Career PathsJun 23, 20265 min read
Career Path: Support Engineer to DevOps in Mumbai
For every devops we've placed in the last 18 months, we asked what they'd have done sooner. The list below is what they said.
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 3 — make the external jump
Apply as a devops with a portfolio of real work. Target teams that value your support engineer background as an edge, not a gap.
Traps that delay the jump
- Skipping the internal move that would have made the external one easy.
- Collecting courses instead of shipping one real project.
- Underselling transferable experience as "unrelated".
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