DevOps Engineer from tech sales?

Hi, if somebody could provide some career advice it would be greatly appreciated. So I graduated this May with a CS degree and I’m having trouble finding a full-time position. I have internship experience in automation/analysis and Python scripting. In any case, I have a possible offer in a BDR position though I am not very excited about cold-calling, but I am also unemployed right now and beggars can’t be choosers. Would it be possible to switch careers later on (after 6 months or so) from BDR to any relevant roles that would potentially give me DevOps experience? I worked in the transportation sector and I really liked helping out a good cause, indirectly building the infrastructure of a city through my intern code. Does anybody have any advice?

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Final-year CS student, burnt out from job

I’m a final-year CS student looking for an internship or entry-level DevOps role. Honestly, I’m exhausted from applying on LinkedIn and company sites with no luck. If you know of any openings, please drop a comment and I’ll share my CV. Would really appreciate any help.

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Our auth service has been making 50k unnecessary calls to user DB every hour for who knows how long

Was looking into why our DB costs spiked last month and found our auth microservice hitting the user table way more than it should. Turns out it's fetching full user profiles on every token validation instead of just checking the token cache.
Someone "optimized" the auth flow six months ago but forgot to actually use the cache they built. So we're doing full DB lookups for data we already have in Redis.
Not a security disaster but definitely not great that a service can just hammer our DB without anyone noticing. Our monitoring flagged high DB usage but nobody connected it to unnecessary auth calls.
Makes me wonder what other services are doing dumb stuff that looks normal from the outside. Like our security tools see "auth service talking to user DB" and think that's fine, but they can't tell that it's doing it 50x more than it needs to.
Kind of annoying that we have all this fancy cloud security stuff but it can't tell me "hey this service is being weird compared to how it normally behaves."

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We rewrote our ingest pipeline from Python to Go — here’s what we learned

We built Telemetry Harbor, a time-series data platform, starting with Python FastAPI for speed of prototyping. It worked well for validation… until performance became the bottleneck.

We were hitting 800% CPU spikes, crashes, and unpredictable behavior under load. After evaluating Rust vs Go, we chose Go for its balance of performance and development speed.

The results:
• 10x efficiency improvement
• Stable CPU under heavy load (~60% vs Python’s 800% spikes)
• No more cascading failures
• Strict type safety catching data issues Python let through

Key lessons:
1. Prototype fast, but know when to rewrite.
2. Predictable performance matters as much as raw speed.
3. Strict typing prevents subtle data corruption.
4. Sometimes rejecting bad data is better than silently fixing it.

Full write-up with technical details

https://telemetryharbor.com/blog/from-python-to-go-why-we-rewrote-our-ingest-pipeline-at-telemetry-harbor/

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Naming cloud resources doesn't have to be hard

People say there are 2 hard problems in computer science: "cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors". For cloud resources, I would say the naming side is way more complicated than the usual.

When coding, renaming things later is easy due to refactoring tools or AI, but cloud resources are usually impossible to change. I wrote a blog post covering how to avoid major complications by simply re-thinking how you name cloud resources and (hopefully) avoid renames.

Happy to hear thoughts about it and/or alternatives.

https://brunoluiz.net/blog/2025/aug/naming-cloud-resources-doesnt-have-to-be-hard/

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CS fresh grad

As a cs grad should i go straight for devops rules or working as full stack dev for around 2 years would be better?
trying to find a good entry to the field due to difficulties finding a junior rule in devops/cloud

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Need advice on http3 reverse proxy

I'm developing a real time chat system using http3 for the communication between client and server. Right now it works fine locally by connecting directly to the server with a long-lived connection. I was thinking of setting up a reverse proxy to add some security measures. Now, i know that nginx has support for http3, but as far as i understand it, it just enables http3 for the client and then redirects the request to the actual server via http2 or 1.1. That won't work for me since the service itself is http3. Could anyone correct/guide me on this? What options do i have?

Also sorry if this is not the most correct sub to ask this in. Any help is appreciated

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VMware

Any DevOps working with VMware? If so, what are some must know things about it? Are you building it yourself or working on existing ones?

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Chef authorization error.

Whenever i want to use Bootstrap command it says ( You authenticated successfully to https://api.chef.io/organizations/redsky1 as isutharsahil but you are not authorized for this action.)

How can i fix this?

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How is AI actually getting deployed in your org? 🧟‍♂️

Curious what deployment patterns people are really using (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps, etc.)


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New in DevOps & loving it — but concerned about long-term career prospects. Need advice.

Hey folks,

I recently transitioned into a DevOps role at a service-based company and I’m really enjoying it. I’ve been learning a lot — Kubernetes, GCP, Docker, Jenkins, and more.

However, I’ve noticed quite a few posts here where people with 3–4 years of DevOps/SRE experience are struggling to find jobs. That got me thinking…

My questions:
1. What’s going on with the current tech job market?
2. For someone early in their DevOps career, what should I focus on to stay relevant long-term?
3. I’m considering learning MLOps since AI is booming — would that complement DevOps skills?

My goal: Keep growing, eventually specialize in a niche that will stay in demand, and future-proof my career.

I’d love to hear from experienced folks — what skills, tools, or career moves helped you stay ahead?

Thanks in advance! 🚀

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Jenkins is truly excellent.

Jenkins \+ gitea runner covers pretty much all our production needs, and you can even set up many parameterized tasks for non-tech folks, and no extra UI needed. Just, just don’t overload it with extra plugins, keep groovy usage in check, and write your Jenkinsfile properly.

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Compliance breakdown of popular SMTP providers for email infrastructure
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HashiCorp Vault - is it worth it?

Hello party people!

I’m a DevOps/Platform Engineer currently reviewing our secret management approach, specifically evaluating HashiCorp Vault to see if it’s worth implementing on our platform.

Some background:
We run multiple AKS clusters (PROD and DEV) with \~200 deployments in each. Our current CD strategy is a push-based model where every deployment includes all necessary configs, values, and images. The clusters are shared across 10 autonomous teams, each with scoped RBAC and governance per namespace.

The challenge:
We use multiple CI/CD tools and have secrets/configurations scattered across different locations. This makes management and consistency tricky.

The question:
Would it make sense to centralize environment variables and secrets in HashiCorp Vault, rather than embedding them in our CD pipelines? I imagine this could be even more beneficial if we move away from push deployments towards a pull-based approach (e.g., ArgoCD).

That said, we’re short-staffed, and my team has other high-priority work on our plate. What’s your gut feeling—worth pursuing now, or should it wait?

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Compliance breakdown of popular SMTP providers for email infrastructure
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Is anyone here attending the LambdaTest’s Testμ Conference 2025 in August? I really need some advice.

So I missed this event last year. I really want to attend it this time, but it’s my first time and I’m feeling overwhelmed about which speakers I should listen to. There are 80+ speakers, and it’s humanly impossible for me to attend all of them in 3 days. Virtual conferences are already overwhelming.

If someone has attended it last year or planning to attend this year, can you help me figure out how can I get the schedule of the speakers and general advice on whether it was worth attending the conference last year? How can I prepare myself to get value from the conference?

PS: If you are attending, we can connect over DM. Any advice from someone who has attended virtual conferences and found value is welcome to help me here. I’m a newbie. Please don’t be harsh. Also, if you want to know what this is about, let me know and I’ll put it in the comments.

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Cool documentaries in IT space

I’ve seen documentaries about NodeJS, Kubernetes and one called “The Nerds”. What else is out there?

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Looking for advice on provisioning virtual desktops.

I'm looking to provision virtual Desktops (the operating system does not matter, Windows, LInux) across multiple VPS instances.


Say 4 (or as many fit) on a single VPS and have 3 VPSs for a total of 12 desktops.

Then to access them via Apache Guacamole (for example), as a VNC server and client from a browser.

What tools would you recommend?

So far I've been thinking about Virtualbox.

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Moved from a DevOps/Cloud Governance role/team to a backend role for a large product team. Good opportunity or set back?

So back in January 2025 I got moved from my large organization DevOps/Cloud Governance team where I was a senior and technical lead to a product team due to a need for more resources.

I have 7 years of DevOps/SRE/Cloud experience through several companies I've worked with. I am now the person with the least experience on the new team since I have never used the tech stack or backend development on this scale before (150k+ users across the nation vs hundreds or low thousands for internal applications). I am now my old team's customer, haha.

The transition was a little rough but I have been getting good praise from my team and technical leads/manager/skip levels. I have been able to contribute to major features and make large monitoring and infrastructure resiliency improvements but I am still very much new in this area... I am basically a junior in technical skills but a senior in design and problem solving on this team.

I was planning on looking for new opportunities just to be in a new industry but I am worried about not being viewed favourably for DevOps or Cloud roles since I haven't been doing that as much the past year and won't be looking good for Senior Engineering roles since I essentially have 1 year of experience in it. I tried throwing out some feelers and I was able to get responses before April 2025 but none now, I'm not sure if it's cause of the market or my experience the past year

Was curious on if anyone had advice?

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When to start making your own project? (Hopefully a junior DevOps Engineer)

I'm very young (no job experience at all) and have AWS SAA, RHCSA and RHCE certifications, I think I have a solid understanding of them.

I wanted to make a project for the resume/portfolio and came to the part of GitHub Actions.
After spending a few hours reading docs, trying to understanding how to use the Docker templates there, I didn't understand quite well a thing and asked ChatGPT how it should be done.

It wrote 450 lines of code, against my measly 60.

Got quite frustrated at the time that I was seemingly wasting studying, if it can be done without studying.
Felt like still going to the local library when I can just Google it instead.

Am I jumping over my own head when I try to do a CI/CD pipeline with my current knowledge?
I wanted to start with CKA, but what is the worth of my current certs if ChatGPT knows how to do it without thinking for 2 seconds?
How I should compete with that for a position in the market?

I know LLM's also make mistakes when things get complicated, but all my current knowledge is so basic...

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git rebase and chaos

Added some hard gated commit checks in pipeline which requires editing commit message in repo and it's been absolute cinema since (even after providing a step by step guideline)

the dev who talked louder in weekly syncup => just lost it because it's too much to handle
the principal engineer => performed rebase which added more wrong commits
the newbie joining => setup a KT meeting on Saturday for rebase


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