Career Q&A with Jungle Disk's DevOps Engineer Rain Avila
This Q&A series is for those dipping their toes in the idea of working in a DevOps role! Learn what it's like from Paul, in an earlier post, or Rain, below!
Question: What is your specific role on the DevOps team at Jungle Disk? What are your main duties in that role at Jungle Disk?
Answer: By title I am a DevOps Engineer, my day-to-day responsibilities can be summarized as researching tools and technologies to either automate manual tasks or implementing new tools to improve existing workflows.
Q: How did you get to this position? What advice would you give someone who would like to work in a similar position?
A: I’ve always enjoyed working with computers. I started out working in support and voluntarily took responsibility of any issues that were challenging. The kind of issues nobody else wanted to work, I chose to work.
Q: Do you have any technology or security certifications?
A: I have a Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification through the Linux Foundation and a Professional Cloud Architect certification through Google.
Q: What’s your favorite technology tool to use on a daily basis? Why?
A: Currently having a lot of fun with Google Cloud Platform and looking at ways to use serverless offerings to modernize some of our legacy tools.
Q: What projects are you currently working on?
A: Too many. It can be summarized as implementing CI/CD systems or processes across various parts of our environment. Currently looking to implement this for SafetyNet and TeamPassword.
Q: What is a new or up and coming technology, tool or opensource project that you are most excited about?
A: Spinnaker looks fun.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: The volatility. There’s always something new to learn.
Q: What is something you wished more people knew about DevOps?
A: It’s very rewarding to turn manual processes into automated processes.