Key DevOps Skills for Improving Your Expertise

Bret is joined by Brian Christner, a Docker Captain and Chief, Online Gaming for Grand Casino Baden (jackpots.ch), who returns to the show to discuss his top recommended skills for improving your DevOps expertise.

Both Bret and Brian have been consultants on and off throughout their careers and also in positions where they needed to hire other engineers - often other DevOps engineers. They share their perspectives on the different types of DevOps roles and the various jobs they need to fill.

In this episode, we thought it would be helpful to bring our experience on DevOps jobs and look at the most essential and in-demand skills throughout the industry.

Streamed live on YouTube on October 6, 2022.

Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #187)

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Kubernetes This Month with Nigel Poulton
AWS Cloud Training
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• (00:00) - DDT MAIN
• (00:04) - Intro
• (00:53) - Intro 2
• (01:47) - Main show
• (01:53) - Welcome
• (03:01) - Brian's corner of the internet
• (05:37) - Impact of certifications in the hiring process
• (06:01) - What's your pet project?
• (06:58) - What lights you up?
• (08:27) - Sharers rather than Knowers
• (09:51) - About clouds
• (16:35) - DevOps are enablers
• (17:49) - Be replaceable
• (19:58) - Soft Skills
• (20:20) - The many hats of Senior DevOps
• (20:23) - Encouragers
• (20:36) - Protectors
• (20:44) - Realistic
• (21:01) - Protect your team
• (21:27) - Say no
• (21:55) - Problem solvers
• (21:58) - Listeners
• (23:49) - Question
• (24:48) - Awesome Docker List
• (27:46) - DevOps is vast and wide
• (29:57) - Observability
• (31:48) - Choose what to measure
• (32:50) - Junior and Senior DevOps Skillsets
• (34:53) - Being proactive in measuring
• (37:03) - Question
• (38:07) - Use the built-in tools first
• (41:41) - Quick way to get your hands dirty
• (47:44) - Security
• (50:50) - Infrastructure-as-Code
• (54:51) - Being a generalist or a specialist
• (56:32) - Enable others to work without needing you
• (58:13) - Question
• (58:16) - Getting started with a cloud
• (01:01:11) - Nigel Poulton
• (01:01:58) - You can't be responsible for everything
• (01:03:53) - Are certifications mandatory?
• (01:06:34) - Deployment checklist question
• (01:07:22) - Question
• (01:12:14) - Question
• (01:13:00) - Announcements
• (01:15:12) - Outro

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