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✨DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering
Make software ship faster and never fall over.
Why this fits the moment: You love automation, reliability, and eliminating manual toil.
Salary Range
$90K–$280K+
Time to Promotion
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Time to Land Role
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Difficulty
High
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The real progression: DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering
Make software ship faster and never fall over.
Fits you if: You love automation, reliability, and eliminating manual toil.
💰 $90K–$280K+📈 Demand: hot👑 Executive ceiling: VP Platform Engineering
The step-by-step path
- 1DevOps EngineerMidAutomate builds, deploys, and infrastructure🔑 Gate to next step: usually needs a software or infra base first
- 2Senior DevOps / SRESeniorOwn reliability, pipelines, and uptime
- 3Platform Lead / DevOps ArchitectLeadDesign the platform teams build on
- 4Director → VP Platform EngineeringExecutiveOwn platform and reliability strategy
Certifications that matter
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional — Amazon
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — CNCF
- Terraform Associate — HashiCorp
Skills you'll build
CI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure-as-code (Terraform)containers & Kubernetescloud platformsobservability/monitoringscripting
Transfers well from
- software eng
- sysadmin
- cloud/infra
- IT operations
Common titles you'll see
DevOps EngineerSREPlatform EngineerBuild & Release EngineerDevOps ArchitectDirector Platform Engineering
THE HONEST TRADEOFF
Heavy on-call and incident pressure — you own uptime at 3am; it's rarely a true entry-level start (you need a base discipline first).
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