WHY SHOULD FRESHERS CONSIDER TAKING DEVOPS TRAINING

The tech we knew 10 years back is now obsolete. That is the thing about technology - It is evolving at a massive rate.

To keep up with the current trend of the tech industry, organizations have started to incline towards DevOps because it can help them simplify software development and win against their competitors.?

DevOps is a mindset and cultural shift to a more collaborative approach towards software development. It brings out communication between them and with other stakeholders. DevOps is also defined as methods like continuous integration, consistent delivery, task automation and infrastructure as code.

Speaking from experience, I have seen DevOps explode. Our team that was just 2 people is now a 200 person team. So there is a huge market out there and as a fresher, you can tap on to it.?

This demand calls for an instant increase in the hiring of professionals who understand and know DevOps. For this very reason, a good number of tech buffs started considering their careers in DevOps.

But before you do that, do read this article, do your own research and talk to people who are already in the field to get a better view.

And now, let’s just dive into the article where I am answering some of the burning questions that you might have.

Question 1 - Is DevOps a good career for the future?

Let’s begin with the results of three research studies.?

• A recent Allied Market Research reports the DevOps market is projected to reach $9.4 billion by 2023, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 18.7% from 2017 to 2023.
• Glassdoor indicates a wide range of companies are currently looking for DevOps talent including Adobe, Amazon, Autodesk, Capital One, Cisco Systems, IBM Intuit, Salesforce, SAP, Successive Technologies, VMware, Walt Disney Co. and many on the list.
• According to Indeed, DevOps is currently in the top 20 in-demand IT jobs with an average salary of over $125000 per year.

I hope that answers your question about opting it as a career option.

Now, your next question might be,

Question 2 - Why is DevOps important right now?

Because it solves the following problems -

• Incompletion of customer expectations.
• The slow process of application delivery and updates.
• Less obsession on problem discovery in the development lifecycle.
• Unsuitable way of running applications in vital conditions.
• Complex incident management, miscommunications and loads of manual tasks.

DevOps solves these problems in an easy way.

Question 3 - What skills do you need to build a successful career in DevOps?

Getting into DevOps = Being a jack of all trades. So the following skills might help you stay ahead of others -

• Technical skills such as development, testing, integration, monitoring, deployment, management of security, operations, cloud computing, visualization, containerisation, IaC and DevOps automation. Being well versed in programming and scripting languages is also a decent advantage for this role.
• Practical knowledge and experience in popular DevOps tools.
• Training in more than one domain can be an added advantage. For example, having knowledge of software development, system engineering, network operations & more can be beneficial.?
• And last but not the least, you must be ready to adapt. Keep in mind, flexibility is the key to your success.?

Question 4 - Is this the right time to get into DevOps or are you late?

As I mentioned, the domain is exploding every day and there is a continuous demand for DevOps professionals. So this is practically the best time to get into it before it becomes saturated or obsolete.

Here are top 7 roles that you can take up as a DevOps professional -

• DevOps engineer:

Develop time-saving operations in the lifecycle of a software.

• Release manager:

Organize the integration pipeline and other procedures related to building and deploying applications.

• Automation engineer:

Comes into the picture for planning and distributing automations that eliminates manual tasks and supports the pipeline.

• Software developer:

Write and update application code, along with unit tests and instruction sets.

• Security engineer:

To focus on application and infrastructure security, data integrity and compliance.

• DevOps evangelist:

To encourage DevOps initiatives and communicate its benefits in an organization.

• User experience (UX) engineer:

To meet the UX expectations and goals specified for test and release.

Conclusion:

DevOps is a wonderful route to becoming a valuable asset for a company. To start with, you can present yourself as an expert on platforms/places like GitHub, Selenium, BitBucket, GitLab, ELK, Grafana, Prometheous, Jenkins, Splunk and many more.?

But before you do all this - Make a list of skills you want to master in the next 6 months.

That will definitely help!?

Good luck