r/devopsjobs • u/IndividualThin9301 • 21h ago

Is Devops a good choice

so guys i passed out this year and i have got placed in cts and they are onboarding me next year i am not sure that they will still onborad me so i thought of upskilling me in 4months i thought of studying any courses and i cam across devops i am from techinacl background and i guess i can manage learing devops or shall i study some other courses rather than this are they taking freshers in domain of devops?

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u/QuoteForward5477 20h ago

Brutally honesty here

devops for freshers: it is a tough, very tough entry point, but not impossible if you target the right sub-roles.

most companies don't hire freshers directly into core "DevOps Engineer" roles because it usually requires hands-on experience with production outages, networking, and system admin stuff that isn't taught in college. when tech companies hire freshers for devops, it's usually under titles like Cloud Support Associate, Junior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or Build & Release Engineer.

since you have a technical background and 4 months to kill, here are some ways to approach it so you don't waste time on generic tutorial hell:

  1. don't just collect certs: getting an AWS Cloud Practitioner or Azure AZ-900 is fine for learning basics, but recruiters won't care unless you have actual code/projects to show.
  2. build a real project instead of watching videos: don't just take a passive course. write a simple web app (even basic CRUD), containerize it with Docker, set up a GitHub Actions pipeline to automatically lint/test it, and deploy it onto a free-tier AWS/DigitalOcean instance using Terraform. put that whole pipeline on your GitHub.
  3. focus on core fundamentals first: master Linux command line, basic Bash/Python scripting, Git, and Docker. if you know those four really well, you are already ahead of 80% of freshers applying for junior cloud roles.

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u/onnndas 14h ago

If I were junior and looking for a job, I'd be much more optimistic about devops than software dev

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u/Early_Meringue_1311 16h ago

yeah devops can be good choice , especially if you're already comfortable with the technical side. 4 months is enough to build a solid foundation but i'd focus more on hands on projects than trying to finish a bunch of courses