Why You Shouldn't Become A DevOps Engineer

Before you sign up for that bootcamp, buy that course, or enroll in that class, it's important that you learn _what_ your future career might look like. In this video, I show you some of the misconceptions and surprises common to those just starting their career so you can make the best decision for your future self.

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0:00 Introduction
1:20 You are never done learning
2:18 You may not be working with your favorite tool
3:28 You may not have DevOps in your title
4:11 Frequent task switching
4:54 It's not 9 to 5
6:07 Go further with the Roadmap

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[DevOpsForDevelopers]

One of the hardest things about learning is understanding how the different components work together. Using this guide, you start with a topic that interests or relates to you. At the end of the section, other related topics are shown allowing you to pick and choose your own path to DevOps mastery.
Check it out and leverage the skills you learn to advance your career as a developer, sysadmin, IT Operations, QA and more!

[LightYagami-wzck]

I'm a four year DevOps engineer, from my experience
1. "Works fine in my local"
2. "Network/DevOps issue"
3. Deployments off hours
4. Some developer makes a shitty code change, but DevOps will identify and fix it
5. Work life balance is a myth
6. We don't have the luxury to spend hours on learning and understanding something, always in a rush

[LuqmanHakim-ccpb]

As a DevOps engineer for about below 2 years:
1. 9am-6pm = support dev team if the test server access is down/they need logs/monitor servers. sometimes do nothing :)
2. hotfixes/minor/major deployment = anytime above 11pm
3. server critical issues = need to attend immediately even if you in a car traveling on a long distance :(
4. team want to improvise server/network architecture = HUGE planning!!!

Welcome to DevOps :D

[marciomuniz]

Hi Will.. that is the best description of the tech today. When I started in tech(about 35 years ago) we didn't have all this crazy needs to know, or at least get an idea what it was, about all those things. You could concentrate in know very well a programming language, a bit of OS maintenance and choose one database. From the last 15 years(maybe more) all those new programming languages, script languages, databases, OSs became almost a have to know to survive and be employable. It is exhausting because after 8 to 12 hours working we still need another at least 6 hours to understand something else and if you have family and kids it will be a bit complicated. Also sometimes(happened to me 3 times) we have to work with some "developers" that don't have life after work that keep trying every technology and suggest to be used and sometimes some managers find that great. The other problem I see in this situation is when you are at senior level for some weird reason the managers think because you are senior you can learn fast and some techs needs some time to be learned. That is why, at least where I am, we find a lot bad applications because the developer didn't have time to learn properly. If I had a glimpse of that when I started I certainly would choose another profession. Thanks Will for your video and all the best for anyone jumping in this crazy adventure.

[marcsteele]

My experience on the ops side was that losing out one birthdays, holidays, family events, etc was more common that you hoped. I snapped when a dev tried to be “helpful” and work a public holiday in a previous job, dragging me into a mess that day. You’ll also lose out on freedom (gotta stay in phone coverage and able to respond in 15 minutes) and a social life in general if you’re not careful.

I now work more on the dev side but it’s fascinating to see how task switching, long feedback cycles (those Ansible / Helm charts / Terraform deploys take time) and a lack of consistent dopamine hits from getting tickets over the line break devs going the other way. Sprint velocity metrics might as well be random number generators in the DevOps world.

[stephxolee]

Love the summary/trailer format! I'm a junior software developer now (just started, was self taught for 1 year) and working in Dev Ops is my goal. Also started working on a Github plugin because it is a lot more fun. Definitely agree with the fact you never stop learning!

[dorothyglade]

Great video! On point! From the perspective of a DevOps engineer, this is completely accurate!

[naegling]

bro if you're saying the downside to working in "devops" and your problem is unplanned work, that your job isn't consistent in hours, then you are just a constraint in the product delivery stream and nobody is doing "devops" at your organization at all. you are an IT operations worker. thassit.

[njpaps]

Once more an amazing video. I’m 30 and I’m Jr. DevOps for a company using Azure DevOps exclusively. I am so overwhelmed by the knowledge you should have to handle the full stack successfully. At the moment I’m just messing with some repos (application properties tweaking) and CI/CD. I am so afraid though to build something from scratch and play with kubernetes extensively. Sir please let me know, is it better to learn something in-depth and then move on to another one and finally be able to build something serious, or use battleready material from public repos (public helm charts for example) and try to “build” things in order to see the result and then learn how to edit and play with it? Thank you in advance and excuse my agitation.

[ceezer]

I'm in my mid-40s and have taken a drawn-out and strained career path, which has painted me into a corner, resulting in a professional slump and several years of complacency. I'm wanting to make a shift and find interest in my work again; reignite that passion for tech that used to burn strongly. My official title is 'SharePoint Admin', but my duties are more as a team lead for our team of devs and as a sort of BA/PM between them and the customers, so I feel like DevOps should be a logical progression, but it is very overwhelming to see/hear about the depth of knowledge I'm lacking and need to accumulate to fill this role...

[bekirhadzic]

Hahahaha loved your skits, cinematic shots, and overall energy of the video. Devops explanation is sad, buttrue at the same time :D

[vignesh]

Can you help me choose between Cloud data engineering and cloud devops? literally confused.

[friction]

I like working everywhere and adapting to new situations

[TaHrPa]

I'm doing an internship in DevOps and boy do I hate it. And the project we're doing is entirely in Azure, which by popular opinion is the easiest and nicest DevOps experience you'll ever get. I find myself spending most of my "free" time in git and going through the code and talking with the devs. If anything it's a great measurement of where my heart really lies. Your videos are absolutely fantastic!

[MR.AR]

Make a video on can AI replace development operations engineer job 😔

[sempressfi]

I've been working with mentors in a big box store for the last year and a half concerning coding and networking as I tried to break into cyber security.

Well my mentor got asked to manage a DevOps team and she wants to bring me on as well. So I basically got "hey you wanna apply for DevOps?" And the first thing I thought was "THATS MY FIRST STEP TO DEVSECOPS! F YES I WANT TO!"

I just finished my resumé and I'll probably interview next week. I've worked so hard to learn all I could. A full time job in retail then 4 hours a day studying and coding for the last year and a half. Then it just falls in my lap.

Do. Not. Give. Up.

[Silverlance]

A great video, informative and funny, thanks! Just discovered the channel and insta-subbed.

P.S. Loving how it's exactly 6:00 minutes long.

[info.hardbodies]

Thanks for the Video Will, Love the snippets and props in between explanations. Question: I'm also transitioning to DevOps, just cant decide between IBM or Azure Certification. I keep hearing DevOps people say it has the Operations side, yet when looking at the responsibilities through video explanation and job Ads....it seems to me the discipline is more coding in Fast-Agile environment type projects. I can code in Java and have syst admin experience, how much of dealing with operations vs coding, percentage wise will I be doing within the team.

[JonBrookes]

I'm stuggling to find anything you had to say in this that I would do anything but agree with

I've been in automation before it was called devops so for 20+ I guess

its like your speaking direcltly to me in the same room !

[kirtipandey]

Im 50 and thinking of switching careers to DevOps. Am I fooling myself. Ive am currently a PM.