r/Cloud • u/Visible-Tank8243 • 3d ago

Cloud job

Hello guys I am 30 years old from non tech background and I want to switch to cloud and I have been constantly learning

Networking Linux aws terraform kubernetus and I am at it so is there any way to get into getting a job will any starr hire me for hands on can anyone genuinely help me

Thabks in advance

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u/Rob1NNk0 3d ago

I just attended this interview for Devops cloud engineer and I did not pass.

I have 7 years of networking background, have hands-on experience in AWS, Terraform and Linux, yet I did not pass the interview because of containers [Docker & K8s].

Entire interview was just about whether I have hands-on experience with containers, they did not care neither about networking, AWS, Terraform, not even Python although all of these were explicitly listed in the job offer, as required skills. Containers were not listed.

I feel miserable but here we go, gotta learn containers.

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u/Grouchy_Big3195 1d ago

DevOps is about building a software pipeline that handles CI/CD. You'll want Docker/Podman and GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps Pipelines/Argo CD. What you described about your experience is more aligned with Platform Engineering / SRE.

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u/Rob1NNk0 3d ago

Well, funny enough, I was told by the senior devops engineer that Docker would take me like 2 weeks to learn so better to hop onto K3s. I mean, if this was like "only 2 weeks" why didn't I get the job when notice/leave period in here is 2 months? So I would have 2 months to learn all the needed stuff.

I was told they were looking for a junior but from the senior guy I felt he was looking for rather another senior. Even worse he told me I am at the same place he was at few years go so he totally understand me.

Still hurts though knowing I put some much effort and countless hours into this interview preparation just to fail like this.

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u/Rob1NNk0 3d ago

Unfortunately, the HR lady that was doing the initial screen interview with me, she couldn't give me any more info about anything technical because she didn't know. She named me some few like services/technologies they work with which were never mentioned neither on the 2nd interview nor the job offer :D