[nanis]

> companies care more about you being able to pack your code in a Docker image using GitLab CI/CD pipeline and write yaml files to describe the state of your K8s cluster.

I can do that and more. ... However, a lot of companies that are dealing with deployment at this level are probably doing it wrong. It is also not that hard to learn how things should work. Difficulties arise in situations where they don't :-)

When I was vetting resumes for a senior position, I was astonished by how few of them knew any of the basics whether it's actual development or deployment pipeline automation. They just knew how to go through a standard set of steps.

That's neither here nor there, but with your skills, it is not hard for you to buttress your knowledge in those areas if you care (and, you'd benefit from your foundations) or find a position which focuses more on development than pipeline building.