With Amazon recently announcing a significant layoff of 14,000 employees—though some reports mention it could be up to 30,000—I'm curious if any DevOps or infrastructure engineers were affected. Most of the posts on LinkedIn seem to come from HR and recruiting fields, so it leaves me wondering if engineers, particularly in DevOps or SRE roles, are also among the laid-off. Has anyone heard if any infra teams were impacted by these changes?
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The layoffs happening today mainly affected Sales, HR, and some back office roles. Interestingly, more layoffs are expected in January that might include AWS, but today's cuts don't seem to touch DevOps or SRE directly yet.
Happy new year, everyone! Let's hope things turn around soon.
Honestly, it seems like DevOps roles are disappearing altogether. What's going on with that?
Not sure, but AWS refers to those roles as SysDev now, and vacancies are still there. Who knows what the future holds after Q1.
I got laid off today too, but from an AI database company. It's a tough job market right now.
Reports indicate that while 14,000 employees were laid off today, there might be more in Q1 next year. Also, SRE roles at Amazon are labeled as Systems Development Engineers (SysDE or SysDev). So, if you're looking for those positions, that's what you should search for.
It looks like Amazon has already made cuts to their DevOps teams some time ago. It's a tough scene out there, that's for sure.
Are we even left with any actual DevOps engineers now?
With the way things are, I fear we might be facing more outages next year.
Also, I think they let go of a bunch of developers in their game studios. I wouldn't be shocked if some infra folks were included in that group.