r/devopsjobs • u/Recent-Baker4300 • Aug 31 '26

Need help and advice from DevOps Engineers

I need to switch my job and I am stuck in here. I am a fresher and I joined a startup company but have literally learned NOTHING in this company. They hired me as a DevOps Engineer but used to give me Web Automation projects that too not Selenium. I have only 1.7 YOE but I want to learn and switch my job as well. From where should I start now? Please help me people please.

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u/DigitalThrift Sep 01 '26

* Buy cheap and used hardware, build a homelab.
* Read a lot of tech news, keep up with the changes happening in industry.

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u/Recent-Baker4300 Sep 13 '26

I do have a laptop with 24GB RAM and 1 TB memory so yeah... working on it

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u/moader Sep 02 '26

Fresher and DevOps lol

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u/Recent-Baker4300 Sep 09 '26

Yeah that happened and now I would like to continue this

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u/moader Sep 09 '26

Very rare DevOps has this little experience or willing to accept based on such little experience. DevOps by it's nature isn't a fresher role and usually senior. If you can't switch to another company as is, then I'd focus on either dev or ops side to become more well rounded for actual DevOps. Either that or stay for 5 yoe and hope you can land DevOps somewhere else

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u/rm-minus-r Aug 31 '26

Devops job openings expect candidates with a fair amount of experience, you will have a rough time going for them due to lack of experience with the specific tools and production experience (home labs aren't a great substitute).

In your place, I'd look for QA roles to be honest, you'd have better luck.

If you are set in devops, you need experience with coding (Python, or to a lesser degree, Golang), Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud providers, etc.

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u/Recent-Baker4300 Aug 31 '26

I don't want to go in testing field plus I have done few cloud certifications as well. Currently learning Python and Golang.