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My IT guy was in love with security. Took classes, attended conferences. Took a solid drive towards it. We got hit with a serious attack. 2 months of forensics and cleanup later he lost his taste for it.
You're still early off on your path you'll probably go through a few more types of jobs before you figure out what you really like.
Having development chops makes you a superpowered sysadmin it also gives you a good start on DevOps and cloud architect roles.
Look into CI and Build systems. Look into aws and azure. Saltstack and ansible. Nginx and Apache. C# and java. Proxmox and VMware, Stay familiar with open source stuff.
If something in that alphabet super products brings you the least bit of enjoyment start working that into your resume.
We don't really use things like salt or ansible anymore in devops/sre. It's all about pipelines with stuff like argo and terraform.
Kubernetes is the way forward too. There development energy being spent on that space now is huge as well so there is always something new and interesting happening.
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I'll give you kubernetes. It would be kind of irresponsible to ignore it in the current landscape.
But there's still more puppet out there than you can shake a stick at. And no established DevOps engineer wants those jobs.
It's not like Ansible isn't still active. What I'm mentioning isn't the way things are going and or the newest technology. But that stuff, it's still all over the place out there, and there's no lack of companies that need engineers for care and feeding. That 5-10-year-old tech is a great advantage for someone looking to work their way into the industry.
Especially for someone fresh out of the gate, I probably roll up in a place with enough kubernetes, ansible, salt, and cloud formation to make my resume look interesting.
True. Haha.. I wouldn't want to go back if I could avoid it. If I did, my goal would be to get rid of it too.
So go into DevOps?