Amaïa joined the Squad#Family just over a year ago. She tells us about her career path and how she became a DevOps engineer!
Can you introduce yourself, including your professional background?
My name is Amaïa, and I have been a DevOps infrastructure consultant at Squad since February 2020. I mainly work on DevOps topics with a focus on automation. My career path is quite unusual because I used to be a developer. I took a training course while working at another company. I realized that I was quite interested in infrastructure and DevOps.
At home, through self-study, I set up DevOps-oriented projects. I started to explore new technologies such as Docker and Linux.
That's how I knew I was meant to do this, and I joined Squad. A few days ago, I celebrated my first year at Squad!
What is your current assignment?
I am currently working on an assignment for a major defense client on automation and DevOps issues. My client needed to automate an infrastructure that was undergoing a complete overhaul.
Before production, I was involved in structuring the project, such as setting up processes and documentation. It was really the project development phase.
Then I started producing. The tools I use most are Ansible and Ansible Tower, from the RedHat Automotion platform solution, and also GitLab.
Thanks to my skills as a developer, I work with Git technology. These skills are therefore useful to me every day.
Are you currently taking any training courses or planning to take any?
I am currently self-studying for Red Hat's RHCSA certification, which will enable me to acquire fundamental system administration skills on the Linux side.
I've made pretty good progress, and I plan to pass it this year.
I am considering self-training on the DevOps Foundation from the DevOps Institute. For me, this certification is very important because it allows me to acquire more methodology, better understand the issues, practices, and knowledge of tools related to DevOps.
Very often, when doing DevOps, we focus on the tools, but it's not just about the tools—it's also about methodology.
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