Career advice/resume review

Hello,

I'm looking to transition to an "official" DevOps role. I've been in a small non-profit for a while, so I've worn many hats and though my job title has shifted, I've always been in between the developer, sysadmin and network teams, often leading projects and advising on architecture decisions.

I think I have the necessary skills: I look at https://roadmap.sh, and I have at least basic if not intermediate or advanced knowledge of about 90% of the topics in the DevOps, Backend and ASP.NET Core roadmaps. I don't think that I'm exaggerating; I've had imposter syndrome (confirmed by other co-workers I respect) for a long time and I believe my confidence has finally caught up to my skills.

However, after 6 weeks of a job search (applying on LinkedIn, Indeed and Dice; and directly to at least a couple dozen other companies) and talking to 3 different recruiters, I haven't had one request for an interview. I also tried job searching for about 6 months for about a year and a half ago, and I had to give up because it was the same result.

Is it my resume (https://imgur.com/a/tmayECw, anonymized)? Previous job titles? Lack of certifications? I'm confident that I could do great DevOps/infrastructure engineer work, but I don't know what to how to communicate it. I've only been at one company, where I started at as an entry level support desk tech and grew from there, so I haven't successfully navigated this kind of job search before.

I don't have a ton of free time outside of work because of a family situation that I have. I could maybe squeeze 1 or 2 hours a weekend, but that's it. If you have any recommendations on how I could fix my resume or best use my time, I'd appreciate it.

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Junior DevOps needs advice

I‘m new into devops and I work in eCommerce since 2 years now.

My first company was very modern and used state of the art technologies (worked with terraform and K8 most of time, in an ops only Team) but paycheck was very low with no opportunities and a lot of pressure so i quit work after a year.

Now I‘m the only devops person in a Scrum team of developers. Its a big company with an 90s mindset willing to change, but I‘m far away to do K8 stuff and so on.

I have problems because

* I forget all the modern stuff, instead I‘m doing ops stuff no one else wants to do (write new scripts for monitoring, update servers and so on). Thats hard for me because I’m new into these topics and I’m slow, so during Daily stand up Meetings I feel very uncomfortable.
* I wasn‘t able to develop kind of key technology I‘m really good at - java devs are doing Java, the Front end guy is doing Front end stuff, but what I‘m doing? I have certifications in ITIL and DevOps Master but cant bring it to action in a technical way for two reasons: I‘m still a beginner and my team doesn‘t need to change anything (using monolithic architecture which works fine)
* The team tend to be dissatsfied with me, because I was hired to replace a senior architect (who joined another team), and they need his knowledge I oviously have to rebuild first in a lot of meetings/ pair „programming„ time with him
* There are a lot of dependencies to other teams and confusing architecture.
* There are also external consultants which are responsible for operations (they‘re working with Terraform and K8 for example) so I‘m asking myself why I‘m there.

I‘m learning a lot in my freetime (I‘m reading Pipeline as Code at the moment, even if we have all buildscripts ready and no need to change), but I‘m so unhappy and demotivated. Sometimes I think about to quit, but I dont want to give up.

Did you went through similiar phases in your junior devops years? Have you any advice?
Thank you for listening.

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How are devops interviews for engineers from other software development backgrounds?

Most devops engineers I have met are career changers who were previously software engineers, data engineers, and database/system admins.




As a data engineer who has worked on devops-related projects at my current company, how would my experience be seen if I applied for devops jobs? I might not have the experience or background to answer a lot of interview questions, but I'm still coming in with plenty of Python, SQL, shell scripting, and AWS experience.

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On the verge of taking a Devops Engineer bootcamp.

Please tell me all your
pros and cons
about this position.

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Am I shadowbanned?

Testing if I can see this post, my comments seem not to appear on this subreddit.

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What Package Repository software are you using?

Morning all... Quick question. What is everyone using for package storage and replication? We've got about 10 package servers internally at my company, and I'm wondering what folks are using. Paid package repos are expensive, so I'm wondering what folks are using and if it's a home rolled solution, how are you handling replication and the like.

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Minimize delivery risk with progressive delivery

A short article about reducing delivery risk with traffic routing and feature flags.


https://dev.to/cosmicflood/reduce-risk-with-progressive-delivery-43p8

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How to get into DevOps 2023?

I've been a software engineer almost a year now, and I'd like to pivot into DevOps in years to come.

Experienced ops, how did you get into it(entry level)? What would you advise?

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Triggering Lambda from one region to all

I am using Event bridge to trigger a lambda function. Suppose a S3 bucket is created in us-west-2 region(same as lambda function) and another bucket in us-east-1 but lambda triggers for us-west-2 only. How can I solve this for other regions too ?

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Are the AWS certs still worth it?

I've spent a lot of time on these so I hope so.

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Cloudfront dist for site maintenance

Hello folks,
I have 100 sites which all are serving through cloudfront distribution and finally with cloudflare dns, now I want to go for site maintenance for certain time, so what I want is-
1. Show custom site maintenance page

2. Stop serving cloudfront


How should I do it

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Career advice for a new Junior DevOps

Hi, I started as DevOps Engineer job 6 months ago with no background, I only really knew Linux/AWS/Python and got myself AWS SAA cert and that's about it.

I got into a junior position in q company which has a product that is:

1) Not containerized - the application is just 1 big monolith mess that is also unoptimized.

2) Not in the Cloud - right now we just run on VM's

3) Undocumented - i feel like i can count on 1 hand the amount of people that are documenting stuff.

4) Understaffed - most of the people that made the product have left

Although as a DevOps I am supposed to support the infrastructure and developers I spend around half the time supporting the application.

Now, what bothers me most about this job is that I am not working with 'meta' tools(K8S, cloud, terraform, ansible etc...)

I am worrying this could be a career suicide nowadays and it would be hard to find a new job(when that day happens) that doesn't require experience on fancy tools.

Now don't get me wrong, we are currently not using the tools right now but it is planned to use the tools in the future the problem is that R&D thinks that moving the application from monolith to microservices/containers will take years so that puts me in a strange position in my career.

Do I stay around and see how it plays out, do I self-learn the tools and try to find a new job after 2 years?

What would you be doing in my position?

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Laravel Containerization or serverless

Hello,

Just looking for opinions on which deployment better is more suitable for laravel apps. We currently deploy to EC2 and have recently been looking at modernising our approach.

Discussing with the dev teams there seems to be a real divide between which technology to use. While I can see the pros and cons of each approach I am edging towards a containerized deployment as it provides a more comfortable dev environment and tech like ECS Fargate can remove a lot of the infrastructure maintenance overhead.

Serverless while it maybe quicker to scale seems to have certain limitations in terms of response size. Some of our APIs have pretty huge response bodies (a problem for another day). API Gateway also has some limitations in the timeout which I think when we are under heavy load could cause issues for us.

Does anyone recommend one deployment method over the other? What experiences have you had? Anything to keep an eye out for?

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What is the best resource (something similar to leetcode, codecademy) to learn the docker and practice it at the same time?

I'm looking for a platform similar to leetcode, codecademy where I can learn lessons and practice exercises while keeping track of my progress. Are there such sites for docker?

I want to get at least beginner level better before I setup VPS and practice on actual server.

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OneUptime: Open-Source StatusPage.io Alternative.

https://github.com/oneuptime/oneuptime

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How to make sure that Lambda triggered by an event only executes when the event has been trigger by the right origin?

Hi, I am recent to DevOps and trying to learn on my own, but sometimes have questions around the best trade off, and thought this might be a good forum for it.


I currently have an AWS setup where I have multiple Lambdas that are triggered by events. The idea is that after Lambda #1 runs a service or makes status a change that will send an event and trigger Lambda #2 etc...


The challenge is that the event that triggers Lambda #2 might happen even without Lambda #1 has run.


How do I make sure that Lambda #2 only executes if Lambda #1 has been the trigger for the event that made Lambda #2 run?
Is using a store parameter that is set by Lambda #1 a reasonable solution, or are there better design patterns?



Thank you

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Question about Health in IT

I been a DevOps engineer for 3 years, been in IT for 6 years. I've studied over 10,000 hours - I've been kinda logging them/keeping track every week to hit my study goals.

I've been noticing lately, even if I have my glasses on- sometimes I can't see. Like everything is kind of a blur. I visited an Optometrist last week and they said my eyesight 20/20, but they give me a very weak prescription with UV light protection lenses. So it seems like my eye sight is fine... it's just after staring at a computer screen 12 hours a day all week it feels like I can't focus on anything anymore. My brain is foggy, and it feels like my soul is forever enslaved by the computer. Sometimes people will talk to me and I can't hold a conversation, my brain is just buzzing/empty or full of IT related stuff and I don't even hear what people are saying to me.

I feel like I need to take a month off to just not look at my phone, not look at any TV's, computer screens, etc.

I try to eat as healthy as possible and exercise, any thoughts?

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What are thoughts about AWS CDK Pipelines?

I saw a demo about this library 2 years ago and thought it was neat to manage pipelines and cloud state via a code first framework.
Is it popular amongst Devops people?
Any experience with it?
Is it production ready in terms of stability and community?

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RAID10 on 8 x Enterprise NVMe drives - Terrible Performance - Help Needed

Hi,
8 x NVMe Samsung pm9a3 with software RAID10 we are getting a terrible performance of around 80k IOPS where we get around 1 million IOPS on a single drive.
The OS is Debian and CPU is Epyc.

What's your experience? Any help really?

Thanks

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Are you running databases on Kubernetes?

Hello, I came across this Redhat survey claiming that 80% of the workloads deployed on Kubernetes were databases or data cache, based on the answers of their respondents.

I was intrigued by this because I always thought that Kubernetes workloads (i.e. containers) should be ephemeral and stateless. I tried searching on the internet and YouTube, but I'm struggling to find answers to my questions.

Are you running databases on Kubernetes? How does that work? What are you storing? Do all the pods connect to the same disk containing the database itself, or are all pods instances of the same HA database that is replicated between the pods?

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Are detached DEV cloud environments secure (and normal) for DevOps?

My organization is considering having cloud development accounts, that are fully managed by developers. Developers alone would have root/admin privileges. The environments would be Internet accessible, but not accessible from the VPN

The developers would be setting up permissions, networking policies, etc. Before bringing an environment back on the VPN, the developers would review the Terraform infrastructure code with security and networking team.

The problem is that our developers are not trained in security which could lead to unintentionally insecure Dev environments.

Have you seen development environments managed in this way before? Is it secure? Any issues?

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