Hello friends, Recently we celebrated yet another WIN in the KubeCraft community 🎉 Erick landed a Senior SRE role after only a few months in KubeCraft . What's even better, in the true spirit of KubeCraft, he proceeded to share everything about the interview process and what he did in order to land this role. You can't miss out on this video if you're looking to get into DevOps Engineering or landing a job as an SRE or Platform Engineer. Watch the video below to learn everything he did:

I’m delighted to share that I’ve recently landed a new role as a Platform Engineer. The journey here wasn’t easy, life brought some tough challenges along the way, but perseverance and continuous learning carried me through. A big part of that learning came from this community. One of the courses offered here not only strengthened my skills but also played a key role in helping me land this opportunity. I’m deeply grateful for the support, resources, and inspiration this community provides. Thank you @Mischa van den Burg and the rest of the people behind for creating a space where growth and encouragement truly make a difference. Cheers!

Thanks to the KubeCraft Career Accelerator community, I have now reached my goal 500+ connections goal. I am not where i was yesterday and look forward to more opportunities that this brings.

This is a praise for the paid community because they 100% deserve it. @Mischa van den Burg , @Sammy van den Burg and everyone else involved in building the community should really get the recognition. I am writing this post after getting my first DevOps position. It included a long journey of over a year to facilitate this transition from end-user support/system administration. I could not have done it without joining KubeCraft last October. I was advancing pretty well before but joining KubeCraft was a game-changer, it has paved me the way to compete for positions and being relevant in the DevOps/cloud job market. It is a safe haven, the ultimate place for self growth. In so many aspects, not only in relation to DevOps. I will also highlight the respectful discussions, technical insights, career and professional tips, inclusion, and acceptance. Non of what I have mentioned is taken for granted in our current Internet landscape. I would also like to mention all the wonderful courses in the classroom that improved my soft and hard skills alike and were/are still instrumental in my journey: - The Kubernetes related courses (fundamentals, homelab, and advanced) - get your hands dirty and start building, breaking, and fixing systems over and over again - The Arch Linux course - strong Linux foundations are non negotiable and digging into an Arch installation and transforming it into your daily driver is so beneficial - The devcontainers, Neovim, and config management course - think encapsulation, portability, and allowing collaboration between teams - The DevOps masterclass course - a real gem by @Mischa van den Burg . It helped me understand better modern release management practices and CI/CD pipelines - The interview preparation course - very well constructed. This helped me change my perception and become better during interviews Always remember that hard work pays off! (in the photo - an Arnie and John (Savill) super combo for some inspiration)

Thanks to the advice of @Mischa van den Burg, I started posting on LinkedIn roughly ~4 months ago and also started a blog. I will say, it is starting pay dividends. I now get PM (personal messages) almost everyday asking about what I am doing with my current work, recruiters, people asking how to pivot into DevOps. I always tell people to come here because the community here is amazing! The biggest win I have had so far, was I recently got invited to be on a Tech Talk/Podcast talking about my journey to pivoting into DevOps. It was a great experience and I hope I get to do something similar in the future. Keep documenting your journey in public, I promise it does work!