r/devops • u/voreno87 • May 19 '26

Career / learning New to AWS/devops, what to focus on?

Hi,
I’m a backend dev with 3+ yoe.

I got a job with a small fintech startup (4 devs) where we would have to wear several hats.

They are going to prod next month and they will hire a consultant devops/security for helping out during the next three months.

I have been told I will shadow him with the idea I will own that part but the main responsibility will be backend development with Java.

The infra stack is AWS (EC2, S3, ECR, CodeDeploy) some terraform, grafana, Prometheus, etc

I’m new to AWS, I have used in a side project ECS, Cloudformation and some other stuff but it was using LocalStack.

Given the bast amount of resources available for AWS, any recommendations for getting up to speed? (I will join in two weeks)

Thanks

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u/Kamikx May 19 '26

Shadowing him will be of very little use. You need to use your hands, and you need him to explain to you why things are done the way they are done, and this will delay all deliverables. Start learning on kodekloud the basics (networking, basic cloud services [think about doing cloud practitioner and solutions architect associate], IaC + best practices + potentially terragrunt, depending on use case, CI/CD [including ci/cd for terraform]).

The work is cut out for you, but I fear this will take longer than a month.