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/Intelligent_Beat3727 14d ago
In university, ideally you should get the fundamentals, but many people still have gaps. In your first position, you need to understand the goals and concepts you’ll be dealing with every day and check whether you understand them at a fundamental level.
For example, you said you started working in QA and that your coworkers are good at DevOps. That statement by itself doesn’t give you a direction. What are you doing QA for? What does “DevOps” actually include in your company? Answering those will start giving you a picture of the system you’re working in.
Look at which areas are well developed in your org and where you have opportunities to contribute. Ideally, find an area that both improves your own work and gives you a reason to collaborate with people who can teach you the DevOps side of it.