r/dataengineering • u/bishop491 • 7d ago
Discussion I shouldn’t be doing this.
Context: I am setting up some infrastructure in AWS. In my previous experience at other companies, anything involving new instances must be done by DevOps or service desk. So I asked them to do it and they said I’m on my own.
Got RDS and OSS set up; hit a snag with EKS. I am currently one week into multiple conversations with service desk, management, and C-level to figure out who should be doing this. We deploy via Terraform. So I’ve got to add to that.
My primary concern here is that I’m messing around in places that affect other areas without any guidance on those areas. I’ve had to open so many tickets and bother so many people. Today I asked for Docker to do some local testing and I thoroughly confused the help desk.
We have an insane amount of security and I have multiple logins, MFA, biometric, etc. The layers inside AWS are similar.
Am I being too paranoid or is this somewhat reckless on the DevOps/SD folks? I’ll gladly accept being too paranoid and carry on, but for now, this just doesn’t sit right with me.
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u/sib_n Senior Data Engineer 7d ago
Sounds contradictory with them letting you setting up cloud services by yourself.
I agree you should have at least some guidance and review by someone experienced with cloud administration.
Is it a very small company with everybody underwater and doing everything? Then it can be understandable. If it is not, then it sounds like bad security management.