It’ s been a long, long time since I last posted on here. There’s a good reason for that.
I’ve started a new job working in DevOps. A lot of my friends will know that’s the direction I was aiming for, though I was quite a way away from having the necessary experience to make the transition from 2nd/3rd line server support, into infrastructure support, and then into DevOps.
I was contacted by a recruiter one day, and the prospect seemed almost too good to be true. I managed to make it to an interview and was told that, being that it’s a junior role, not having any experience in the tools that they used was perfectly fine. Accepting the position was an easy choice to make. Probably the easiest choice that I’ve had in life thus far.
The team was brand new, focusing more on the Windows side of DevOps in AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, and GCP (Google Cloud Platform). Even so, as just a junior, the learning curve was incredibly steep but wholly rewarding.
6 months on and I’ve grown pretty confident in my skills of writing Terraform modules. Within a few months I had written my first without assistance (in total I’ve created 3 Terraform modules, and made numerous functionality additions to existing code). I’ve completed a really interesting project recently, and in doing so I seem to have created something that no one else has done before – or at least – it hasn’t been fully documented with all the intricate nuances that I’ve experienced in the process.
I’ll be doing a write-up of that soon. Hopefully, it can be of help to someone else.
