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The DevOps Career Handbook

You're reading from The DevOps Career Handbook The ultimate guide to pursuing a successful career in DevOps

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803230948

Length 234 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Nate Swenson

John Knight

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: A Career in DevOps

2. Chapter 1: Career Paths FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Essential Skills for a DevOps Practitioner

4. Chapter 3: Specialized Skills for Advanced DevOps Practitioners

5. Section 2: The Application Process

6. Chapter 4: Rebranding Yourself

7. Chapter 5: Building Your Network

8. Chapter 6: Mentorship

9. Chapter 7: Working with Recruiters

10. Section 3: Interview Process

11. Chapter 8: Preparing for Your Interview

12. Chapter 9: Interviews Step by Step

13. Section 4: Tips, Tricks, and Interviews

14. Chapter 10: DevOps Career: Tips and Tricks

15. Chapter 11: Interviews with DevOps Practitioners

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you gained insight into the history and goals of DevOps. DevOps was founded around 2008 when a developer and Agilist met at a conference and decided there needed to be a better way of developing software. The goal of DevOps is to remove silos between development and IT operation teams as well as shortening the feedback loop between developers and customers. DevOps is a mix of Lean, Agile, and XP methodologies.

You also learned about the numerous career paths to choose from in the field of DevOps. Career paths in DevOps are defined by the depth of knowledge required. Three skill profiles were discussed: DevOps generalist, DevOps specializing generalist, and DevOps specialist. A DevOps specialist has a much greater depth of knowledge than a generalist.

In the next chapter, we will cover specific skills required for a DevOps generalist.

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Authors (4)

Knight

Knight

Brian Knight is the owner and founder of Pragmatic Works, and is a serial entrepreneur, starting up other companies. Brian is a contributing columnist at several technical magazines. He is the author of 16 technical books. Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS Summit, SQL Connections, TechEd, SQLSaturdays, and Code Camps. He has received a number of awards from the State of Florida, governor, and press, including the Business Ambassador Award (Governor) and Top CEO (Jacksonville Magazine). His blog can be found at Pragmatic Works website.

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John Knight

John Knight

John Knight is an engineering manager and former director with 17 years of DevOps experience, encompassing 8 different Fortune 500 companies. Lately he focuses on digital transformations and enterprise migrations and wants to redefine what DevOps means for the next 10 years. John is a lifelong learner, holding 8 major Cloud and DevOps certifications, 2 master’s degrees and currently working on a third, Computer Science at Georgia Tech, where he hopes to focus on AI and ML and apply the intersection to the next generation of AI/MLOps. Outside of work John spends time with his wife and 4 kids, enjoys streaming his favorite series, playing video games and doing fun projects, like Legos, Robots and Raspberry Pis

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Swenson

Swenson

Nate Swenson is a hands-on DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience within Fortune 100 companies in the Insurance and Finance sectors who considers himself a DevOps generalist, although the majority of his work revolves around cloud infrastructure and CI/CD(continuous integration and continuous delivery). Nate is the lead DevOps engineer for a team responsible for a self hosted GitLab platform responsible for the source code management and CI/CD for several hundred products. Outside of work Nate can be found hanging with his wife and two daughters, exploring the outdoors, or tinkering with his custom home automation setup.

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Nate Swenson

Nate Swenson

Nate Swenson is a hands-on DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience within Fortune 100 companies in the Insurance and Finance sectors who considers himself a DevOps generalist, although the majority of his work revolves around cloud infrastructure and CI/CD(continuous integration and continuous delivery). Nate is the lead DevOps engineer for a team responsible for a self hosted GitLab platform responsible for the source code management and CI/CD for several hundred products. Outside of work Nate can be found hanging with his wife and two daughters, exploring the outdoors, or tinkering with his custom home automation setup.

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