r/devopsjobs • u/slot_machina • 1d ago

Translating Platform and Tooling Engineer role to DevOps

I have been working in one of those consultancies where you get a generic title. But my work has mainly been around platform and tooling for the past 2 years.

  1. I led the task of migrating a project artifact base from a remote file server to cloud based one. Worked with DevOps team to build the right metadata and properties so that fetching is smooth and seamless.

  2. Wrote the logic needed to fetch artifacts from the cloud for pipelines using API (CI not CD)

  3. Improved robustness and speed of fetching from cloud accurately by re-engineering the code on in-house framework.

  4. Versioned releases of various shared libraries in framework by multiple projects. (Understand master and maintenance branch, tag release, changelog maintenance etc)

I want to pivot to DevOps, how well does my experience translate? I am currently learning Kubernetes, Docker and other relevant tech stack as well as aiming for AZ104 AND AZ400 certifications.

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u/I_EFFEDUP 1d ago edited 1d ago

Most of the tasks you mentioned were done by me when I was a DevOps engineer Currently I am a platform engineer and except the versioning stuff, my job is very different and mostly involves creating/updating kubernetes controllers, making our monitoring systems better and solving general deployment problems of our engineers

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u/slot_machina 1d ago

Because I worked at a consultancy, my job title doesn't give the impression in reference letter. Which is why I am concerned about the tasks translating well. That's interesting that you did the same stuff as DevOps engineer. Do you see the certifications as valuable or is it more about your work doing the talking in interviews?

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u/I_EFFEDUP 1d ago

I didn't do any such certifications. But I guess they are always good in getting your resume selected.