Career Path: Support Engineer to DevOps in Bangalore
The support engineer to devops jump is doable in 3–5 years if you treat it as a deliberate project. Here's the timeline that's worked for people we coach.
Ongoing — close the credibility gap
Publish what you learn. A short write-up of one devops project does more for credibility than a year of quiet study.
Year 1 — build the overlap
Stay in your support engineer role, but deliberately take on work that a devops would own. Two shipped examples beat any certificate.
Year 2 — get the title adjacent
Move internally to a team where devops work sits next to yours. Internal moves are far easier than external ones at this stage.
Traps that delay the jump
- Waiting for permission to do the work of the role you want.
- Skipping the internal move that would have made the external one easy.
- Collecting courses instead of shipping one real project.
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