[sdwedq]

It depends on if you are a builder or a tuner. If you enjoy building stuff stay away from DevOps. It feels like endless config changes and fine tuning.

If you enjoy tinkering with stuff, DevOps is awesome because there are 1000s of small settings you can play with.

If you like control, programming is the way to go because you can pretty much do anything. In DevOps, if developers didn't expose some setting, you are s.o.l.

[rmdashrfstar]

I wouldn’t say DevOps does not include “building stuff”, but you’re building certain kinds of stuff, like systems to manage CI/CD for projects, deployment environments, promotion of versions, releases, security scans, collecting KPIs on CI/CD (which provide management with more accurate visibility onto the velocity of a project), etc.

Sure, you’re not writing the application, but you’re doing a ton for the work around it to make sure it runs.