Where next?

[TheAngryDog]

I've worked with Windows OS all my working life, and for many years before then.

I have done work with cloud providers but it has been all gui.

Am I in danger of being left behind? Should I be looking at other offerings?

[romeodelta]

Plenty of scope to build on what you have done with Cloud, depending on your interests.

DevOps, SRE, security, architecture?

Get some certs, set-up a repo and free tier accounts and have a play.

[TheAngryDog]

romeodelta said:

Plenty of scope to build on what you have done with Cloud, depending on your interests.

DevOps, SRE, security, architecture?

Get some certs, set-up a repo and free tier accounts and have a play.

I've never done any form of dev work, not sot I have the aptitude for it. The issue I have had and still have is not actually knowing what I want to do.

[Ratae]

For the more infrastructure focused roles you'll certainly need some scripting experience for the new cloud world - Infrastructure as Code etc. I upskilled in to this area from a traditional Wintel Infrastructure background. But after several 'lift n shifts' to the cloud it all got a bit samey so I started trying new things.

DevOps - like you I don't have the aptitude or desire for this, I lasted 4 months in a DevOps team as the thought of maintaining the same application day in day out for years on end was soul destroying (I'm sure there's plenty of other roles within this world I would enjoy more though)

My past few contracts/18 months have been focused on Modern Management - Deploying W10 devices via Autopilot and general device management via Intune, any interest in this? Its certainly more GUI based than the above if that is a key part.

Edited by Ratae on Friday 23 October 09:44

[TheAngryDog]

Ratae said:

For the more infrastructure focused roles you'll certainly need some scripting experience for the new cloud world - Infrastructure as Code etc. I upskilled in to this area from a traditional Wintel Infrastructure background. But after several 'lift n shifts' to the cloud it all got a bit samey so I started trying new things.

DevOps - like you I don't have the aptitude or desire for this, I lasted 4 months in a DevOps team as the thought of maintaining the same application day in day out for years on end was soul destroying (I'm sure there's plenty of other roles within this world I would enjoy more though)

My past few contracts/18 months have been focused on Modern Management - Deploying W10 devices via Autopilot and general device management via Intune, any interest in this? Its certainly more GUI based than the above if that is a key part.

Edited by Ratae on Friday 23 October 09:44

I am quite happy to learn command line, it does seem to be more prominent these days over GUI. I'm not sure about deploying Windows etc, it would in some ways feel like a step back for me. I deployed Windows via SCCM back in 2013. I currently manage a service desk, but not necessarily looking for management roles.