The latest articles on DEV Community by odnanref (@su_xcode). https://dev.to/su_xcode https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F205383%2F0708d5d3-52db-4a77-8066-783b333abdd4.jpg https://dev.to/su_xcode en odnanref Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:38:44 +0000 https://dev.to/su_xcode/i-m-a-devops-engineer-at-playstation-what-would-you-like-to-know-anj https://dev.to/su_xcode/i-m-a-devops-engineer-at-playstation-what-would-you-like-to-know-anj <p>Hi everyone! My name is Fernando Garcia (twitter: <a class="comment-mentioned-user" href="https://dev.to/su_xcode">@su_xcode</a> ). I'm one out of five DevOps engineers that work day and night for production operations at Playstation in San Francisco. </p> <p>What kind of things do people in this field want to know? Are you interviewing for any DevOps jobs? I can give you some tips if you need any. <br> I have a great set of interview answers that would help you. I can give real world scenarios of what to do, and what not to do. </p> <p>I wrote all kinds of Ansible roles, python scripts, bash one-offs, and all other fun automated stuff. One day, I'd like to get my story of how I ended up working for a company like Sony with no college degree written somewhere. It's a long story, full of long nights, harsh struggles, the loss of a mentor, and really trying to stay afloat in the super expensive bay area. </p> <h2> A little about myself: </h2> <p>I never went to college; not by choice, strictly because I was just too poor at the time to afford it. One day I'd love to actually go to college and get a degree. One day.</p> <p>My background consists of a wild plethora of random jobs. Once I was a ramp manager at San Jose, Airport. You know, one of those guys that would hold those glow sticks and guide the plane into the terminal. Followed by being a mechanic at a small mom and pop shop. It was thanks to that mechanic job that introduced me to a hiring manager for some tire delivery service. It wasn't glorious, but it payed a lot better than my $7.50/hr mechanic job. It was the most important and beneficial decision I ever made. Getting that "large truck driver" experience landed me a job as a freight delivery guy for Cisco Systems. It's a long story as to how I ended up working in tech, but to sum it up it went like this: Delivering boxes and pallets of routers and switches got pretty boring really quick, so I got nosy and started asking the managers there how a guy like me can work in the datacenter. I met some awesome lab managers and landed a job as a rack-n-stack cable monkey. I say that lovingly. </p> <p>Fast forward a couple years, long nights of reading, studying, online courses, I became A+ Certified, CCNA certified, Linux+ Certified, MCSA Certified, and currently in the process of getting AWS certified. </p> <p>So people of dev.to, where do I start? How do I do this? Because like most things in my life, I'm just going with the flow and let time and gravity guide me. I hope to meet some cool people while I'm here! </p> devops sre