After working on a service desk for a few years, I love the aspects of solving problems, but I have become frustrated with my inability to solve problems holistically for those who call up for assistance. I am hungry to learn more deep technical skills and look to help build platforms, systems and solutions leveraging automation so that I can do more with less.
The engineering team seem to always be in the middle of the action, be that responding to, or solving incidents in the middle of the night or providing feedback on designs and architectures on future projects. It seems like a great way to build up my technical expertise and gain exposure to architecture which is something I want to pursue later on in my career.
I want to learn more about DevOps and the way that engineering practices are potentially looking to change from On-Premises infrastructure such as vSphere and Hyper-V to Cloud-based systems like AWS and Azure. I want to learn how to build systems and automate basic tasks so I can help solve higher-level problems and potentially after a year or so start to form opinions on what works or doesn't work based on architecture diagrams and requirements.
Key Technologies and Tools:
- PowerShell
- GitHub
- ARM Templates
- Chef / Puppet
- Ansible
- Jenkins
| Ratio | Value 1 | Value 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Reusable Skill vs. Company Specific Skill | 95 | 5 |
| New Skill vs. Existing Skills | 90 | 10 |
| Self-Taught vs. Assisted Learning | 70 | 30 |