[mike503]

Try being an (old school) sysadmin / platform / DevOps person that doesn't have terraform/ansible/python skills. Never needed it, always been overkill, and every single job wants it in the space now.

I've made my own homegrown ansible type tools and everything else under the sun. But grown organically and not requiring learning a different DSL.

I've worked in the industry so long everything recommends "senior" level to me, which I am eventually in each job I'm at, except I don't have a those two skills that everyone apparently requires, which makes it real weird finding anything.

You should be able to find a lot of SWE jobs with your languages. Those are pretty solid.

[xmcqdpt2]

You should learn ansible though, it's pretty transferable and works very well for non-cloud stuff too (in fact that's what it was created for!) It's pretty easy to use if you know shell. It might actually make your job easier.

[mike503]

Yeah I know. The best way I learn is to work a specific problem and/or be able to look at something already working.

[mike503]

Also, with those 3 languages try to find open source projects looking for bug fixes and such. That'd make for a solid portfolio!