[linza]

You are just describing a junior position (more or less).

Do you understand the business and can contribute to it? As SRE you can help save cost in production (harder to make money directly by building products or features). That's a way to a more senior position.

Can you automate the task you were given? can you use you new free time to identify where else you can save cost?

[hnthrowaway0315]

My conception of the position is that you can throw whatever data at me, but as long as you tell me the requirements I can get the data through with minimum cost and maximum accuracy.

I used to think knowing the business is important, but now I understand that it's impossible to know every business I'm in. I should rely on the BI for requirements and just do my job and do very well. I don't want to be a product manager or a manager so I prefer to stay in the technical side.

About the other questions, yes I automate as much as possible. I don't have any free time sadly as I'm just one man team (previously we have 6). I'm overwhelmed by this YAML engineering.

Anyway I'm starting interviewing soon.

[hnthrowaway0315]

TO add a bit, not every junior position work on YAML engineering.