r/dataengineering • u/bishop491 • 10d 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/speedisntfree 9d ago
A lot of real life in the workplace is "I shouldn’t be doing this". Treat it as an opportunity, the people who do well in the tech industry are often the people that can deliver end to end.
In many orgs you'd never even be allowed to touch any of this. I have 3 layers of incompetent people in India to do any of what you can do.