Back in December 2021 I had an interview with the company I worked for at the time. It was for something called a career experience (internship) and allowed people to step up from a Retail position and do something that would allow them to grow and see if they wanted to move into a new career.
I was successful in my interviews and started a 6 month experience working on building tooling to automate testing for a particular process for a well known technology company.
It was fascinating diving into a new role, a remote first role and setting up my computer, getting all the apps runnings setting up my development tools and learning how to communicate within the company.
I had a lot of fun, setting up a Jenkins server on a Mac mini to kick off a load of scripts and tell Xcode to do some exciting things. I’d like to think that some of that stuff is still being used or it gave them a path to start travelling down
AS my time was coming to an end I realised I didn’t want to go back to my retail position. I had seen the other side and the type of work I was capable of doing.
I reached out to recruiters in my area and explained what I ws looking for and the position I was in.
2 weeks later I had landed a job in a SRE Performance team who were building up their Chaos Engineering talent. I’ve been doing this for about 7 months at time of writing and I’ve learnt a lot. I have passed my AWS Cloud Practitioner and I’m working towards my AWS Certified Developer.
It is challenging work as the product is made of many micro services. I’ve learnt to write Cloud formation, troubleshoot a EKS cluster and run proof of concept trial for a software we wanted to purchase. Overall my understanding of how things works has improved so much and I look back on the person I was a year ago and think how far I’ve developed.
I want to get more into the Chaos Engineering within my role. I’ve been figuring out how AWS Fault Injector Simulator works and how we can incorporate it within the product.
Lots to learn. So much.
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