Become a Devops engineer

[Jason Voorhees]

If you want to get paid for staring at a screen become a Devops Engineer. It's basically 90% monitoring dashboards, tweaking configs, and automating stuff so devs don't break everything think of it as being the invisible glue that keeps apps running smoothly in the cloud and when it's stable your work is basically just staring at a screen and during that time you can do whatever the fuck you want like I rot on this forum, my co-workers rot on slack and discord groups

Also top tier pay, some of the highest paying white collar professions. The only catch is that I wouldn't call it chill 9-5 job. You can ask @Bitchwhipper2 I had ruined my sleep schedule last year. You can get pages at 3 AM and it can ruin your entire night, fixing outages that sometimes cascade into chaos. I once pulled an all nighter and slept at 5 am. Stress levels also spike during deployments gone wrong and the constant pressure to keep systems 99.99% uptime.


But now it's much better because my company since February has off shore teams And have follow the sun rotations, taking advantage of time zone differences so nobody gets paged at 2 AM but it is still stressful when things do break. Non senior SREs are also expected to write code and help Devs but otherwise this job is great tbh.

A few years ago I would have told you this is a senior only role because Devops by its very nature requires wide domain knowledge but these days because of tooling anyone can get into Devops even freshers with no experience. They aren't true Devops roles with heavy decision making involved but they can get you started. Also yes this mostly safe for AI. Al is already automating repetitive tasks like generating basic YAML, suggesting fixes, auto-scaling but like I said it's very context heavy and decision heavy so you are mostly safe atleast for now and the foreseeable future.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@imontheloose @Former Shortcel @Menas @Glorious King @Nectar

 

[ragingmanlet]

How much is the pay and what degree is required?

 

[imontheloose]

@imontheloose @Former Shortcel @Menas @Glorious King @Nectar

we dont typically do this stuff and thank fuck 4 that. i am a monotonous human. this hectic and chaotic style is not my thing. i believe the most lucrative ee sector currently is probs dig electronics still: companies in the us n eu r begging 4 guys good at this stuff.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

How much is the pay and what degree is required?

$150-180k+ bonus and RSUs even higher if you are senior with some years of experience. CS degree helps a lot but not strictly required. self-taught, bootcamp grads, or from non-CS backgrounds also get accepted but you need to exceptional and give strong signals.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

we dont typically do this stuff and thank fuck 4 that. i am a monotonous human. this hectic and chaotic style is not my thing. i believe the most lucrative ee sector currently is probs dig electronics still: companies in the us n eu r begging 4 guys good at this stuff.

Isn't this the CMOS and MOSFET stuff?

 

[brotato78]

If you want to get paid for staring at a screen become a Devops Engineer. It's basically 90% monitoring dashboards, tweaking configs, and automating stuff so devs don't break everything think of it as being the invisible glue that keeps apps running smoothly in the cloud and when it's stable your work is basically just staring at a screen and during that time you can do whatever the fuck you want like I rot on this forum, my co-workers rot on slack and discord groups

Also top tier pay, some of the highest paying white collar professions. The only catch is that I wouldn't call it chill 9-5 job. You can ask @Bitchwhipper2 I had ruined my sleep schedule last year. You can get pages at 3 AM and it can ruin your entire night, fixing outages that sometimes cascade into chaos. I once pulled an all nighter and slept at 5 am. Stress levels also spike during deployments gone wrong and the constant pressure to keep systems 99.99% uptime.


But now it's much better because my company since February has off shore teams And have follow the sun rotations, taking advantage of time zone differences so nobody gets paged at 2 AM but it is still stressful when things do break. Non senior SREs are also expected to write code and help Devs but otherwise this job is great tbh.

A few years ago I would say this is a senior only role because Devops by its very nature required wide domain knowledge but these days because of tooling anyone can get into Devops even freshers. They aren't true Devops roles with heavy decision making involved but they can get you started. Also yes this mostly safe for AI. Al is already automating repetitive tasks like generating basic YAML, suggesting fixes, auto-scaling but like I said it's very context heavy and decision heavy so you are mostly safe atleast for now and the foreseeable future.

Seems interesting but seems too high cortisol for a youngcel like me who can’t waste development from sleep

 

[ragingmanlet]

$150-180k+ bonus and RSUs even higher if you are senior with some years of experience. CS degree helps a lot but not strictly required. self-taught, bootcamp grads, or from non-CS backgrounds also get accepted but you need to exceptional and give strong signals.

Seems too good to be true what’s the catch..

 

[imontheloose]

Isn't this the CMOS and MOSFET stuff?

yup. vhdl as part of it, how mosfets work in architecture 4 systems. think of cpu.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Seems too good to be true what’s the catch..

Read the second paragraph of this thread

 

[Jason Voorhees]

yup. vhdl as part of it, how mosfets work in architecture 4 systems. think of cpu.

I think you show move towards that intermediary roles like at the intersection of hardware and software that both CS and EE guys deal with. There's a lot of money to be made there.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@CorinthianLOX @PEENO08 @ltnbrownacnecel

 

[ragingmanlet]

Read the second paragraph of this thread

I already did it was the part about the job not being 9-5, still too good to true.

 

[CorinthianLOX]

@CorinthianLOX @PEENO08 @ltnbrownacnecel

I’m too stupid and lazy for that shit

 

[imontheloose]

I think you show move towards that intermediary roles like at the intersection of hardware and software that both CS and EE guys deal with. There's a lot of money to be made there.

yes, ive been srsly considering it, but issue is i simply dislike the stuff. i prefer controls and higher voltage things. comms could be a middle ground but only defence has good money in it. i dont mind doing the sw/hw intersection stuff. we get taught a sizeable amount specifically on it as we have to know how to design adder systems.

my professors have approached me privately abt this since its a subject i tend to perform well on, but i preferred projects where i worked on designing circuits for larger v systems. im a big maths guy.

 

[PEENO08]

This is how ill get my hardmaxx funds for supras and full midface implants

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Jgns

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Wuzzdio @lnceIs

 

[Wuzzdio]

If you want to get paid for staring at a screen become a Devops Engineer. It's basically 90% monitoring dashboards, tweaking configs, and automating stuff so devs don't break everything think of it as being the invisible glue that keeps apps running smoothly in the cloud and when it's stable your work is basically just staring at a screen and during that time you can do whatever the fuck you want like I rot on this forum, my co-workers rot on slack and discord groups

Also top tier pay, some of the highest paying white collar professions. The only catch is that I wouldn't call it chill 9-5 job. You can ask @Bitchwhipper2 I had ruined my sleep schedule last year. You can get pages at 3 AM and it can ruin your entire night, fixing outages that sometimes cascade into chaos. I once pulled an all nighter and slept at 5 am. Stress levels also spike during deployments gone wrong and the constant pressure to keep systems 99.99% uptime.


But now it's much better because my company since February has off shore teams And have follow the sun rotations, taking advantage of time zone differences so nobody gets paged at 2 AM but it is still stressful when things do break. Non senior SREs are also expected to write code and help Devs but otherwise this job is great tbh.

A few years ago I would have told you this is a senior only role because Devops by its very nature requires wide domain knowledge but these days because of tooling anyone can get into Devops even freshers with no experience. They aren't true Devops roles with heavy decision making involved but they can get you started. Also yes this mostly safe for AI. Al is already automating repetitive tasks like generating basic YAML, suggesting fixes, auto-scaling but like I said it's very context heavy and decision heavy so you are mostly safe atleast for now and the foreseeable future.

bump

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@AmericanMTN

 

[Saint Casanova]

yes, ive been srsly considering it, but issue is i simply dislike the stuff. i prefer controls and higher voltage things. comms could be a middle ground but only defence has good money in it. i dont mind doing the sw/hw intersection stuff. we get taught a sizeable amount specifically on it as we have to know how to design adder systems.

my professors have approached me privately abt this since its a subject i tend to perform well on, but i preferred projects where i worked on designing circuits for larger v systems. im a big maths guy.

IMO defence is an underrated sector for a lot of roles. It won’t ever go away.

 

[imontheloose]

IMO defence is an underrated sector for a lot of roles. It won’t ever go away.

exactly right. i would work in the industrybut its not a reliable target; very competitive. its y aerospace guys struggle w jobs. too specialised m only defence will take them n they dont need unimpressive grads.

 

[topology]

My new plan is to become a quant developer due to the pay. Was planning to move to Wallstreet because of this. Most my c++ knowledge is pretty close knit to it too so it works out great. My university also was able to find me a good place to start my quant journey in a co-op opportunity.

 

[Bars]

Then what about competition?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

My new plan is to become a quant developer due to the pay. Was planning to move to Wallstreet because of this. Most my c++ knowledge is pretty close knit to it too so it works out great. My university also was able to find me a good place to start my quant journey in a co-op opportunity.

Nice man there were couple of guys who got into HFT firms in my class. Quant traders not quant developer. Both are separate. For traders most of their vetting seem to be more like IQ tests than anything. For quant Devs it ks more like a regular software role but much more intense but yeah pay is very high.

 

[topology]

Nice man there were couple of guys who got into HFT firms in my class. Quant traders not quant developer. Both are separate. For traders most of their vetting seem to be more like IQ tests than anything. For quant Devs it ks more like a regular software role but much more intense but yeah pay is very high.

Like the people actually thinking about the algorithms to make money? I could never do that, the pay is too focused on bonuses & too stressful. Would take months to find anything useful too probably.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Then what about competition?

Much lower than regular dev but in tech everything is high competition

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Like the people actually thinking about the algorithms to make money? I could never do that, the pay is too focused on bonuses & too stressful. Would take months to find anything useful too probably.

Correct that is what quant traders does designing strategies to extract alpha from market data. Very math and stats heavy and very different from traditional software jobs and yes heavily performance linked and stressful but you'll get massive payouts. Like the starting for quant traders is like well into $300k

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Actually you say you like math right. You should try getting into quant trading It's nothing but math. The competition is utterly insane. You will be competing with legit 130+ IQ geniuses every single day. @imontheloose

 

[imontheloose]

Actually you say you like math right. You should try getting into quant trading It's nothing but math. The competition is utterly insane. You will be competing with legit 130+ IQ geniuses every single day. @imontheloose

my brother is higher iq than me, better at absorbing info quickly. he did something of the sort. hes the guy living in the us if u remember.

 

[Glorious King]

@imontheloose @Former Shortcel @Menas @Glorious King @Nectar

its good

but cybersec mogs imo

 

[Jgns]

If you want to get paid for staring at a screen become a Devops Engineer. It's basically 90% monitoring dashboards, tweaking configs, and automating stuff so devs don't break everything think of it as being the invisible glue that keeps apps running smoothly in the cloud and when it's stable your work is basically just staring at a screen and during that time you can do whatever the fuck you want like I rot on this forum, my co-workers rot on slack and discord groups

Also top tier pay, some of the highest paying white collar professions. The only catch is that I wouldn't call it chill 9-5 job. You can ask @Bitchwhipper2 I had ruined my sleep schedule last year. You can get pages at 3 AM and it can ruin your entire night, fixing outages that sometimes cascade into chaos. I once pulled an all nighter and slept at 5 am. Stress levels also spike during deployments gone wrong and the constant pressure to keep systems 99.99% uptime.


But now it's much better because my company since February has off shore teams And have follow the sun rotations, taking advantage of time zone differences so nobody gets paged at 2 AM but it is still stressful when things do break. Non senior SREs are also expected to write code and help Devs but otherwise this job is great tbh.

A few years ago I would have told you this is a senior only role because Devops by its very nature requires wide domain knowledge but these days because of tooling anyone can get into Devops even freshers with no experience. They aren't true Devops roles with heavy decision making involved but they can get you started. Also yes this mostly safe for AI. Al is already automating repetitive tasks like generating basic YAML, suggesting fixes, auto-scaling but like I said it's very context heavy and decision heavy so you are mostly safe atleast for now and the foreseeable future.

seems really interesting im going to look into it currently in uni for premed but im straightup always awake till 5 am everyday so it doesnt seem too bad in terms of that.

 

[Nectar]

It sounds like an easy win to me

 

[Bitchwhipper2]

Im still waiting formy vip for the mirtazipine revommendation

 

[Luquier]

Full time min wage job is good enough for me

 

[Whiteboard7]

If you want to get paid for staring at a screen become a Devops Engineer. It's basically 90% monitoring dashboards, tweaking configs, and automating stuff so devs don't break everything think of it as being the invisible glue that keeps apps running smoothly in the cloud and when it's stable your work is basically just staring at a screen and during that time you can do whatever the fuck you want like I rot on this forum, my co-workers rot on slack and discord groups

Also top tier pay, some of the highest paying white collar professions. The only catch is that I wouldn't call it chill 9-5 job. You can ask @Bitchwhipper2 I had ruined my sleep schedule last year. You can get pages at 3 AM and it can ruin your entire night, fixing outages that sometimes cascade into chaos. I once pulled an all nighter and slept at 5 am. Stress levels also spike during deployments gone wrong and the constant pressure to keep systems 99.99% uptime.


But now it's much better because my company since February has off shore teams And have follow the sun rotations, taking advantage of time zone differences so nobody gets paged at 2 AM but it is still stressful when things do break. Non senior SREs are also expected to write code and help Devs but otherwise this job is great tbh.

A few years ago I would have told you this is a senior only role because Devops by its very nature requires wide domain knowledge but these days because of tooling anyone can get into Devops even freshers with no experience. They aren't true Devops roles with heavy decision making involved but they can get you started. Also yes this mostly safe for AI. Al is already automating repetitive tasks like generating basic YAML, suggesting fixes, auto-scaling but like I said it's very context heavy and decision heavy so you are mostly safe atleast for now and the foreseeable future.

Do you do anything else for work?

 

[Whiteboard7]

If you want to get paid for staring at a screen become a Devops Engineer. It's basically 90% monitoring dashboards, tweaking configs, and automating stuff so devs don't break everything think of it as being the invisible glue that keeps apps running smoothly in the cloud and when it's stable your work is basically just staring at a screen and during that time you can do whatever the fuck you want like I rot on this forum, my co-workers rot on slack and discord groups

Also top tier pay, some of the highest paying white collar professions. The only catch is that I wouldn't call it chill 9-5 job. You can ask @Bitchwhipper2 I had ruined my sleep schedule last year. You can get pages at 3 AM and it can ruin your entire night, fixing outages that sometimes cascade into chaos. I once pulled an all nighter and slept at 5 am. Stress levels also spike during deployments gone wrong and the constant pressure to keep systems 99.99% uptime.


But now it's much better because my company since February has off shore teams And have follow the sun rotations, taking advantage of time zone differences so nobody gets paged at 2 AM but it is still stressful when things do break. Non senior SREs are also expected to write code and help Devs but otherwise this job is great tbh.

A few years ago I would have told you this is a senior only role because Devops by its very nature requires wide domain knowledge but these days because of tooling anyone can get into Devops even freshers with no experience. They aren't true Devops roles with heavy decision making involved but they can get you started. Also yes this mostly safe for AI. Al is already automating repetitive tasks like generating basic YAML, suggesting fixes, auto-scaling but like I said it's very context heavy and decision heavy so you are mostly safe atleast for now and the foreseeable future.

How was your uni experience if I may ask since I'm a first year

 

[Staddber]

If you want to get paid for staring at a screen become a Devops Engineer. It's basically 90% monitoring dashboards, tweaking configs, and automating stuff so devs don't break everything think of it as being the invisible glue that keeps apps running smoothly in the cloud and when it's stable your work is basically just staring at a screen and during that time you can do whatever the fuck you want like I rot on this forum, my co-workers rot on slack and discord groups

Also top tier pay, some of the highest paying white collar professions. The only catch is that I wouldn't call it chill 9-5 job. You can ask @Bitchwhipper2 I had ruined my sleep schedule last year. You can get pages at 3 AM and it can ruin your entire night, fixing outages that sometimes cascade into chaos. I once pulled an all nighter and slept at 5 am. Stress levels also spike during deployments gone wrong and the constant pressure to keep systems 99.99% uptime.


But now it's much better because my company since February has off shore teams And have follow the sun rotations, taking advantage of time zone differences so nobody gets paged at 2 AM but it is still stressful when things do break. Non senior SREs are also expected to write code and help Devs but otherwise this job is great tbh.

A few years ago I would have told you this is a senior only role because Devops by its very nature requires wide domain knowledge but these days because of tooling anyone can get into Devops even freshers with no experience. They aren't true Devops roles with heavy decision making involved but they can get you started. Also yes this mostly safe for AI. Al is already automating repetitive tasks like generating basic YAML, suggesting fixes, auto-scaling but like I said it's very context heavy and decision heavy so you are mostly safe atleast for now and the foreseeable future.

So u are saying it’s worth going for devops?
Opinion on cloud engineering? How does it compare?

 

[Mythical Chadpreet]

Quite a niche field imo most small to mid sized companies don't have a dedicated devops role.
Imo it will get boring working in it few years down the line