What Starting Your First DevOps Job Actually Feels Like 😅

[00:00] Of course, and yeah, I think [00:03] this is normal. I think a lot of juniors [00:05] now go through that. It only gets better [00:07] with experience, I would say, you know, [00:09] that you're feeling more confident in [00:10] your skills, and yeah, you have to keep [00:13] pushing, keep doing tickets, and then [00:15] yeah, you're growing then this [00:17] confidence, you know, by experience. [00:18] >> Yeah. And did you have a mentor when you [00:21] joined? Like did you did you get proper [00:23] onboarding? [00:24] Did you get just thrown into cold water [00:26] and like this is our Jira board? Just [00:29] take whatever DevOps ticket and do it? [00:31] How was that [00:32] >> No, yeah. [00:33] Yeah, I had a like a colleague, you [00:35] know, who showed me yeah, like a mentor. [00:37] We could say yes. [00:39] >> Uh was it was it a DevOps engineer [00:41] himself? [00:41] >> Yes. Yes. [00:42] >> Um and did you do like pair programming [00:45] at the beginning or did you actually [00:47] start Okay. Or what was your first [00:49] impression of like, you know, I can do [00:51] this stuff? Like I I I know how to [00:53] configure this I don't know if they used [00:55] a Kubernetes cluster or Terraform, but [00:58] you know, feeling like, you know, I'm [00:59] doing this pair programming with you, [01:00] but I can do this alone, or I can I can [01:02] take over this task and I can do this [01:04] thing. Or did you still feel like [01:06] cautious and and little bit anxious [01:08] about it? [01:09] >> depends on the ticket, you know, because [01:10] ticket they they can touch different [01:13] topics, you know, and there are topics [01:14] that you feel more confident or you have [01:17] more experience with them or you have [01:19] seen the past. Yeah, depends on the [01:21] topic, I would say. [01:22] >> Yeah. [01:23] Okay. So there there were some tasks [01:26] where Did you remember the examples of [01:28] both? Like where you get had a ticket [01:31] where you said, "Okay, I can actually [01:32] handle this. I'm going to do it alone." [01:34] versus ticket or like, "I don't know how [01:36] to do this. I've never done this before. [01:38] >> Of course, I know that. Yes, and what do [01:40] you do when you don't know? Then you [01:41] have to check, you know, the confluence, [01:43] you know, the knowledge base that they [01:45] have [01:46] to see if [01:47] you can find something similar. If [01:50] with that is not sufficient, then you [01:52] have to ask help to a colleague, you [01:54] know, and work together with him to to [01:56] resolve the issue. [01:57] >> If you remember we which uh project [02:00] knowledge or or which uh hands-on [02:02] projects from the DevOps boot camp you [02:04] could actually apply directly in your [02:06] projects at work. [02:07] >> Yeah, I mean all the ones that they were [02:09] regarding container containerization, [02:12] Docker, Docker Compose, image [02:14] registries, I use it every day at work. [02:16] Also Terraform, Ansible, uh also AWS, [02:21] you explained yeah EC2, Route 53, this [02:24] is something that I'm using every day. A [02:25] lot of Kubernetes as well. GitHub, uh [02:29] Git or GitLab.