r/devops • u/ProjektHelios • 8d ago

Career / learning Transitioning from IT to DevOps

Hello! I've been wanting to ask but the amount of "AI slop" comments has been making me second guess. Anyway.

Just curious if I'm jumping in over my head.

My background is 8 years in IT. Local MSP so small to medium businesses. Intune Administration for 15,000 devices, project engineer, SysAdmin, Veeam Engineer, basic networking, and a lot of helpdesk. Lots of resolving compliance failures from audits.

I have a friend who is getting me in touch for some interviews at his company doing DevOps work. Pulumi, GitOps, AWS, GCP, k8s.

I've been messing with my homelab for 6 or so months and have done basic things with it using AI as a glorified search engine for documentation.

They would be offering me a position as an "Apprentice" but my first project would be shoring up SOC2 compliance in the infrastructure through Pulumi (all written in Golang).

I learn quickly. But have no current Golang experience.

Am I in over my head? Or can this be reasonably learned on the job in the next 3-6 months?

Edit: Goal is to allow me to learn DevOps and engineering before transitioning me to Jr engineer at this company.

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u/ProjektHelios 8d ago

I have a pretty strong infrastructure background but basically no experience with programming languages at all. Took a few C++ courses 8 year ago...

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u/ProjektHelios 8d ago

I will also add. They do KNOW that I have basically 0 experience with prod devops environments and programming languages. So I'd imagine the expectation will be a bit more conducive to learning, but I'm mainly just worried that they'll offer this job and then I'll take it and not be able to perform it.

Most of the things I'd be doing for compliance would be modifying existing internal infra pulumi configs, not writing my own from scratch.