[madphrodite]

Worked in the industry for the last 20+ years as a network engineer, sysadmin, test engineer, systems programmer and security analyst.

As I've gotten older (almost 50) and IT employment has become more structured (with new approaches devised to make business and processes more profitable and controlled (agile, devops)) my interest in the field has waned. I still like the creative aspect of the work where it pertains but if I was in corporate IT (instead of small scale hybrid cloud, HPC and scientific computing) would rather do something else.

[jv22222]

You say agile and devops is the reason your interest waned.

What did you not like about them? :)

[madphrodite]

Chuckling at this ingenuous question.

Agile + scrum were transparently about providing leadership/managers with a reason to be involved at higher rates of compensation. Streamlining customer/developer communications or promoting the creation of well designed solutions were not part of our agility. We didn't need paid moderators to chuckle at our jokes, enjoy our insights, and make bad decisions on our behalf.

Devops and the whole automation phenomena I ignored till the realization creeped in that companies were hiring HR folks who thought that automation and the anti-pattern of SA OPs were silver bullets 'everywhere'.

The tools that are in use that have become part of the devops 'stack' like ansible and chef or jenkins and atlassian and all this...cruft. If I want to deploy and CM for *nix please don't tell me I have to work with Ansible specialists doing deploys and orchestration + CI and builds behind some Atlassian sales masterpiece.

You may not be able to hire someone who can understand our shell scripts and deploy|test automation for cheaper than us but you actually have people who can write a shell script and diagnose a systems problem without handing off to a developer to decipher '312:yaml malformed button hook, dict value unbuttoned.'

I'm just a veteran of some psychic wars and probably don't know what is good for me though. :)