Transitioned from Sr DevOps role to Sr Software Dev role

I have 4.5ish years of experience. I recently made a transition from a devops role to a purely dev role.

After considering many factors like the 'kind of work', opportunities at other companies, pay, etc. I decided to pursue being a full fleged software dev. The main deciding factor for the transition was simply that I found the ops part of the work quite tedious.

The management was very welcoming and even setup a up a roadmap to help me move.

My dessignation was officially changed to Sr. Software Developer last month after three months of doing a little bit of both.

I now have a great deal of things to learn so that I can catch up to my peers. It's scary but also v exciting.

I'm not sure if it is an achievement but it sure feels like one. So feel free to AMA.

Kendall Denver

Zeta

11 days ago

Great man! Your company has a great culture

Isaiah Carmden

Stealth

11 days ago

Yeah, people here are great.

Aaron Everett

Zeta

11 days ago

Which company are you working for? I am also planning to move to dev role but looks like my company doesn't allow it. And it's very hard to prepare for dev roles after doing SRE work

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Kalan Lee

Morgan Stanley

11 days ago

Hi congrats on the shift! What tools have you used in devops and how did you transition to the Dev role?

Kendall Carmden

Stealth

11 days ago

The usual, kubernetes, terraform, couple of cloud providers, Jenkins, argoCD and worflows, istio etc. I also enjoy writing tooling in python and Go. The tooling experience was pretty useful in building trust and convincing management that me moving to development is a good idea. Started picking up easy small tasks and levelled up slowly over the last e months :)

Anise Olive

Stealth

11 days ago

If you are comfortable to share, can you elaborate on your deciding factors? I am currently in a DevSecOps role, so would like to understand what the thought process is for transitioning to a pure developer role, as nowadays companies do seek people with devops skills.

Karilyn Carmden

Stealth

11 days ago

I can give you long list of complex comparisons that I made, but the deciding ones were just 2 points. 1. I found myself being more excited to work when I was writing code, found myself wanting to build the tools I was using. 2. I believe with new tools being realsed daily which makes learning curve for devops easier, development and devops will slowly start to merge. But this is still decades away. 1 was the primary reason, work is fun(ner) because I get to code and solve problems everyday.

Karilyn Olive

Accenture

11 days ago

Congrats... I was also in Devops support earlier.. I showcased my python skills and helped multiple teams with POCs.... So after 2 yrs, my manager finally acknowledged my skill set and moved me into Dev + Devops project 😌

Dezi Hyrum

Stealth

10 days ago

Wow, nice. Best of both worlds is always great.

Jordon Olive

Stealth

11 days ago

Hey, I am SRE engineer with 1.5 year of experience working in one of the Indian fintech company with good bank clients. Can you please tell on which factors you decided to do. As i am in early stages of my career, it would not be very tedious to switch,if your points are valid

Jordon Dean

Stealth

10 days ago

All the deciding factors were more of a personal preference. 1. I don't find ops part of devops fun. 2. I belive, with new tools coming out everyday making the learning curve for devops less steep. The defination of devops will change and it will become more and more opsy. Im in no way qualified to give advice but what I did was take some time and figured out what parts of my job I loved, and followed them.