I am currently serving my notice as a Senior Systems Administrator/Specialist role. After 16 years working within an IT Services department at two UK educational establishments, I have finally achieved a role in the private sector.
For the past three years or so, I have been learning more and more about DevOps and Agile working. As a systems administrator in Systems and Operations, it is difficult to encourage and promote the DevOps ways of working. Bringing Systems development and operations together is just a big struggle in a slow moving, dinosaur paced environment. It is time to eject from this environment and join the real world.
I am going to be joining a start-up enterprise less than three years old! This start-up is currently doing some major recruitment to kickstart their business and they are 'doing' DevOps from the very start. This is a perfect situation to be in - as an employee and as a company. Try fast, fail fast, learn fast, succeed fast! This is the DevOps philosophy at it core!
I am excited indeed! I will be keeping this DevOps blog to detail my progress, failures and acheivements - when I can. I hope you will be able to join me on this journey!
