I’ve been a “devops engineer” for the last 4 years or so (did traditional operations and pentesting before that) and a lot of it ends up being doing operations the old way. I’ve tried various methods to improve things with no luck. Are there many companies that have SRE or Devops engineers who are more than a renamed operations team that also handles the build server? I’d like to get a role where I’m doing more coding and less manual work. Would it be better for me to focus on lc/ctci and move to SWE? I’m still interested in systems, but I feel like the whole devops culture that everyone writes about doesn’t actually happen.
My two cents: focus on LC regardless, as any big firm's SRE interviews are pretty much SWE + some ops knowledge. SWE's will be responsible for maintaining the systems they create, and you will be indispensable.
I second that! Focus on LC.
Sounds good. I’ll do that and start looking in a few months. I’m in Minneapolis and unable to move so I’m hoping that won’t limit my options too much.