What Am I: Finding Myself in IT
I'm considering quitting my job in healthcare to pursue a career in IT. But I'm frankly unsure what I should call myself or what jobs I should apply for. Maybe you guys have some thoughts?
I'm in my 40's, worked a few years as a consultant in the 90's. Like installing Windows, setting up networking and hooking up DSL. Since then I studied something different and worked many years in healthcare. But I kept my interest in IT. Today I have several servers, both at home and in the cloud. I run Kubernetes, Ceph and have become quiet comfortable with that. I'm not a programmer although I usually can read code and adjust it to my needs. I'm more at home in the shell (bash, zsh) and have written a few scripts to automate stuff. And now I also have some experience in container orchestration (read kubectl and manifests).
I'm not sure what I expect from you guys. Maybe just some free associations on my thing.
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You don’t have to be as good at coding as a Software Engineer, but I’d say if you brushed up on a language (Python or Go) enough to be comfortable, finding those jobs shouldn’t be hard at all.
2/ Keep looking and don’t use reason to give up on this idea that you have. Usually there’s something there behind these intuitions and feeling.
I am 50 and observed the transition from sysadmin to devops. There is a Microsoft certification pathway to devops expert. Read the 'skills measured' for the relevant courses. It will give you an overview of the devops space.