Thank you so much, you did a fantastic job finding my weakness.

what would worry me if I were considering hiring you is that you don’t really have any exposure to Software Development Lifecycle concepts.

Yes, I’m aware of this, I need to take some time to learn it and get familiarize it.

but particularly understanding design patterns and telemetry would be the thing I’d be most nervous about for you. Scalability as well - although that’s hard for almost everybody.

Also true, hope some of these topics have an overview in a cloud cert.

I joke that reading logs is my superpower

I have similar experience with my colleagues when I was able to compile climate models, the difference was I spent some time reading the logs and look what’s dependencies are missing or the path is wrong

Still, AWS Solutions Architect is a pretty good

Thank you I’ll take this one

Another obvious thing that I didn’t see in your background - VCS

I have some experience using git and svn, but really never work in collaboration with others, in my current work we used but only git without external service. Just to keep track of the personal work.

I’m a big fan of hanging pretty much all your personal projects on GitHub.

I need to use it more, I only use it for “more” important projects, Now I think is bad approach

Finally - you might expand your search a little wider (SysOps instead of SRE off the bat? DevOps as well?

For sure, I’ll try a wider search, I always have troubles to find a job offer where I could met the requirements, thank you for suggest 2 jobs :)

Maybe going straight stick software dev, with your background, at a company where your science background would be a real value add is something to look at.

I have a “software engineer” job in a research institution, is only the title because I’m a research assistant most of the time with some dev time. The problem is there is no grow and the founding is through a international project, so the time is fixed.

and also be prepared to ‘take a step back’ if you do jump. I’d definitely hire you to see how things go, but I’d want you to come in as a Junior, and based on what you wrote above, that’s probably a bit of a paycut for you.

My pay is not so high, is a EU salary in a semi-public institution, tho the pay is lower that the equivalent in the industry, but I’m above the average of at county level, I’ll consider a paycut at least I could still pay the rent and past time with my family.

Best of luck to you!

Same to you, you are very kind with extranger a little lost about his future, I’m appreciate a lot the effort of you reply.

Thank you for a elaborate answer,

“cloud knowledge” is a must most places.

Yes, I will invest some time to learn about cloud. I’ll search which one is most used in my area

However, it may be an easier route to start more on the dev side than the ops side as, in my experience, ops are harder to learn generically because every shop has different processes and operations.

You are right, I never have a administration role, I’m the link between IT and the researchers so I have soft skills of admin in linux but not have exp do it that.

Linux and bash knowledge is very useful for these types of things, as most of the time end deployment will be on a Linux distro

That’s really good, I’m comfortable using Linux and bash

The industry is already trying to change buzzwords, from DevOps to DevSecOps, so it is never bad to know security as wel

I will let this like an extra, I need to fulfill other foundation skills, but I’ll keep it in mind

my feelings about python in DevOps, but they are not positive, and should just use bash,

Yes I am in the same boat, python tend to slowdown or cause problems when we want get env with the other people in the group that only work with R, we try to use bash as much as possible. I’m thinking to learn golang to replace python.

With this I can make a better plan to leave the academia and get dev role, for me there’s a lot of information, topics, technologies to learn in one year, maybe I was very optimistic.