Launching Land A DevOps Job

Land A DevOps Job started as an idea for a book. I wanted to help other engineers find and secure jobs, then thrive in them. It was written in the wee hours of the morning before my wife and kids were awake. I poured my experience and my ideas into the book and allowed it to flow out of me. Through that process, I learned the following:

• How can you know what you are worth if you don’t know how much employers are willing to pay? DevOps job salaries vary wildly for a lot of different reasons. There was nowhere for us to go to see salary data that made sense. They were just numbers in a vacuum.

• Some of us feel trapped and helpless to affect the change we all know to be vital to success at our jobs. The DevOps community created processes to help us embrace our humanity through collaboration, listening, and interacting. But lately, it seems like many of us are just going through the motions and have forgotten the essence of what DevOps is truly about.

• There is nowhere for aspiring DevOps engineers to gain hands-on experience without a job. There is no “vocational” training. Tutorials and coding exercises can not teach you DevOps.

I am putting humans and culture first, as the technical side of the DevOps community already has amazing content and plenty of opinions. We should be paid what we are worth. We should have access to educational content for DevOps culture skills. And aspiring DevOps engineers should be able to gain experience they can put on their resume without taking tutorials and signing up for bootcamps.

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