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Second on Cloud Infra and SRE stuff. All the big players need it and you have a lever which can move the moon. If you are good at what you do you will have a massive impact on the company. You hear lots of stories like “I saved my company XXX million dollars per year by turning off versioned objects in S3”. I think the hardest part I have had is there is a lot of tacit knowledge in infrastructure, usually you are not the first person to solve a particular problem and anyone who has good industry experience can tell you immediately what you should do. For example I was looking at distributed storage and for kubernetes and was testing out OpenEBS, I spent about 2 months setting it up and getting it working only to find it had some critical shortfalls. Later I was talking with another person from industry and they are like “yea you should just use rook/ceph, everyone uses it”. And lo and behold rook solves my problems and works great.