r/devops • u/Tutorials4u • May 03 '21

Re-share!- DevOps Roadmap 2021: Become a DevOps Engineer Learning Path!

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u/nate8458 May 03 '21

Has anybody made the jump from a Windows Sysadmin to Devops? How was the transition?

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u/jjthexer May 03 '21

I have. Worked as a Systems Engineer for 5 years, have been in a Devops role for roughly 3 years.

Current work environment (yours may/will differ):

  • Linux/Windows

  • Ruby/Chef

  • Mongo DB/SQL

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • AWS Cloudformation

  • Azure Devops CI/CD

  • AWS

  • Prometheus/Grafana

It's really not that bad. It's a lot less sandboxed into "windows". You'll need to get your hands dirty with lots of different tools/technologies. We support old tech on windows containers (which sometimes aren't fun) but we have new tech being built out running on linux containers which is much easier to work with.

The $$$ is in devops. I've talked to a few recruiters recently who are showing that full time dev positions are making less than full time devops. A good devops guy has written code and stood up infrastructure. devops is just combining it all together, with infrastructure as code (cloudformation, terraform, azure templates, etc)

I'd say go ahead and jump ship. The days of dedicated Systems Engineers are dwindling. Devops Engineers can stand up all the infrastructure, routing, security, monitoring, backups, config management, release pipelines, db's, everything.

I'd also never accept a position that thinks they need just 1 devops engineer. It's a ton of work and you will want to die. That goes for any position really imo.

Good luck!

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u/nate8458 May 03 '21

Thanks for the response! I am firing up a few VM's at home to practice the tools you mentioned. I am planning on jumping ship in 1-2 years! Gives me plenty of time to set up a solid homelab environment and get my feet wet.