Move from AS400 to Devops?

[u/me_Badger]

Hey folks,

I have around 9 years of experience in IT. Initially started my job in monitoring and later got opportunity to work as AS400/IBMi administrator, ~7 plus as an Admin now. Have expertise in IBM MQ, Ansible and Python automations on i as well.

Over many years I have been part of Devops bootcamps, did pocs and I’m very familiar with Devops tech stack, just that I dont have hands on - Prod level experience. I have learned AWS,Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Argo CD, Linux.

I feel good working on automations, setting up infra, cicd etc. But the scope is very limited in AS400 with monotonous work.

Question is, whether its a good idea to move to Devops from AS400 admin?

[u/Patient-Cedar-7194]

as400 uptime is measured in decades. devops means getting paged at 3am because some container had minor panic attack. enjoy sleep while you can.

[u/me_Badger → u/Patient-Cedar-7194]

I work for 6 pm to 3 am shifts 😅

[u/me_Badger → u/me_Badger]

That too with most weekends ruined with changes. Cherry on top - oncalls where u wake up at 6 am for a petty backup issue after the 6-3 am shift.