Comment by hitsurume

As someone in DevOps, the cool thing about the field is that people come from different skillsets. You can be a developer that works at a startup that needed to learn how to support your applications and become proficient in infrastructure and SRE. You can come from IT/Sys Admin and get teamed up with developers providing them Ci/CD pipelines and platforms. You can come from the Cloud world and expand your cloud skills into DevOps. Like being a developer, at the end of the day its solving problems and painpoints. Being on-call and waking up at 3AM because of an application going down, you learn and are motivated very quickly in figuring out how not to have that happen ever again.