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by vp8989 1591 days ago
Wouldn't a DevOps role have more context switching?
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I currently have to juggle Build & Release Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring tools, Building images, Configuration management, some DB admin. The context switching is almost a defining feature of modern DevOPS/Operations/SysAdmin/Infrastructure Engineer jobs, unless you are working in a pretty big company that allows you to specialise.

On the other hand if you get a job dealing with only build pipelines or only Kubernetes maintenance it will get boring in a while. Best is to rotate between projects, and have different team members build expertise on some area.

Yes, at best in DevOps you might get to work a project for a day or two before being yanked in a completely different direction.
DevOps usually need to be on-call (paid) rotations. That sucks.