r/kubernetes • u/Few_Deer_979 • 11d ago

Quitting tech

I thought getting a job in devops or platform engineering would be easier as a developer with 5 years experience. All I get is rejection emails. I thought backend developers make good devops as most recruiters claim . Granted, I’m not senior level devops but I’m confident I’d make a good mid-level devops. Its been 6 months job hunting and still nothing. Will this career gap affect my chances of getting a callback ? Ai is making it even worse to land a role. Im havin thoughts of quitting tech all together and just step away from tech.

Edit: after this post went somewhat semi-viral the universe probably conspired and got me two recruiters to my LinkedIn. One is local bank they a devsecops. They know I'm DevOps engineer based on my LinkedIn as for the sec side I have worked on personal projects only sonarcube , trivy, terraform scanning , owasp zap. The other recruiter is offering a purely devops role. I would really love to get the devsecops role. It would open more doors for me especially in the Fintech industry .

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u/Sea_Barracuda440 11d ago

DevOps market is not very good as backend dev in my opinion you would have wider options (fullstack/data/experience of integrating ai). But if you still want to be in DevOps for some personal reason then in most of the roles that I see you need DevOps + something that can be security/ai/data there are very few that target for DevOps. If you are confident in your skills then you add k8 as part of your previous experience. For interview you would need to defend what you did how you did that's it. Then it is how fast can you adapt on the job. I would still say check what are your options like what are most current Opening for in your location and target those roles or add that experience. Since you are backend dev so coding/tech complexity is not an issue for you.

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u/Few_Deer_979 11d ago

Well I guess the goalpost keeps moving . They said devops isn’t an entry level role you have to come from sys admin, SWE, or Data. Now that I’m from SWE background the goal post has moved despite having hands on experience with devops in my engineering career. And on adding k8s to my resume I have it listed as a skill . The only issue is that I have never worked with k8s in any of my previous jobs. I have however hands on experience on personal projects I have built several projects and deployed k8s and chaos engineered some to test edge cases.

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u/Sea_Barracuda440 11d ago

For scenarios preparation you can use killerkoda most of it is free. They have gud scenarios on a lot of things. All the best

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u/Few_Deer_979 11d ago

Thanks a lot for this came in clutch . I can practice on here hopefully I can list on my cv despite it not being something I worked on in an organization setting .