u/Admirable_Car8272

Hi all,

I’m currently working as a DevOps Engineer with around 5 YOE in the same company.

I’ve had good technical exposure over the years - worked on Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, cloud (AWS), Terraform, and handled production/debugging scenarios. But lately, I feel like I might be falling a bit behind compared to the market.

I recently started giving interviews and was able to crack almost 60% interviews in mid-level companies. However, most of them are strictly work-from-office, and I’m specifically looking for remote opportunities, so I didn’t proceed with those offers.

Now I’m a bit confused about what to do next:

• Should I just accept an on-site role for growth?
• Or continue aiming only for remote roles?

Also, for those working remotely:

• What skills or experience made the biggest difference for you?
• What Do companies expect something extra for remote DevOps roles?

Any guidance would really help. Thanks in advance!

Hey folks,

I’ve been working on simplifying observability setup and built a repo to automate Grafana Alloy deployment using Ansible:

👉 https://github.com/ravikyada/alloy-with-ansible

The idea was to remove the manual effort of installing and configuring Alloy across multiple servers. This setup helps you:

• Automate Alloy installation
• Standardize configuration across environments
• Speed up observability onboarding
• Keep everything reproducible (Infra-as-Code style)

It’s especially useful if you're managing multiple nodes and want a clean, scalable way to push configs.

Would love feedback from the community 🙌
Open to suggestions, improvements, or real-world use cases!