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by hoofhearted 639 days ago
Not in any particular order:

Java, Spring Boot, Angular 1 & 2, React, CSS design tokens like Tailwind or Bootstrap, Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS and AWS Gov Cloud, Amazon SQS, Kubernetes, Rancher, New Relic, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Service Now, Confluence, Jira, and so on.

Study up and understand AGILE workflows, and a 2 week 10 business day sprint working cycles. Then tie that back into continuous integration/continuous deployments mentioned above.

If you get a grasp of everything I mentioned above and build out your LinkedIn and resume with all of those skills, multiple recruiters will be in your inbox on a daily basis.

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Thank you, I've already got a portion of that under my belt. Getting to work now...
Please don't take the parent too too seriously, they listed some fairly useful technologies that are widespread but some that are definitely more situationally needed/niche. I think they were speaking somewhat jokingly/ironically if you couldn't tell (listing 3 relational databases for example as if you need to have experience with all 3 rather than just _any_ relational database).
I was not joking at all. I was 100% serious and listed technologies and skills that the U.S. government is actively recruiting for right now.
In that case I think you perhaps overstated what is necessary to get a US government job. Or to get a software engineering job in general. I get paid GS-15 level as a civilian and I've never touched Oracle DB, Tailwind, Rancher, or some other technologies you mentioned. Perhaps you didn't mean to imply a person need to know all those things to get a job, but it came across that way to me and I disagree.
I've done work for places where both MySQL and PostgreSQL were used. In any case, I'm reasonably proficient with either.

Thanks.