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I'm a freelance DevOps consultant working in Germany

I consider my duty as 50% as consultant regarding DevOps culture and agile culture and to 50% "building pipelines and all that automation stuff" This shows quite clearly how DevOps as a term is used in Germany. Either the fusion of responsibility of Dev and Ops is meant or just someone who does this modern cloudy stuff One thing I really like in the DevOps space is that I never had a problem with the tech stack at a customer. Some want more cloud, some more pipelines, some more infrastructure, still I could do every project and never had problems with my qualification. So when I have calls from recruite I kinda skip the tech stuff, since it won't be the issue anyway. I'm more intersted in how much the company really does DevOps and Agile. I just recently declined a job opportunity bc the company wanted to buy this modern DevOps stuff but actually couldn't risk an actual change.

The customer I currently working for is a mess. It's a middle sized company who has to finish 3 projects at the same time and do neither the "new world" nor the "old world" They overthrown a lot of the old world rules and took a lot of power from the project managers. But what they are doing now is taking random parts of the new world and implement it in a broken way and say "we are modern!" Like this they are doing neither of it and they end up with basically just chaos. Companies often want a change without having a change. And for me it's kinda annoying to run against corporate walls, when I was hired (as an expensive external!) to solve those problems but then getting ignored. So they throw more people at the problem and just churn them. As you guys already know, what 1 guy in IT can do within 1 day, 2 guys can do it in 2 days.

P.S.: I'm planning to relocate from germany to NY. If someone needs a DevOps, give me a shoutout to: jjdjnrjfifj@gmail.com Also open for non-work contacts. Don't want to be alone in NY

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tn890|6 years ago

I've been hopping from one DevOps role to another for the past 4-5 years and I've been meaning to get into freelancing recently.

However, in my experience, I find that projects are incredibly hard to acquire, especially if it's your first freelance gig.

Do you happen to have any advice for me on how to get into DevOps freelancing, particularly how to acquire projects?

Thanks