I'm trying to get some advice on how to boost my chances of landing a DevOps position. Currently, I work as a Cloud Support agent and have a strong background in containers. I'm familiar with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform/CloudFormation), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (GitHub Actions), GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), and I have a good grasp of Linux and networking along with container platforms like ECS and EKS. However, my experience with deploying production infrastructure is limited to some personal projects and replications.
I'm in the process of developing a production-ready platform to showcase in my portfolio, but I'm uncertain if that will be sufficient to stand out in applications.
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Honestly, you sound pretty close to a DevOps role already. Building that portfolio project and throwing it on GitHub with solid documentation is a great move. Your support experience plus hands-on skills should definitely help you stand out against candidates who’ve only done tutorials.
But is that really true? I’ve been looking for DevOps positions since I was laid off in January, and it seems like most places want at least some scripting skills in languages like Golang, Powershell, Bash, or Python. I started focusing on Golang because of that.