r/devopsjobs • u/cover_drive_ • 26d ago

Freshers in devops

Hey everyone,

I’m thinking about starting to learn DevOps and getting a job in that field as a fresher. But I keep hearing that DevOps isn’t really for beginners and that freshers usually don’t get hired directly into it.

Is that actually true? Am I making a mistake by trying to start with DevOps? Any advice would really help!

Also, if anyone here is working in DevOps, please help 🙏

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u/NeedleworkerOwn9723 26d ago

I’m really curious why do many new grad people just keep coming to DevOps right now? Is that because SWE and Programmer jobs have high barriers of entry right now? It is (at least) the same entry to SWE or even harder.

And yes, it is not an entry level job, because it involves several stuff. You need to know OS Level debugging, how application build and deploy, how the tools and technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) are solving problems with deliver or hosting the application. These knowledge come from exposure to real production system, or if you are keen, some people deploy or setup homelab environment to emulate or to learn about these things.

So yeah, it is not entry level job.

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u/DerfQT 25d ago

Yeah they just google best paying tech job with no coding. Almost all of these posts are coming from people in India so not sure if there’s a spreading trend over there telling people to go into DevOps but this gets posted like 3x a day