[OhSoHumble]

What's really unfortunate is that it feels like not choosing k8s is career suicide for SREs/DevOps/platform engineering.

I chose Nomad for my current role and it works fantastic.

I used ECS in my last role and it was also fantastic.

I'm currently gently looking for a job and the market is brutal. I'm not even getting responses back from applications and I have ten years of experience. Every job posting I see requires deep k8s knowledge and hands-on experience with some ancillary k8s project like ArgoCD or Flux. I'm actually thinking about downplaying non-k8s experience on my resume and just floating the k8s that I do have straight to the top because, at the very least, it'll get my resume looked at.

If I was going to go back in time, I'd pick k8s instead of Nomad or ECS even if they weren't the best contextual choices because, hey, I gotta' put food on the table.

[ricc]

Quick tip: You can still put your target keywords where you have zero to minimal experience in your resume/CV, just put it in an honest statement describing how much experience you have. In your case, you could write, for example, "X years of experience in HashiCorp Nomad and AWS ECS (Kubernetes alternatives for container orchestration)". That should put your resume/CV through the keyword filter without lying about it.