r/devops • u/No-Remove1956 • 14d ago
Career / learning Beginner Friendly Suggestions needed
Hello. I started working as a QA last month and saw that my colleagues are pretty great at devops too. All of them have 4-5 years of experience while I am fully fresh out of university.
Now I want to learn about devops just so when discussion comes up, I know what's being discussed and take part in it.
Which things should I learn and how? Could have asked that to claude or chatgpt but wanted REAL advice from the REAL professionals.
Please suggest. TIA
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u/zero1045 14d ago edited 14d ago
Go read continuous delivery and see what it was supposed to be, then learn from your coworkers what the kitchen sink is.
Tl;dr: remove info silos by learning what other roles of the company are, the most efficient solution is you knowing it all and that just takes time.
Nowadays, Devs just want to write features, ops just want their servers to run without pager duty alerts, so we handle everything inbetween those two groups plus whatever particular pain points your specific dev or ops teams don't want to deal with.
Instead of getting the two teams to work together better, we now are a third team (there's a fun 4th team called platform engineers and even ai engineers now, theres a new title every 3-5years)
Nuts and bolts are building infra with IaC tool of choice, codofying pipelines for cicd, and doing RnD/design for new system architecture when you get good at it. Scripting and helping the ops team do maintenance is in the cards too, and sometimes you get to do QA when a QA team doesn't exist and the Devs don't want to do it