@Ricky Rios You're right. Genuinely automate scaling, prepare organizations for disasters and help them recover and improve the time to market are generally rewarded with very desirable salaries.

@Sebastian Kargl You're asking a good question. What comes to your mind when someone uses this term ? You probably have an idea of it that matches what other people imagine too. TL;DR: They are the wise mature hard workers who know the job, and they are the leaders who get the job done. They are loyal, smart, reliable. They solve or anticipate problems. They are athletic swimmers in the complexity. They replace confusion with clarity so people around them feel more confident and capable. By deduction seniority can be defined as a professional rank for people of experience with both serious engineering skills, and proven, extended leadership skills. --------------------------- Now I will list what comes to my mind when I hear about a senior software/IT engineer. Of course, it applies to DevOps talents. In my mind, such a person is seasoned which means that he has at least 4 years of experience in is current role, or in similar positions. We're talking about experience, not age because. Is some countries you are only considered senior after 8 or even ten years of experience. Also, in my mind, this person has multiple work experiences in more than one company our multiple work experiences with different teams with different kinds of expectations if works in a big company. He/she is able to adapt his problem solving skills to any changing situation, expected,or un expected. This person is able to work with different teams, can even work on multiple projects with different teams at the same time by efficiently switching from one project to another, and one technical context to another. This person is efficient. He/she masters time management and delivers on expectations or exceeds expectations or has understandable reason when not delivering. This person is highly productive, understands the how and the why's of every situation so explaining, reporting and documenting is done on time, easily. This person is technically skilled and is able to train, lead, manage, teach, communicate about technical needs and ongoing technical processes, issues and developments.

@Boris Levenzon 🙌 I can't agree more !

Additionally, you can participate in some code reviews. For example when developers fix a breaking change or when CI tests fail, you can read their pull requests. Understanding code is more important than mastering a programing language. It also helps asking relevant questions to programmers, and identifying problematic patterns. In the long run you will get more productive because you will know how your coding team works. This way you can help them improving their workflows and teaching them better practices or even updating documentation.

@Mohamed Alwash TL;DR : Yes. Explanation: It is possible to develop a front-end application without JavaScript, however, the chances are very few to get a front-end developer job without JS/TS. Additionally, if I were in the shoes of an employer, I would quickly fire any engineer who tries to replace JS with an exotic language. Not only because it will take time, but also because when you leave the project, I have to teach C# when onboarding new team workers, and I have to maintain your work for months or maybe years. Now Python for DevOps engineers follows the same logic. Yes, you will have to learn Python because everybody in this field uses Python, which is currently the lingua franca of DevOps. Of course, you could do many things in C#, however, your managers and teammates won't choose it for most automation tasks and scripting. Please remember that most people probably don't know C#, and they will not learn it, because it is more time-consuming than learning Python. It is not only a matter of syntax because of the different approaches to OOP and there are other differences. Additionally, C# is a Microsoft language, so you will not find it on most Linux servers. Don't worry about the learning curve. It won't be difficult for someone like you. Python is simple. 😉

Congratulations, Lucio ! You did it !

Brilliant! Asking is the secret to open doors and climb ladders.