Re:Ask HN: I'm a generalist developer I'd like to specialise...
by acesubido on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @03:30AM
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This. On security, if you want to do Infra/Platforms:
- AWS or Google Cloud architect
...
- Devops consulting for small agencies
You can do on-premise devops for big companies as well.
Being a lead dev in your company, you probably have an idea of the truckloads of money large companies pay to get their on-premise infrastructure and platforms to be PCI-DSS compliant, fulfilling generic hardening requirements, enforcing data governance policies and frequently passing pentests.
Build an ansible playbook that does a huge chunk of these things and turn the roles/tasks into powerpoint slides; it would land you these gigs.
Being a lead dev in your company, you probably have an idea of the truckloads of money large companies pay to get their on-premise infrastructure and platforms to be PCI-DSS compliant, fulfilling generic hardening requirements, enforcing data governance policies and frequently passing pentests.
Build an ansible playbook that does a huge chunk of these things and turn the roles/tasks into powerpoint slides; it would land you these gigs.