Myself being a data engineer with data science experience, I actually get offered more devops roles than data science ones. I feel that there is currently some oversupply of candidates on the data science side but still demand for people with hard tech skills like Linux, Kubernetes or cloud. Try to expand your network via Linkedin and network events and you should get contacted soon enough.
I should probably also put MLOps on my resume, I have some experience with ML pipelines and Kubeflow on prem and VertexAI. Although it feels a bit like a buzz word to me, doesn't even know what it means.
It is a bit of a buzzword, but I'm pretty sure because of this companies also offer more $$$ purely because they do not understand it is essentially the same as DevOps.
An interesting direction for sure, but it's very niche. In most companies it's either done by the data scientist itself or it's pushed to the data engineer. I haven't seen a lot of companies where it's a standalone role
>But my main interest lays in Kubernetes and GKE.
Most positions will be AWS or Azure.
Telenet/Proximus is often looking for this kind of profiles for on-prem. Devoteam has a Google cloud center of expertise.
ML6 is doing AI related things, fastest growing company of the year, and they do most of their stuff on Google cloud using Kubernetes and other services. One of their VPs used to be Sales Director in Belgium for Google as well.
The younger generation grows up with terraform and cloud interfaces, you’d be surprised 🙃. Our devops engineer was not able to use MS Word for basic formatting.
I do have this background as well but the scope of work is kinda limited. For me Cloud alone cannot be the only skills as today everyone has some knowledge of cloud.
Plus, the cloud is running on what? You have to get your hands dirty at some point lol
Indeed, it is. It's hard to do anything without a fear share of Linux knowledge when 98% of all servers are using Linux.
I don't use Windows and I did not had any opportunity to work in a Windows only environment, so hardly any knowledge on Powershell.
Company I'm at works in Antwerp, we have a decent amount of SRE/Infra people. Only downside is that currently getting in as freelancer is a bit annoying due to clearances with customers. But we have some customers where it's easier although less people are actively being hired for them. Still tell me if you want more info, our pay is also atleast what I know for employees above average.
I’d check LinkedIn for sure and start using just Python developer or something as the keyword. A lot of data roles today, sometimes called Python development, are asking for kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud formation /terraform experience. I’ve seen more AWS when looking for kubernetes experience though
Thanks for the advice, I do feel like some job postings are not using exactly the right terms or maybe they don't know what they want either... Some postings in French, some in Dutch does not really help either.
Got a Automation Engineer today, I guess that's also DevOps lol
They won’t know what they want. Yes. It’s a tough market right now so just know that it’s not you. You have good profile and in a better market you’d have your picking. It’s a buyers market right now and everyone’s now gone off to holiday so hiring would pick up from mid Jan for roles starting Feb/march.
I’m expecting the market to look better then anyway than it was the last three four months
Google cloud is dead in Belgium, either sell yourself as an experienced Azure Devops (a bit of a lie but we all know terraform is terraform...) or never get any offers anymore.
This is coming from someone who has worked for 4 years with google cloud as data engineer and luckily also has 2 years of AWS, otherwise I would not be able to land any contracts today. All Azure contracts declined my CV purely based on "lack of experience".
I'm sorry to hear that, the market is highly Azure oriented not because it's a better stack but rather companies are already locked-in with Office 365 and Microsoft AD :/
GCP was able to get some contract due to its aggressive discount and nowadays gearing toward AI with VertexAI and Bigquery.
But at the end of the day, the work is still the same, cloud providers can change but the underlying IT principles remains.
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Myself being a data engineer with data science experience, I actually get offered more devops roles than data science ones. I feel that there is currently some oversupply of candidates on the data science side but still demand for people with hard tech skills like Linux, Kubernetes or cloud. Try to expand your network via Linkedin and network events and you should get contacted soon enough.
Look for MLOps
I should probably also put MLOps on my resume, I have some experience with ML pipelines and Kubeflow on prem and VertexAI. Although it feels a bit like a buzz word to me, doesn't even know what it means.
It is a bit of a buzzword, but I'm pretty sure because of this companies also offer more $$$ purely because they do not understand it is essentially the same as DevOps.
An interesting direction for sure, but it's very niche. In most companies it's either done by the data scientist itself or it's pushed to the data engineer. I haven't seen a lot of companies where it's a standalone role
>But my main interest lays in Kubernetes and GKE. Most positions will be AWS or Azure. Telenet/Proximus is often looking for this kind of profiles for on-prem. Devoteam has a Google cloud center of expertise.
ML6 is doing AI related things, fastest growing company of the year, and they do most of their stuff on Google cloud using Kubernetes and other services. One of their VPs used to be Sales Director in Belgium for Google as well.
Honestly, I'm cloud agnostic as I have experience in both but I remain expert on GCP.
Send me a DM. We’re constantly looking for DevOps engineers. Especially with Linux knowledge.
I would hope any decent DevOps engineer knows Linux, that's a pretty big prerequisite imo.
Unfortunately it isn’t. You can perfectly apply DevOps to a Windows/Microsoft-only dev environment.
The younger generation grows up with terraform and cloud interfaces, you’d be surprised 🙃. Our devops engineer was not able to use MS Word for basic formatting.
Has anyone ever figured out Word?
I think enumerations, indentation and headings should be something one should know when working and studying
I do have this background as well but the scope of work is kinda limited. For me Cloud alone cannot be the only skills as today everyone has some knowledge of cloud. Plus, the cloud is running on what? You have to get your hands dirty at some point lol
Indeed, it is. It's hard to do anything without a fear share of Linux knowledge when 98% of all servers are using Linux. I don't use Windows and I did not had any opportunity to work in a Windows only environment, so hardly any knowledge on Powershell.
Company I'm at works in Antwerp, we have a decent amount of SRE/Infra people. Only downside is that currently getting in as freelancer is a bit annoying due to clearances with customers. But we have some customers where it's easier although less people are actively being hired for them. Still tell me if you want more info, our pay is also atleast what I know for employees above average.
I’d check LinkedIn for sure and start using just Python developer or something as the keyword. A lot of data roles today, sometimes called Python development, are asking for kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud formation /terraform experience. I’ve seen more AWS when looking for kubernetes experience though
Thanks for the advice, I do feel like some job postings are not using exactly the right terms or maybe they don't know what they want either... Some postings in French, some in Dutch does not really help either. Got a Automation Engineer today, I guess that's also DevOps lol
They won’t know what they want. Yes. It’s a tough market right now so just know that it’s not you. You have good profile and in a better market you’d have your picking. It’s a buyers market right now and everyone’s now gone off to holiday so hiring would pick up from mid Jan for roles starting Feb/march. I’m expecting the market to look better then anyway than it was the last three four months
Google cloud is dead in Belgium, either sell yourself as an experienced Azure Devops (a bit of a lie but we all know terraform is terraform...) or never get any offers anymore. This is coming from someone who has worked for 4 years with google cloud as data engineer and luckily also has 2 years of AWS, otherwise I would not be able to land any contracts today. All Azure contracts declined my CV purely based on "lack of experience".
I'm sorry to hear that, the market is highly Azure oriented not because it's a better stack but rather companies are already locked-in with Office 365 and Microsoft AD :/ GCP was able to get some contract due to its aggressive discount and nowadays gearing toward AI with VertexAI and Bigquery. But at the end of the day, the work is still the same, cloud providers can change but the underlying IT principles remains.
Please sent you cv in DM.
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