Operations guys, "devops" as they are called now, remain the arch-wizards with grey beards. They love creating highly company-customized, incredibly complex, often times brittle infrastructure and deployments based on obscure scripts written in non mainstream languages based on plugins and libraries without documentation. The same opaqueness as in IT security, but in emergencies you can downsize/ignore IT security, but without the ops guys your product can not survive.
Kubernetes, Helm and cloud-platform specific quirks were a godsend that cemented in this status for at least another decade.
There is probably no job with higher job security in tech than this.
Kubernetes, Helm and cloud-platform specific quirks were a godsend that cemented in this status for at least another decade.
There is probably no job with higher job security in tech than this.