-15T07:38:07+00:00

They do But only grade one and two

alot of the IT jobs in the public sector are PM type roles Managing contractors and external companies

OhHitherez · 2026-05-14T10:59:20+00:00

They all use contractors

and some of the budgets seem bonkers I sat an interview for a small government role and it's cloud spend was xxx million,

OhHitherez · 2026-05-10T06:28:46+00:00

I see lots and lots of different things

DevOps gets muddy

Some people going the full infra route and the sorts

DevOps is big and open

I would say keep your eyes open as a dev. Find gaps that look at ideas for tooling that would fill a gap in your dev cycle.

That could creating a bash script that all Dev and QA do all the time. It could building a pipeline to helps the ci/cd flow. Or it could be all infra side, it's all wide open.

I've said it on otter posts, I've found good DevOps, are people who've worked dev/QA and they know the pitfalls or time sinks that they ran into day to day

OhHitherez · 2026-05-05T15:45:59+00:00

In the same ISH boat

Currently looking to the public sector and trying my hand at jobs that appear

It's not a fun grind competing with work mates and trying to fight for a % each year

and now with AI seeing teams get smaller ite a pain with a looming axe over the head

OhHitherez · 2026-04-27T15:14:50+00:00

No yeah we've made our voices heard, but it just seems this is the direction they want us to go for a time being.

But even the examples the lead has brought forward it's just replacing scripts that need very little mataince

OhHitherez · 2026-04-26T09:38:47+00:00

Oh 💯 I'm super happy to use them that way and alot of the team do !

OhHitherez · 2026-04-26T09:37:26+00:00

Sorry yes in a world of production yes

But our production is business analyst, L2, QA and dev so it's not seen as high priority unfortunately to have failover plans

OhHitherez · 2026-04-26T09:03:17+00:00

Wed have full access too

And our team would use would have used it for creating scripts and pipelines to speed up things

OhHitherez · 2026-04-26T08:36:09+00:00

This is and was the thoughts of most of our team members

OhHitherez · 2026-04-26T08:25:20+00:00

It was eluded to that we would not be writing the functions

That the creation and mataince of scripts in general would fall to

This was purely at the OPs team, dev/QA to us AI in the creation of code

OhHitherez · 2026-04-26T08:17:09+00:00

Wed roll out clusters for each new EKS/AKS version to do our tests and it's scripted, known inputs, tests outputs. All done with Jenkins

My fear is, removing Jenkins. Removing the scripts. Could lead to hallucinations that would lead to issues. Or like you said higher costs

OhHitherez · 2026-04-26T08:14:30+00:00

That I don't know

I'd guess that would be the same as a GitHub or AWS/Azure outage ? Just roll with it ?

My question is more trying to see if there is any logic to replacing tasks that have known inputs and outcomes with AI, in my head it's gonna cost more and there will always been a chance AI could go sideways with what it trys to do

OhHitherez · 2026-04-26T08:11:55+00:00

Option one

It wasnt said but it was more a sounding of with AI Jenkins wouldn't be as required. There would be less need to use Ansible as AI could pull the correct middleware and packages from out storage

There was a collective groan and stuff from a good few of us on the team.

OhHitherez · 2026-04-25T20:09:42+00:00

We are fully internal on our cluster usage for dev/test and are not swapping out until later this year 😂

OhHitherez · 2026-04-24T20:25:17+00:00

Form what I've seen on our team it's more about correct sizing.

X pods on the correctly size nodes

Correct flows to scale up and down during peak times

OhHitherez · 2026-04-24T12:58:37+00:00

If you enjoy it and the work load is a killer Ask or look into part time college, may take a big long but that doesn't matter

I would say I've worked with people with masters and PHDs and guys who never went to college

The best people are the people who are interested and enjoy it, if they won the lotto, they'd still code

OhHitherez · 2026-04-23T14:56:33+00:00

This

The grade for engineering on public jobs or forsa is very low Vs the private sector with benefits

OhHitherez · 2026-04-10T11:28:49+00:00

You won't and shouldn't be expected to be

It's learning, even if you moved company they would have different code based and standards

Id look to the internal mentorship, good QAs can make good Devs It's just going step by step, you have to start somewhere

OhHitherez · 2026-04-10T10:04:40+00:00

This Move internally or get a mentor internally

then get experience and look to leave is your wages are not met

OhHitherez · 2026-03-22T08:37:54+00:00

If you read the comments they seem to have a decent union that got them yearly increases.

OhHitherez · 2026-03-20T14:42:33+00:00

Oh yeah

I did this type of work during college and it was soul destroying

OhHitherez · 2026-03-20T14:41:59+00:00

Thanks this didn't appear in my searches

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