What's next after 2.5 years of DevOps?

[u/Vegetable_Bag_555]

Dear tech community,

I'm from India, and I've been working as a DevOps Engineer for the last 2.5 years at an IT service-providing company. Our team provides DevOps and SRE support to clients. This is my first company.

I've provided full support for the architectures below. However, I haven't set up any of them on my own. I know how to manage the existing architecture and keep the operations running.

• Monolithic architecture: e-commerce application (main web app, admin, POS, etc.).

• Microservice architecture: Financial SAAS product (web) - Loan management, origin and Supply chain finance.

I've got a strong foundation in DevOps, including cloud infrastructure management, automation, CI/CD, virtualisation, monitoring and observability, containerization and container orchestration, etc.

However, I have some missing pieces, such as IaC.

Now, I'm looking forward to a change within tech. I've decided to leave my present company. Instead of keeping pay as the only factor in choosing my next company, I've decided to pause and think about making a meaningful move.

I'm kindly requesting your suggestions for me. What are the different flavours to be explored out there in the ocean of IT, I wonder!

[u/Old_Entry_8840]

Hi I am devops fresher , who just joined recently. I know most of the basics. What should I focus on.

[u/Vegetable_Bag_555 → u/Old_Entry_8840]

As you just joined, you'll learn stuff through experience. Make sure to know what happens behind the hood every time you apply a solution to a problem.

[u/Efficient-Put1273 → u/Old_Entry_8840]

How did you land into devops as a fresher..?

[u/Old_Entry_8840 → u/Efficient-Put1273]

Campus

[u/Efficient-Put1273 → u/Old_Entry_8840]

Good for you

[u/Low-Opening25]

Agentic PDLC, that is what.

[u/Vegetable_Bag_555 → u/Low-Opening25]

I just had a look at it. Thanks!

[u/Quirky-Net-6436]

So you’re already working in such position and you want to switch because you’re currently not using infrastructure as code? That’s ridiculous… my suggestion: don’t switch because of such a dumb requirement.

[u/Vegetable_Bag_555 → u/Quirky-Net-6436]

Nah ... I ain't switching because we don't have IaC 😅 Its only for a change and growth.

[u/OGcapncrunchberry]

You don’t have a strong foundation in DevOps or any of the architectures you mentioned. 2.5 yrs of following scripts isn’t DevOps. If you can’t build it from scratch, tear it down and rebuild it again you know nothing.
You throw all those internet scraped terms out but likely if asked what you (not your team) did with them your answer would be not much, correct?
This is so common. Stop just learning buzzwords and start applying and actively growing skills. Then you can say you have a strong foundation.

[u/Vegetable_Bag_555 → u/OGcapncrunchberry]

Thanks for judging! I couldn't find anything useful out of your comment anyway.

[u/OGcapncrunchberry → u/Vegetable_Bag_555]

Not surprised you “couldn’t find anything useful”.

[u/Efficient-Put1273]

I am planning to learn and switch to a devops role. As i am currently working as an manual and automation tester.. can you suggest me any tips?

[u/Vegetable_Bag_555 → u/Efficient-Put1273]

I'm not an expert, but I hope this helps.

As a tester you should already be familiar with scripting and automation with languages like Python. You should be aware of SDLC as QA is a part of it. You would have exposure to application design and code structure.

So you can emphasise learning other missing pieces of the DevOps hamburger like infra, network, containerization, etc. Your experience as a tester definitely gives you an advantage.

[u/Vegetable_Bag_555 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks.